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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 14, 2005
- Total Downloads: 3,639,436
- Downloads last week: 17,337
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1171 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
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 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 frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG).
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1171 votes
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
"Wow!!! The Best Things In Life ARE Free!"
Pros: That what I first thought when I tried this. This BLOWS Irfanview away and any other free image viewer I've seen. The "filmstrip" style tool bar the auto hides at the top in full screen view is great! Skins too. The interface is configurable too. Very, very nice for the price. :D
Cons: None for the price, try it for yourself.
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
Pros: Very efficient. Beats Infranveiw and Picassa as far as I am concerned. The slideshow feature is great with many tranisitions including a smooth dissolve, and the ability to add you own mp3 music backgrounds. The explorer like interface allows complete control of your picture folders. Also include all the tools necessary for minor touchups of your photos. Absolutely no spyware...truly free software. But contribute to these authors to encourage more software like this.
Cons: None that I have found.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
Pros: For viewing and basic editing FastStone simply can't be beat. The multitude of save options will keep power users happy. Regular updates continually improve an already great program. I would like to see color dropper and a few airbrush tools added at some point.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
Pros: A true free photo editing suite thats does what most people will require. Its hard to beat for nothing and comes with a couple of very useful tools. Its worth a look.
Cons: Nothing, no problems at all. For all you tight people out there that can not afford $400 for CS2 this works.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.28
"Fast, cool look, greats functions"
Pros: Fast loading images, Nice Interface, Hide toolbar is very userful, FREE, Remember me when AcdSee are cool
Cons: No see yet
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