- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 19, 2009
- Total Downloads: 4,656,006
- Downloads last week: 33,320
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1198 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 07, 2008
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.
Publisher's description
From FastStone Soft :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.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.0 enhances the skins and toolbar icons and adds "Search and Replace" to Batch Rename.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1198 votes
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
Pros: I like because is easy to work with them and the rezult is excelent
Cons: I can`t write Text
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
"best freeware viewer out there"
Pros: Supports bulk resizing and reformatting, and is fairly quick. Has a ton of useful tools and is very easy to use.
Cons: Not much of one, but for some reason it doesnt show up on the list for adding as the default viewer. Easy enough to add it manually though.
Summary: This is a great program and definately worth the few minutes it takes to download and its free. No useless clutter on the interfaces and full of options. Absolutely the best freeware viewer I have tried yet.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
Pros: Simply EVERYTHING!!! The uses I have for this type of software are here and simple to use.
Cons: It doesn't do layers.
Summary: I highly recommend this software to anyone needing a program that is user friendly and will accomplish almost any task when working with photos. You can pay hundreds of dollars for commercial products but with FastStone, save your bucks and make a ... read more >>
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
"great on my netbook! super at browsing jpeg or RAW"
Pros: fast, efficient
Cons: nothing, works great
Summary: a must have
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.0
Pros: a decent amount of editing options and filters.
Cons: a little confusing to use and the preview pane is kind of small
Summary: decent but there are better free image editors out there. works best when used in conjunction with photoscape (also free)
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