- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: April 27, 2009
- Total Downloads: 3,929,122
- Downloads last week: 3,592
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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 on November 07, 2008
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 3.8 adds option "Number of Copies" in the "Print" dialog and option "Color Subsampling" (also called "Chroma Subsampling") for saving JPEG files.
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Version 3.8 adds option "Number of Copies" in the "Print" dialog and option "Color Subsampling" (also called "Chroma Subsampling") for saving JPEG files.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1165 votes
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
Pros: Program has worked very good and fast
Cons: None at of now
Summary: I would recomand this program to any one in need of a viewer
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
"Simply the best free viewer out there"
Pros: Full screen mode is a great very useful. There are flyout menus and features at all four sides of your screen that are very handy, and there are easy to use shortcut keys available. Huge amount of features and batch functions. Stable & attractive.
Cons: There are no cons... You wouldn't want this to be your only image editor - but it's a viewer and manager not an editor. The editing functions are there for convenience, and are a time saver in certain situations. Get this program.
Summary: Blows away Irfanview. The quality of scaled images are top notch. The comparison feature is great for photo enhancements. Wallpaper builder, Slideshow builder. JPEG lossless rotate. Multi-page file builder (pdf) and more...
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
"bought this for batch jpeg to tiff conversion"
Pros: 100% outstanding. Converted JPEG to TIFF quickly and efficiently no problems.
GREAT FOR PHOTOGRAPHERS AND PEOPLE ALIKE.Cons: NONE THAT I HAVE FOUND
Summary: GET THIS SOFTWARE I RECCOMMEND IT HIGHLY. ITS FREE AND BACKS UP NICELY. IF YOU DONT KNOW THIS BUT IF YOU LEAVE YOUR PHOTOS IN JPEG OVER TIME YOU LOOSE QUALITY OF THE PHOTO, USUALLY SPECS(MISSING PIXELS WILL SHOW UP) I HAVE HAD THIS BEGIN TO HAPPEN... read more >>
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
Pros: Zillions of features
Cons: None that I can think of
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.8
"Intuitive, Fast and Great Viewing capabilities"
Pros: 1) Ability to instantly zoom in & move the image is great. 2) Pop up tabs on all sides, allows you see and do so much, such as view the metadata or histograms on the fly, yet are invisible when not needed, enhancing the size of the viewing area.
Cons: The red-eye removal tool is a little difficult to use at times, but works well, nevertheless.
Summary: We use it every day and have made it the default viewing software in our studio. It blows away most other programs, as far as ease of use and simplicity, yet with more than enough features for it's intended use.
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