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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.
FastStone Image Viewer - View, edit, and manage images - Download Video Previews:Publisher's Description
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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 3.6 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, plays video files (avi, wmv, mpg) in slide shows, improves the Batch-Convert, improves the Draw Board, adds Animated GIF as an output option in Multi-Page File Builder.
What's new in this version: Version 3.6 supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, plays video files (avi, wmv, mpg) in slide shows, improves the "Batch-Convert", improves the "Draw Board", adds "Animated GIF" as an output option in Multi-Page File Builder.
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4.6 starsout of 1,621 votes
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Current version:
4.4 starsout of 89 votes
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"Worthwhile downlowding."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
Fast and effective, easy 2 use & of course its a free product.
Cons
Doesnt have professional editing.
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"I'm likeing it,I'mm likeing it........"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
fast,and stable
Cons
Do video,and pics togeter
Summary
Viewer is all I need.......
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"Far better than what Windows Vista had installed"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
Easy to use. Good tools and user friendly
Cons
It is fine the way it is,.
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"its ok for first time users"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
its quick though not a large amount of tools
Cons
not very customizable user interface
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"I wouldn·t change it for other viewer"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
The same reliable program as ever, with minor ( to my belief) even better and faster improvements
Cons
Maybe could improve on the handling of a dual monitor operation. I could think of letting the user choose on which monitor he wants to have his Video show on. This does not flow out that easy.
Summary
I have been using the Viewer for a long time now, different versions; FastStone keeps improving it.
When any action to modify a picture is performed, and further on, saved as a new picture, the program does its job, saves the picture on demand, and then automaticaly shows the next one on the screen. But if you try to go on modifying this next picture, the program will not open the various editing options on it:
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you have to move your view -either forwards or backwards- and then come back to this "next" picture in order to keep on editing. This is somewhat anoying and time consuming, and I believe it could be a minor but worthy improvement. -
"downloaded at 98% and then crashed not nice"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
nothing because i did'nt get to load it, while downloading it crashed and could not complete download -
Cons
just did not fully load, crash, crash, crash!!!!
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"Works well, but not amazing..."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
Compared to an earlier release I tried, the current version of FastStone more intuitive and easier to jump into and use regularly. Speed and functionality beat Picasa by a long shot. The shell is slick, modern looking. And FREE is always good!
Cons
I see nothing amazing about it. It mostly appears to be a copycat of what's been around for a long time.
Summary
I find that FastStone operates most, but not all, the functions that Photodex put into the CompuPicPro release I bought in 1995. So I see nothing new or amazing here. FastStone nevertheless offers a good, contemporary package that does most of what one needs to manage, catalog and view a large picture collection.
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"blazing fast, uncluttered pic viewer and editor"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
no load time, full screen pics, menus only appear on rollover, lossless rotation, good red-eye reduction, light on system resources
Cons
sometimes i'll accidentlly click something the opens the organizer part of it, which takes longer to load, but i don't ever want to use that.
Summary
Does everything i need, simply and elegantly
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"Consistent and very usefull"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
Very fast and easy to move
Cons
Nothing at the moment
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"tried it, didnt like it"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.6
Pros
none that i can think of
Cons
pretty much everytthing
Summary
it made my computer crash and took over an hour toi get the system back up and running by removing and reinstalling the necessary programming.
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