Digital Photographer's Software Guide - Bertemes - Net

Version: ThumbsPlus 7.0 (2008)
OS: Windows 98, ME, 2000, XP, 2003, and Vista
RAM: 48MB (128MB recommended)
Supported file formats: Major RAW formats (requires the Digicam plug-in, Pro edition only);
plus internal support for more than 100 formats, including JPEG, JPEG 2000, TIFF, PSD,
DCR, DCS, PNG, scanned images (TWAIN), and so on. Can support more with Object
Linking and Embedding (OLE)
Price level: Standard edition $50, Professional edition $90 (both approximate)
Address: Cerious Software Inc., 1515 Mockingbird Lane, Suite 1000, Charlotte, NC 28209,
United States
www.cerious.com
XnView
Developer: Pierre-E Gougelet
Purpose: Image viewer that handles most file formats
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Description
XnView is probably the most versatile freeware image viewer available. It not only supports
a huge number of file formats, including animated GIF and multipage TIFF, it
also displays IPTC and Exif metadata, offers IPTC editing, and has an increasing number
of editing facilities. Multilingual support is excellent (44 languages), but only in the
Windows edition.
XnView’s editing functions include brightness and contrast adjustment, color modification,
filters, crop, and lossless rotation, and special effects such as blur, emboss, and
edge detection. It has batch processing and batch renaming capabilities, together with
some limited Web-page creation functions. Its interface allows you to compare images
side-by-side or view them in full-screen mode.
Comments
XnView’s interface offers so many options that it can easily become confusing, but fortunately
it defaults to a sensible configuration. It works best in Windows, where it offers
TWAIN support together with print and drag-and-drop features that are not (yet)
implemented in other environments. Its great strength is in being able to open unusual
formats. Even JPEG 2000 still defeats many image viewers, but not this one.
Version: XnView 1.93.6/1.7 (2008)
OS: Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, ME, XP, and Vista; Mac OS X; Linux
RAM: 128MB
Supported file formats: Imports 400 formats, exports 50 (both approx.)
Price level: Free, commercial use $25