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- Editor's Rating:
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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:
April 21, 2006
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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
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 2.5 added some new features and bug fixes.
Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
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- "A completely free imaging workhorse"
- Version reviewed: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1113 votes
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46 out of 48 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
"Looks good, powerful for such a small program free!"
Pros: Good program, feature packed, a few clicks away, not too hard to understand.
Cons: Obviously im asking alot, but more editing features would be nice
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24 out of 26 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
"The best program ever to grace my PC (and this is an understatement)"
Pros: (1) Superb user interface. Nothing comes close (and I'm not talking only image viewers here). I especially like the full-screen-centric design that doesn't give up any functionality thanks to the auto-hidden pop-up panels. You have to use it to understand how much better a program can be with such an ingenious UI (2) Full-featured both as a viewer and as a casual editor. (3) Very reliable (4) Fast, though perhaps not as fast as ACDsee. (5) Excellent batch processing and renaming. (6) Very high quality resizing (Lanczos3, not available even in PhotoShop) (7) Constantly being developed. The developer, Andrew Lu, is amazingly responsive. Some features were developed a few hours after users requested them. (8) Free for home users (yet I did feel obliged to donate, it's so good)
Cons: (1) Sharpening and contrast sliders don't offer enough notches; they're a bit too coarse (e.g. I sometimes need options between 1 and 2, I usually settle for the less extreme) (2) Some of the defaults settings can be better (3) Brightness / Contrast / Gamma dialog should be combined with the histogram display (4) No auto-levels
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
Pros: I was searching for a software which edite an Image Now my Search has finished.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
Pros: great viewer fast load times and speed easy quick editing one of the best freeware programs out there
Cons: could use a better editing software but its free
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7 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.5
"It should change one's mind: There is real FREE lunch!"
Pros: Fantastic! IMO, it is better than the paid ACDSee 5.0 which I used to use. I associate ALL image files now with FastStone Image Viewer (go menubar -> Settings -> Settings -> Association -> then choose all of them).
The rest of FastStone freewares in their website are also very good, particular the FastStone Capture, which can copy the whole webpage, even though my laptop cannot be big enough to show it in full. Very powerful stuff! One should get all the freewares there for PERSONAL USE.
This freeware deserves 6 stars. Here, I can only allow to give 5.
Cons: Up to now, I have not found any. Just one opinion: change the skin to WinXP classic, which fits the screen better.
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