Pictus!

August 11th, 2008 Pictus is a fast, free image viewer. It is designed to be small, fast and just totally sweet. If you are content with your current photo viewer software you can still install Pictus and just let it help Windows Explorer show thumbnails for even more images. * Loads images in advance. * Designed for responsiveness.

Pictus alternatives

  • JPEGView

  • JPEGView is a small and fast viewer/editor for JPEG, BMP, PNG, GIF and TIFF images. On-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing to adjust typical parameters as sharpness, color balance, contrast and local under-/overexposure.

    tags: Portable editing-photos exif image-adjustment image-processing
  • SageThumbs

  • SageThumbs is a powerful shell extension allowing to preview enormous amount of image formats directly in Windows Explorer by using Pierre-e Gougelet's GFL library (XnView's author).

    tags: image-converter preview-images psd thumbnail-preview windows-explorer-extension
  • SVG Explorer Extension

  • Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails, so that you can have an overview of your SVG files.

    tags: windows-explorer-extension extensions thumbnail-preview svg-explorer
  • XnShell

  • XnShell is a free File Explorer extension that installs a number of image-related tools in the right-click context menu, including a thumbnail preview, image conversion to a wide variety of formats, image resizing, editing image IPTC metadata, uploading to ImageShack, and other functions.

    tags: context-menu-extension desktop-enhancement image-converter image-resize imageshack
  • PicaView

  • PicaView is the simple, no-hassle image viewing solution. This is an add-on for viewing images in File Explorer that lets you right-click on an image file to bring up a miniature image and image file information.It also offers full-screen viewing, image printing and converting. It supports 17 popular image formats, rotates JPEG images with no image degradation, sets desktop wallpaper to any image and performs batch format conversions.It also acts as a preview media player. Right-click a supported format and you can preview music before opening it with a standard media player. This is an excellent addition in the newest version. »

    tags: Discontinued batch-conversion fullscreen-support image-converter preview-images
  • FirmTools ShellExtension

  • FirmTools ShellExtension is a real handy freebie for Windows users.

    tags: Discontinued image-converter preview-images shell-integration thumbnail-preview
  • Instant ThumbView

  • Instant ThumbView is a tiny image viewer that displays image thumbnails in a tooltip window, when mouse pointer is hovered over an image file in Windows Explorer. It supports a lot of popular image file formats, including BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, WMF, EMF, TIFF and is very handy for quick image viewing

    tags: desktop-enhancement image-thumbnails-in-tooltip image-viewer preview-images thumbnail-preview
  • FastPreview

  • FastPreview was created in need of a usable PicaView replacement which was discontinued at the time.

    tags: preview-images shell-integration thumbnail-preview windows-explorer-extension
  • CoolTweak

  • Resize, add watermarks and share your pictures with a single click.

    tags: batch-editing batch-file-renamer batch-mode batch-processing batch-resize
  • MysticThumbs

  • MysticThumbs generates thumbnails of many image types not natively supported by Windows. It does this transparently and in the background for Explorer so you don't have to run a separate application to preview your images. It is a native Windows Explorer plugin which means you don't have to do anything other than install it. This means you don't have any new interfaces to learn, think about or otherwise deal with. It also comes with QuickView - like a make click to see a preview of your image and its data. »

    tags: icon-manager psd-thumbnails thumbnail-generator thumbnail-preview thumbnail-viewer
  • Context Viewer

  • Context Viewer is an explorer extension in the form of a Control Panel applet that lets you preview image files and text in the right click menu. It can also display customized information about images and set hotkeys to enable or disable the preview along with a few more options.

    tags: Discontinued context-menu-extension preview-images windows-explorer-extension
  • AhaView

  • AhaView is a handy picture viewer and converter. It allows you to browse, view, organize and convert your digital images.

    tags: image-converter image-resize image-viewer
  • 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.

    tags: image-viewer preview-images thumbnails