Photon

A fast lightweight photo viewer for Windows

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Version 2.0 (October 2024 - Changelog)

About

Photon is a small, simple, fast image viewer.
It is intended to replace the increasingly slow and bloated Windows default viewer.

Features:

• load formats: bmp png jpg ico icns gif jp2 tif webp
• save formats: bmp png jpg
• load from clipboard (image or DataURI text)
• play gif animations, with pause/resume
• basic rotate and zoom, with fit-to-window
• rename, save copy, convert
• fullscreen view, with slideshow
• automatic orientation based on file's EXIF metadata
• single-instance or multi-instance mode
• launch image in other programs (customizable)
• keyboard shortcuts and custom settings

Credits

Photon is by R. Touk (email)