A good photo viewer.

Ive been at the Irfan viewer web site and can not figure out how to change all image icons on my hard drive to thumbnails. I can not figure out how to do it the easy way.
Ive been looking for another photo viewer but it is hard to find all the info I need or even a home page for the software,
I found this but they list formats and say “and more” well I need to know what the “and more” is.http://www.ilovefreesoftware.com/19/featured/5-best-free-image-viewer.html
I like Fullscreen viewer as it brags about the quality of the image. I can not find a home page or what formats it views.
I need to view EXR, TGA, HDR, and more but these are most important to me and I want auto thumbnails.

Hello
in the Linux world, Image Magik its quite popular, I guess:
http://www.imagemagick.org/
At first approach the soft could look a bit “weird”, but its really powerful:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/thumbnails/
Give it a try, maybe?
Bye

Thanks This is a very old problem for me. I need thumbnails because it is so fast to find things you forgot where you put and never gave it a name or forgot its name.

I’m on Windows and have been using MysticThumbs for years. It lets the window file browser show thumbnails of almost every type of image.

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs.html

http://www.irfanview.com/

I cant get irfan view to show thumbnails only the icon.

Open a image in folder and press T

I need/want every icon a thumbnail on my desktop and in all my folders. I saw a tut about that short cut. did I do something wrong or is that only to view as icons and not to change permanently . Not all my images open with irfan.

What about Adobe Bridge?

http://mysticcoder.net/mysticthumbs.html <------ That is what you want. Or a program similar.

FastPicture Codec is another option: http://www.fastpictureviewer.com/codecs/

Unfortunately, both MysticThumbs and FastPicture codec are commercial apps, so you will have to purchase a license.

A free alternative: https://code.google.com/p/sagethumbs/

I’ve been using a well worn copy of ACDSee Classic (V3.1) for years. As a professional photographer I use it to sort thousands of thumbnails and huge images (some of my panoramas are a GB or more in size). Every couple of years I test the others and ACDSee 3.1 is still the fastest…by a large margin, especially with large images. It’s getting a little flaky in Win7 but still outruns all the other viewers. I make an ass of myself in the ACDSee forum every few months by begging them to update it. The later versions are bloated do-everything monsters that are significantly slower than the Classic (or V3.1) version. Sometimes older is better.

I use free Sagethumbs but is has no .exr support, .hdr is.

xnview. Crossplatform. all you need.

XnViewMP is what you need. It runs on Windows/Linux/OSX and can read a lot of image formats. The best image viewer in my opinion.

Irfanview,Xnview,Bracket(for hdr,exr thumbnails/resize/convert etc)

I have had irfanview for years. I can not control the border size, it changes with the image.
I just tried xnview it is ok but wants to convert many images to,…I think it said 8 bit rgb, when scrolling through images. I do not want anything converted with a viewer.
Windows photo viewer sometimes wants to skip images. I will go 2,12,22,32,42… Usually just after I copy files to a folder.
I have Corel instant viewer. It is fussy about file types and very slow with large pictures.

I’m using this one. http://www.irfanview.com/

i have not had any issues with the default KDE4 desktop image viewer
GwenView

although in years past xnview and infraview were not useful in any way shape or form .