7 Best Free/Open-source Image Viewers for Linux | Linux Today

7 Best Free/Open-source Image Viewers for Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 7, 2008

“imgSeek
“imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with
content-based search and many other features. The query is
expressed either as a rough sketch painted by the user or as
another image.

“Other key features:
“* Transform images or batches automatically: Place text captions,
change brightness, contrast, blur, etc. Apply lossless rotations
automatically if jpegtran is available.
* Supported file formats are jpg, gif, bmp, png, xbm, and pnm. If
you have ImageMagick installed, imgSeek will also support over 87
image formats.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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