Compare PhotoViewerPro vs. VieasEx

Experience a true full-screen viewer that offers robust photo zoom functionality along with a customizable image magnifier. It features an array of powerful image editing tools that allow for resizing, resampling, rotating, flipping, cropping, sharpening, blurring, and adjusting various lighting, color, curves, and levels parameters. Users can select from eleven distinct resampling algorithms when resizing their images. Additionally, it provides a range of image color effects, enabling adjustments to grayscale, sepia, and negative filters, as well as red, green, and blue balance modifications. Special image effects enhance creativity with options like annotation, drop shadows, framing, bump mapping, sketching, oil painting, and lens effects. The application also allows for the drawing of texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals, and callout shapes directly onto images. Advanced tools such as the clone stamp and healing brush ensure seamless editing, while the superior red-eye removal feature guarantees a natural finish. Users benefit from a multi-level undo and redo functionality, making it easy to revert changes. The software supports one-touch display options for best fit and actual size images, along with comprehensive image management that includes tagging capabilities and convenient drag-and-drop folder operations. A histogram display coupled with a color counter aids in meticulous color analysis, and users can compare multiple images side-by-side—up to four at a time—to efficiently filter out less desirable shots. Furthermore, it supports image EXIF metadata, offering insights into the captured details. All these features come together to create a thoroughly engaging photo editing experience.

VieasEx serves as a versatile image viewer, converter, and retouching application that integrates two distinct window forms to enhance usability. The Image Preview feature is particularly beneficial for those looking to edit and save their images effectively. Users can conveniently download the software from its dedicated webpage. Additionally, it supports Susie plug-ins which allow for the loading of various file types and extraction from different archives. The software includes a comprehensive array of tools such as undo, redo, selection, paintbrush, correction brush, text and image merging, cropping, resizing, canvas expansion, and various transformations like rotation, mirroring, and flipping. It also offers advanced correction options for histogram, gamma, brightness, contrast, highlights, shadows, color balance, hue, and saturation, along with color replacement and negative effects. Users can apply filters like unsharp mask, blur, soft focus, and denoise, and utilize effects such as color filtering, mosaic, diffuse, emboss, edge detection, posterization, and oil painting. Additional functionalities include printing options, setting wallpaper, counting colors, and file management tasks like copy, paste, and delete, along with the ability to launch external tools. The application supports key customization and is compatible with multiple monitors, allowing users to adjust compression levels, filters, interlace settings, gamma, transparent colors, and comments efficiently. Furthermore, it features an open dialog box, file associations, and drag-and-drop capabilities, making it an all-encompassing tool for image manipulation.