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April 19, 2008 12:00 AM PDT

Featured Freeware: FastStone Image Viewer

by Seth Rosenblatt
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The FastStone Image Viewer is a good find for a multipurpose image tool. Although the main interface looks too cluttered with buttons at first glance, the three main windows are intuitive enough once get your bearings and several included skins make it easy on the eyes.

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. 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 batch conversion. 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, and fast.

Seth peers into the deep, dark corners of software so that you don't have to. He has yet to suffer a single nightmare about OS/2. You can follow him on Twitter.
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by proshoots April 19, 2008 11:25 AM PDT
simply the best ,free,it works great,does most edited you need,no adds,no spyware,
what more do you want great program and no crashes
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by chettyharish April 20, 2008 1:01 AM PDT
:)
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by SunilHD April 20, 2008 2:00 AM PDT
IT'S fANSTASTIC.
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by bighomer April 21, 2008 6:00 PM PDT
I finally decided to try this and, to my amazement, I loved it. Excellent! And a beautiful interface too.
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by krishna02krish April 22, 2008 3:50 AM PDT
This is soooo..... cool and good
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by klares May 26, 2008 12:12 AM PDT
very nice to use.
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