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Modern formats

JPEG XL, AVIF and HEIC Image Viewer

Modern image formats are useful, but they often break simple preview workflows. Pix42 opens JPEG XL, AVIF, HEIC, HEIF, WebP, OpenEXR, JPEG 2000, RAW, PSD, FITS, TIFF, and common media folders from one viewer.

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Pix42 displaying a colorful AVIF image

Open the files other viewers send elsewhere

JPEG XL, AVIF, HEIC, HEIF, OpenEXR, and JPEG 2000 are common enough to appear in real archives, phone exports, VFX work, web experiments, and delivery folders, but support is still uneven across default viewers. Pix42 keeps those files inside the same folder browser as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, RAW, PSD, FITS, video, audio, and archives.

Viewing is only the first step. Once files are open, Pix42 can help with ratings, flags, metadata inspection, culling, compare view, duplicate review, and batch conversion. That makes modern format support part of a workflow instead of a one-off codec test.

Modern format support belongs in the viewer

A viewer should make uncommon files feel ordinary. Pix42 is built for mixed folders where old camera files, new web formats, scientific images, exports, and media assets live together.

Modern format viewing pairs with Pix42 batch conversion, color management, metadata tools, and fast folder navigation.

Try Pix42 from your own folders.

Download the app and use these workflows with real image collections, mixed media folders, and long-running review projects.

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