- Quick specs
- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 98
- Date added: June 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 45,388,344
- Downloads last week: 177,863
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2536 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 2536 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"premiere image viewing software free? come on..."
Pros: its free and the best image viewer I have found
Cons: no cons its free.
Summary: bottom line? its free, have used it for about 10 years, does everything need and more and I work with graphics as a profession.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: A good and a free replacement on my computer for Corel
Cons: Haven't found anything to not like yet
Summary: A great free photo download that seems quite capable of anything the ordinary person would need.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: User friendly
Cons: Takes a long time to load images in slide show mode
Summary: I was looking for software that would resize images in batches which it does BUT I also have 20,000 images in one folder which I view in slide show mode and it takes way too long to load up compared to other specialist programs.
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
Pros: do not use it
Cons: I do not use it
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.25
"An old friend that does a lot for free."
Pros: Fast picture viewer, it's very helpful formatting for printing, does quite a bit of picture manipulation as well. I've used versions for years and it's always been great.
Cons: what's not to like?
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