Faststone Image Viewer
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Faststone Image Viewer Editor's Review
Image viewing apps were not much used by PC users before the advent and growing popularity of digital cameras. With the price of digital imaging devices nose-diving rapidly and smart phone cameras becoming more capable, users are resorting to image viewer and management tools. Nowadays, taking snaps anywhere and uploading them to PC is only a matter of minutes. As a result, you may find endless number of image folders and disorganized images lying scattered across the computer hard drive. This is where image management and viewer software come into picture.
If you look up the web, sheer abundance of image viewer tools can leave you perplexed. Some of these tools are freeware while the others require licensing fee. If you want a simple image management tool that does not skimp on features and take up little system resources, FastStone Image Viewer may fit the bill.
Now in version, this nifty app is meant for Windows OS series and supports nearly all the releases starting from Windows Me. You can get the app for personal use free of cost.The first thing you notice about FastStone Image Viewer is its small footprint and minimal needs. The installer size is only 5.2 MB and installation takes just a few seconds. There is no annoying adware bundled with the app as well.
As far as functionality goes, the app hits almost all the sweet points. It loads fast and renders images without much lag. The interface can be changed as per user preferences and there are a number of skins too. Even when you choose the full screen mode the majority of editing controls are accessible with mouse hovering. It supports 19 languages apart from English.
FastStone Image Viewer offers support for majority of image file formats including TIFF, JPG, PNG and Camera RAW. You can save an opened image as PDF file as well. For saving in JPEG format, compression settings are available.
The app is actually much more than an image viewer. You can view images, perform basic editing and retouching and watch slideshows. From basic rotation and cropping of images, the app also lets you view EXIF information. You can also create slideshows with images of various formats and put in interesting transition effects. In fact, this version supports 156 effects and you may add background music and color.
FastStone Image Viewer is not intended to be used as a video file viewer but it does support major video formats. While it plays back file formats like AVI and MPG with externals applications like VLC Player, FullHD videos are not recognized. However, given its intended purpose, this is not a deal breaker.
Negative Points:
- Small footprint and does not hog system resources.
- Wide file format support, both for export and import.
- Support for nearly all Windows OS versions since Windows ME.
- Support for many languages including French and Spanish, apart from English.
- Sideshow viewing and creation with plenty of options.
Positive Points
- Does not support 1080p videos.
- Language change closes the app with no automatic restart.
- Third party video player app needed for video playback.
Conclusion:
FastStone Image viewer can suit need of various types of users who have Windows based PCs. The frugal size and simplicity of the image management tool makes it suitable even for beginners. The editing tools are not extensive but they fit the bill for regular needs well. Added features like slideshow creation, PDF support for saving are icing on the cake. The minor snipes like lack of automatic restart after language change and lack of support for 1080p videos will not inconvenience majority of users. Windows’ built-in Image Viewer does the job perfectly, but if you are looking for something different, go for it.
Rating: 3.5/5
Faststone Image Viewer Publisher's Description
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.
Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Features:
· Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
· True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
· Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
· Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
· Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
· Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
· Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
· Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
· Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
· One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
· Image management, including tagging capability and Copy To/Move To Folder support
· Histogram display with color counter feature
· Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
· Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
· Slideshow creation with 150 transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
· Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
· Print images with full page-layout control
· Choose and set desktop wallpaper from your image collections
· Acquire images from a scanner
· Versatile screen capture capability
· Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
· Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
· Create a no-install fully portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
· Configurable mouse wheel support
· Supports multiple program skins
Free download from Shareware Connection - Image Viewer is fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor
Version: 4.6 | Size: 5386 KB | Platform: WinOther
Released Date: 15-07-2012 | Rating: 5 | Title: Faststone Image Viewer
Author Url: http://www.faststone.org/
Program Info Url: http://www.faststone.org/
Download Url: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm
Screenshot Url: http://www.faststone.org/Images/FSViewerScreenShot1.jpg
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