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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows 2003, Windows Vista, Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows Server 2008, Windows NT, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Date added: December 21, 2008
- Total Downloads: 40,990,848
- Downloads last week: 155,353
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2538 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.
Numerous changes in version 4.22 include: Added History list for Random slideshow; New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF; Option to save changes on exit; Options to set start parameters for external editors; New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded).
What's new in this version:
Numerous changes in version 4.22 include: Added History list for Random slideshow; New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF; Option to save changes on exit; Options to set start parameters for external editors; New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded).
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User reviews of IrfanView 4.22
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 2538 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.22
"It's great and comparable to any other commercial ones"
Pros: - A lot of features (more than most of non-free software!)
- Very good for most of the basic photo editing tasks
- I particularly like the "IrfanView Thumbnails" sine it can get all the pictures of all your folders and sub-folderCons: - The zoom-out function is too slow (from the close zoom-in)
- The thumbnail can be slow if you have many picturesSummary: I like it very much and recommend it...
...Since I bought the same type of software few years ago and it doesn't match the features of this free software.
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Version: IrfanView 4.22
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Version: IrfanView 4.22
"Great for editing photos for web or email"
Pros: Great for sending photos to out-of town relatives, download photos from camera, use batch conversion to shrink files, then the files download easy, even with email virus scanning software.
Cons: None known
Summary: A must have
Extra plugins are available for free download at irfanview.net, but it downloads without file extension, need to add .exe to file name to use.
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Version: IrfanView 4.22
"Must have for quick edits, resizes, and viewing"
Pros: Small, fast, and does what it needs to.
Cons: No fancy creating graphics, which I don't actually see as a con
Summary: Gotta have. I install this on every computer I work on, and nobody has ever said they couldn't use it, or didn't like it.
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