FastStone Image Viewer is a computer program that allows you to view, edit and manage digital images quickly and easily. It is designed to be user-friendly and stable, meaning it works smoothly without crashing or freezing. The program has many useful features for working with images. You can view images, organize them, compare different images side by side, remove red-eye effects from photos, send images via email, resize them, crop them, and adjust their colors.
One unique feature of FastStone Image Viewer is its full-screen mode. This mode provides quick access to information about the image (such as its size and resolution), a thumbnail view of other images in the folder, and various editing tools. These tools are hidden until you move your mouse to the edges of the screen, where they appear as toolbars. Other features include a magnifying tool for zooming in on specific areas of an image a slideshow mode with over 150 different transition effects between images, the ability to add drop shadows or annotations to images, support for scanning images from a scanner and a histogram tool for analyzing the color distribution in an image. Overall, FastStone Image Viewer is a comprehensive & user-friendly program for viewing, editing and managing digital images on your computer.
FastStone Image Viewer 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 of FastStone Image Viewer
- Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
- Support of many popular image 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).
- 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 a 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, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
- Histogram display with color counter feature
- Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
- 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
- Create fully configurable Contact Sheets – just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
- Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
- FastStone Image Viewer acquires 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 that can be run from a removable storage device
- Configurable mouse wheel support
- Supports multiple program skins
- Supports dual-monitor configurations
- And much more…
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Developer: Homepage
License: Shareware
Language: Multilingual
OS: Windows