Free Raw Viewer

RAW Viewer is an image viewer with built-in slideshow viewer. Designed to support RAW image formats (CR2 and CR formats), used by popular professional digital camera such as Canon EOS series, as well as popular image formats such as: JPEG, GIF, and BMP. The program offers a thumbnail browser and a full preview of the selected image.

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XnView Free Viewer

XnView is a utility for viewing and converting graphic files. It supports over 360 file formats, including BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, RGB, TDI, and TGA, and enables you to apply various filters and lots more. Free for non-commercial use.

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IRFAN IMAGE VIEWER

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.

This displays many types of image formats. It also can convert between formats. It has other image manipulation capabilities as well. It supports BMP, GIF, TIFF, JPG, PNG, PCX, PCD, RAS, TGA, RLE, DIB, ICO, AVI, WMF, and EMF.

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FREE PCX Viewer

PCX (Personal Computer eXchange) was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and before GIF, JPEG and PNG, was one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards. This image file format was developed by ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia, USA.

PCX is a raster image format, the file header stores metadata about the image, separately from the actual image bitmap. PCX files commonly store palette-indexed images from 2 or 4 colors to 16 and 256 colors.

PCX file is consisted of three main sections:

File header

128 byte header that contains an identifier byte, a version number, image dimensions, a 16 color palette, number color planes and the bit depth of each plane.

Image data

PCX image data is stored in rows or scan lines in top-down order.

Color palette

Optional 256 color palette is added after VGA display hardware was introduced, because PCX file has space in header only for 16 color palette. The solution was to put the palette at the end of the file, along with a marker byte to confirm its existence.

The PCX file format, these days, has mostly been replaced by newer image formats, but is still used by some applications.

PCX viewer is a great application if you have .pcx images and want to convert them in other, newer, file formats. PCX viewer is fast, small and easy-to-use freeware image viewer, supported by all versions of Windows. With this viewer you can easy convert and save opened PCX images in file formats as JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG and others. Except converting, PCX viewer can be used and for resizing, enlarge or reduce, without losing any quality of the image file. All this is available with PCX viewer for FREE. 

Download PCX viewer by clicking on the link below, then run downloaded file to start install the package.

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Free HPGL Viewer

HPLG file is a printer instruction file based on the plotter language developed by Hewlett-Packard. This type of files (*.phgl file extension) contains and are used to send information to plotter printers, which draw images using lines instead dots that are used on laser or inkjet printers. HP Graphics Language is formed from a series of two letter codes followed by arguments, normally separated by commas, and ending in the separator character which by default is semicolon. This file format was not intended as an interchange format, but is used as such from some software suppliers.
HPGL/2 is the successor of the old HPGL format. HPGL/2 processes expanded vector and raster information using very little memory space. According to the distribution any CAD system supports HP plotter drivers.

HPGL viewer is free, small and compact viewer supported by all versions of Windows OS. This viewer allows you to open and view the *.hplg files before you print them. Except viewing HPGL files, this viewer supports resizing, rotating and converting this file types in other user friendly file formats such as JPEG, Bitmap, GIF, PNG and other extensions without losing any quality.

This viewer have a very used-friendly interface that makes it suitable for use for any type of user, beginner or advance.

Download HPGL viewer by clicking on the link below, then run downloaded file to start install the package.

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Free TGA viewer

TGA file format referred and as TARGA file format, is a raster graphic file format. This was the native format of Truevision Inc’s TARGA and VISTA boards, the first graphic cards for IBM compatible PCs to support Highcolor/Truecolor display. TARGA is an acronym for Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter; TGA is initialism for Truevision Graphic Adapter. Today, most of the people refer to this format as “TARGA file format”. TGA files have “.tga” extension on PC DOS/Windows systems and Mac OS X. Older Macintosh systems use TPIC type code.

TGA can store image data with 8, 16, 24 and 32 bits of precision per pixel, maximum 24 bits of RGB and extra 8 bits alpha channel. TGA file format originally was defined and specified by AT&T EPICenter in 1984. Their two cards, VDA (Video Display Adapter) and ICB (Image Capture Board) used the first incarnations of the TGA file format.

Even today, with its maximum color depth, TGA is not well suited for high-end pre-press, inventive image processing systems. TGA is still used throughout the animation and video industry because its primary intended outputs are standard TV screens, not color printed pages. Uncompressed 24 bit TGA images are relatively simple compared to several other 24 bit formats. A 24 bit TGA contains only 18 byte header followed by the image data as packed RGB data.

Today, there are not many programs for opening and converting TGA file format. TGA viewer is a small, compact tool for opening, resizing and converting TGA file format to others image formats as JPEG, GIF, Bitmap, TIFF and others. With a very simple user interface this software is easy for using for every type of computer users, beginners or advanced users.

Download TGA viewer by clicking on the link below, then run downloaded file to start install the package.

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Free CR2 Viewer

R2 file type is used by some popular Canon digital cameras, such as EOS300d, EOS350d, EOS400d and Digital Rebel XT. Earlier Canon cameras used the .CRW file format, which is based on the Camera Image File Format (CIFF). CR2 is a RAW format that replaced CRW format. RAW format means that the data is written to memory directly from the CCD or CMOS chip, without any modification, processing or compression. So CR2 is a short name for Canon RAW version 2 file format. This files usually contains much information's for the picture that are lost when picture is saved in JPEG or other image file formats. Because CR2 file format contains vast quantities of information, the size of the CR2 file will be about four times larger than equivalent highest quality JPEG file format.

These extra information's that are contained in CR2, make this Canon Raw images popular and favored in astrophotography because in post processing can be bought very fine details of planets, nebulae and galaxies. Also CR2 (or RAW files generally) offer great flexibility if you are dealing with exposure times. To under exposed images can easily be increased in brightness - contrast without introducing noise or effecting the dynamic range, as can a over exposed image. Canon Raw Digital Image Viewer, or shortly, CR2 viewer is a free product that can easily open, convert, resize and save CR2 image files. Exporting is available in JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF and others file images extensions, providing maximum quality of exported images. CR2 viewer, dispite converting CR2 extension in other file formats, also provide and rotating of the opened image and resizing. Enlarging or reducing of the images with CR2 viewer is done without losing much quality of opened image. With other words, CR2 viewer is a nice tool for managing your Canon Raw images.                  Download CR2 viewer by clicking on the link below, then run downloaded file  to start install the package. Download CR2 viewer Setup