 The great thing about free and open source software is there is a lot of free and open source software. There's so many choices out there. Here recently, I've been exploring image viewers. I've been looking for a new image viewer because here in the last couple of years, the image viewer I've been using is SXIV, which is very simple, very minimal. It's a great program, but I've been exploring some alternatives. Before I used SXIV, I was using IMV, which is another very simple, minimal image viewer. FEH as an image viewer in the past. Of course, anytime I run full desktop environments, if I'm on a machine that's running GNOME or KDE Plasma, I'll just use the built-in image viewers in those desktop environments. But recently, I came across this image viewer that I had never used before, and I was blown away by it. This image viewer is called Nomax. So let me switch over to my browser. So the website for Nomax is nomax.org, and it has a ton of functionality. One of the things about this image viewer is it does so much. One thing, it supports all of your image formats, including RAW. So this thing is really more for, like, an image manager, more than just an image viewer, right? So you can do a lot of cropping and editing. You can even do color adjustments, hue and saturation and things like that. It also has this weird feature here, viewer synchronization, where you can open two Nomax windows and have the two different photos synchronized to where the actions you're doing on one will take place in the other. And that's kind of an odd feature. I'm not sure how I would ever use something like that, but that is interesting that it is there. And of course, the source code is hosted over on GitHub. This is free and open source software. Nomax is licensed under the GPL v3. So let me move to an empty workspace, and let me show you Nomax in action. I'm going to go ahead and launch Nomax. If this is the very first time you've opened Nomax, you're not going to have any recent files, but if you've used Nomax, you know, extensively in the past, then it will show some of the recent files and directories that you've opened in Nomax. So if this is the first time, though, you won't have that. So you would go to file, you would go to open. If you had a specific file you wanted to open, or you could open directory and open all the files in a particular directory, I'm going to choose open, I'm just going to choose a random ping file in this directory. And you can see it's a basic image viewer, right? You've even got your controls where you can go forward or backwards. So all the supported image files in this directory, we could take a look at, right? One cool thing is if you're wanting to use Nomax as a slideshow presentation, you just drop all your images, you know, in a directory, and then you could just play a slideshow by going to the view section of the menu and toggle slideshow. And it's just going to play through the slides every few seconds, whatever it is set to, you know, it's going to move through the images, you know, automatically. And let me go ahead and go to view and toggle that slideshow back off. It looks like the space key toggles it. So it is key-minded. So space on the keyboard toggles on and off your slideshow. One of the things you'll notice about this image viewer, it's, again, it's not very minimal. It's got a lot of stuff built into it. There's a menu system up here, you know, file, edit, view and all of this stuff. You know, there's a ton of options here. You also have your toolbar here, all of these icons that perform various actions like zooming in, zooming out, copy image, paste image. You can rotate 90 degrees counterclockwise or clockwise. You got some options for cropping the image. You've even got this last icon. It's turned off right now. It says show where the image was taken in Google Maps. That is an interesting functionality that I never really expected to be an image viewer, but that's, that's kind of cool. Now how I originally discovered NoMax, you know, I was looking for image viewer to try out that supported tabs because I wanted an image viewer that had proper tabbing. So if I actually go to view and new tab, you know, you can actually open a new tab. Here I'll open the same directory here. I'll just go to a different file, you know, and now you've got tabs and you can have a million tabs open. I can open an entire directory of, you know, 100, 200, however many files, image files, and have them all in their own tabs. And, you know, that's, that's a nice kind of workflow. If you like that tabbed workflow, some of the other things you can turn on. If you go to panels, you actually have some pretty cool options here. You have a built-in file explorer. That's interesting. They call it a file explorer, very Windows-like, right? We call these things file managers on Linux. But, you know, you have this built-in file manager, this, you know, side tree here. And by the way, when I say it's Windows-like, this is a cross-platform applications. It's free and open source software, and it is available on Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD. Also in the panels menu, other than the file explorer, you can also turn on metadata info, which is a little sidebar that'll have the metadata information for an image. If it has any, in this case, this image I created really doesn't have much to show. You also have a metadata ribbon, so it displays that information. And a ribbon at the bottom of the file might move my head. So that is actually quite nice. I wouldn't mind having that. And these are key-binded. You can see M on the keyboard would turn off the metadata ribbon. M on the keyboard would turn it back on. I'm going to go ahead and keep it off, though. And there's a lot of key-bindings, built-in key-bindings to Nomex E. Turns on that file explorer. E for explorer, right? E would turn that back off. Some other cool things in the panels menu here. You have thumbnails. So thumbnails is just a thumbnail preview of all the supported images in this directory. It's basically what you would expect from thumbnails. You also have a really cool notes feature here, image notes. And you could turn this on and off within on the keyboard. So you can actually add notes to the images, things you're working in or if you're a professional photographer. If you wanted to make some notes about anything about that image, the day you took it, whatever it happens to be, that's a really cool feature. N on the keyboard would turn the notes off. And one other thing that I thought was kind of cool, I haven't really seen this before, is H on the keyboard. Turns on the histogram. So I guess this is some of the coloring information for those of you that want to do any kind of image editing. You want that histogram for the images. That is, again, I'm not sure how useful that would be for most people. But again, there's so much really cool stuff built into this image viewer. One really cool thing that I really didn't expect an image viewer to actually support, but Nomag's does, is I can go to a zip file, let me open the zip file, and it will actually display the images within that zip archive. Now, how cool is that? How many image viewers support that? Maybe that's a common thing. I didn't expect it, though. But that is kind of cool that I can click on a zip archive, and it will actually display the images in that archive. There were two there. And then once I get past those two images in that archive, I'm back to just the regular pinging images in this directory. One other thing you could do if I go back and open that zip archive one more time. So let's open that. And if I go to tools and extract from archive, and you can see I can actually extract the images from the archive right here inside Nomag. So that's pretty cool that you can open a zip archive inside your image viewer, and you actually extract images from that archive inside your image viewer. Reading the documentation on their website, their documentation is very light. The documentation for Nomag's is quite bad. And when I say it's bad, it's just non-existent. There's almost nothing on their website, and there's almost no documentation on their GitHub. But the little bit that is there, it does mention that Nomag's does support opening Microsoft Office document files as well. Similar to that zip archive, if there's an image in one of these Microsoft Office documents, it will view the images within those Office documents. Now, that works with Microsoft Office formats. It does not seem to work with ODT formats. So anything I created, for example, I don't have Microsoft Office, but I've got some documents I've written in the LibreOffice writer that have images in those. Nomag's unfortunately does not support that. One last thing I want to show you, even though I'm really not sure how to use this thing, it's such a weird feature, though I did want to mention it. It's this sync feature. So we've got two images side by side here in two different instances of Nomag's. And if I go to sync and I connect all, and you see the metadata ribbon connected with the image name over here, and I believe if I scroll with the mouse wheel, you know, zoom in and out, you know, I thought it would connect these in such a way. Yeah, now it does, but those are the same image. But if I change the image, yeah, well, that's actually kind of weird. But it is synced. This one, whatever I do in this window happens in this one, but what I do in this one doesn't. So I guess I sync them in a specific direction. So you can see this one is connected to the thumbnail, what Linux has taught me. But we're not actually viewing that particular file. Yeah, that's weird. Now I'm disconnected and they act independently. Kind of a strange thing that sync feature. I'm not exactly sure how useful that is. It is very odd, though, so I did want to highlight it. So that was a very quick and cursory look at NoMax. It's free and open source software for Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD, NoMax. It's an image viewer, but it's also an image editor, even though I didn't show any of those tools on camera. It does have a few basic tools as far as editing, as far as cropping and resizing images, as well as you can do some hue correction and saturation and things like that. Some really basic image editing tools are also built into NoMax. Now, before I go, I need to thank a few special people. I need to thank the producers of this episode. Gabe James, Matt Paul, Steve West, Arkotic, Armor Dragon, Commander-In-Greed, Darloff, George Lee, Matthew, Methos, Nate, Erion Paul, Peace, Archon, Fedora, Reality, Spurless, Red Prophet, Rowland, Soul, Astrid, Tienren, Tools, Devler, Warging, Twin Aboon, Twin, Willy. These guys, they're my hot steered patrons. Over on Patreon, without these guys, this episode about the NoMax image viewer would not have been possible. The show is also brought to you by each and every one of these fine ladies and gentlemen. All these names you're seeing on the screen, these are all my supporters. Over on Patreon, I don't have any corporate sponsors. I'm sponsored by you guys, the community. If you like my work and want to see more videos about great free and open source software like NoMax, subscribe to DistroTubo for more on Patreon. 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