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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: 45,683,277
- Downloads last week: 170,264
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2546 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 2546 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: Very quick and versatile! Opens everything!
Cons: No editing of photoes except the very basic
Summary: I have used IrfanView since it came out several years ago!! It is my defalt viewer!
For a free app it cannot be beat! -
Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Great for placing pics side by --both sides of a coin"
Pros: Fast and easy to understand.
Cons: Absolutely nothing for my use
Summary: No further comment necessary
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Great format for automatically storing my photo files!"
Pros: I found IrfanView 4 years ago and have used it with great satisfaction ever since. Everything I download from my camera automatically goes into specified folders which can then be opened for individual photos directly for digital manipulations.
Cons: For what I use it for there are NO cons.
Summary: Manipulating digital photos for emails, avatars and social networking site is too easy here. Finding your photos is a snap. Viewing your photographs is a pleasure made simple with IrfanView!
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"fast, quick and most of all it's FREE!"
Pros: I use it when I need to do quick edits and resizing because I know it so well since it was first introduced
Cons: Redeye could use some improvement
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Gets the basics done extremely well"
Pros: Easy to use. Reliable. It's just a great software.
Cons: If you are looking for more advanced features there are better software out there.
Summary: Excellent.
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