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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
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, e-mailing, 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... It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.
What's new in this version: In version 4.5, now it is possible to adjust Lighting, Colors, Levels and Curves within selected areas of an image and fixed bugs in the Print and E-mail dialogs.
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All versions:
4.6 starsout of 1,620 votes
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Current version:
4.4 starsout of 36 votes
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"easy 2 use"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
get the job done right
Cons
you got to try it
Summary
it works
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"Excellent donationware picture viewer."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
It is donationware.
Cons
The program is missing a renaming icon on the toolbar. The user must learn the hard way that selected files may have the name changed by pressing the F2 key.
Summary
This is my basic file picture viewer. I like it so much that I made a donation to the author.
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"I use Faststone Image Viewer a lot"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
Faststone Inage Viewer is easy to use.
Cons
None so far.
Summary
I like Faststone Image Viewer and use it daily.
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"have bway to many image programmes to go into now"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
but flatstone for a free and bug free i checked and scanned it fully
its really very very goodCons
maybe i just misssed a setting but the hidden optons on full screen i would rather stayed on screen
Summary
well i am still wexploring it though created 2 of my works again that i had made on other progr....and hey i got an excellent reult with ease
even before i fully read all the instruction pages go for it have fun -
"Did not correctly display older wmf clip art"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
fast search and load
Cons
showed the same image for several wmf clip art files that windows explorer would correctly display in the thumbnail mode
Summary
may be good for photos but not for certain clip art
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"Superior to Picasa"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
Fast, easy to use, good for photo resizing. Does not constantly index files like Picasa.
Cons
Some commands are hard to find, but they're there.
Summary
Great product - sits on my desktop for quick access
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"Decent, fairly simple to use photo editor."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
Easy to use, easy to understand.
Cons
A little awkward layout, but nothing you can't work with.
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"Perfect software to display photos"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
easy to use
intuitive
fast
resize images to full screen
plays also videos
supports NEF (RAW files for Nikon cameras)
lot of other featuresCons
my special mouse button to "browse back" in folders doesn't work with this sofware
Summary
The best images viewer on the Net.
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"Very good freeware"
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
It's easy to use. The tools are useful.
Cons
You can make everything, see a photo in full page, make a slideshow and so on. Everything is possible.
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"Exceptionally versatile program."
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 4.5
Pros
More features than I have room to list here, and free.
Easy to use.
Does not obscure work area with menus.Cons
None found.
Summary
This is a great program and has been for many years. I especially like that when you're viewing pictures you don't have the screen all cluttered up with menus until you WANT a menu. Moving to either side, top, or bottom brings up relevant menus. This is simply a great program for viewing, editing, and general repair of pictures.
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