This is the official re-release of JPEGView.

As a image browser, Everthing of JPEGView is perfect except the transparency of images show solid color which make it looks not that OK. I believe many people used to see transparent image with checkerboard background. So i add a feature to show checkerboard as transparency, also add config options (at the bottom of JPEGView.ini)

; If UseCheckerboardAsTransparent is true, Transparent parts of images will use checkerboard background, otherwise it will use TransparencyColor value. Here you can decide whether to use it, change the size and color. CheckerboardSize value should between 4 and 128
UseCheckerboardAsTransparent=true
CheckerboardSize=16
CheckerboardColor1=71 71 71
CheckerboardColor2=102 102 102

Important : JPEGView is unable to save an image with transparency - or rather the transparency is lost. The output image will has checkerboard background. In most case, I use it as image browser, so it is not a problem for me. If i want to modify image, i will use photoshop or some other tool.

I am not familiar with JPEGView source code, so maybe the problem above can be avoid by change the logic of image modification code. I will try it latter.

JPEGView is a lean, fast and highly configurable image viewer/editor with a minimal GUI.

JPEGView has built-in support the following formats:

• Popular: JPEG, GIF
• Lossless: BMP, PNG, TIFF
• Web: WEBP, JXL, HEIF/HEIC, AVIF
• Legacy: TGA, WDP, HDP, JXR
• Camera RAW formats:
  • Adobe (DNG), Canon (CRW, CR2), Nikon (NEF, NRW), Sony (ARW, SR2)
  • Olympus (ORF), Panasonic (RW2), Fujifilm (RAF)
  • Sigma (X3F), Pentax (PEF), Minolta (MRW), Kodak (KDC, DCR)

Many additional formats are supported by Windows Imaging Component (WIC)

Basic on-the-fly image processing is provided - allowing adjusting typical parameters:

• sharpness
• color balance
• rotation
• perspective
• contrast
• local under-exposure/over-exposure

• Small and fast, uses AVX2/SSE2 and up to 4 CPU cores
• High quality resampling filter, preserving sharpness of images
• Basic image processing tools can be applied realtime during viewing
• Movie/Slideshow mode - to play folder of JPEGs as movie

Official releases will be made to sylikc's GitHub Releases page. Each release includes:

• Archive Zip/7z - Portable
• Windows Installer MSI - For Installs
• Source code - Build it yourself

JPEGView does not require installation to run. Just unzip, and run either the 64-bit version, or the 32-bit version depending on which platform you're on. It can save the settings to the extracted folder and run entirely portable.

For those who prefer to have JPEGView installed for All Users, a 32-bit/64-bit installer is available to download starting with v1.0.40.

(Unfortunately, I don't own a code signing certificate yet, so the MSI release is not signed. Please verify checksums!)

If you're on Windows 11, or Windows 10 (build 1709 or later), you can also download it directly from the official Microsoft WinGet tool repository. This downloads the latest MSI installer directly from GitHub for installation.

Example Usage:

C:> winget search jpegview

Name     Id              Version  Source
-----------------------------------------
JPEGView sylikc.JPEGView 1.1.43  winget

C:> winget install jpegview

Found JPEGView [sylikc.JPEGView] Version 1.1.43
This application is licensed to you by its owner.
Microsoft is not responsible for, nor does it grant any licenses to, third-party packages.
Downloading https://github.com/sylikc/jpegview/releases/download/v1.1.43/JPEGView64_en-us_1.1.43.msi
  ██████████████████████████████  4.23 MB / 4.23 MB
Successfully verified installer hash
Starting package install...
Successfully installed

Another option is to use the official JPEGView on PortableApps package. The PortableApps launcher preserves user settings in a separate directory from the extracted application directory. This release is signed.

• 64-bit version: Windows 7/8/10/11 64-bit or later
• 32-bit version: Windows 7 or later
  • A special 32-bit Windows XP SP2 build is available, which supports most formats (except for formats added after v1.0.37.1, ex. Animated PNG, JXL, HEIC). Other features and options are the same as the normal builds.

• See what has changed in the latest releases
• Or Check the CHANGELOG.txt to review new features in detail.

By default, the language is auto-detected to match your Windows Locale. All the text in the menus and user interface should show in your language. To override the auto-detection, manually set Language option in JPEGView.ini

JPEGView is currently translated/localized to 27 languages:

See the Localization wiki page for translation status for each language.

The JPEGView documentation is a little out of the date at the moment, but should still give a good summary of the features.

This readme.html is part of the JPEGView package.

This GitHub repo continues the legacy (is a "fork") of the excellent project JPEGView by David Kleiner. Unfortunately, starting in 2020, the SourceForge project has essentially been abandoned, with the last update being 2018-02-24 (1.0.37). It's an excellent lightweight image viewer that I use almost daily!

The starting point for this repo was a direct clone from SourceForge SVN to GitHub Git. By continuing this way, it retains all previous commits and all original author comments.

I'm hoping with this project, some devs might help me keep the project alive! It's been awhile, and could use some new features or updates. Looking forward to the community making suggestions, and devs will help with some do pull requests as some of the image code is quite a learning curve for me to pick it up. -sylikc

Special thanks to qbnu for adding additional codec support!

• Animated WebP
• Animated PNG
• JPEG XL with animation support
• HEIF/HEIC/AVIF support
• QOI support
• ICC Profile support for WebP, JPEG XL, HEIF/HEIC, AVIF

Thanks to all the translators which keep JPEGView strings up-to-date in different languages! See CHANGELOG.txt to find credits for translators at each release!