IrfanView32 2.90

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 :

IrfanView32 is a speedy graphics viewer that can read more than 30 file formats and write to several popular graphics formats (including BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and TIFF). IrfanView32 also offers animated GIF support, multiple ICO support, and multipage TIFF support. Other features include previewing capabilities, drag-and-drop support, a directory view, printing, scan support (TWAIN), slide show functions, batch conversion capabilities, and the ability to change the color depth of images. Version 2.90 adds better resampling, new effects, support for new file types, and more.

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