Free image viewer, image previewer a program to view/preview picture on
your hard disc
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 Free Simple Image Viewer for Windows
Ken Ward's Simple Image Viewer is a free program to view, preview images
or photographs on disc.
If you read nothing else...
First open a file (unless you opened the program from explorer) because
the Previous Image, Next Image Buttons,
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are disabled until you do this.
Always back up your files, and do not overwrite your original image.
The location of the previous/next buttons is ringed in red in the picture
below:
These buttons are disabled until you open a file, or open the program
from explorer (because the program doesn't know which directory you want!)
Clicking on
takes you to the previous image, and on
to the next one. If you have the last picture open in the directory,
clicking the next button,
,
takes you to the beginning. If you are at the beginning and you click on the
previous button,,
it takes you to the last image in the directory. That is, the actions are
cyclic.
The image below indicates (in red) the six buttons we are talking about:
These are
- Open
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- Save As
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- Zoom In,
- Zoom Out
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- Fit Image to Screen
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and
- Show Directories
Of course, these are intuitive, and you can click on them to find out
what they do.
A dialog appears and you can select a picture to load.
There isn't a save button, because the idea is that you do not overwrite
your pictures, unless you choose to do so. This is a simple Image Viewer,
and saving is not part of its job. You might use this button to save the
image somewhere else, or save a copy of the image, and open that in an
editor, thus preserving the original.
This zooms the image making it about 5% larger. It zooms the image as
seem not the original size. There is also a drop-down button on the menu
bar, where you can choose zooms on the image.
This zooms in the image as seen so it is about 5% smaller.
If the image is larger than the viewing area, Fit Image to Screen changes
its size so it fits (almost). If the image is smaller than the viewing area,
it does nothing. You can, of course, zoom the image.
This brings up a list of files in the current directory and you can click
on one of them to load it in the viewer. The dialog stays open so you can
select which files you want to load in a way that makes looking for a
particular image easier.
The file menu has four buttons: Open, discussed
above, Save As, discussed above, Exit
to close the program and Rename, which opens a dialog
allowing you to rename the currently loaded file.
There are five items in this menu and two sub items.
Reload image reloads the current image (perhaps it has been modified in
an external editor).
Actual Size shows the image actual size, without any zoom.
Fit in Screen is the same as the
button of that name, mentioned above.
The zoom item repeats the actions of the buttons, calling Zoom In,
Bigger, and Zoom Out, Smaller.
Finally, Show Directories repeats the action of the
button of that name.
There are two main items on the Options menu. Default View has two sub
items: Fit Images to Screen, which thereafter fits the loaded images to the
screen, and Show Images Full Size, which thereafter shows the loaded images
full size.
The item, Set External Editor..., is used to set external editors, so the
currently loaded file can be opened in a convenient editor. The editor opens
with the file currently loaded in Image Viewer, loaded in that editor.
The dialog looks like this:
You can link up to three external editors to open your files. For
instance, I have two image editors and a jpeg Optimiser linked. Clicking on
Select Editor 1, for instance opens a file open dialog enabling you to
select the external editor, probably from programs, the default directory.
The boxes with the names of the editor and its location are filled in
automatically, here and in the tool bar menu on the program. You can
thereafter open the currently loaded file in an editor of your choice. If
you wish to change the editor called Editor 1, you simply load another one.
When you are finished, it does not matter whether you click the OK button
or the 'x' to exit. Your editors have been added anyway (They are added when
you select them).
From the bottom of the above image, we first notice on the left "Fitting
Images to the Screen", which tells us the default view is "Fit Image". That
is, we have chosen this option from the main menu.
The next item, Change, when clicked shows a menu option to
change the default view to Actual Size.
If we choose "Show Images Full Size" from the Options Menu, we would see
the message, "Showing Images Actual Size" The program would look like this:
And the Change Menu would, when clicked, show the option Fit Screen,
which changes the default view to Fit Screen.
Having set the required editors in the options
menu, you see any selected editors in the menu that opens when you click
the arrow on Open in External Editor. Clicking on one of
these opens the currently loaded picture in the editor. If you haven't
selected any editors, then the drop downs will say "Editor 1", etc,
indicating no editor has been selected, or any selected editor no longer
exists on your hard disc.
The last menu on this toolbar is Zoom. When clicked a list of zoom
options appears, including Actual Size. This zoom is on the image size, so
it displays the image, say, if 50% were selected, half size.
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