Get an Amazingly Fast Windows Image Viewer

Working forever, as it seems, in tech marketing, I feel like I’ve spent my career (an exaggeration) looking at image files like jpegs, sorting them, looking at them again — just trying to find the right image for the story I was trying to tell.

I’ve used tons (an exaggeration) of Windows image viewers.

I’m always on the lookout for new viewers, here’s one and I like very much. FastStone MaxView really is one of the fastest Windows Image Viewers I’ve ever used and fast is important when you’re flipping through large clip art collections or all of your digital pictures.

MaxViewer is free for non-commercial use — $19.95 for commercial use.

MaxViewer has more to recommend it besides just fast viewing. Here’s a partial Feature List from the FastStone site:

Full screen viewer with Select – Zoom support
Clear and customizable magnifier
View detailed image information including EXIF metadata
Slideshow with 150+ transitional effects and MP3/WAV/MIDI/WMA background music support
Lossless JPEG rotation and crop
Internal editor that adds texts, arrowed-lines, highlights to images
Undo, Redo and Mouse Wheel support
Common image formats support, including loading of JPEG, JPEG2000, GIF, BMP, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR, TGA and saving to JPEG, JPEG2000, TIFF, GIF, PCX, BMP, PNG, TGA
Digital camera RAW formats support, including CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG