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12 out of 17 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.6
Pros: it has many features and simple handling
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24 out of 26 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.6
"Excellent Image Browser - Quite Possibly The Best."
Pros: If you're looking for an image browser, no need to look any further, this is the one.
I use Photoshop & The GIMP for actually editing images & IrfanView for the final file compression if it's an image I'm using on a website, but this is my favorite for browsing. It's nice looking & has a variety of skins to choose from. The interface is well functioning with a good layout. It has an excellent & easy to switch between full screen mode with mouse wheel browsing. The program looks very professional & seems highly polished.
I havn't found a better image viewer, although alternatively I use Picasa when I want to browse photos/images without navigating individual folders. However, Picasa is not as good for when I want to browse with full file/folder path control + full screen viewing, hence I use FastStone for this purpose.
Cons: None for what I use it for.
I still use IrfanView for compressing images for my websites though. IrfanView seems to make the smallest file size of any of the graphics programs that I use, even with all settings equal. It's nothing major though, just when working with small files & trying to get the absolute minimal file size for website graphics where some people may be using dial-up.
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19 out of 28 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.6
Pros: Easy full-screen viewing, lots of functionality, easy cropping, easy color management, easy red-eye reduction, easy, easy, easy but doesn't sacrifice any control.
Cons: No batch fix option to quickly optimize a group of photos that are too dark, or not enough color, or whatever.
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3 out of 3 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.6
Pros: It's probably the best free image viewer / editor that is available.
Cons: None
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17 out of 20 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.6
"Great product with precious few faults"
Pros: This product is very good at doing what it does without hogging your system.
I used to use the picture&fax-viewer because it started fast - even if it stank in all other ways.
This is one of the few image viewers that actually start fast enough to replace the internal viewer and still is competent enough not to irritate you in turn.
Cons: I dislike when programs that are supposed to be almost system tools break the look and feel of the system. FastStone does provide XP-standard themes, but as the method of skinning is different from the system any adjustments or customizations you do to the system look and feel doesn't apply to FastStone.
Other than that the only thing that bugs me is the by-file-name-sorting which fails to count the human way - so 20 is counted as lower than 3 (eg 1, 10, 11, 19, 2, 21, 28, 3... rather than 1, 2, 3, 9, 10, 11, 20 etcetera)
These faults are actually quite minor, and in all other respects the viewer is brilliant.
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