This article presents a comparison of

image viewer An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color depth ...

s 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

Notes

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), a video editor ( iMovie), a music player (

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), a multimedia web publisher (

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), 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

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-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

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or QuickTime APIs for image support. This enables reading and writing to a variety of formats, including JPEG,

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, TIFF, PNG,

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, BMP and more. * SView5 may also run on Linux/x86 and MacOS/x86 using Mono.

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Image viewers An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical images; it can often handle various graphics file formats. Such software usually renders the image according to properties of the display such as color dept ...