PhotoShow

CRX ID
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Status
Live on Store
Description from extension meta

Hover to zoom and view high-definition images. Instantly enlarge visuals, crafted for all your favorite websites—and for you.

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PhotoShow
Description from store

PhotoShow is a tool for browsing and downloading high-definition images by hovering mouse on image thumbnails, working on most websites and carefully crafted for over 300 popular ones of your daily use, including Amazon, Facebook, Google, Instagram, YouTube, etc.

● HOTKEYS

Tab: Open the HD image in a new tab
S: Save the HD image
C: Copy the HD image address
Alt + C: Copy the HD image
Esc: Close the image viewer
X: Temporarily suspend the image viewer while held
Shift + Ctrl + ← / →: Rotate the image counterclockwise/clockwise
Alt + Ctrl + ← / → / ↑ / ↓: Flip the image horizontally/vertically
← / → / ↑ / ↓: Scroll the image left/right/up/down
PgUp / PgDn: Scroll the image up/down by its visible height
Home / End: Scroll to the top/bottom of the image
A / F / L / M / P: Switch view mode
V: Toggle between the last two used view modes

● SETTINGS

PhotoShow comes with a rich set of settings designed to adapt to your browsing needs, from customizing how the image viewer appears, to adjusting controls, shortcuts, and behaviors. Whether you prefer a clean, distraction-free interface or a feature-packed experience, PhotoShow lets you fine-tune the viewer to suit your style.

Key options include:

- Whitelist Mode: Disable PhotoShow globally, then enable per site with its popup toggle.
- Viewer Trigger: Require an assist key press to show the viewer.
- Thumbnail Types & Viewer Exceptions: Control which thumbnails trigger the viewer.
- Viewer Positions: Default is beside the thumbnail, but you can allow fullscreen by choosing "center".
- Image Info Display: Show captions, dimensions, formats, or file sizes.
- New Tab Opening Behavior: Choose whether new image tabs open in the foreground or background.
- Transition Animation: Smooth animations, or reduce/disable them.
- Viewer Color Scheme: Choose either "light" or "dark" theme for the viewer.
- Keyboard Shortcuts: Enable/disable specific shortcuts.
- Image Download: Customize filenames with placeholders (e.g. "my images/<H>/<c>").
- Assistance & Enhancements: Extra tools like marking viewed images or enabling/disabling context menu items.
- Settings Management: Export/import your settings to transfer between devices, or reset either global or site-specific settings.

For more information, please refer to the Options page (global settings) and PhotoShow’s popup window (site-specific settings).

Latest reviews

volkan gole 2025-09-26

perfecet !!! best best best !!!

01 Flytech 2025-09-16

File name after shift+s is random generated not same as in the settings ie: <O> original file name...

Anne Adorno 2025-09-14

I was using Imagus before: Imagus did also display videos (gif, mp4, ...) for easy download. This one doesnt - up to now

Ren Vulpes 2025-09-12

Idk what kind of black magic imagus does, but it would always find the highest res version of what i'm hovering over, not just the thumbnail. it's really useful for that. (it appears hover zoom does this too) this just seems to pull from whatever thumbnail i'm hovering over, which ends up often being the same size of what i can already see. any chance you could replicate that feature? because it's probably the most important aspect of an addon like this to me

Raxus Prime 2025-09-03

Needs a right click and zoom with scroll wheel option like Imagus. Should've used Imagus as the template for your extension. Please consider adding those options. How do I save an image?

Floyyd 2025-08-23

How is there still no zoom???? Please add.....

Martin Wright 2025-08-22

As many have said, this is a great replacement for Imagus. Not perfect, but greatly appreciated. Some fixes/features I would really like to request: - When saving an image, it always defaults to the "Saved Pictures" folder instead of remembering the location of the previous save which can be really annoying when saving a lot of reference images. - Being able to use 'Ctrl' to trigger the image view but then being able to release it without the viewer closing. - Ability to right-click the HD image viewer to perform the usual right-click options without the viewer closing. - When selecting to open image in a New Tab an option to open it without switching to the new tab. - Mouse wheel zoom feature (as someone requested previously). Apologies if that's a lot. Again, very grateful to even have this extension in the first place.

L CS 2025-08-11

Keyboard Shortcut Modification Requests:​​ 1.​​Copy HD Image Shortcut Issue:​​ The keyboard shortcut for copying high-definition images is invalid. ​​Request:​​ Change to directly pressing the Ckey to copy HD images. ​​2.Pause Image Preview Window Shortcut:​​ ​​Request:​​ Modify the shortcut to Ctrlfor pausing the display of the image preview window when held down.

Alexis Garrison (Ewolfy7) 2025-08-07

This application does everything I need it to do which is opening a zoomed in pop-up of an image I'm hovering over. I also appreciate that there is an option to display information about the source image on the hovering image preview. For the info display, can the size of the text and the color of the background for the info display be changed or customzied?

Victoria Blake 2025-08-05

Next best thing since Imagus. Thank you!

Rizwan Md 2025-07-29

Very helpful for viewing image without need to zoom manually.

abonawwaf 2025-07-25

One word , the BEST.

Chris Murray 2025-07-19

It's not as smooth as Imagus but works fairly well for the most part. When it doesn't however, it crashes websites (BlueSky for example). It's easy enough to disable it for certain websites, but if it doesn't work on social media, it doesn't work.

CarboMike 2025-07-15

Very good replacement for Imagus. Excellent extension

yusuke kazumoto 2025-07-13

Request: Please add mouse wheel zoom support Hello and thank you for this excellent extension — PhotoShow is incredibly useful for checking product images quickly, especially for e-commerce sellers like me. One feature I would really love to see added is support for mouse wheel zoom while hovering over the enlarged image. Being able to zoom in/out with the scroll wheel would greatly improve usability, especially when inspecting fine details like scratches or labels. It would be amazing if you could add an option in the settings to enable/disable wheel-based zoom. Thanks again for your great work!

Craig Deskins 2025-07-12

Very good replacement for Imagus. Great job to PhotoShow's author, Vincent! btw I'm on PC, and if you want to disable PhotoShow for any specific website then go to that website and then left click the pinned PhotoShow icon at top of your browser to open its pop-up window, then select the ON/OFF toggle button. If you can't see the ON/OFF toggle button, like I couldn't, then slide the scrollbar at the bottom of the pop-up window to the right then the ON/OFF toggle button should scroll into view. Enjoy. :)

John O'Brien 2025-07-11

A really good replacement for Imagus. Pretty much does exactly what it needs to, even with gifs, thumbnails and videos.

Pace 2025-07-11

Works just as good as IMAGUS - change view mode to FIT and check center, and its like imagus.

Miki Angel 2025-06-25

It can now be displayed at maximum size! The best!

Shlomi sa 2025-06-18

Since the add-on update, it has stopped working on certain websites that it previously worked on

Nikos Taratsas 2025-06-15

Well I'll be damned. I was pretty bummed about Imagus (which served me for years) with the whole MV2 thing and I decided to try this one out of sheer curiosity. Pretty impressed overall. If you could make it work with link post thumbnails on Facebook feed that would be great.

David Nugent 2025-05-18

Excellent extension. A lot nicer and smoother than what I was using and works better on more sites like twitter and instagram. Glad I tried it. One small suggestion that would improve it: When I have the full image open on a new tab and I hover over it, it shows the image again and I can tab to open another new tab with the same image. This is a bit redundant. Maybe if the image url matches the page I'm on nothing should happen

dombaaa 2025-05-13

Works really well on Instagram, and this one DOES NOT CAUSE cloudflare loop 👍 edit: on Instagram, when you're in someone's page, hover over the thumbnail works well, but if you click the photo thumbnail that have more than 1 image in it, the next image is not detected by the extension. edit 1: I sent you video explanation, thanks for responding to users review.

Private 2025-05-09

Q: How can I make the image remain displayed when the cursor is moved away? It show the images in original, or close to, size and resolution! Totally Awesome!

Gabriel Leyton 2025-05-04

It's almost perfect. If the developer reads this, please add a hotkey to open images in a new tab WITHOUT switching to the new tab. That is possible with the extension I currently use (Imagus) and is the the main feature that keeps me from switching to this one.

Everton 2025-05-02

The best one available in May 2025. It does not only enlarge the photos but in high quality, impressed. Deleted all the other ones, this app is awesome. I recommend PhotoShow. It is literally a hidden gem.

SETUP HOMETV 2025-04-20

A very useful extension.

Farhan Hussain 2025-04-03

What is 'Quite Mode'? What happens when it is active?

Farhan Hussain 2025-04-03

What is 'Quite Mode'? What happens when it is active?

Andy Lindsay 2025-03-24

Seems to work well, and I like the ability to customize how it behaves with all the settings. But one disappointment is on Reddit, which it only zooms slightly on thumbnails (old-style reddit, btw), no matter which setting for size of the popup. Older hoverzoom apps did a better job on Reddit at sufficiently enlarging the thumbs, but now I have to click on the image normally, slowing down approving submissions (for moderating). This behavior might be just on old-style reddit (which not that many people use, in favor of the newer slop-bucket feed like most other soc-media use), but it means this app can't help me in one of the most important cases I need an app like this for.

Databases 2025-03-17

Works great, but it does not works when you hoover on a link that contains an image... When you will support this feature ?

orange-ranger 2025-03-14

Solved all my problems, since the best image zooming extensions (Hoverzoom+ or Imagus) no longer works with the new Chrome. But make it easier to blacklist some sites! Thanks!

Aaron 2025-03-04

Works well for pictures but should allow to view GIFs and videos by hovering like hover zoom did.

Masked Guy 2025-01-21

Great extension.

tatijeffree 2025-01-19

how do i edit the hotkeys?

AG Moyer 2024-12-23

I like how it looks but I'm stuck using Hover Zoom+ because when hovering over thumbnails that extension will show the full image size while this one can't. EDIT: Managed to find some sites where Hover Zoom+ wont work but PhotoShow does so that's something. Though it is semi working with ca.pinterest.com while in whitelist mode upon opening the site it wont work unless I toggle it off and on again. Turns out this is really random, either it'll happen or it wont so I don't know why.

Doruktan Erkan 2024-12-07

A very good and useful extension. I like to open the photo in a new tab and download it easily. I recommend it.

John II 2024-10-30

Wanted this to be a replacement for HoverZoom but it just breaks way on too many sites, even popular ones like Gmail (search bar constantly downloading the image unless you type X first). Ended up crawling back to hover zoom, which hopefully they'll update it so it doesn't get removed 🤞

bandr hdaddi 2024-10-23

coolest and most great extension i have seen thanks so much

King Al 2024-10-12

Hi, Please add a shortcut to quickly copy images directly to the clipboard, allowing users to paste them faster into other apps. Thanks!

Liomon 2024-10-12

I want to be able to put my cursor over the loaded image preview so I can context it like imagus allows. Please configure that the image can load under cursor as a view location?? Also fetching save link and load in tab is not working on Flickr Wonderful to see an updated image fetcher, this is underrated QOL improvement.

Brian Mazzarella 2024-09-07

Really great! The only things that should make it perfect for me are a blacklist feature and an option to have the image pop-up over your cursor or in the middle of the page.

Alen 2024-08-12

DEVELOPERS. Can you please improve Craigslist.org. I used for many years "Imgus" extension. And google is killing that extension. The way it works is if you see a post on craigslist it will enlarge the picture of the thumbnail without clicking on the post, but if there are more picture, you could use the mouse wheel to scroll through them. It's not working with PhotoShow. With PhotoShow you have to click and open the post to go through other pictures. Other problem is when you click on a post and it has a big picture and small thumbnails beneath it inside, thumbnails don't enlarge unless you click on them. It works with Imgus. Another problem I discovered is when switching tabs. I went to a tab that it was working on, and now it's not. I had to refresh the tab. Seems like it stops working after switching around a couple of open tabs. And any chance to remove the animation and set duration of how long the mouse needs to hover would be great.

Андрей Кузнецов 2024-08-10

For those users who lack video support, I suggest you try the Imagus / Imagus Mod extension. Search "Imagus Reddit" (Imagus community) to get more information about it.

Eki Eki 2024-08-10

OK

Mvelo Sibiya 2024-07-22

This extention got my instagram account deleted, and i'm sure it's this extention because they kept giving me "instagram suspected automated behavior" warnings when I had it turned on. Instagram wouldn't even let me log in when I had it turned on. I had to go the photoshow settings and blacklist instagram in order to log in again. Good app, but be warned it might affect your instagram account.

Alpesh Patel 2024-07-17

mouse right click not show for photo show in display , not proper working in extention please solve in devloping my window 10 pro 64bits 22H ?

2024-07-16

24.7.16 似乎会导致B站动态上传图片事网页卡死,关掉就没事了

Misaka 2024-07-13

bilibili评论区又更新了 失效了

Kanit /NMK 2024-04-02

It works great, though I'm tossing in a 3-Star for a few reasons. • The magnification isn't exactly magnification, it just enlarges the image a small bit • Images shown on something like Reddit, where an image could be posted, should enlarge the image to a larger resolution and bigger viewing angle • Hover feature is a bit too sensitive, there needs to be a safe zone on the outer side of the image before it enlarges, or the ability to enable a button you can tap to enlarge the image. Other than the minor complaints, the add-on so far is really decent and it definitely outdoes the previous popular choice, Imagus as the devs have left that project abandoned. Seeing continued work to make this better than the simplicity of Imagus would be awesome, and I'm in full support as it's basically drag and drop.

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Installs
100,000
Market
Chrome Web Store
Rating
4.5 (408 votes)
Last update
2025-10-06
Version 4.79.3
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