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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: November 09, 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 3.4 adds RGB adjustment to "Enhance Colors" and enhances built-in batch convert tool.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.4 adds RGB adjustment to "Enhance Colors" and enhances built-in batch convert tool.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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2 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
Pros: I can't tell the difference between this and IrfanView.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
Pros: Very Simple to use. I'am not really into photo editing so this viewer is Ideal for me.
Cons: None
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
"it's aiiiGHT, not fantastic tho"
Pros: If u have a creative imagination, like tweaking out your photos & images or your time is limited, this is not for you! It focuses on viewing images, but w/ the same amount of clicks you can do that w/ out Faststone. I do like the many wild framing we can do to enhance our work w/ other photo editing software. I also like that it allows us to view both the "before /after", & their "negative" effect coms out nice.
Cons: 1.)We can't do editing, cropping, color enhancing, etc on one canvas. Each tool, each color enhancement feature, each effect, etc has to be open in another window. Too many clicking for me. D'clicking photo in viewing files takes us to full screen viewing, thats it. As if we don't already know what were working w/ when opening Faststone.
2.)In working w/ effects, the preview for 'bump map' & 'morph' on our photos look waaay different then the end results. That was really odd. I was angry b/c in preview it looked so good. The preview screen was to small to 'screen capture'...so basically their effects is useless. I'll stick w/ Photoscape & Picasa 2
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6 out of 6 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
"Not sure if I'm happy with the improvements."
Pros: Does a great job of displaying the photos, and allowing me to tag and tweak them.
Cons: Sometimes it's hard to access the toolbars that are hidden around the perimeter. They're there, and maybe I'm just clumsy, but it often takes multiple passes with the mouse to get to them. Also not sure if the new version is an improvement. Now that some of the features are bunched together, and there's no more side-by-side comparison as you go, it seems much harder to work with. Having to push a button to see the original, after a number of things have been done, doesn't allow me to see which of the changes were good and which weren't. I miss the side-by-side!
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.4
Pros: For what I do it has all that I need. DPI increase, resizing is a breeze.
Cons: So far I've found nothing I don't like.
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