I recently discovered XNView, a free (for personal use) image viewing software and I was amazed. At only 3.5 Mb, it is a full featured image viewing program with decent looks and the fastest image processing I ever saw.

I worked with a couple of image viewers in the past, and I used IrfanView for over 3 years. Nothing compares to XNView. It loads images up to 10 times faster then any other freeware or commercial software, and not only that, but it’s zoom in/out works instantly.
It has a lot of options you can customize, it has built in filters and effects, red eye reduction, color management, screen capture utility, batch rename, batch edit, resize and batch resize. It can view around 400 file types and can convert to and from around 50 file formats.
This amazing little software can also create you a web page from your favorite photos with only a few clicks.
XNView can also generate thumbnails of movies.
You can download XNView from their website.
Filed under: Freeware