qView

Perhaps you can blame it on the gadgets, but people nowadays take a lot of pictures almost every day, be it of themselves, nature, food or other activities they enjoy. These images are memories that you would like to relive from time to time and remember beautiful moments.

While the inbuilt Windows Photo Viewer is an option, sometimes you may want a little more than what this tool has to offer. qView is a lightweight image viewer that packs several features to help you view your photo albums.

The app packs a minimalistic interface that is fully dedicated to displaying the image, whereas you can bring up the options and menu by right-clicking anywhere on the interface. The tool does not have many options, but rather you can scroll to viewport, scale the pictures and access info dialog of a certain picture.

The idea behind the tool is to offer an alternative to the image viewer embedded in Windows, but that also includes a few extra options. You can access a folder and view all images stored therein a slide show, a function that can come in handy if you are reviewing the album for a special event, for instance.

The program comes with a few minimalistic editing functions, such as cropping the sides off and previewing the images at different resolutions, including the original one captured with your camera. When running a GIF, you can increase or decrease the speed or perhaps save a specific frame.

QView is an easy to use application that provides you a convenient solution for viewing photo albums on your PC. Since it is light on your resources, it can also be a good replacement for the classic image viewer of Windows.