Basic InfoIntro:This is just the simplest image view ever.
Who is this app designed for:This app is intended for anyone who has lots of photos, and is looking for a application better suited then the default windows image viewer.
The Good- Fast: It come up as fast as the default windows viewer (which uses already-loaded windows stuff, AFAIK)
- Good shortcuts: What's better than one-key shortcuts?
enter or f for "toggle full-screen",
e to edit with external program (like paint.net)
l or r to rotate left/right,
etc....
- exif support!! It reads the exif and rotates the image accordingly. It also displays all exif information
- Borderless/captionless window: nothing simpler, all i want to see when i open an image is the image itself, i don't care for anything else. It can also open the image on fullscreen by default.
- Smart edges when on fullscreen: if you move the cursor to the top edge, the menu comes up. If you move it to the right edge, exif information comes up. If you move to the bottom edge, the taskbar is shown! How many times have you pressed the windows key to check if someone said something on msn while you were watching a slideshow?
- Zoom on mouse click: similar to XYplorer's "Mouse Down Blow Up", while you keep the mouse button down, the image zooms to 2x (that's the default, can be changed), and returns the original size on button release.
- Resize to predefined/custom sizes: press ctrl-r and a dialog comes up. (actually i just found about this
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- The slideshow features: customizable time, fade effects, and pause/play on mouse click! (how useful is that?
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- There are other interesting features i didn't mention because i don't use that much:
- Email the image
- Zoom on parts of the image (ctrl+drag on image)
- Simple editor (highlight parts, write text, watermark, etc..)
- Image smoothing.. ETC!
The needs improvement section- The thing that most annoys me in maxview is the fact that it doesn't precache the images, which makes it be a bit slower than it could be. (not that it's very noticeable, though). edit: actually, i just compared it with windows image preview, and it isn't slower.. I possibly was sleepy when i came to this conclusion before
I also don't like the fact that there isn't an option to allow dragging on image instead of zoom when on windowed mode. (this makes me zoom in the image instead of moving it, every time i try to drag the window) Edit: This feature exists and works great! You only have to drag with the right mouse button!
- Even though the email feature is really neat, there doesn't seem to be any option to set an external email program,
and it doesn't use the system default, only uses outlook, which makes this feature unnusable for us software junkies edit: it uses the system default setting, see Perry's post below!
Why I think you should use this productWell... If you're still using Windows picture and fax viewer, you DEFINITELY should at least try this, it's a huge improvement and you'll never go back
How does it compare to similar appsOK, I've already compared to windows picture and fax viewer, I'll just make a small comparison with irfanview.
DISCLAIMER: i haven't used irfanview in a while, thus, i might be out of date/forgotten about my comments. If so, please correct me below.
I'm almost sure irfanview was slower, and had a bunch of features i didn't really need (like the picture browser and alike). Also, it missed THE most important feature: rotate on exif information.
ConclusionsI surely recommend this utility, it has made a huge difference in the way i visualize images, and i don't need to manually rotate pictures anymore!
I think it's really well-though, every small detail needed in a image viewer is present, making it a joy to use.
It's just simple, complete and freeware, you can't go wrong with that combination!
Just a few more screenshots:
PS: i'll add the images in a bit Done![/list]
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... so I didn't send my email anyway 
I already sent mine, and pointed the developer to this thread. 
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