README.md

Quick Picture Viewer

Quick Picture Viewer is a lightweight, versatile desktop image viewer for Windows.
The best replacement for the default Windows photo viewer.


v3.1.4 (Stable) - May 9, 2021 - Download (3.4 MB)

Older versions and release notes

😃 Features:

• 🖼️ Supported image formats: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .exif, .gif, .bmp, .dib, .rle, .tiff, .tif, .ico, .webp, .svg, .dds, .tga, .psd, .cr2 ...
• ✍️ Basic image editing: Rotate, flip, crop, change file type ...
• 🧩 Plugins ready
• ↗️ Open image with external app or show file in explorer
• 🖽 Picture-in-Picture mode
• ♟️ Checkerboard background
• 🖥️ Set image as desktop background
• 🖨️ Print image or export to PDF
• ℹ️ View image details
• 🗔 Frameless mode
• 🔝 Always on top
• 🎞️ Slideshow
• 🕶️ Dark mode

Want more? Open a new issue or 👍 an existing one so we can talk about it.

🔮 Future plans:

• Enhanced zoom menu
• Image preloader [#57]
• Sort by menu [#62]
• Customizable keyboard shortcuts [#27]
• More wallpaper related options [#65]

🧩 Built-in plugins:

Effects:

• Blur or pixelate - by Module Art (Beelink)
• Grayscale - by Module Art (Beelink)
• Invert colors - by Module Art (Beelink)
• Rainbow - by Module Art (Beelink)
• Vignette - by Module Art - Soon...
• Drop shadow - by Module Art - Soon...
• Photo filter - by Community - Soon...
• Hue and saturation - by Community - Soon...

Tools:

• Screenshot - by Module Art (Beelink)
• Color picker - by Module Art - Soon...

🐞 Bug report:

If you want to report a bug, first, thank you, that helps us a lot. Please open an issue and mention your OS, your Quick Picture Viewer version, and how to reproduce it. Adding a screenshot of the issue or screen recording is a big help too.

💿 Another installation methods:

• Using Microsoft Store:

• Using Chocolatey:
  

Powershell $> choco install quick-picture-viewer --version 3.0.4

• Using Winget:
  

Powershell $> winget install ModuleArt.QuickPictureViewer

• Using Scoop:
  

Powershell $> scoop install mingit-busybox 7zip sudo
Powershell $> scoop bucket add extras
Powershell $> scoop install quick-picture-viewer

🔨 Contribution:

Help Module Art!

• Give us a star ⭐
• Fork and Clone! Awesome
• Select existing issues or create a new issue and give us a PR with your bugfix or improvement after. We love it ❤

Code contributors:

• FLeXyo - Open folder recursively feature
• Beelink - Everything else =)

Translation contributors:

• Chinese: jiwangyihao
• Croatian: anotherus3r
• French: b0bdN
• German: l-33ter
• Hungarian: KristofKekesi
• Russian: Beelink
• Spanish: asluppiter, Alplox

Help us translate this app

🔗 Useful links:

• How to uninstall built-in photos app in Windows 10
• Extension module for Windows Explorer to render SVG thumbnails

🧰 Other great apps:

• Quick Color Picker - Lightweight desktop color picker and color editor utility for Windows.
  
• Quick Screen Recorder - Lightweight desktop screen recorder for Windows.
  
• Quick Whiteboard - Lightweight tool to draw or keep notes on your desktop background for Windows.