- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: June 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 47,573,980
- Downloads last week: 166,948
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2644 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt 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 2644 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: Does what I want, no fuss, no bother.
Cons: Haven't found any yet
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"view video & listen to music as well using this program"
Pros: this is one of the only freeware programs that allow you to view gif amination that ive ever seen
you can view just about all picture files and lots of music and video files as wellCons: when you download this program it will automaticlly become the default program for files it can play
at first it is a bit harder to use compared to photoscape, however once you find out how to use it, it will do everything you will ever need to doSummary: One of the best thing to view many type of images, documents, music and videos ect.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: This image editor will do everything you need it to, and more.
Cons: No cons to speak of.
Summary: Can't get better than this for free.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: The look should be user friendly
Cons: Purchase addin for CAD document
Summary: I like the best thing is we need not have many application to view many type of images, documents, and ect.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Low overhead, intuitive graphics view/editor."
Pros: Very easy on the resources, but does so many of those small tasks that aren't worth opening a heavyweight app.
Cons: If you are looking for a heavy duty editor, this probably isn't it.
Summary: Use it almost daily. Perfect tool for lightweight viewing and editng.
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