Windows Photo Viewer, a built-in picture viewing program in Windows, is not only very slow to open large pictures, but also very laborious to view large-sized pictures (you need to reach the top with great effort, and then drag and drop pictures with great effort). In order to obtain a faster, more efficient, and better image viewing experience, we often need to use a third-party image viewer.

The most popular graphics/image processing programs on Linux platform are: GIMP, Inkscape, and Dia, each of which has its own unique functions. Thereinto, GIMP claims to be the Adobe Photoshop for Linux; Inkscape claims to be CorelDraw for Linux; while Dia refers to Microsoft's Visio. Here, we recommend Inkscape to you all.

Adobe seemed to have met a development bottleneck, that is why you might have found that its many popular apps such like Photoshop are completely refreshing their version number in recent years. Because since the big version introduced 3D features, I haven't seen any significant functionality or usability improvements happened on Photoshop (it even stays in the level of 10 years ago, i.e.: the functionality of Photoshop CS6 ≈ Photoshop CC 2014/2015/2017...). In other words, all things happened to Adobe apps are merely patching in some inessential places. This case, some software developers saw this chance and took advantage of its weak points. One of them is Affinity Photo - which has become one of the most popular photo editing tools now.

As the effective standard of digital image processing and editing industry - Adobe Photoshop CC (short for Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud) provides many new features along with more efficient performance (previously only the Adobe Photoshop Extended can provide these tools).

ACDSee (now called: ACDSee Photo Studio) was ever one of the long-standing (first released in 1994), most popular image browsing software that came with friendly UI, simple & humanized operation, high-quality and very fast image decoding method, comprehensive image formats support and powerful graphics file managing functions. All this won and accumulated the most users around the world for it (it basically was must-have especially for architecture and image processing related industries, including photography enthusiasts and professional graphic designers.