ACDsee32 alternatives.

[Bornslip]

Back in the Win 98/XP days I had this awesome program called ACDsee32, it was basically a super lightweight picture viewer with support for all the formats your could think of, it had superb usability, literally no footprint and replaced the native windows picture viewer.

What was so great about this is that it took milliseconds to load pictures, scrolling through a folder of high res pictures was a breeze and it just sat there on your machine to display pictures, no menus, interface, it didn't try to be photoshop, it just worked.

The problem is that the software got bigger and more useless with each version as the developers crammed more stuff in there, and ofcourse, they made the older versions harder to find than that one brick of lego when you actually need it.

Anyway, if someone could point me to an alternative, or even better, if someone knows of a magical place with unicorns and flying pigs that hosts the original free ACDsee32 installer, that would be awesome.

[Scerate]

The only alternative i know of right now is XNView

[Bornslip]

Originally Posted by Scerate

The only alternative i know of right now is XNView

After some configuration XNview is more or less exactly what I wanted, thanks for the tip!

[k1net1cs]

Personally I use IrfanView; been for years.

[viren]

There you go, all versions http://www.oldversion.com/ACDSee.html

BTW, i still use ver2.3 and i know why you want that program.

[BetA]

Faststone image viewer, Best one i ever had..
Very good pic quality, view options, diashow, and more..

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

# Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
# Support of many popular image formats
* True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
* Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
* Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels etc.
* Eleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
* Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
* Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
* Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
* Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
* Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
* Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
* One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
* Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
* Histogram display with color counter feature
* Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
* Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
* Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
* Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
* Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
* Print images with full page-layout control
* Create fully configurable Contact Sheets
* Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
* Acquire images from scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG
* Versatile screen capture capability
* Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
* Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
* Offer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
* Configurable mouse wheel support
* Support multiple program skins
* Support dual-monitor configurations
* And much more...

Greetz BetA

[Kaleid]

I use faststone too because it has many good functions. However it is not very fast, especially with folders that have many images.

Had to stop using ACDsee 2.43 because it locked itself with animated gif files. Perhaps running it in compatibility mode would have worked? Oh well...

ACDsee 2.43 was superfast.

[Bornslip]

Originally Posted by viren

There you go, all versions http://www.oldversion.com/ACDSee.html

BTW, i still use ver2.3 and i know why you want that program.

You sir, are awesome... Thank you!