Comparison of image viewers

This article presents a comparison of image viewers and image organizers which can be used for image viewing.

Functionality overview and licensing

Supported file formats

Commonly used vendor-independent formats

Camera raw formats

Supported operating systems

Basic features

Additional features

See also

• Comparison of raster graphics editors
• Image editing
• List of Image file formats

Notes

• iPhoto is part of iLife, which includes a DVD authoring package (iDVD), a video editor (iMovie), a music player (iTunes), a multimedia web publisher (iWeb), and an audio-sequencing program (GarageBand).
• FastPictureViewer's DirectX hardware acceleration support depends on the actual video card installed and the amount of available video memory. The commercial version also supports previewing some camera RAW formats for which a WIC-enabled codec exists. Such RAW codecs are currently available from Canon, Nikon, Olympus, Pentax, Sony and for Adobe DNG.

• Many applications on Mac OS X use either the Core Image or QuickTime APIs for image support. This enables reading and writing to a variety of formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000, Apple Icon Image format, TIFF, PNG, PDF, BMP and more.
• SView5 may also run on Linux/x86 and MacOS/x86 using Mono.

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