- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7
- Date added: June 07, 2009
- Total Downloads: 4,532,772
- Downloads last week: 26,261
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 1209 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 3.9 has added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser and improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser.
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Version 3.9 has added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser and improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser.
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User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
- Average user rating: 4.5 stars out of 1209 votes
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
Pros: FRAME MASK
Cons: need more effects!
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
Pros: Cannot Believe a Program this good is FREE
Cons: Cannot save as .ico files, but can import them
Summary: Just simply AWESOME!
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"Basic ops packed into entry level image mgmt"
Pros: Works prety fast - picture refresh, useful additional built in tools like rename, etc.
Cons: Can't change the size of thumbnails, preview pane too small
Summary: Ok took for quick browsing pass on your pictures tree
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"I liked this so much I sent money after five minutes."
Pros: Fast, intuitive, contains most of the features I use (How did they know what I needed?).
Cons: No hot key for the screen capture I use a lot.
Summary: I gave this one to all my friends and family. When tasked on short notice to give a talk, I used FS rather than my larger database to find, enhance, and resize the images before putting them into Powerpoint.
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Version: FastStone Image Viewer 3.9
"Way way WAY better than IrfanView, and still FREE !!!"
Pros: Wow! Only one day of use, and I haven't found anything this program CAN'T do! OK, it's not full-blown Photoshop, but for the average user, this will replace IrfanView and any other image browsers/editors, and will leave you very happy.
Cons: Nothing to speak of. Won't sort by aspect ratio. Gives a "Save As" dialog when "Save" would be more appropriate. Clicking "X" on the Edit/Draw window exits without prompting, losing changes -- you have to hit "OK" to make sure changes are saved.
Summary: Incredibly complete and well-thought-out software, just what I've been looking for.
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