Imagine 2.5.2

Imagine 2.5.2 [Update]

Imagine is a lightweight freeware image and animation viewer for Windows, supporting many formats, batch processing, plugins, and slideshows, ideal for fast, versatile viewing.

Razvan Serea News Reporter Neowin · Feb 28, 2026 05:46 EST with 1 comment

Imagine

Imagine is a lightweight, portable image and animation editor/viewer for Windows that you can take with you on the go. Imagine's user interface features simplistic elements and is easy to navigate, due to the Explorer-based layout. Designed for speed and efficiency, it offers batch conversion, batch renaming, multipage image creation, and slideshow features, making it practical for both casual and advanced use. It is easy to use, yet powerful image viewer packed with various editing features.

Imagine supports an exceptionally broad range of image, animation, and archive formats, making it one of the most versatile freeware viewers available. It can open standard formats like BMP, PNG, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, and WebP, along with high-quality options such as JPEG 2000, TGA, and PCX. For professional and advanced use, it handles RAW files from many digital cameras, high dynamic range formats like HDR and EXR, and multipage formats including PDF, TIFF, and DCX. Animation support covers GIF, ANI, and FLI/FLC, while archives such as ZIP, RAR, 7Z, and TAR can be browsed directly without extraction, streamlining workflow.

Key features include:

View and save image/animation files with very fast speed
Support for numerous image/animation file formats: PNG, JPG, GIF, BMP, PCX, TGA, TIFF, ICO, CUR, LBM, ANI, FLI, WMF, EMF, etc.
Extract single/all frames from animation files
Show detailed information of image/animation files
Show Exif/IPTC information
Show or hide transparency
Support for digital camera raw image file formats: 3FR, ARW, CR2, CRW, DNG, ERF, KDC, MRW, NEF, ORF, RAF, RAW, SRW, SR2, etc.
Support for numerous archive file formats: ZIP, RAR, 7Z, ALZ, HV3, CBZ, CBR, CB7, ARJ, LZH, EGG, TAR, ISO, CAB, etc.
Support for high dynamic range image file formats: HDR, EXR, SXR, MXR, etc.
Multilingual support: English, German, Spanish, Russian, Danish, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
Thumbnail browser
Batch conversion
Slide show
Batch rename
Capture screen
Tiled view (check textures for seamless tiling, very useful for game developers/modders)
Create animations
Create multiple page images
Manipulate and edit images
Customizable shortcuts for Keyboard and Mouse
Command line parameter support
Shell extension support
Add-on plugin support
Total Commander lister and packer plugin
No write unnecessary registry (ini-based configuration)
Fully optimized binaries (tiny, pure, fast, neat)

Imagine 2.5.1 changelog:

Added: Zoom based on cursor coordinates when zooming in/out with the mouse
Added: 'New' menu in browser window
Fixed: Error when saving cropped image as JPEG
Fixed: Error when running Preferences in Total Commander Lister
Fixed: Corrupted characters when the 'Use Unicode UTF-8 for worldwide language support' option in Windows is checked
Fixed: Unable to access network UNC path from browser
Fixed: Browser caption input error

Imagine 2.5.2 fixes: