Old PhotoImpact Viewer?

Henderson50 · Post by **Henderson50** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:19 pm

At one time ULead used to have a free viewer program called PhotoImpact Viewer. The last version I believe was Version 4.0.

I loved this small program and still replace the Windows image and fax viewer with it. But lately some of the bmps load with a blue tint, or rarely with a green tint, to the images.

Short of hoping for ULead to once again distribute that program, does anyone know how to get rid of the odd colored tinting on some images? Or know of a plain simple image viewer that works the same as theirs did? (ie, no explorer directory trees, no thumbnails, just be able to open up as many images as you want within the viewer program window).

Post by **Ron P.** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 9:27 pm

There's a ton of them available, one that gets my vote, is IrfanView. It is lightweight yet can do quite a lot, and it only costs $0.

Henderson50 · Post by **Henderson50** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 9:00 am

I actually have Ifran for a few file types the other couldn't view. But 2 major things I hate about it is the window keeps resizing along with the image, and you can only have 1 image open at a time.

If you wanted to compare say 4 images side by side, all open at once, you can't do it with Infran.

Post by **Ron P.** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:29 am

you can only have 1 image open at a time.

Not true, you must have the option to run only 1 instance checked on the Misc 1 tab, under properties. Uncheck that and you can run as many instances as you like.

Henderson50 · Post by **Henderson50** » Sun Oct 29, 2006 11:32 pm

But that means if I'm viewing though 100 images and want to pull out 15 of those for some editing, I end up with 15 instances of Infranview open, rather than 15 images within the one instance. I don't like the option of grouping similar taskbar items, so it would mean a new item in the taskbar for every image viewed.

Another handy thing about Photoview is that there's a button to open up the selected image into the image editing program of your choice such as Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro, any image editor of your preference.

Post by **Ron P.** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 1:41 am

Ok so how about this one..PhotoFiltre

PhotoFiltre is a complete image retouching program. It allows you to do simple or advanced adjustments
to an image and apply a vast range of filters on it. It is simple and intuitive to use, and has an easy
learning curve. The toolbar, giving you access to the standard filters with just a few clicks, gives
PhotoFiltre a robust look.

htchien · Post by **htchien** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 4:51 am

There is a image viewer call Ulead InstantViewer which is included in the PI package. Maybe it's the one you are referring to?

Check the eviewer.exe in System Drive:\Program Files\Ulead PhotoExplorer 8.6 and see if it's the one you are looking for.

H.T.

Henderson50 · Post by **Henderson50** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 8:08 pm

Photo Filtre has way too much for just a viewer. I could strip down Paint Shop Pro and open images in it for the same thing, but would still end up with extra loading time for plugins.

And I don't have the full PI package, have PI 6.0 only and there's no separate viewer with it.