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67 out of 82 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.98
Pros: IrfanView does is a powerful editing tool that the normal average user who does beginner to intermediate photo editing and viewing will love. It does not have the power that industry leading professional photo editors has, but it also does not have the price tag they do._Which gets hefty) This is the best choice for a anyone who might need a photo editor to edit pictures from a digital camera or any other external device. Amazingly effective for a free product.
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21 out of 32 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.97
Pros: Fast launching, very feature-rich too. You can download plug-ins from the IrfanView site, to extend its capabilities. You can play video, music, and view images. And you get it for free? It's great, plain great. It also doesn't install any malware in your PC. I donated to this app, it's great! It's very customizable too. You can also save image files as .ico (icon file), which is very uncommon in image viewers/editors. Get it now!
Cons: The interface is not THAT nice, fancy, and intuitive. One more thing, it can never compete with paid apps like ACDSee/PowerPack or ThumbsPlus and Ashampoo Photo Commander. If you have lots of money to spend, I'd prefer ACDSee/PowerPack with ThumbsPlus and Ashampoo Photo Commander.
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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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15 out of 16 people found this review helpful
4 stars
Version: IrfanView 3.98
Pros: Mess around with your favorite pictures with the effects like pixelize and solarize or get serious and fix up some pics from vacation. All the goodies like sharpen, crop, and red-eye editing. Nice free replacement of a big time image editor for someone who does a little amateur work with pictures but doesn't need a lot of features.
Cons: Could use a bit bigger effects library but does cover the basics.
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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful
5 stars
Version: IrfanView 4.1
Pros: I have downloaded this and haven't found use of it yet, however it is very small in size, lightweight, and perfect for easy image editing such as resizing, removing red eyes from photos, etc. It also views many types of images that Windows Picture And Fax Viewer can't. It can actually save me the time when wanting to do small editing without opening up stupid, big, bloated, annoying Photoshop CS3.
Cons: Although the image editing is pretty basic, Paint (that comes with every Windows) can resize also, so I really have no need for this product. However, its use is mainly as a picture viewer which is pretty powerful. I thought the icon for IrfanView is a little weird. Is it suppose to be a red monster? Oh well, still a great product.
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