Comments on: Vjpeg: view image files on the desktop as objects

By: My top 30 free programs | Junggie Share

My top 30 free programs | Junggie Share — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 15:58:43 +0000

[...] For other interesting image viewers, check out Viewer2 (with intuitive tagging functions), Vjpeg, and the lightweight First Impression. 14- uTorrent: powerful, lightweight Torrent [...]

By: Centaur Machine

Centaur Machine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:47:33 +0000

I just wanted to say that you can also make it full screen with the right click menu.

Very sorry for the triple post.

By: Centaur Machine

Centaur Machine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 04:43:31 +0000

I’m sorry, I made a mistake in the comment before this. My gripe with Ulead Instant Viewer (which comes as a part of Ulead Photo Explorer or Photo Explosion Deluxe) that it doesn’t close the image with Esc. Actually it does close the image with Esc, so I wanted to make a correction.

What I meant to say is that I wish there was a single key to maximize the photo to full screen. Instead it is Ctrl+U. For me this combo requires two hands. My keyboard only has one Ctrl button and it’s on the left side.

Anyway, it’s a great viewer and supports a large amount of image types.

I’m using version 8.5 at the moment, but like I said in the previous comment, give it a try and see if you can’t get the free image viewer with Photoimpact 4.0 freeware. I think you can but I haven’t checked. As far as I can tell, the image viewer has changed very very little over the years.

By: Centaur Machine

Centaur Machine — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 02:50:09 +0000

I’ve always liked the minimal interfaces of some of these light viewers.

Unfortunately, I see no way to crop the view to a specific part. For example, if you want to display several images side by side, you get the full image for each.

So I like First Impressions viewer better. Two issues I had with that program is that every time you launch it, you have to set it to fit to screen, otherwise it will launch huge images that don’t fit on the screen and you have to zoom out each one. All it would need is a registry setting for that.

The other issue I had with First Impressions is that the mouse scroll wheel is redundant feature. Instead, it should cycle through the images in the same folder.

Google image viewer is fantastic, but you can’t view more than one image at a time, so it’s useless for me.

I’ll be sticking with (Corel)Ulead Instant Viewer 8.5. It’s a little slower/heavier, but it has everything I need.

My only two gripes with this software is that a) it has the title bar. Really a minor gripe. b)The other issue with it is there is that the shortcut to close the program is a key combination. Esc would make it perfect.

It’s really a great program. After trying dozens of image viewers at any price, it’s the best one out there.

I haven’t tried to see if it has the same viewer as the one I described, but you can get Ulead PHOTOIMPACT Instant Viewer 4.0 for free here:

http://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Multimedia_and_Graphics/Graphics_Viewers/Ulead_PhotoImpact_Viewer_Download.html

or here:

http://ulead-photoimpact-viewer.software.informer.com/4.0/

By: First impression: a lightweight image viewer (with no visible interface) | Free Software

Sat, 13 Jun 2009 11:14:25 +0000

[...] First Impression is a free, lightweight image viewing app that is geared towards utilizing as much of the screen’s real estate as possible for image display without cluttering it with the viewer’s own interface. It manages to do so while providing a nice set of functions, but what I really like about this program is that images are displayed on screen as draggable objects (similar to previously mentioned Vjpeg). [...]

By: First Impression: a lightweight image viewer (with no visible interface) | Blogging Planet

Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:44:37 +0000

[...] Posted by Raja Waqar on Jun 12, 2009 First Impression is a free, lightweight image viewing app that is geared towards utilizing as much of the screen’s real estate as possible for image display without cluttering it with the viewer’s own interface. It manages to do so while providing a nice set of functions, but what I really like about this program is that images are displayed on screen as draggable objects (similar to previously mentioned Vjpeg). [...]

By: First Impression: lightweight image viewer | freewaregenius.com

First Impression: lightweight image viewer | freewaregenius.com — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 16:10:47 +0000

By: vince

vince — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 15:41:03 +0000

the bad stuff with vjpeg is that the soft open a process (5-6 Mo) for EACH images you double-click…

By: Womble

Womble — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:55:43 +0000

What’s the motivation behind installing to C:\Windows? To me this directory is for storing Windows components, third party tools belong in Program Files surely?

By: Vlad

Vlad — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:32:41 +0000

The program looks nice, but there is one thing which is missing for me – Next\Previous controls.
Usually, when I view the photos from my camera I have more then one, and I use irfanview and scroll wheel of my mouse to go back or forward….

Other than that it is really nice and a new concept…

By: VJPEG Opens Huge Pictures Quickly on Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download] · TechBlogger

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:13:47 +0000

[...] Windows only: Free image utility VJPEG is a tool that could be a serious time saver for anyone who regularly views or compare digital images from their desktop. The tiny application installs itself as the default handler for JPG, BMP, and other common image files (and that’s kind of annoying), so when a file is double-clicked, it opens super-fast in a frame-less desktop windows. There are shortcuts to resize, rotate, and even email a picture, but the concept is quickly checking out photos without waiting for Windows’ viewer, or even something as light as IrfanView to load. My recommendation? Set up VJPEG as a send to item menu, and feed batches of pictures to it for quick selection. VJPEG is a free download for Windows systems only. VJPEG [Stereopsis via FreewareGenius.com] [...]

By: blogward

blogward — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:46:10 +0000

vjpeg gets my vote – that Osiva interface is just so ‘free with PC weekly!’. I put a shortcut in my
‘Documents and Settings/My Account/Sendto’ folder to vjpeg and it’s handy for sticking pics on the desktop temporarily without having annoying app frames everywhere. Keeper so far! And FileMenuTools will allow custom shell menu association…

By: Ranne

Ranne — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:18:23 +0000

I was reluctant to try these two but I decided to give them a quick try. A brief encounter with Osiva left me rather calm (it might be that brown interface, who knows), but I ended up associating .JPG and .BMP with Vjpeg. Even though I won’t be uninstalling any of my more advanced image viewers and editors any time soon, Vjpeg seems to be perfect for most of my image previewing needs. Good find.

By: Joe

Joe — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:45:55 +0000

Thanks, daany: Osiva blows this away! It’s only 220 KB, it doesn’t need installation (so it doesn’t automatically make itself the default) viewer, it’s much easier to use, and it has several options for manipulating groups of images into a layout (and saving layouts, if desired).

It only supports jpeg and gif files, but jpeg is all I need.

By: Life Clerks » VJPEG Opens Huge Pictures Quickly on Your Desktop [Featured Windows Download]

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:03:39 +0000

By: Radrick

Radrick — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:44:36 +0000

I really like Vjpeg. Just this week I was wondering if it was possible to do just this.

Thanks for all the info you provide here. FreewareGenius is a must read for me!

By: daany

daany — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:21:33 +0000

Osiva is a better alternative and it’s portable.

http://www.noping.net/kent/osiva/index.html