Free Photo Viewer is a pretty basic image viewer which also offers support for many of the most popular brands of mid-to-high-end digital cameras. That means it can read many RAW formats such as those from Sony, Nikon, Canon, Fujifilm and others.
The program offers fast processing and was especially designed for people with slower CPUs and has an option in the settings to optimize performance for people with slower PCs.
Free Photo Viewer supports EXIF metadata, that is it supports reading of the information stored inside of images written by a digital camera. Data may include whether or not a flash was used, exposure level, time and date, GPS coordinates and information specific to the camera like make and model.
Free Photo Viewer 1.3 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs. This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from image viewer software without restrictions. Free Photo Viewer 1.3 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows. Previously, it was called Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, but later, the developers renamed it to Windows Photo Viewer. With the release of Windows 10, Microsoft didn’t pre-install this software and provided users with other options for viewing and editing images. Windows Photo Viewer is replaced with Windows 10 Photos.
Free Photo Viewer also incorporates different image enhancement tools like color enhance, saturation modification and brightness and contrast optimization.
Overall, this program provides some useful features and its optimization for low-end PCs makes it ideal for some people. Although it doesn't really compare to other free programs like FastStone Image Viewer, it isn't at all bad for making basic and general improvements to images and viewing RAW images.
Free Photo Viewer can apply special effects to a picture, view EXIF data, create slideshows, convert RAW to JPG and batch process images.
Features and highlights
- Lightweight and fast
- View EXIF parameters in full sreen
- Create and organize photos into a slideshow
- Optimized for slower PCs
- Supports widescreen monitors and televisions
- Reduces the black bars on widescreens
- Supports Canon, Nikon, Sony, Minolta, Pentax, Olympus and FujiFilm RAW images
Free Photo Viewer 1.3 on 32-bit and 64-bit PCs
This download is licensed as freeware for the Windows (32-bit and 64-bit) operating system on a laptop or desktop PC from image viewer software without restrictions. Free Photo Viewer 1.3 is available to all software users as a free download for Windows.
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What is EXIF data?
Photo Reader Program
EXIF stands for Exchangeable Image File Format. It's a standard for storing supplemental metadata in digital photos. Each time you take a picture, your phone or camera saves a file (typically a JPEG) to your device's storage. This file contains all the data dedicated to the actual picture (pixels which you can see). Besides that, it also includes a notable amount of supplemental metadata. Such metadata can hold date, time, camera settings, copyright information.
Sounds pretty routinely, right? Let's go to the interesting part. EXIF data can also contain sensitive information, such as geolocation. All smartphones record GPS coordinates when you take a picture. So if you upload a photo with metadata to social media or send it in messenger, others can collect many details from it.
Photo Reader Media
It's not a big deal in most cases. But sometimes, you better remove the EXIF metadata before sharing your photos.