Who knows a good alternative to ACDSee?
Latest versions of this programs are very slow..

IrfanView, perhaps?

ACDSee classic (which is basically the old yet good v. 2,43) is still my favourite.
Version 4 and 5 are pure bloat IMHO.

There are also some excellent freeware alternatives, such as Irfanview and Slowview.

Yeah, Iview is great, small and lighting fast.

SlowView unlike its name is very good and totally free as well.

I think the best is ThumbPlus from www.cerious.com.

It has a lot of interesting features... powerfull batch converssion, filters...
Take a look to the features list at the web.

I don't work with ACDSee from long time ago so I don't know how slow is...
hope ThumbPlus will be fast enough for you ;-)

Best regards.
b:.

I also use IrfanViewer. Like it.

My vote (for what it's worth) goes to IrfanView too. I've been using it as a replacement to ACDSee for about 8 months now and I am not desapointed.

According to IrfanView's site, the program can also open Real Audio files...anyone checked if it does that even if you haven't Real Player installed (although I doubt)?

Xnview is good to.

Slow View seems to be very good.

BTW, how to disable the viewing of audio and files from ACDSee? With Slow View I can disable this feature but with ACDSee no.

irfan is fast and does work, but has somehow borken generation of html/thumbs..., (wrong thumbs will show for wrong pictures), also the gui is extremly ugly under xp,
i would need one with 'export to html/thumbs, before convert all originals that arent yet to jpegs' option with the ability to use custom html/css templates for that?
-also the ability to add comments and the option to show original image info with the thumb (before it was jpeg-ed)
(downloading slowview, lmao@ the vorbis plugin )
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slowview
- cant find any html generation options...
- starts with the ugly pulldown menus which can be turned off luckily
- will start in localized mode (which is so horibly translated i needed to switch to english to find anything first )
+ high quality thumbs, fast

xnview
- cant find the way to better the thumbnail generation quality in browse window
- low quality filters - no bicubic resize, low quality text keyer...
- quite a bit slower than slowview or irfan (on p3/800)
+ almost decent html/thumb generation (better resizing filter than the one used in its own browser)
out of the box html thumbs example: http://smokeamiga.virtualave.net/xnview/page.html

slowview&xnview
- cant find the way to see mask only in 32bit images
+ bit less ugly than irfan under xp

edit2: deleted eps bs.

edit3: is there a way to increase the number of formats that winxp will show in thumbnail mode?

602 Photo, part of freeware Office suite,602 Pro PC Suite .
Its has all basic editing functions, supports Twain devices(cameras & scanners) and converts between all popular image formats.
I recommend it.

LIF

You need real player.



Susie anyone?
http://www.digitalpad.co.jp/~takechin/

(the site is in Jap, but the interface is in english)

I use it for some weird formats that you can't find viewers anywhere else (Like PlayStation's TIM format)

You need to disable the Media plugin.

It's in a Plugin Options screen, somewhere.

Does anyone know of any viewer that has the ability to pre-load the next image while viewing the current one? I enjoy this feature of ACDSee alot. AFAIK IrfanView doesn't do this. Otherwise I think IrfanView is great. The resize/resampling modes are interesting and provide good results.

Does anyone know any viewer other than Windows Picture and Fax viewer and ACDSee 5
that has bicubic interpolation? I've tried IrfanView, SlowView and Ulead Photo Explorer
and they all pretty much sucked... Bicubic interpolation is a essential for smooth non-pixely
zoom-ins IMHO...

Not exactly what you are looking for (sine you need a viewer in the style of ACDSee), but you might also find this useful one way or another.

I use Slowview.

It's good and it´s free