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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows 7, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: June 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 45,968,529
- Downloads last week: 164,991
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2574 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff on November 08, 2008
This image viewer and editor is a longtime favorite among our staff, and with good reason. IrfanView is simple, fast, and free for individual use. Upon installation, the app attempts to install two Google programs, but you can opt out.
The program lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can cut and crop images, apply batch conversions, add, sharpen, or blur effects, create panoramas, and change color modes easily. The program continues to add support for an array of file formats and has plug-in support for most image, video, and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, audio CD, and WMA. The interface is far from fancy but should be easy enough for most users to figure out. An IrfanView Thumbnails shortcut on the desktop offers an Explorer-like file tree that quickly displays all images in a particular folder. The latest version includes a basic drawing palette made accessible by hitting F12. It contains simple Erase, Draw, Fill, Rotate, Draw an Arrow, and Color Picker commands, perfect for grabbing screenshots and highlighting image specifics.
IrfanView does what it does well. It's not going to replace a major paint program, but why use a meat cleaver to cut a stick of butter?
Publisher's description
From Irfan Skiljan :IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.25 adds OCR feature, improved color management, support for new picture formats, region capture option, and new command-line options.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 2574 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: Easy to install and understand. Allows for Region Capture, a feature I was seeking on my new Windows 7 computer. Appreciate posting of application components and dates of issue on IrfanView web site.
Cons: So far, I haven't been able to the placeholders for printing information in a header or footer after taking a Capture Screen image. I may be missing something. I haven't installed the latest plugin yet.
Summary: Appreciate the Capture Screen feature for daily use. Many others features yet to appreciate. Thumbnail views are helpful. Simplifies computer navigation. A great program! Thank you!
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: Fast to load, easy to use, plenty of features. Fantastic batch processing capability. Gives picture editors exactly what they need.
Cons: Very little.
Summary: Have used various versions of IrfanView for years and recommend it to everyone.
There aren't many apps that are a pleasure to use. This is one of them. -
Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: ease of usen
Cons: nothing yet found
Summary: Further use needed for fair summary.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"very good for small pics, not for large pics"
Pros: I like the way it works and the ease with which it works. or used to.
Cons: the new version of IFANVIEW does not alow me to save pictures I have from the past that are larger than 640x480 pixels.
I've become frustrated with it. I've used Irfanview for years, but I'm going to go with something else. -
Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Does everything you need for images, and then more."
Pros: Views everything, scans, PDF's, OCR's. And its free.
Cons: Can't think of anything
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