Top 15 VJPEG Alternative and Similar Softwares | Dec 2024

I realized I was spending a lot of time waiting for JPEGs to open, and the default viewer on my system wasnt really hot with large files. I take a lot of digital camera pictures, and viewing a few megapixels in a web browser is ugly.

I have a good bicubic resampler that I use for various things, and so I made a JPEG viewer that uses it to show pictures when you double-click them. It makes them small, to start.

1. gThumb

gThumb gThumb is an image viewer and browser for the GNOME Desktop. Features Image Viewer * View single images (including GIF animations). Supported image types are: BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, TIFF, ICO, XPM. * View EXIF data attached to JPEG images. * View in fullscreen mode. * View images rotated,......

2. Windows Photo Viewer

Windows Photo Viewer View pictures in Windows Photo Viewer.You can use Windows Photo Viewer to view your digital photos in a variety of ways. You can also print, order prints, attach pictures to an e-mail message, burn, or open photos in another program on your computer.......

3. Microsoft Photos

Microsoft Photos You can use the Photos app to view or edit photos and videos in your Pictures library and on OneDrive, and to import photos and videos. The Photos app includes a wide range of editing options to enhance your photos, from automatic fixes to advanced adjustments. After you've finished editing......

4. Color Storm

Color Storm Color Storm is a fast and powerful image viewing, image processing and image sharing software, providing you the excellent imaging experiences.Color Storm provides the following extensions:1. Paint ExtensionPaint is a fast and easy to use tool for image editing, providing you advanced image editing ability in Color Storm. More 2.......

5. Qiv

Qiv QIV is a very small and pretty fast gdk/Imlib image viewer.Runs on Linux, Solaris(SunOS), FreeBSD and HP-UX. Features: moving & zooming image in fullscreen mode. setting image as x11 background (centered,tiled,stretched..) with user settable background color fullscreen viewing with a great statusbar external "qiv-command" program support screensaver mode brightness/contrast/gamma......

6. Image Overlay Utility

Image Overlay Utility Image Overlay Utility is a small, easy-to-use program for graphic artists to overlay transparent, click-through images anywhere on screen!Use it as virtual tracing paper for painting, sketching, or tracing under an image (in graphics software which doesn't have layers), for unobtrusive watermarks during live demos, presentations, and screencasts, or simply......

7. Foreground Reference Utility

Foreground Reference Utility Useful for digital artists who want to use a photo reference with virtually any 3D package (i.e. zBrush, Silo, Blender, Messiah, etc).It only runs in Windows, and seems to run better on an NVIDIA card...but the price is right: It is free.......

8. ExifPro

ExifPro ExifPro is an application meant to display, manipulate and browse photographs. ExifPro can display images in different view modes. Selected images may be copied, resized, cropped and adjusted. The standalone viewer window offers zooming and panning, image color and aspect correction, magnifier tool, light table pane and a slide show......

9. photo+

photo+ ArcSoft Photo+ is a reliable photo viewer that allows you to share your pictures with friends on Facebook, Flickr, and Twitter. The application supports more than 50 file formats and is very easy to use. It features slideshow functionality and includes basic edit tools to crop, zoom and rotate your......

10. pic view

pic view A simple picture viewer and manipulator. Open source (CBuilder 5). Features:- Slideshow- Thumbnails- Drawing operations- Several picture formats- Tile pictures- Combine pictures- Size pictures/extend- Batchconversation/Sizing- Icon extraction from DLL- and EXE-files- Save selection to file- File properties- EXIF/IPTC information is not lost while saving a picture- Red eye reduction- Scale......

11. MenuViewer

MenuViewer This shell extensions will show you a thumbnail of an image file, as well as its dimensions, when you right click on a filename inside Explorer.Extension uses FreeImage, and currently supports: BMP,DDS,Dr. Halo,GIF,HDR,ICO,IFF,JBIG,JNG,JPEG/JIF,KOALA,LBM,Kodak PhotoCD,MNG,PCX,PBM,PGM,PNG,PPM,PhotoShop,Raw Fax G3,SGI,Sun RAS,TARGA,TIFF,WBMP,XBM,XPM......

12. Image Enhancer

Image Enhancer Image Enhancer is a desktop application based on Image Processing concepts. A set of total 64 basic and complex Image Processing filters are implemented here. Moreover snapshots can be captured using video surveillance camera/webcam attached with the computer.......

13. Better JPEG

Better JPEG A lossless jpeg editor with features such as cropping, red-eye removal, color correction, and copy/paste with an external editor. Also available as a Photoshop plugin.......

14. LeafPic

LeafPic LeafPic is a fluid, material-designed alternative gallery, it also is ad-free and open source under GPLv3 license. It doesn't miss any of the main features of a stock gallery, we also have in plan to add some useful feature.LeafPic is now available in a beta release on the Play Store!......

15. Simple BPG Image viewer

Simple BPG Image viewer This program allows you to view BPG Images in Windows and Linux (format description: http://bellard.org/bpg/ ).Features:* Large images are autoscaled to fit screen area* Image transparency (Alpha-Channel) support* Zoom In/Out* Full screen mode* Support mouse dragging of the zoomed image* Cyclic view of all images in the same......