Photo Gadget Viewer

After you transfer photos from your camera on your computer, chances are you want to go through them one more time. This can natively be done through the Windows built-in component, but there are also tons of alternatives like Photo Gadget Viewer, which provide extended file support, and more style.

The application take little of your time with the installation process, so you get the chance to check out the set of features in no time at all. Note that it may change window Visual Effects in the Performance Options panel after every launch, and there’s not really an option to prevent this from happening.

Overlooking this minor inconvenience quickly takes you to the main window, which is fitted with a cool, intuitive design. Most space represents the preview area, while the upper toolbar provides quick access to navigation controls, open, and save options. File support includes BMP, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, PCX, and TGA, but you need to use the browse dialog, or set the application your default viewer to quickly load items, since drag and drop is not supported.

The browse dialog allows you to select multiple items. However, selecting a single picture makes the application read the content of the whole source folder, while targeting several files only places them in view queue. The general display can be toggled to either show a large picture, or a thumbnail overview of selected pictures.

Unfortunately, there aren’t any edit options at your disposal, not even simple rotation, or flip options. On the other hand, there’s the possibility to convert to one of the supported formats, but this needs to be done one file at a time, with no support for batch processing.

To sum it up, Photo Gadget Viewer leaves you with mixed feelings after some usage time. On the one hand, it can be set as your default viewer, with simple conversion options to a decent variety of formats. On the other hand, editing limitations, and rather frustrating file loading methods might leave more to be desired overall.