IrfanView
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IrfanView Editor's Review
When it comes to image editing, you need to have a good program for excellent results. One of the names that come to perhaps to everyone’s mind is Adobe Photoshop. There is no denying the fact that Photoshop is an excellent choice when it comes to professional image editing, but for beginners to do daily editing, it is a little too bulky and it is also time consuming to use it. There are many programs made for daily image editing and Irfanview is one of them. Irfanview has been in the market for quite some time now and many people would have used it. Let’s see how useful it is when it comes to image editing.
IrfanView is an image viewer that is compatible primarily with windows operating system. Although the software is categorized as a freeware and shareware, it charges commercial users, but is available to individual users for free. It goes with Windows 95, Windows 7 and the versions manufactured between these two. It also works with MAC OS X, but only with WineBottler. It can operate only in the wine version of Linux.
The application takes about1.6 MB of space on the computer, which is not very sizable. But, in case, all its plugins are incorporated then its space usage extends to 10 MB. It can also be loaded directly onto a U3 compatible device. Irfanview comes with an option to install Google Toolbar with itself. Although Google Toolbar is optional, and isn’t malware, but it is still annoying to see it incorporated in installer.
The software supports a wide variety of graphic file formats. Firstly, it works smoothly with image files. Images can be viewed, edited and converted using the application. In addition, the application can also play audio and video files. It can also work with files captured from digital cameras, no matter how large they are. In our tests, it worked perfectly with image captured by a 20MP camera at full resolution.There is an automatic slideshow function in it. Even screensavers can be made using IrfanView.
Irfanview supports almost all major file formats including but not limited to JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, ICO, TIFF etc. It can also hold up media files like MPEG, MP3, MIDI, Flash, etc.
The app has many helpful options for viewing and working with images. There is a scaling tab which allows fitting images to screen. The ware even allows resizing, cropping and rotating images. Resizing can be done and lossless functions can be applied to images to optimize them.
Various effects can be given to images by tweaking their brightness, contrast, gamma level and even tint. Besides creating images, even painting can be carried out on them. Assistance is provided to take screenshots as well.The batch processing features come handy as it allows modifications to be made to a whole set of images.In fact, images can also be obtained from scanners with TWAIN support.
The software can even be synced with third party plugins. This increases the number of graphic formats it can support.The thumbnails come handy when you are looking through files to organize and manage them. This function aids in executing tasks quickly as multiple files can be copied, deleted and moved using it. Moreover, the program is available in twenty different languages besides English.
The interface of this application is intuitive and extremely easy to use. It works speedily and allows numerous changes to be made using a few buttons. In fact, the display area looks clean as it does not have too many buttons, but some portion of interface look a little outdated. Additionally, the software has an extremely small size and unlike many other similar programs, Irfanview does not put strain on system resources. One the major disappointment with this software is that it only allows undo up to one level only.
Positive Points:
- Free to use for individuals and remarkably easy to use.
- Supports many file formats, including audio and video files.
- It operates without taking too much of resources.
Negative Points:
- Installer comes bundled with Google Toolbar.
- Only one level of undo available.
Overall, IrfanView is a functional software which is quite user friendly. Being light and small, it doesn’t put any extra load on the system and works real quick. In fact, it has many features like batch processing and thumbnails, which help to speed up tasks. It also supports a wide variety of files. The free app is mainly targeted for individual users. However, there are a few minor drawbacks, but it can still be called as ‘pocket sized dynamite’.
Rating: 5/5
IrfanView Publisher's Description
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 10+ years).
IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.
Free download from Shareware Connection - IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
Version: 4.61 | Size: 1630 KB | Platform: Tablets, Win2000, Win7 x32, Windows CE, Windows Mobile, Windows Server, Windows Vista Business, Windows Vista Enterprise, Windows Vista Home Basic, Windows Vista Home Premium, Windows Vista Starter, Windows Vista Ultimate, WinOther, WinVista
Released Date: 05-12-2009 | Rating: 5 | Title: IrfanView
Author Url: http://www.irfanview.com/
Program Info Url: http://irfanview.net/
Download Url: http://www.irfanview.net/main_download_engl.htm
Screenshot Url: http://razer-soft.com/supd/startbild_engl-small.gif
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