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FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

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  • Price: Free
  • Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7
  • Date added: April 29, 2010
  • Total Downloads: 5,631,899
  • Downloads last week: 31,055
  • Product Ranking: #4 in Image Editing Software
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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.

 
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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 4.2 converts images to PDF and fixes some bugs introduced in version 4.1.

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  • All versions:
    4.6 stars
    out of 1311 votes
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  • 5 stars

    11 out of 12 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "The best Image Viewer on the Web"

    by CarolineVa on June 9, 2010

    Pros: I like being able to see almost any file extension with this Viewer. My hard drive had to be reinstalled recently. The 1st prograom I downloaded was this Viewer. Each update has improvements. It's an outstanding, user friendly program; and it's free.

    Cons: I can't think of any negative issues regarding this program.

    Summary: I've used this outstanding program for over a year. When I had to reinstall my hard drive recently, I discovered I needed this program from the very beginning. Being able to view the various graphic file extensions was of great assistance in helping me to install some of my newer graphics.

    For those who have lots of photographs, the viewer is an outstanding feature; and you're able to organize your files immediately without any hassles. It's so user friendly that it's not necessary to even use the help file.

    With its latest improvements, one is able to apply text to their photos or graphic files; as well as use layers in creating special effects to your pictures.

    This program can be used not only by the professional artists, but can also be used by anyone just starting out with downloading photos and/or graphic files, as well as applying enhancements to same.

    FastStone Image Viewer, with its enhancement features, is the best image viewer on the web; and it's free. It's an image viewer you'll never regret downloading.

    Enjoy!

    Sweet Caroline

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  • 5 stars

    5 out of 5 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "Quirky and Great!"

    by graphiquebob on June 4, 2010

    Pros: Simple, easy, quick, accurate,, and free. An excellent program to do minimal edits on the fly. The interface is quirky...but again, easy and intuitive. I have made this my default viewer...it opens quickly and I can do what I need to do and move on.

    Cons: I have found none. It simply delivers.

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  • 5 stars

    3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "Excellent as usual"

    by 12stringman on May 14, 2010

    Pros: Quick, to-the-point, great user interface, suits me perfectly.

    Cons: Manual adjustments to pictures only - no AUTO adjust for quick fixes to problem photos.

    Summary: If I need to tweak a picture, some programs offer an AUTO adjust button which is usually an improvement (that can be undone). Other than that feature missing on FastStone's offering (although many adjustments can be made manually for a great variety of settings), I can't think of any negatives for this excellent program. An AUTO adjust would be the icing on the cake for me.

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  • 4 stars

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "So far I like this program a lot."

    by rruppel on June 9, 2010

    Pros: Intuitive to use.
    Does not try to take over your system.
    Good Viewer/organizer for pictures.

    Cons: Resize & auto-adjust of brightness/colors could be easier.

    Summary: Best program I have found since CompuPic by Photodex for handling/sorting my pictures. Unfortunately, CompuPic won't run under Windows7 and Photodex has dropped it from their repetoire. I'm not interested in slideshows or creating web sites, I just want to view and make simple modifications to my pictures.

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  • 5 stars

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "Does everything I want and more besides."

    by marknew3 on June 5, 2010

    Pros: Easy to use with a host of features usually only found on expensive software.

    Cons: Nothing yet

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  • 5 stars

    2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "The best and simplest of them all!"

    by vulcranium on June 1, 2010

    Pros: It is very easy and opens up quite a huge possibility of options.. this is my main application for picture enhancement and manipulations.

    Cons: Well it is not exactly some high end graphic software but neither is everyone a graphic designer!

    Summary: A must have and very convenient graphic software for everyone...

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  • 3 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "good program"

    by sophy121 on August 11, 2010

    Pros: it is a good program. i like it.

    Cons: it can batch-convert files. it can't convert from format to another.

    Summary: i try ( image viewer ) program that can convert from any format to another and easy to use.i open a lot of formats easily. i found it on site: ( BullDogFtp.com )

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  • 1 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "I even paid for it"

    by applechicks on July 3, 2010

    Pros: I used it a few times and it was ok.

    Cons: The program editing part disapeared and now I only have the viewer part. VERY disapointing. Maybe it is because I have Vista??? Do not recommend.

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  • 5 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "No need to be an expert for fast spectacular results"

    by Merel 469 on June 1, 2010

    Pros: - Easy to use
    - Very nice and usefull features
    - Immediate results, compared
    - Full screen use

    Cons: Maybe I will find some Cons after searching for ?

    Summary: Who needs more !?

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  • 5 stars

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

    Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.2

    "can't be beaten"

    by eccle5 on May 19, 2010

    Pros: Fast, reliable and just great for browsing picture files/camera cards. Even the basic editing tools will be perfectly adfequate for many photographers

    Cons: nothing that I have found.

    Summary: Considering it's free (though you really should mske sa donsation), it's a great package,Easy red eye removal, quick zoom, handy 'side by side' comparison.

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