Image Glass is an open source application that is designed as an alternative to the default Windows Photo Viewer of Windows Vista and Windows 7.

 

The image viewer supports all popular image formats, including GIF, has slide show support, and loads images faster than Microsoft Photo Viewer, thanks to its Image Booster features which uses Random Access Memory (RAM) to boost up image loading. Moreover, it has a built-in image converter to change image extensions without using an external application.

 

Images can be loaded by simply dragging and dropping them onto the application. When you drop an image in the application, it will automatically load all the images available in that folder. The toolbar at the top contains buttons for Rotate, Zoom, View Scale, Open, Thumbnail, Convert, Settings, etc.

 

Thumbnails for all the loaded images can be viewed by clicking the Thumbnail button. Thumbnails are displayed at the bottom of the interface, and allow respective images to be viewed by clicking them.

 

The Settings button allows you to change settings related to Image Booster, Context menu (to add Open With ImageGlass to context menu), General (slideshow settings, etc) and Theme Configuration (to download and apply different themes to the application).

 

Download ImageGlass : http://imageglass.codeplex.com/