Sometimes it is just time to try out a new program for a really common purpose. I think that slickview certainly qualifies as one of those spontaneous programs that help you to explore new options. And in this case, you might just find that using this to view images is preferable to your other alternatives.

SlickView is a small image viewer and HTML thumbnail page generator with support for popular image formats (GIF, JPG, PCX, PNG, TGA, TIF…). The HTML thumbnail page is plain and simple, but can be customized completely to use your own design. The quality of the thumbnails is very good and the size can be adjusted. Image viewing capabilities are basic, but it offers conversion among all supported formats, so you can use it to convert BMP to JPG etc. Additional features include commandline support and keyboard navigation for image browsing. Not much of an image viewer but good to create quick galleries and to convert files.