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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?
Irfanview - Convert and edit images - Download Video Previews: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.
Version 4.1 includes new Paint plug-in, and adds support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF.
What's new in this version: Version 4.1 includes a new paint plug-in, and adds support for embedded color profiles in JPEG/TIFF formats.
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4.3 starsout of 3,424 votes
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Current version:
4.2 starsout of 353 votes
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"The best one available, I use it many time daily"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
Intutive, quick, small utility. Handles many types of files and offers many options for dealing with them that you don't get with paid software packages.
Cons
Height and width sizes are predetermined and if I try to set my own i.e. height of 3.8 inches it goes to a predetermind width and I can't choose another.
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"still fast and easy, but with some bells and whistles"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
Irfanview has not forgotten that it is primarily a very fast image viewer, for almost any image type. It also does file type changes, and some editing. That has grown with each version, and there are many many plug-ins
Cons
sorry cannot think of anything. I am sure some people wish it could do more, but that would make it slow down, and then it would lose its original aim.
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"This is an excellent graphics Program"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
It's free! It's fast! It has loads of features that expensive programs do not have. For example, you can open virtually any type of graphics program, and you can save a graphic in any of a dozen or more formats. This is my main graphics program for quick, simple work.
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"Excellent, easy to install and use."
Version: IrfanView 4.1
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"excellent previwer"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
large jpg & bmp files can be short in no time. great software to use. a must have.
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"very good software"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
Very fast.
Cons
wish it had a way of rating thumbnails, like with stars or colors etc.
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"it's nice"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
very very cool
Cons
nothing
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"FAIL."
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Cons
It always loses my color data when I save it with transparency.
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"I am very pleased"
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros
It can be used for viewing pictures or movies. It loads fast as well.
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"Great Program and Free.."
Version: IrfanView 4.1
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