CNET Editors' review
For a free program, this multipurpose image tool strikes us as a good find. Although the main window looks too cluttered at first glance, it's intuitive enough after you get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice design already, 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. 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 an image browser, viewer, converter, and editor with features including resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustment, watermarks, and a broad array of other image-managing features. It also provides quick access to EXIF information and a thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse.
FastStone Image Viewer also offers a batch-image converter and resizer, a magnifier, and a built-in slide show with more than 60 transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop-shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, and a histogram. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD(Photoshop format), TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA.
Version 1.7 supports PSD format, fixes bugs, and improves performance.
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All versions:
4.6 starsout of 1,565 votes
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Current version:
4.6 starsout of 22 votes
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"great for converting/resizing/viewing"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
Needed an app to resize large file size digital images to 800x600. Fulfilled this purpose 100%. Fast and great viewer/browser as well with slick interface. Anf it's FREE!
Cons
No cons as of yet.
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"Great program to work with your photos"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
All the basic features are present. Works fast. Resize, gamma/light adjustmets work great - deliberately compared with Photoshop. Easy and comprehensive batch processing.
Cons
Did not notice any yet.
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"very nice"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
very nice image viewer. using it so i can "arrow" through my pictures in a directory on win2k. has a lot of extra features.
Cons
has maybe too much extra features, but not that big a deal
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"A good start!"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
A lot to love here with lots of great ideas. Plenty of keyboard shortcuts which significantly speeds navigation. Good design throughout and for what it does, it does it far better than Picasa — and faster!
Cons
(1) Although there plenty of keyboard shortcuts throughout the program, the menus have no ALT+keyboard shortcut and must be accessed via the mouse; (2) Smoothing slows down rendering between images; (3) In Thumbnail view, the image size and type cannot be removed, and there is subsequently too much space between each thumbnail; (4) No way to toggle the toolbar; (5) Cannot customize background color of thumbnails.
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"Outstanding basic feature list but weak on associated display features"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
Attractive appearance. In slideshow mode, picture navigation can be by thumbnail, keyboard, or mouse. Panning and zooming are especially feature-laden and well done. Nice variety of transition effects. Nice ability to display picture information, including EXIF metadata. EXIF tag User Comment can be displayed AND updated. Picture background color may be set. Many batch editing effects are available. "Skins" may be changed.
Cons
No foreground or background audio ability. Very weak on captioning - only the picture filename may appear on pictures. Skimpy Help and documentation. Crude picture printing - no layouts, and only one picture per page, with no rotation.
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"Great for batch editing images"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
I was looking for a program to batch convert files between types. This program does this and more. It even allows for resizing at the same time as batch conversion. End result looks great!
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"Really good."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
I really enjoy the ease of this program. It works well and has an impressive amount of options for a free program.
Cons
It seemed awkward at first, but by the end of the first day, I was comfortable and happy with it.
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"It was great"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
the program does everything and more it uses not even 1% of the cpu it links all all your image files and lots more
Cons
There no cons
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"lovely program"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
Downloaded it smoothly and after about 5 days of use remain constantly impressed. Lovely to use. Much better than the HP Image viewer that came with HP scanner. Informative, easy, straightforward, has a valuable, very handy and decent size preview feature. Posibility of thumbnails next to image being worked on is nice. Saving files is smooth. Flexible interface. A pleasure to use once all the goodies are discovered. Cant wait to use the other downloads FastStone.
Cons
One thing i would prefer is to have the 'Acquire' button directly on the menu bar and not listed under the File tab.
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"Excelente"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.7
Pros
Excelente interface, rápido y muy útil
Cons
No encontré elementos negativos hasta ahora
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