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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: March 15, 2006
- Total Downloads: 3,639,436
- Downloads last week: 17,337
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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
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. Version 2.4 added some new features and bug fixes.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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35 out of 38 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
Pros: This little software gem is one of the best free programs I have downloaded in years. Not only is Faststone Image Viewer 2.4 free and fast but is so feature ladened that it even gives many more expensive commercial programs of it's genre a run for their money. Since its inception this software has been steadily evolving into a more polished product as the folks at Faststone Soft are continually updating this beauty by implementing new features or refining older ones. If you haven't given this software a look I highly recommend you do so. Faststone Image Viewer is a keeper!
Cons: I would like to see the developers write a well illustrated PDF help file for Faststone Image Viewer that goes into more detail on how to use the program's ever growing feature set.
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9 out of 16 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
"It's Just an Image Viewer.... NO Editing....."
Pros: + Suppports (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.
Cons: + I feel "IrfanView" is Better.
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19 out of 20 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
"Try this one time and you will be hooked"
Pros: There is nothing that compares to the speed of the FastStone Image Viewer. If you are looking for one product which will load quickly and produce similar results to products with high price tags, look no further. Yes, this could use a few additional tweaks (as far as features are concerned), but I am sure in due time this product will be filled with more features than we need. What matters is the here and now...that being said, this product has enough features for the above average graphics hound to enjoy. Imagine all this for free.
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
Pros: I tired very much image viewers and this is the best program.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.4
"Very Good At What It Does, Wish it Could Do More."
Pros: Image Viewer 2.4 is superb at what it does, great way of opening with concealed toolbars, quick, easy and intuitive to use, better redeye removal than picasa, useful tools. I Recommend highly, as does my wife who takes the majority of the pictures. Oh, and its FREE!!! Make a donation they deserve it.
Cons: No cloning tool, and the photo organiser is not as polished as Picassa, but these are really small quibbles...still highly recommended.
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