XnView is the software which is simple and convenient to use. It has a powerful means to navigate and work with files: support of files descriptions, copying/inserting files through the buffer, support of drag'n'drop, non-graphic viewer, automatic listing of files and many more. XnView supports about 400 different formats, from most widespread to exotic. The number of additional options includes work with scanner and contact list, creating screenshots, work with windows wallpapers, framing, generation of HTML-albums to locate in the Web, etc. Convenient layout, possibility to change the setting.
IrfanView is a powerful viewer and edit software. It supports almost all the graphic formats, video and audio files, plugins, image conversion, various modes of viewing and many more. It has basic means of processing schedules, possibility to convert files from one format to another, to do the correction of colour, to do screenshots from the screen, wallpapers for a desktop, there are modes of a slide-show and display of the reduced preview. Besides there is a special panel of tools with the art effects, usually typical for expensive graphic editors.
FastStone MaxView is the small, convenient and free-of-charge graphic viewer, supporting the majority of popular graphic formats, including RAW. The main feature of FastStone MaxView is that the window of viewing the program does not contain lateral borders, and the menu and panels of tools automatically disappear, if they are not used. There is an option of image zoom, the full-screen mode of viewing, there is a navigator on greater pictures, a slide-show, in which there are more than 150 transitive effects with a possibility of music attachment. Management of hot keys, change of fonts and colors is supported.
Fresh View is a universal viewer and multimedia browser. Fresh View allows to view graphic files and to reproduce audio/video files of about 90 various formats. There is an opportunity to convert images into the most different formats. There is also a possibility to display sketches of all pictures from a folder, to view a slide-show, and the opportunity to create HTML-albums. Fresh View demands simple registration on a site of developers (it is necessary to specify an e-mail address on which the registration key will come).
Family Tree Builder is genealogy software in OC Windows. It supports 12 languages and Search Technology Smart Matching™, and is useful for creating family tree models. With its help you can add photos with Face Recognition Technology. Publish your family tree to the Web.
Google Picasa 2 is software for the organization, search, viewing and editing of digital photos and other graphic files. Today the program has the built-in support of both Windows XP and Windows Vista, and beta versions of Linux. Each time when you open Picasa, it automatically defines the location of your photos and graphic files (even about what you have forgotten) and sorts them into the visual albums arranged by date with folder names. Picasa also is the advanced program for editing a photo. It is incredibly simple: it does everything in a mouse click, but is equipped with powerful effects and possibilities.
