- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 07, 2009
- Total Downloads: 4,502,917
- Downloads last week: 27,004
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1165 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.
Version 3.9 has added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser and improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser.
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Version 3.9 has added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser and improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"Way way WAY better than IrfanView, and still FREE !!!"
Pros: Wow! Only one day of use, and I haven't found anything this program CAN'T do! OK, it's not full-blown Photoshop, but for the average user, this will replace IrfanView and any other image browsers/editors, and will leave you very happy.
Cons: Nothing to speak of. Won't sort by aspect ratio. Gives a "Save As" dialog when "Save" would be more appropriate. Clicking "X" on the Edit/Draw window exits without prompting, losing changes -- you have to hit "OK" to make sure changes are saved.
Summary: Incredibly complete and well-thought-out software, just what I've been looking for.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"i use it more often than i use photoshop"
Pros: An ideal piece of software for your daily photo enhancement; picture vieuwing and so on. I love it.
Cons: No cons at all.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
Pros: This is a major part of my business.
Cons: Nothing at all!
Summary: As a home inspector I use this on a regular basis.
Thank You!
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
Pros: Good, if basic srt of editing tools, batch conversion and stamping
Cons: No search facility, so finding an image can be a long winded affair. IN fairness the package is touted as an editor, but search is a basic requirement in such software these days.
Summary: A good piece of freeware. Note however that several pieces of freeware from these producers have been re-allocated as shareware in recent times. Hopefully this package will not follow that line. Add search functionality and we would not hesitate to ... read more >>
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"easy to use and very complete for begginers"
Pros: watermarks, easy to use, totally free
Cons: none so far
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