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 , display resolution , and color profile .
10-636: Windows Photo Viewer (formerly Windows Picture and Fax Viewer ) is an image viewer included with the Windows NT family of operating systems. It was first included with Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 under its former name. It succeeds Imaging for Windows . It was temporarily replaced with Windows Photo Gallery in Windows Vista but was reinstated in Windows 7 with its current name. Windows Photo Viewer can show individual pictures, display all pictures in
20-418: A JPEG image if it is rotated, resulting in loss of image quality; others offer lossless rotation. Typical features of image viewers are: Advanced features are: This graphics software –related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Image organizer An image organizer or image management application is application software for organising digital images . It
30-634: A custom Display ICC Profile is applied after installing a Monitor driver, Windows Photo Viewer wrongly shifts the picture hue to a warm tint. This feature is intentional but is greatly exaggerated. This can be fixed by removing or replacing the Display ICC Profile. In support documentation, Microsoft states that Windows Photo Viewer is not part of Windows 10, and a user still has it only if they upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1. However, it can be brought back in Windows 10 and later with registry editing, by adding
40-415: A custom ICC Profile being applied to said pictures, however Windows Photo Viewer will display an error when trying to display the picture with the message "Windows Photo Viewer can't display this picture because there might not be enough memory available on your computer." when an unknown ICC Profile is detected. There is a patch available on GitHub that fixes this behavior. Also, regarding ICC Profiles, when
50-565: A folder as a slide show , reorient them in 90° increments, print them either directly or via an online print service, send them in e-mail or burn them to a disc. Windows Photo Viewer supports images in BMP , JPEG , JPEG XR (formerly HD Photo), PNG , ICO , GIF and TIFF file formats. Windows Photo Viewer is deprecated in Windows 10 and later in favor of a Universal Windows Platform app called Photos . The program can no longer be accessed by normal means, however it can be re-enabled by editing
60-754: Is a kind of desktop organizer software application . Image organizer software focuses on handling large numbers of images. In contrast to an image viewer , an image organizer can edit image tags and can often upload files to on-line hosting pages. Enterprises may use Digital Asset Management (DAM) solutions to manage larger and broader amounts of digital media. Some programs that come with desktop environments , such as gThumb (GNOME) and digiKam (KDE) were originally simple image viewers, and have evolved into image organizers. Many commercial image organizers offer both automatic and manual image organization features. A comparison of image viewers reveals that many free software packages are available that offer most of
70-894: The appropriate entries ("capabilities") in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows Photo Viewer\Capabilities\FileAssociations. It is also possible to restore the Preview option in the context menu. Windows Photo Viewer itself remains built-in into Windows and is still set by default for TIFF files with the extensions ".tif" and ".tiff". Image viewer Although one may use a full-featured raster graphics editor (such as Photoshop or GIMP ) as an image viewer, these have many editing functionalities which are not needed for just viewing images, and therefore usually start rather slowly. Also, most viewers have functionalities that editors usually lack, such as stepping through all
80-507: The first frame of the animated GIF whereas Windows Picture and Fax Viewer displays animated GIFs in full. Windows Picture and Fax Viewer was also capable of viewing multi-page TIFF files, (except those that employ JPEG compression) as well as annotating the TIFF files. Windows Photo Viewer, on the other hand, has added support for JPEG XR file format and ICC profiles . Some devices and Android phones are able to take photos and screenshots and have
90-647: The images in a directory (possibly as a slideshow). Image viewers give maximal flexibility to the user by providing a direct view of the directory structure available on a hard disk. Most image viewers do not provide any kind of automatic organization of pictures and therefore the burden remains on the user to create and maintain their folder structure (using tag- or folder-based methods). However, some image viewers also have features for organizing images, especially an image database, and hence can also be used as image organizer . Some image viewers, such as Windows Photo Viewer that come with Windows operating systems, change
100-466: The registry. Compared to Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, changes have been made to the graphical user interface in Windows Photo Viewer. Whereas Windows Picture and Fax Viewer uses GDI+ , Windows Photo Viewer uses Windows Imaging Component (WIC) and takes advantage of Windows Display Driver Model . Although GIF files are supported in Windows Photo Viewer, Windows Photo Viewer only displays
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