How to view extra large images?

The image size is over 200MB. I downloaded, and tried to open with image viewer, and it won't open. I opened with Gimp, and it works fine. See below

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The image opens perfectly fine in Shotwell Photo Manager (version 0.22.0) on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Shotwell Screenshot

Alternately, you can try out ImageMagick(Q16) image editor.


All image viewers I tried, except "Gnome Image Viewer" worked fine opening that image:

  • geeqie < imo, this one is by far the best image viewer
  • gthumb
  • shotwell
  • feh

And it works also fine in other software that is not specialized in viewing images

  • gimp
  • firefox
  • qgis

Sometimes, the Gnome software has much better alternatives (e.g. gedit is the same, very slow for big files).