FastStone Image Viewer 3.5

Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer

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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 touch 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 including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

Version 3.5 added 'Side by Side' comparison in 'Enhance Colors'; added 'Line Highlighter' in 'Draw Board'; enhanced 'Text' tool in 'Draw Board'.

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Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer

For a free program, this multipurpose image tool strikes us as a good find. Although the main interface looks too cluttered with buttons at first glance, the three main windows are intuitive enough once get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice default design, but you can customize it to your liking with several skins.

Clicking a thumbnail puts a larger view of the shot in the lower-left pane, and you zoom in simply by dragging the mouse around. Though its image-editing tools can't compete with those offered by a full-featured suite, there's still enough here to make a decent amount of tweaks to your shots. You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast. You'll also find a few simple effects and filters, including Lens, Waves, and Morphs. Other nifty features include multiple folder slide shows, batch cropping and Windows Vista support.

FastStone Image Viewer for Windows can batch-convert files into a number of popular image formats including GIF, BMP, PSD, and PNG, and the slide-show creator allows you to apply transitions, specify the interval between images, and add your own MP3s as a soundtrack. We can recommend this program to everyone but professional designers.

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  FastStone Image Viewer

  Excellent,!

  by: john3347 on 23-Mar-2008 11:28:59 AM

  Pros: This is head and shoulders above the next best photo viewing and manipulation application for the "family photo" level user. The included features, the ease of use, the flat learning curve, and all other aspects of this application are "top shelf", at least for the non-professional home user, regardless of cost. I am not a professional or highly technical user, so my perspective is from the home user who is so often ignored by the software development community. Faststone has not ignored the needs and skill level of this group in "Faststome Image Viewer". Thank you Faststone.

  Cons: Lacks a duplicated photo finder. Would be nice to have the ability to locate duplicated photos whether they have the same, or different, file names. (This is a suggestion for future improvement, not a complaint with current version!)

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  FastStone Image Viewer

  Excellent Image Browsing tool!

  by: SithTracy on 28-Jun-2008 07:33:23 AM

  Pros: Excellent for browsing through your images and free for personal use... I would pay if it would unlock the software to make it faster.

  Cons: A little slow at reading my Olympus E-510's ORF/RAW files, but it does read them!

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  FastStone Image Viewer

  Excellent.

  by: on 27-Apr-2008 10:40:39 PM

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  FastStone Image Viewer

  Fantastic Image Viewer - no doubt.

  by: ozcando on 12-Jul-2008 12:15:31 PM

  Pros: One of the best image viewers I've come across.

  It is fast and responsive and does not crash.

  It is now my main general purpose image viewer for my photo.

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  Cons: Nothing wrong with it. It's just free.

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  FastStone Image Viewer

  excellent, with many useful features.

  by: protector2020 on 01-Apr-2008 09:08:50 AM

  Pros: first of all, it's completely free. it has many functionalities similars to acdsee. navigation through photo collections is very easy, you can batch rename pictures to make their names more meaningful for you, you can remove red eyes, create slideshows and many more.

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