Image management and browsing software

What is currently the best image management and browsing software, which
allows you to display the content of a directory and view the images?

- If possible something which optimises the screen space, as many
packages put huge borders around each thumbnail.
- Speed is also important as some packages are quite slow.
- The image viewer should correctly display the colour space (Compupic
for instance can't do that and assumes that everything is in sRGB).
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Alfred Molon
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Alfred Molon wrote:
What is currently the best image management and browsing software, which
allows you to display the content of a directory and view the images?

- If possible something which optimises the screen space, as many
packages put huge borders around each thumbnail.
- Speed is also important as some packages are quite slow.
- The image viewer should correctly display the colour space (Compupic
for instance can't do that and assumes that everything is in sRGB).

For general management of drives, directories/folders, and files, I use
PowerDesk 6, a superset+ of Windows Explorer.

For image browsing and viewing, I use Irfanview 3.99, an outstandingly
good program which will display almost any image format imaginable,
including movie clips. It allows some image editing - brightness,
contrast, saturation, etc.; cropping, converting to other formats, batch
mode, thumbnails, And it's free, with donations accepted.

Colin D.

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In article , Colin_D
says...

For image browsing and viewing, I use Irfanview 3.99, an outstandingly
good program which will display almost any image format imaginable,
including movie clips. It allows some image editing - brightness,
contrast, saturation, etc.; cropping, converting to other formats, batch
mode, thumbnails, And it's free, with donations accepted.

Well, Irfanview is less suitable as an image browser, meaning that the
user interface of the browser is not that good.

By the way, can Powerdesk display properly images with different colour
spaces?
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Alfred Molon
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Olympus 50X0, 7070, 8080, E300, E330, E400 and E500 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/

Take ACDSee 9 Photo Manager for a spin.

If you need RAW editing & viewing capabilities, try the Pro version.

www.acdsee.com


Alfred Molon wrote:
What is currently the best image management and browsing software, which
allows you to display the content of a directory and view the images?

- If possible something which optimises the screen space, as many
packages put huge borders around each thumbnail.
- Speed is also important as some packages are quite slow.
- The image viewer should correctly display the colour space (Compupic
for instance can't do that and assumes that everything is in sRGB).
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Alfred Molon
------------------------------
Olympus 50X0, 7070, 8080, E300, E330, E400 and E500 forum at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MyOlympus/
Olympus E330 resource - http://myolympus.org/E330/

Alfred Molon wrote:
In article , Colin_D
says...

For image browsing and viewing, I use Irfanview 3.99, an outstandingly
good program which will display almost any image format imaginable,
including movie clips. It allows some image editing - brightness,
contrast, saturation, etc.; cropping, converting to other formats, batch
mode, thumbnails, And it's free, with donations accepted.

Well, Irfanview is less suitable as an image browser, meaning that the
user interface of the browser is not that good.

I don't see anything really wrong with the Irfanview UI.

By the way, can Powerdesk display properly images with different colour
spaces?

I don't think so, it's primarily a folder and file handling application.
It will show thumbnails, but color space recognition generally
requires a dedicated image-handling program, and not all of those
recognise color space either.

I'm sorry I misread your OP, I read it as asking for two different
programs, one for file handling and another for image handling.
Powerdesk doesn't qualify as an image handler.

Colin D.

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