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36 out of 46 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.99
Pros: I installed this product on a machine running Bit Defender antivirus with resident shield loaded and Sygate Personal Firewall Pro running. Nothing wrong from my antivirus or my firewall.
The product is as free as they say. There are no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired".
Talking about features there are a lot of files formats supported (over 50 including plugins). You can also use Adobe Photoshop Filters with IrfanView. The other common operations are also supported (resize, batch conversion, cut/crop, effects).
Anything you may want is in the box !
Shortcuts and some default options are not always the best choice. You MUST take a look into program options before starting to use this program.
This is one of the best free image viewer on the market. I also recommend you to take a look at FastStone image viewer. FastStone is also free and has a more friendly user interface but is slower than IrfanView. The choice is yours ...
Cons: The most disturbing "feature" is that the default thumbnail preview window opens a new screen.
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3 out of 5 people found this review helpful
3 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.99
Pros: Works well, use just to resize pictures mostly
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21 out of 21 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.99
"THE best (simple to use) image program!"
Pros: For our e-commerce business, RingDesigner.com, we are highly dependent on the inventory and quick retrieval of our very high quality jewelry images. We downloaded IrfanView about two months ago. It has been invaluable for quickly viewing images and then using with Outlook for customer service communication. Terrific program. Even got a personal response from the author/owner, thanking us for a compliment we had added to a survey regarding the product! Worth downloading.
Cons: I have a recommendation not a negative. Would be terrific to be able to view PhotoShop .PSD files. Just view, not do anything else with them other than send them to PhotoShop as the editor.
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2 out of 3 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.99
"The perfect image viewer / editor"
Pros: Capable of viewing nearly every multimedia file (images, audio, video) under the sun, basic editing functions including image resizing, powerful automation features like batch resize or rename, small download and install, simple interface, lots of options, totally FREE!
Cons: Interface is slightly dated, won't replace Photoshop or your favorite image editing software.
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14 out of 17 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.99
"excellent choice for most users."
Pros: the biggest pro of this software is that it can open far more types of image and other type of files, i have never seen any software that can open more files than irfanview. with decent editing effects and options to batch convert, slideshow, multiple language support, and few more features to make it a good choice for beginners to average users. and its free too!
Cons: what can i say?its not good enough for professional use, it still lacks far behind programs such as faststone image viewer and gimp for its image organizing/gallery feature and advanced image editing. only use it if u need a image viewer with flexibility to view lots of file types with other few feature to add more use of it.
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