Image Eye v.10.0

The lean, mean and clean image viewer

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Runs under:  Windows 11 / 10 / 8 / 7.

Translations of the user interface are included for the following languages:

Image Eye is a specialized image viewer — made for the sole purpose of viewing images as quickly and practically as possible — nothing more. You get a window with the image only — no bulky menus, tool-bars or other fancy but annoying clutter. By default, even the title-bar is hidden when you don't need it, leaving just a thin black border around the picture. There's also many handy and practical user interface tricks (e.g. hit Ctrl–Alt–X to close all image windows).

This software is freeware — there's no advertising, no trial period, no reg-codes, no crippled features. However, if you use and like it, please consider making a donation here — both as a "thank you" and to support its continued development.

Read what some of our users are saying about Image Eye

Feature highlights:

• The only image viewer you need for viewing and browsing images.
  
• Clean interface with zero unnecessary menus and toolbars wasting space.
  
• Uncompromising image quality.
  
• Small and very fast, highly tuned code.
  
• Reads all common image file formats.
  
• Index feature with very fast thumbnail creation.
  
• Rotate, mirror, zoom, pan, adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, hue, saturation, gamma.
  
• Adjustments can be saved non-destructively (and reapplied next time you open a file).
  
• It does not attempt to be a half-baked editor, format converter, or media player.
  
• It does include a very primitive slide show scripting language.
  
• Translated to many languages.
  
• Freeware.

Feature-list for the tech-nerds:

• Deep color support: Specialized code paths for grayscale and color data, with 8, 16 or 32-bits/component — maintaining full precision during all image processing operations.
  
• High quality dithering: Floyd-Steinberg dithering is used for superior perceived image quality when displaying high bit-depth images on the 8-bit Windows desktop.
  
• Asynchronous I/O: Images are decompressed at the same time as data is being read — no waiting for file reads to fully finish before starting to decode.
  
• Speculative decoding: While you view one file, the next file in the folder is invisibly being decoded, so that it can be brought up very quickly.
  
• Image caching: When you move to a new image, the old one is remembered (if memory allows), so there's little delay if you go back and forth between images.
  
• Data parallelism: Heavy computational tasks are sped up using AVX/AVX2 — SIMD instructions that work on up to 32 numbers in parallel.
  
• Task parallelism: Heavy computational work is sped up by dividing big jobs into smaller tasks that are distributed on multiple CPU cores.
  
• Code branching: Common cases are handled using specialized code that is faster than the generic routines.
  
• High quality resampling: All resampling (image resizing) is done using Catmull-Rom interpolation.
  
• Text metadata: Text info tags can be read from several formats — Adobe XMP, IPTC IMM, EXIF, PNG, TIFF tags, PSD, GIF and JPEG comments.
  
• Native code: x64, x86, and Arm64 versions are available.
  

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General:

• Reads many file formats: AVIF, BBM, BMP, BTF, CAL, CALS, CR2, CR3, CUR, DDS, DIB, FIT, FITS, GIF, HDR, ICO, IFF, JFIF, JPG, JPEG, LBM, PBM, PFM, PGM, PCX, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSB, PSD, RLE, SUN, TGA, TF8, TIF, TIFF, WEBP.
• Animated GIF, (A)PNG, WEBP and AVIF are supported.
• Multi-page TIFFs are supported.
• High-quality Catmull-Rom (4x4 filter kernel) resampling filter used when resizing images.
• AVX/AVX2 SIMD instructions for much improved speed (x64 build).
• SSE/SSE2 and (optional) SSE4.1 SIMD instructions for improved speed (x86 build).
• Multi-core support for much improved speed.
• Can be run as a portable application (e.g. run from USB stick and leave no trace).
• Available in several languages and can easily be translated into more!
• Supports Windows dark mode.
• Supports NTFS long paths (up to 32767 characters).
• Customizable keyboard short-cuts.
• Freeware.

Open image dialog:

• Image resolution and file format information is shown for selected files.
• The last viewed image is automatically selected and the file list is scrolled so that it is visible.
• The most recent folders from which an image has been opened are remembered in a list so you can go back again to them very quickly (can be turned off for privacy).
• Open an index view of all images in the directory by pressing a single button.

Viewer window:

• Launch the program and open images in multiple ways — choose the one that suits you best! You can launch it from the start menu, by clicking on a file in the Windows Explorer, or from an already open Image Eye window.
• Browse images in a directory using the index mode, or using the 'open image file' dialog, or from a viewer window using previous/next image commands, or by pressing down the mouse wheel (if you have one) and rotating it.
• The image adjustment dialog lets you adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness (using a true 'unsharp masking' algorithm), hue, saturation, gamma, luminance, red, green, blue, negative, rotation and mirroring controls.
• Image adjustments can be saved and automatically re-applied the next time you open the image file — all without modifying the original image file.
• File operations: Copy, rename, move, delete, erase. The erase command will wipe the file several times with random data before setting the file size to 0 then deleting it (bypassing the recycle bin) — use for sensitive data.
• View images in windowed or in full-screen mode.
• Zoom in and out using high quality filtering.
• Freeze mode sticks an image to the desktop so that it can't be moved until unfroozen — and it is automatically opened again if you restart your computer.
• Screen/window shot capture function.
• Set images as the Windows wallpaper.

Index window:

• Very fast thumbnail index creation.
• Select what info you wish to be displayed (names, comments, resolutions, file sizes, et c).
• Sort the thumbnails in various ways.
• "Recurse sub-directories" lets you create an index displaying all files of all sub-folders.
• Optionally save thumbnails in a cache file on disk for even faster retrieval next time.
• Generate the cache automatically, manually, or not at all.

Slideshow:

• A simple slide show scripting language lets you to roll your own slide-shows and presentations.
• Or automatically create slideshows for viewing of all the files in a folder.

Screenshots:

You access the main menu by right-clicking on an image

The image adjustment dialog with its many controls

List of file formats that can be read by Image Eye…

The current build is v. ...

Portable version:

Install the program on your main computer using any of the above installers, then grab the installed Image Eye.exe. If you run it on a computer where it has not been installed, then settings are not remembered — nothing will be stored in the registry et c, thus leaving an entirely untouched system. This is useful e.g. if you want to run it from a USB-key on a borrowed computer.

Languages included:

Volunteers are wanted to help translate it into more languages.

Volunteers wanted for Image Eye translations!

Image Eye is quite easy to translate to other languages. Only a simple 'translation dictionary' in the form of a text file needs to be created. We can't afford to hire people to do translations though…

This is where you can help! If you'd like a version of Image Eye in your native language and are willing spend an hour to translate it, then it can happen!

Interested?   Contact us and we will get back to you with more information!

Send us a donation!

Image Eye  is free to use. You don't have to pay for it. There's no nag boxes, no advertising, no time limit, no crippled features. However we do make this plea — that if you use it and like it, please consider making a voluntary donation — both as a "thank you" and to support its continued development.

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Your donation will helps us greatly in continuing to improve Image Eye!

Revision history for Image Eye…

What our users are saying

If you are looking for a fast and quality image viewer program with a clean user interface, it must be Image Eye. It became my favorite program in short time. Also it doesn't use high system sources which makes it user friendly.

Dr. Umut Yilmaz

Image Eye is the best software product I've ever purchased, I use it all the time and you always advise me of updates.

Thanks, Greg Lenz

I am an amateur photographer and scan in quite a few of my photographs. Image Eye provides the best displays of any software I have used when I show friends my photos. I assume it has to do with the method you use to dither, in any event my photos have a very smooth look on the monitor with your software. I have tried quite a large number of commercial, shareware and freeware programs but Image Eye produces the most pleasing results for viewing of any I have used.

Richard Peterson

I must let you know that immediately after downloading Image Eye three days ago, linked from Voyetra, I wanted to register first chance. I am very pleased with the output quality and slick presentation. Unabashedly, I must tell you that this program is one-of-a-kind, not-to-mention the brains behind. The Indexing, slideshow and view options.

My best regards,
         E. Noly Pangilinan

Image Eye should be part of the Windows system. I can't say how often I'm using Image Eye, because it is part of my system.

Pekka Makkonen
Photographer from Finland