WildBit Viewer

The main thing you can do with this WildBit Software is open and view your image files; support for all the popular image formats out there is supported, including JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF and TGA. The application provides support for more than 70 graphic formats. The other things you could do with WildBit Viewer are: view images as a slideshow, search for images, and edit images.

You can do all these things on a PC powered by anything from Windows 2000 up to Windows 7. The system requirements for WildBit Viewer are quite low: 300MHz Celeron processor, 128MB of RAM, 24MB of available disk space. To install WildBit Viewer on a PC that meets these requirements, you must download a 6.5Mb installation file, run it, and complete a simple setup wizard. If you check the option to shortcuts on your desktop, you will end up with a WildBit Viewer, WildBit Slide Show, WildBit Search, WildBit Profile Switcher, and WildBit Editor shortcut on it. The only shortcut you really need is the WildBit Viewer one.

The multi-pane interface WildBit Viewer has to offer is quite easy to figure out. The pane to the upper left displays your drives; use it to locate a folder with pics in it. The pane right beneath it displays the images in the folder; click an image and it will be displayed in the pane to the right. Double click the image to view it in full screen, click the Expanded View button from the upper right hand corner to hide away the panes to the left.

As mentioned above, WildBit Viewer provides support for more than 70 graphic formats. This means that you can use the application to open and view pretty much any image you may have. If you have several pictures that you want to watch, and you want to sit back and relax, you can use the application’s Slideshow function (you will find it in the Tools menu and in the lower part of the application’s interface). The images from the folder you select will be loaded and displayed to you; by default, WildBit Viewer will wait 5 seconds before transitioning from one image to another.

While watching the slideshow, you see an image that could use some editing, but you can’t be bothered to do it right then, so you postpone it for later. When you decide to do the task, you can use WildBit Viewer’s editing capabilities: crop, rotate, remove red eyes, apply effects, add text, and more. And if you don’t remember where the image is, you can use the application’s Search function to locate it.

WildBit Viewer is free for personal and educational use. Cons:
The minimize button on WildBit Viewer’s interface doesn’t work (it works for WildBit Slide Show, WildBit Search, WildBit Profile Switcher, and WildBit Editor though). The application puts an unnecessary large amount of shortcuts on the desktop; you can access the Editor, Profile Switcher Slide Show, and Search from the WildBit Viewer main interface, so there’s really no need for so many shortcuts.