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The Digital Photographer's Software Guide
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Figure 2.6
XnView offers a tabbed browser display with a large main window.
Summary
Even though there are many choices of software for viewing and browsing images, many
users, sometimes to their detriment, stick with the program they know best. This can
be a serious error. Even some of the best all-purpose image editors are not necessarily
great for browsing. Quite often a photographer simply needs to take a quick look at a
collection of images without launching a full cataloging, image management, or editing
application, all of which allow you to browse in one form or another. Some image viewers
are superb for churning through thousands of thumbnails (Picasa), whereas others
are excellent for displaying whole screen, high-res images in rapid succession (FastStone
MaxView). All of the image viewers discussed in this chapter are worth trying, and
PicLens is a “must-have” product.