- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows NT, Windows 98
- Date added: February 09, 2006
- Total Downloads: 3,895,315
- Downloads last week: 18,083
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1164 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 2.3
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1164 votes
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28 out of 30 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.3
"If you like ASee DSee then you will love this."
Pros: This program provides beginners and intermediates with a very easy to use, photo viewer, manager, and editor. Like many, I received a digital camera at Christmas and have little experience altering photos, making slide shows etc. When editing a picture, I am most impressed with the idea of attaching simple instructions along the side of the photo you are changing.
Cons: More skins to customize the appearance.
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16 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.3
"Awesome, absolutely Awesome !"
Pros: One of the best "Freebies" ever produced. I have been using XnView for a few years but this program blows it away. Great features and user friendly. I highly recommend this software to all digital photographers for all of your basic viewing and minor adjustment and tweaking needs. Just try it and you will see for yourself the usefulness of this product.
Cons: None so far to speak of.
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4 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.3
Pros: Great program, you can do everything you need with it, even copy web pages, and its free! My wife uses this program everyday, A++!
Cons: Nothing
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5 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.3
Pros: I really Love this Fast Stone. There have not been too many pieces of software that I have come across where I can just click, move, and slide, right off the bat and know what I'm doing and what I want to do. The Fast Stone Rocks. I even made the switch from the awesome infranview, to this There's a little bit of editing that I can do which to me it is so rewarding after spending days on Photoshop I thought I never would be able to adjust a picture. Mind you I am not comparing this to Photoshop just saying that I sucked at it. The slide show is great, and it just looks good ass you zoom in on the subject photo, it actually gets better when it's larger.
Cons: Not a thing It's Friggen Free
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4 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.3
"WOW! .....There is so much in this small small program!"
Pros: This is one of the best freeware programs you can find. In only 2.8 MB this small, fast, and stable image browser/editor/converter is just chocked full of great features.
1. It loads and saves quite a number of popular image formats.
2. EXIF metadata support
3. Digital camera RAW format support
4. Performs functions of image viewing, management, comparison, cropping, resizing, coversion, and color adjustment to name just a few
5. Histograms
6. Scanner support
7. Batch image resizing and conversion
8. Slide show with 150+ transitional effects
9. It's not terribly difficult to learn how to use
The more I use this program the more I like it. And why not, Faststone software is continually updating the program with new or refined features all the time. Kudos to the developement team there for doing such a stellar job. Faststone image viewer is a real gem!
Cons: 1. My only complaint is that I would like to see better help files in future versions.
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