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FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

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Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
4.5 stars (out of 1110 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
3,639,436
Operating Systems:
Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
Additional Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
March 18, 2005
Previous Versions:

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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

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 graphics formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD (Photoshop format), TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA.

Version 1.9 supports slide-show background music, the selection of transitional effects, and batch image printing, and adds the hot key F3 for shuffling image order.

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Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

5.0 stars
"A completely free imaging workhorse"

Reviewed by: CNET Staff
Version reviewed: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

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.

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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1110 votes
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5 stars

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

"Images as they must be handled"

by Janell on April 7, 2005

Pros: It's great, easy to use and totally Free! Since I discovered it, uninstalled and old version of ACDSee and my life is happier. I work with tons of images (web editor) and this program is just what its needed to perform the job

Cons: Crashes when I try to save an image .gif as .jpg sometimes...

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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

"Great product! I use it for almost everything!"

by Zipper7 on April 5, 2005

Pros: The amount of features, I also use it to convert any image into any other format!
It's GREAT!

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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

"A complete software for image browsing."

by ashi2u on April 4, 2005

Pros: The images can be seen and browsed through mouse movement and full screen preview as well as small icons may be seen. This serves most of my purpose.

Cons: In thumbnail view if you try to select say 100 images to move to other folder through mouse, you get trouble as preview is generated slowly while selecting. thumbnail.

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4 stars

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

"THIS IS GREAT!!"

by dmoar on March 20, 2005

Pros: The converting process was real fast!

Cons: It had problems converting files with names in languages other than English.

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5 stars

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 1.9

"Its really MAGIC"

by Brynstine on March 19, 2005

Pros: User friendly

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