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What are some common image viewing programs?

With the many different types of image formats available, there is certainly no shortage of image viewing programs as well. Below is a list of common image viewers for the Macintosh and Windows platforms.

Windows:

Company Program Name Price * Image Editing
Notes
ACD Systems ACDSee Photo Editor $49 Yes Photo editor that includes image touch-up features and effects; can be used for digital scrapbooking; other versions include ACDSee Pro and Photo Manager.
Adobe Systems Photoshop $599 Yes The most popular image editing application in the world; has powerful image and color manipulation features.
Adobe Systems Photoshop Elements $89 Yes Trimmed down version of Photoshop; still has advanced image editing capability.
Corel Paint Shop Pro $129 Yes Advanced image editor from Corel; previously made by Jasc Software.
FastStone Soft FastStone Image Viewer Free Yes Supports batch converting and slideshows; includes advanced editing features.
Informative Graphics Brava! Reader Free No Views and prints TIFF, PDF and secure CSF files; also available as a Web browser plug-in.
IrfanView IrfanView Free Yes Supports many graphic, audio, and video formats; includes basic image editing capability.
Logipole Konvertor Free Yes Multimedia viewer/converter that supports conversion for over 1200 image, animation, audio, video and text formats.
Microsoft Windows Picture and Fax Viewer Free No Basic image viewer included with Windows XP.
XnView XnView Free No Supports the most formats of any image viewer.

Macintosh:

Company Program Name Price * Image Editing
Notes
Adobe Systems Photoshop $599 Yes The most popular image editing application in the world.
Adobe Systems Photoshop Elements $89 Yes Trimmed down version of Photoshop; still has advanced image editing capability.
Apple Computer iPhoto $79
(with iLife)
Yes Image organization program; can crop, rotate and perform basic color correction on images; bundled with new Macintosh computers.
Apple Computer Preview Free Yes Opens many different image formats including PDFs; bundled with Mac OS X.
Lemke Software GraphicConverter X $30 Yes Imports over 190 graphic formats; exports 75 different formats.
Newera Software Graphics Converter Pro $30 Yes Imports over 500 graphic formats and exports 140 formats; contains 60 image filters.
XnView XnView Free No Supports the most formats of any image viewer.

* Prices listed are estimated retail prices and may change.

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