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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: January 20, 2008
- Total Downloads: 3,908,115
- Downloads last week: 17,814
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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 3.5 added 'Side by Side' comparison in 'Enhance Colors'; added 'Line Highlighter' in 'Draw Board'; enhanced 'Text' tool in 'Draw Board'.
What's new in this version:
Version 3.5 added 'Side by Side' comparison in 'Enhance Colors'; added 'Line Highlighter' in 'Draw Board'; enhanced 'Text' tool in 'Draw Board'.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
Pros: This is head and shoulders above the next best photo viewing and manipulation application for the "family photo" level user. The included features, the ease of use, the flat learning curve, and all other aspects of this application are "top shelf", at least for the non-professional home user, regardless of cost. I am not a professional or highly technical user, so my perspective is from the home user who is so often ignored by the software development community. Faststone has not ignored the needs and skill level of this group in "Faststome Image Viewer". Thank you Faststone.
Cons: Lacks a duplicated photo finder. Would be nice to have the ability to locate duplicated photos whether they have the same, or different, file names. (This is a suggestion for future improvement, not a complaint with current version!)
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
"Excellent Image Browsing tool!"
Pros: Excellent for browsing through your images and free for personal use... I would pay if it would unlock the software to make it faster.
Cons: A little slow at reading my Olympus E-510's ORF/RAW files, but it does read them!
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0 out of 3 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
"excellent, with many useful features."
Pros: first of all, it's completely free. it has many functionalities similars to acdsee. navigation through photo collections is very easy, you can batch rename pictures to make their names more meaningful for you, you can remove red eyes, create slideshows and many more.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.5
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