10 Best Image Viewers for Linux
I earlier wrote about the best 20 free image editor including 5 best online image editors. Image viewers are used to display or handle stored graphical images in different graphics file formats. Following are some of most widely used Image viewers for Linux you can consider using. They are all unique in their own way.
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To get started with the list, on the top of my head I have
Feh is considered one of the best Image viewers for Linux. It is really powerful and easy to use. It is commandline-driven and supports multiple images through slideshow, thumbnail browsing or multiple windows, and montages or index prints. In addition to that it offers
- Image viewing in fullscreen.
- Image list mode
- Recursive file opening
- Sorting of the filelist
- Loading images via http
- Reloading after delay and more
Just like an mp3 player, feh can also save and load filelists. This is great in combination with sorting options or recursive file opening, as it stores the results for speedy re-use. You can use it to organise your images.
Gwenview is a fast and easy to use image viewer for KDE which is also available in in KDE 3, the KDE 4 version has a simplified user interface, making it more suitable for quickly browsing through collection of images. It provides full-screen interface that can be used to display images as a slide-show.
Gwenview can load and save all image formats supported by KDE. It correctly displays images with alpha channel, using the traditionnal checker board as a background to reveal transparency. It gives you you accurately control the way images are scaled: you can zoom in and out or automatically scale the image to fit the window. You can also lock the zoom factor to keep the same zoom between images.
DigiKam
DigiKam is an image organizer for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all major image formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags.. If you only want to focus on the viewers, you should give ShowFoto a closer look. It’s a stand-alone image viewer and editor for Linux.
DigiKam is an image organizer for the KDE desktop environment. It supports all major image formats, and can organize collections of photographs in directory-based albums, or dynamic albums by date, timeline, or by tags.. If you only want to focus on the viewers, you should give ShowFoto a closer look. It’s a stand-alone image viewer and editor for Linux.
An image viewer for the KDE desktop environment with a disk navigator, file tree, thumbnails, extended thumbnails, dynamic format support, DCOP interface, KEXIF and KIPI plugins support. Currently it supports more than 50 image formats including PNG, JPEG, PSD, APNG, GIF, WMF, OpenEXR and many other.
Key features include
- Tool to convert images
- Slideshow
- Mount view
- File tree with recursion support
- Multiple directory view
- Flexible filters for filemanager
- Flexible external tools
- Thumbnails, extended thumbnails
- Konqueror integration
Ristretto is a light weight image viewers for the Xfce desktop environment. Ristretto unlike other viewers, is strictly that: a picture viewer. It doesn’t attempt to allow you to perform any type of editing on your images, and it doesn’t try to do more than that. If you want to look at PDF files, you’ll need a different program. It’s a strong adherent to the one-task, one-tool mindset so prevalant with Linux users.
Eye of GNOME is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop environment. Unlike some other image viewers with advanced features, Eye of GNOME will only view images. It does, however, provide basic effects for improved viewing, such as zooming, full-screen, rotation, and transparent image background control. Currently it supports image formats like ANI, BMP, JPEG, GIF, ICO and more
imgSeek is an excellent photo collection viewer for Linux which offers content based search and is expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as another image you supply. he searching algorithm makes use of multiresolution wavelet decomposition of the query and database images. If you’re interested on integrating a content-based image database into an existing system, you can take a look at their new server side version and its online demo.
Key features include
- You simply draw a rough sketch of what you want to find and imgSeek displays for you a thumbnail view of the best matches.
- Query images similar to one in your collection by double-clicking on it’s thumbnail.
- Group your photos by similarity for easy browsing. You may also have them clustered automatically by color, date (group events automatically using an adaptive clustering algorithm for time differences), filename or image features.
- Edit metadata (description, camera, lens, etc) for every image, and use them on the HTML albums generated or for searching photos. You can also use custom metadata fields.
- Transform images or batches automatically: Place text captions, change brightness, contrast, blur, etc. Apply lossless rotations automatically if jpegtran is available.
- Generate HTML albums for the entire collection, a given directory or similarity group
- Advanced keyword searching for metadata.
- Find all duplicate images on your collection with the parameters you specify. (dimensions, filesize, filename, similarity, average luminance)
- Organize and browse pictures in groups with an easy drag & drop interface. You can also perform advanced queries on groups (eg.: show me all images that belong to group A and B but not group C)
- Support for multiple volumes of pictures. You may assign all images on a CD to a given Volume
- Supported file formats are jpg, gif, bmp, png, xbm, and pnm. If you have ImageMagick installed, imgSeek will also support over 87 image formats.
- Export/Import metadata to/from CSV files and export a batch or your collection to XML files, which can be later parsed by some other tool to generate whatever you want.
My personal favorite would be Picasa. It is definitely better than the rest of the image viewers we will be talking about today. It’s not open source but it’s the best viewer for linux by a long way.
It allows you to
- Organize
Manage your photos in one place, and find photos you forgot you had edit
- Edit
Eliminate scratches & blemishes, fix red-eye, crop and more create
- Create
Turn photos into collages, slideshows and more share
- Share
Upload seamlessly to Picasa Web Albums to share with friends, family & the world
A feature rich image viewers/organizer for the GNOME desktop environment designed to have a clean, simple interface. gThumb allows the filesystem to be browsed for images. They can be organized into catalogs, or viewed as a slideshow. Folders and catalogs can be bookmarked, and comments may be added to images. Many basic image-editing features are included, such as: rotation, resizing, cropping, and image enhancing filters such as color, brightness and contrast adjustment. gThumb can also export Web-based albums with various theme templates.
F-Spot is lightweight image viewer and organizer for the GNOME desktop which aims to have an interface that is simple to use, yet still supports advanced features such as tagging images and displaying and exporting Exif and XMP metadata. Editing photos in F-Spot is a breeze.
It supports all the major image formats including JPEG, PNG, TIFF, DNG and several vendor-specific RAW formats (CR2, PEF, ORF, SRF, CRW, MRW and RAF). Basic functions such as crop, rotate and resize are available alongside more advanced features such as red-eye removal and versioning.
Image Editors For Linux
Gimp doesn’t really need any introductions, it is usually touted as the Photoshop “alternative” for Linux, and is included in a lot of Linux distros. It offers a Customizable Interface, Photo Enhancement, Digital Retouching, Hardware Support, all the major File Formats.
Krita is a Linux Alternative for Image editing which is designed to emphasize new images as opposed to manipulating existing photographs.
An Image editor that provides the basic functionality of Microsoft Paint. In addition to the regular features it offer some addition add-ons like transparency. Designed for an average user. There isn’t anything fancy about it.
Gimpshop is a modification of the Gimp and intends to replicate the feel of Photoshop. According to the developer:
“My original purpose for GIMPshop was to make the Gimp accessible to the many Adobe Photoshop users out there. I hope I’ve done that. And maybe along the way, I can convert a Photoshop pirate into a Gimp user.”
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XnView is the only Linux image editor I know about which can view Paint Shop Pro files from Windows. Since that application used to be popular (before Corel bought and ruined it), XnView is very useful to browse your old PSP files and convert them to other formats.
Funny you forgot two of my favourites:
Viewer: gqview (now forked as geeqie).
Editor: mtpaint (simple and fast when gimp is not needed).
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You forgot the best viewer: GQview
This app is great for viewing very fast through scanned images, switching easily between full screen and normal screen.
Its most striking feature is its amazing speed.
It makes the rest of the viewing apps lazy looking monsters.
Furthermore the GUI is an intuitive charm.
Number one for me.
very nice pics.I think using Gnome Editor in Linux we will create this type of Pictures am i right??
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gThumb is my personal favourite and the one that I use most frequently, for everything else there’s photoshop.