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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: October 25, 2007
- 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 interface looks too cluttered with buttons at first glance, the three main windows are intuitive enough once get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice default design, 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. Other nifty features include multiple folder slide shows, batch cropping and Windows Vista support.
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 3.3 added "Enhance Colors", enhanced "Sharpen/Blur" and added "Obscure (Blur)" functions.
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Version 3.3 added "Enhance Colors", enhanced "Sharpen/Blur" and added "Obscure (Blur)" functions.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
Pros: Seems to do everything IrfanView does.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
"Simply the best! (At least for amateur use)"
Pros: I have used quite a number of free and inexpensive photo management applications (probably 25 to 30, possibly more) since Windows 3.11 days. With the exception of one inexpensive $ program called Pro Image Plus for which an update has not been available since 8 character file names, FastStone Image Viewer is the best photo management software for amateur home photography management at any price. It is VERY user friendly and offers gobs of features. I especially like the feature of being able to capture a company's logo, family pictures, etc. and save them as an icon.
Cons: I would like to see a less complicated screen capture procedure and would like to see red-eye reduction simplified. These are not intended as complaints on a free application, just suggestions for future upgrades. (Of course, they do sell an excellent screen capture application that is well worth the 20 bucks to someone who uses this feature frequently or is doing production work.)
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
Pros: I own and use PhotoShop, PaintShop ProPhoto, Picasa, Gimp, and several other programs. FastStone has many great features that are incorporated into the other "paid programs" I have, all for free. I especially like the layout and feature set.
The batch editing function is one of the best, and fastest I've used. With the new update, many new editing features have been added as well. This one is worth a try. You will find yourself using it again and again, which is the sign of a good program.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
"this is an excellent product"
Pros: This is exactly what I was looking for in an image viewing software, which is a simple way to edit my pictures and view them comfortably.
Cons: This is nothing I dont like about this product.
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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.3
"Great software for enhancing your graphics. 3.3 version is a must have."
Pros: Ease of use and multitude of tools.
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