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- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 30, 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 annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
Version 2.8 features completely new icon design and enhanced usability.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
Pros: good viewer...lets you create a portable version of the program(i wish all programs has this ability)....go to settings/viewer and look at the bottem of the screen for the (create portable application)butten
Cons: none
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
Pros: FS Image viewer is one of the most complete products of it's type. Along with it's image viewing functions comes a vast load of options and editing functions.
It caches and opens images very fast. Supports all major file types, including adobe projects. Has very useful toolbars, which pop up when you drag your mouse to one of the four ends of the screen. Upper toolbar opens mini browser (without leaving fullscreen) that lets you browse through folders and thumbnail files. Left pannel opens editing tools. It includes crop, rotation, resize, color, brightness, gamma editing and similar tools. it also has 10 useful filters, like drop shadow, red eye remove and negative. Other two panels are pan&scan navigator and file iformation box. it's main tool on left click is magnifier, which intensity can be set in right-click option box. All this you do without leaving fullscreen.
It also has some skin choises, if you don't like the overall look. Other options include dual monitor support, screen capture, wallpaper anywhere...
Given all these convinient options, speed of the program, UI, price, and overall useability, FS IV is without question no1 on the market
Cons: Tends to use a lot of resources when dealing with large pictures, wallpaper setting could use some minor work.
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8 out of 9 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
Pros: Dude this program is so convenient, small memory wise, and efficient. It's fantastic if U have a blog and posts pictures everyday that needs tweaking. It can do everything these huge editing apps can do but in many cases better. I even use it to make some very professional looking banners. As much as I loved my Picasa, I had to retire it for a while.
Cons: nothing yet
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
"Fantastic, What Are You Waiting For"
Pros: Every so often a really fantastic piece of kit comes along and you wonder how you got along without it.
This FREE programme from FastStone Soft should be of use to 95% of all people out there. Packed with features and easy to follow, you can do quick fix's or more sophisticated things. Great look and lay out you will enjoy working with this programme.
You can download it and give it a go, yet I will be amazed if you ever uninstall it.
Thank you FastStone you deserve a huge pat on the back.
Cons: Your kidding, right ?
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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.8
"Despite a few minor flaws, this program is generally excellent. I recommend this"
Pros: Despite a few minor flaws, this program is generally excellent. I recommend this download. This is free so no hassle for money. Fast to download. Great features
Cons: Gives a vista computer a viurs if also with norton anti-virus both are not compatible
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