Imagine a fast image viewer

Posted by Martin in Operating Systems, Tools, Windows, software  Tags: , , ,

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Jan


Just when I thought I tried them all I find another promising image viewer called Imagine deeply hidden on the Internet. Imagine is a fast image viewer, it opens and displays images faster than any image viewer that I have tested so far, at least that’s my personal opinion on the matter.

It comes with all the features that I need, it can resize images, change formats, display and create thumbnails, batch convert images and all the standard functions of an image viewer like zooming, fullscreen, color changing and the like. The most popular image formats are supported and many functions and features can be enabled and changed in the options.

My first change for instance was to add the next and previous image navigation to the mouse wheel. You can really configure the software the way you like it. It might take a while to add and remove functions from the toolbars and set all shortcuts the way you want them but once that is done you have the fastest image viewer currently available at your disposal.

Imagine a fast image viewer

Imagine did replace Xnview on my system. , the image viewer that I have used for the last year.


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darkkosmos says, January 14th, 2008   

Have you compared imagine with ACDsee quick viewer?

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Tech says, January 14th, 2008   

The link appears to be down, google yielded a mirror here:
http://www.foto-freeware.de/imagine.php

Obviously I can’t tell whether this is the latest version or not. Martin?

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Martin says, January 14th, 2008   

Hm, the website is working for me, latest version is 1.0.0.0 beta 10 (20080113)

Dark Kosmos I have not used ACDsee for the last four years.

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dose says, January 14th, 2008   

nice find martin!

but is there a way to maintain the extension icons that come with XnView ? because that flower is very irritating :/

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Blackhouse says, January 14th, 2008   

Reminds me a lot of IrfanView… which also supports next/previous by mousebutton btw :)

Can you commment on the differences with Irfanview?

Cheers.

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Martin says, January 15th, 2008   

Dose you can change icons when you click on Tools > Folder Options in Windows Explorer and there on File Types. You would have to keep the Xnview executable though and load it to choose an icon from it.

Blackhouse, as with ACDsee I have not used Irfanview for more than three years ;)

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Tech says, January 15th, 2008   

..or use a tool like IconsExtract (first google hit) to extract the desired icon from the executable.

http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/iconsext.html

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最快的图片查看器：Imagine » Ghacks CN says, January 15th, 2008   

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Robert Irizarry says, January 15th, 2008   

Great find! I’ve been using Irfanview for years but this is so much faster loading images. I haven’t finished reviewing all of its features but so far it seems comparable to Iview.

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Blackhouse says, January 15th, 2008   

Since they had a zipped version which you didn’t need to install, I gave the program a quick spin.

As I said, it looks A LOT like Irfanview, you can even find most of the options in the same places.

The only disadvantage of Imagine at this point is that it doesn’t support a lot of image formats at this point (like RAW for example). This could change in future of course since it seems pretty extensible through a plugin system.

For the moment I’ll stick with Irfanview since it does pretty much everything and is fast.

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Bill says, January 15th, 2008   

I really like PicWalker
http://www.tucows.com/preview/366765
and the fantastic Faststone MaxView
http://www.faststone.org/FSMaxViewDetail.htm

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Vivek says, January 16th, 2008   

As Blackhouse already pointed out, this really looks like IrfanView-Reloaded :)
IrfanView can do everything and more (afaik) than Imagine. Somebody correct me if I’m wrong

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Thinker says, January 16th, 2008   

darkkosmos: ACDSee QuickView sucks. I used it month ago, now I use XnView. QuickView is only fast for viewing, but when you want to switch to browse mode, or even do simply task as set wallpaper you need to run full totally overweighted application.

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Axel says, January 17th, 2008   

Another candidate for the smallest and fastest image viewer contest: http://www.fastpictureviewer.com

Be sure to try the DirectX accelerate mode if your video card supports it.

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Zero3K says, February 28th, 2008   

Btw, there’s a forum for Imagine. Its at http://www.nyam.pe.kr/phpBB3/viewforum.php?f=2

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