Altarsoft Image Viewer1.11

Altarsoft Image Viewer is a simple-to-use tool capable of opening graphic files with a wide range of file types, including TIF, GIF, JPG, PCX, BMP, ICO, PNG, WMF and EMF, along with RAW images obtained from digital cameras.

Simple GUI for opening graphic files

The application's wrapped in a user-friendly interface made from a large window with a built-in tree view that permits you to quickly find directories which contain all supported file types.You can preview their thumbnails, find out the number of total files, selected files, name, format and size in the status bar, as well as open a photo with its full size. The next or previous graphic file from the current directory can be viewed without returning to file explorer mode. Otherwise, you can put together a slideshow on the spot.

Make image adjustments and perform file operations

It's possible to rename, copy or move images to another directory, resize and rotate pictures, remove the red eye effect, delete any file, undo and redo actions, select all or none, as well as hide the toolbar, status bar, directories or preview pane. Plus, images can be printed as well as converted to another format by simply specifying the output directory, file name and extension.Multiple GUI languages and keyboard shortcuts are supported. As far as program settings are concerned, you can modify the default delay time (ms) for slideshows, make file associations with this Altarsoft Image Viewer, as well as disable automatic checkups for software updates at startup.

Evaluation and conclusion

The utility has intuitive options for opening images with a wide range of files types, as well as for making some basic adjustments. On the other hand, it showed an error dialog at startup in our tests, and we've noticed that it has delay when executing a simple user command.Nevertheless, we must also take into account that Altarsoft Image Viewer hasn't been updated for a long time and may have compatibility issues with later Windows.