Able Image Browser is a full featured image viewing solution which is fast, simple-to-use and inexpensive.

Pros: Able Image Browser is a fast, simple-to-use and inexpensive full featured image viewing solution. But then it is mot only a browser but has edit features and format conversion features. Mark photos as favorites, save them as image collections and find them easily for viewing later. Thumbnail viewing makes the printing and exporting functionalities fairly easy. Print selected images, all selected images in the current folder and print all thumbnails. During the selection use the thumbnail display for all images in the current folder. The application chooses the best orientation for printing. Add text descriptions to the images. Thumbnails display is supported by memory and disk caching.

Edit features include rotate, flip, crop and resize functions. Red eye removal is a very handy and useful tool that’s required often. Color adjusting and color mode conversion features help color adjustments easily. Color mode features help changing to 24 bit color and several modes of black and white. It also has several filters and effects you can apply to the images prior to saving them for the future or printing. Multiple copy and rename functions are useful. Negative, Bupmap, Lens, Wave, Morph and user filter are some of the effects available.

The Image browser supports most common formats that include JPEG (JPG and JPE), GIF, Bitmaps (BMP, RLE and DIB), TIFF (TIF and FAX), Metafiles (WMF and EMF), Icons (ICO), PNG, PCX, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX), PBM, PGM and PPM. You can convert images to Adobe PDF, PostScript PS, EPS, Wireless bitmap also quite easily.

Cons: You should benchmark it for your specific formats in use prior to investment. Particularly if the images you handle are comparatively obscure ones.

Overall nice feature, easy to use this application rates a 4 star easily.