I work as a photographer and I take over 1,000 pictures a week. I need a viewer that'll let me view the pictures as quickly as possible, and freely look through my pictures using the directory trees I create. I try to avoid posting these kinds of questions on forums, but I've run out of options, and I really need some help with this.

I've tried gthumb, gwenview, f-stop, pcasa, gqview, gtksee, and digikam.

gthumb is great but its too slow. gwenview is also very nice, but also a little too slow. I've tried lowering the view quality on both of these programs, but it still takes about 2 to 3 seconds for each picture to load. I know this may not sound like a lot, but trust me... Trying to go through 1000 pictures at this rate can become extremely tedious.

f-stop is fast, but it won't let me browse folders. I have to "import" the pictures first. And after importing, a copy of all your pictures is made (wasting a LOT of space), and everything is put out of order.

picasa is, hands down, the best viewer I've tried, but it won't let me browse through my directory trees either! It doesn't make a copy of the pictures, but it does put them out of order like f-stop. Considering how refined this viewer is, its amazing they would ignore something as simple as folder tree browsing. Maybe I over looked it?

I just tried Digikam and it looks very promising. It does the whole folder import thing, but it retains the directory trees I made, and it doesn't make a copy of everything. My only problem is with psd (Photoshop) files. For some reason they won't load.

My main questions are:
* Is there a way to do directory tree browsing with Picasa?
* What do I need to add to Digikam for it to view psd files?
* Are there any other image viewers I could try? I'll buy one for Linux if I have to. I just want something that's fast and works well.


Any help with this would be greatly appreciated.

feh is a lightweight image viewer.

Is there any other picture viewers ?
The power of irfanview and acdsee cannot be replaced in windows ?

Thanks for the information

I always thought that ACDSee was the best. I can't remember if I ever got it running on WINE.

One interesting thing I tripped across: Konqueror will open things like jpgs directly.

I do landscape photography in my spare time and would also like a good viewer. At the moment I use gqview which is fast and will preview raw .cr2 files. Not sure if will preview .psd but I've been using Gimp for a few years now and find the later version quite good with .icc suport.

gwenview, is one of the less worst in linux. Otherwise we may use :
wine irfanview which is great in windows.

Up to now, not much viewers are so cool in linux, or are buggy when you backspace, you never get back at the same location when viewing ...
lol

Gwenview looks ok but doesn't seem to handle raw .cr2 files from my canon.

kview
kuickshow
are also existing

you like them ?