Friday, September 28, 2012

The best and fastest image viewer made is Irfanview!!!

Irfanview is by far the best image viewing tool out there. It can also play many media formats, like mp3, mpg, mpeg, flash content like flv games or the older swf files and many others.

Beyond that Irfanview can build you web pages to display pictures to share. It makes the thumbnails and puts them on an index page and then if makes a page for each image to view full sized. You can use some included filters to touch up the images or you can add filters to do even more.

It is in no way comparable to Photo Shop or Paint Shop Pro, but it's not intended to be. Instead it's a stand alone application that you can run from a flash drive and take with you in your pocket without installing anything on a computer I find that handy when showing pictures to others on the fly or getting images from them without having the proper program required to view them. Like when I go to OfficeMax to get larger sized prints and need to check format requirements.


If you decide to install I recommend you install the addons package. It's tiny and useful

Irfanview [Computer version]
Irfanview [Flash drive version]
Plugins
Sample page
*WARNING:
 "Some NSFW content on page. It is just my animated gif page that I use for posting from."



These are the file formats/extensions supported by the current version of IrfanView:

AIF¹, ANIAU¹, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMPCAMCLPCPT, CRW/CR2, CURDAT¹,DCM/ACRDCX, DDS, DIBDJVUDLL/EXE, DXF/DWG/HPGL/CGM/SVG, ECW, EMF,EPS/PS/PDF/AI, EXR, FITS, FLI/FLC², FPXFSHG3GIF, GLCD, HDP/WDP, HDR,ICLICOIFF/LBMIMG, JLS, JP2JPG/JPEG, JPM, KDCMac PICT², MAG, MED,MID, MNG/JNG, MOV¹², MP3MPG/MPEG¹, MPO, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG/NSL/OTB/GSM, OGG, PBMPCX, PDF, PDN, PGM, PIC, PhotoCD,PNGPPMPSDPSP, PVR, QTIF², RAS/SUN, RealAudio, RAW, RLERMISFF,SFWSGI/RGB, MrSID, SWF/FLVSND¹, TGATIF/TIFF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAL,WAVWBMPWMF, WMA, WMV, WBC/WBZ, WEBP, WSQ, XBM, XCF, XPM, (DNG, EEF, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, PEF, SRF, X3F, RW2, NRW).


¹ Microsoft's Media Player program is required for these formats.
² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats.


Note:Many of these formats are supported through PlugIns, check the table below and read the file "i_plugins.txt" for more infos.

PlugIns Download: http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm


IrfanView Formats Overview:

ExtensionFormat nameOpenSave




AIFSound file, Audio Interchange FormatYES¹ ³
ANIAnimated Cursor format for Microsoft WindowsYES
AU, SNDEncoded Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machinesYES¹ ³
AVI, WMV, ASFAudio Video Interleaved: Microsoft's video for WindowsYES
B3DBodyPaint 3D FormatYES³
BMP, DIBWindows BitmapYESYES
CAMCasio digital camera fileYES³ (JPG version)
CLPWindows clipboard formatYES
CPTCorelDraw Photopaint imageYES (CPT version 6)
CRW, CR2Canon RAW imageYES³
CURCursor Resource file format for Microsoft WindowsYES
DCM, ACR, IMADicom/ACR file format for medical imagesYES³
DCXMultipage PCX files formatYES
DDSDirect Draw SurfaceYES³
DJVU, IW44DjVu file formatYES³
DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVGCAD formatsYES³
ECWEnhanced Compressed WaveletYES³YES³
EMFEnhanced Metafile FormatYESYES
EPS, PS, PDF, AIPostScript formatsYES³
EXROpenEXR formatYES³
FITSFlexible Image Transport SystemYES³
FLI, FLCAutodesk animation formatYES² ³
FPXFlashPix formatYES³
FSHEA Sports FSH formatYES³YES³
G3Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus formatYES³
GIFGraphics Interchange FormatYESYES
HDP, WDPMicrosoft HD Photo formatYES³
HDRHigh Dynamic RangeYES³
ICL, EXE, DLLIcon Library formatsYES (icons)
ICOWindows IconYESYES
IFF, LBMInterchange File FormatYES
IMGGEM Raster imageYES³
JLSJPEG-LS, Lossless JPEGYES³
JP2, JPC, J2KJPEG 2000 formatYES³YES³
JPG, JPEGJoint Photographic Experts GroupYESYES
JPMJPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpmYES³YES³
KDCKodak digital camera formatYES³
Mac PICT, QTIFMacintosh PICT formatYES² ³
MEDMED/OctaMED sound formatYES³
MID, RMIMusical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)YES³
MNG, JNGMultiple Network GraphicsYES³
MOV, MP4QuickTime Movie formatYES² ³
MP3MPEG audio layer 3 formatYES³
MPG, MPEGMoving Pictures Experts Group formatYES¹ ³
MrSID, SIDLizardTech's SID Wavelet formatYES³
DNG, EFF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF, ARW PEF, X3F, RW2, NRWDigital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma)YES³
NLM/NOL/NGG/OTB/GSMNokia/LogoManager filesYES³
OGGOGG Vorbis audio formatYES³
PBMPortable Bitmap file formatYESYES
PCXPC Paintbrush format from ZSoft CorporationYESYES
PCDKodak Photo CDYES
PDNPaint.NET file formatYES³
PGMPortable Greymap file formatYESYES
PICSoftimage PICTYES³
PNGPortable Network GraphicsYESYES
PPMPortable Pixelmap formatYESYES
PSDAdobe PhotoShop formatYES
PSPPaint Shop Pro file formatYES³
RAS, SUNSun Raster formatYES³
RARealAudio sound formatYES³
RAWRaw (binary) dataYES³
RLEUtah RLE formatYES³
SFFStructured Fax FileYES³
SFWSeattle Film Works formatYES³
SGI, RGB, RGBASilicon Graphics formatYES³
SWF, FLVFLVMacromedia's Flash/Shockwave formatYES³
TGATruevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA)YESYES
TIF, TIFFTagged Image File FormatYESYES
TTFTrue Type FontYES³
TXTText (ASCII) fileYES
WADWAD3 game formatYES³
WALQuake 2 texturesYES³
WAV, WMAWindows audio fileYES³
WBC/WBZWebShots formatsYES³
WBMPWAP Bitmap formatYES³
WEBPWeppy file formatYES³YES³
WMFWindows Metafile formatYES
WSQWavelet Scaler QuantizationYES³
XBMX11 BitmapYES³
XCFGIMP file formatYES³
XPMX11 PixmapYES³

¹ Microsoft's Active Movie program is required for these formats.
² Apple's QuickTime program is required for these formats.
³ PlugIn is required for these formats, see above for download.