Features
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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
3,586,542
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/NT/XP/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
December 05, 2008
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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touch the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
Version 3.6 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, plays video files (avi, wmv, mpg) in slide shows, improves the Batch-Convert, improves the Draw Board, adds Animated GIF as an output option in Multi-Page File Builder.
Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer
5.0 stars
- "A completely free imaging workhorse"
For a free program, this multipurpose image tool strikes us as a good find. Although the main interface looks too cluttered with buttons at first glance, the three main windows are intuitive enough once get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice default design, but you can customize it to your liking with several skins.
Clicking a thumbnail puts a larger view of the shot in the lower-left pane, and you zoom in simply by dragging the mouse around. Though its image-editing tools can't compete with those offered by a full-featured suite, there's still enough here to make a decent amount of tweaks to your shots. You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast. You'll also find a few simple effects and filters, including Lens, Waves, and Morphs. Other nifty features include multiple folder slide shows, batch cropping and Windows Vista support.
FastStone Image Viewer for Windows can batch-convert files into a number of popular image formats including GIF, BMP, PSD, and PNG, and the slide-show creator allows you to apply transitions, specify the interval between images, and add your own MP3s as a soundtrack. We can recommend this program to everyone but professional designers.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1000 votes
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
"Excellent for the average everyday user."
Pros: Free software that is easy to use and does an excellent job of making minor adjustments and resizing digital images.
Cons: In my limited experience, I have found nothing to dislike about the program.
Summary: FS Viewer gives me the ability to make adjustments and save them as well as the original image. I normally save the adjusted image to my PC and the original image to CD. Although I would like to have a, "Auto Fix", option to use as a starting poin... read more >>
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
"1st class and ease - quickness of the program"
Pros: smooth and quick
Cons: Nothing too much to complain about
Summary: Excellent tool for sure
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
"Will not adjust colors for proper printing."
Pros: Realatively easy to use but takes a while to get used to.
Cons: Limited ability to adjust color, contrast, etc. Would not reproduce the colors correctly for my computer running Vista Home Premium and priniting on a Canon MP360. I downloaded Picasa and it works much better.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
"Fantastic program. One of the best."
Pros: It's fast and and it's free.
Cons: None at all.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
"Does everything I need at the touch of a button"
Pros: Simple yet powerful. Easy to use. Small and does not hog resources. Love the full screen mode!
Cons: For me it is perfect!
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