Freeware Tools: Nomacs 2.4.6

Nomacs is a portable open source image viewer that lets you view images in all common formats including RAW and some other not so common formats as well. You can even undertake light editing with this software. It features an intelligent synchronization engine that lets you sync images and their changes over LAN, it even allows you to send images to other clients over LAN. It can even read images form zip files and documents. A thumbnail preview of the current folder is included as well as a file explorer panel which allows switching between folders.

Nomacs Portable is a software utility developed in order to help individuals easily view images from your hard drive, as well as edit them.

This tool does not require you to install it, as it represents the portable counterpart of nomacs. This enables you to use it on any computer you have access to, by simply dropping the program files to a portable storage unit.

In addition to that, it is important to mention here, that the Windows registry is not going to be affected by nomacs Portable, and after removing it from the hard drive, there will be no leftover files.

The interface sports a minimal and user-friendly design, making it accessible to both power and novice users. It consists of a few shortcut buttons, a menu bar and a panel in which to view the files.

This software application enables you to also load entire directories, as well as see recent files and folders opened.

It is possible to zoom in and out, cut, paste, delete, rotate, crop and resize images, as well as tweak the brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, gamma and exposure levels. Aside from that, you can create multipage TIFFs and mosaics.

There is a large number of panels that can be hidden or shown, including a file explorer, thumbnails (when opening multiple files), metadata and file information, a histogram and a folder scrollbar.

In conclusion, nomacs Portable is a small, yet useful application which enables you to view and edit images from your hard drive, without putting a strain on your computer’s resources. Time response is good and there are many formats supported.