XN View

www.xnview.com

Main “Browser” screen has 3 resizable panes.

Directory tree

Thumbnails

Preview (or info or histogram)

non image files shown as hex

Plus a set of toolbars – customizable shortcut bar and an ie/windows style bar

Tag, EXIF, IPTC, EXIF thumbnail, rotation indicators on thumbnails

File Menu Select TWAIN, acquire

Edit Menu Rename – very powerful

Describe (for WinXP)

Properties (detailed view)

Metadata = Comment & IPTC editing

Screen capture

Help file Adequate to get you going quickly

IrfanView

Thumbnail and Image windows

Use thumbnails to browse to your image, then show in image window

Can associate to display straight from windows

Also plays mpg, mp3, and a lot of other mm formats.

like xnview

rename, html, email, not so powerful

batch convert, multimedia better