IrfanView 3.05

CNET editors' review

Reviewed by: CNET Staff

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 if you don't want them, you can choose to 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. Though IrfanView works does what it does well, it's not going to replace a major paint program. IrfanView wraps a nice set of features for an image viewer in a free, compact download.

Publisher's description

From Irfan Skiljan :

IrfanView is a fast, simple, freeware image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF and animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIF, TGA, and more (see screen shot). In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpen. Version 3.05 adds many enhancements.

IrfanView is free for personal use; the registration fee for commercial use is $10.

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