Operating system: Windows
Publisher: FastStone Soft.
Release : FastStone Image Viewer 5.9
Antivirus check: passed
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast and stable viewer, editor and image converter with a user-friendly interface. The program's feature set is impressive: it's image viewing, photo management, file comparison, red-eye removal, image resizing and cropping, retouching and color correction, as well as sending graphics by email. Its innovative yet intuitive full-screen mode gives you quick access to EXIF metadata, thumbnail browsers and other important functions via automatically hiding toolbars that appear when the mouse cursor approaches the boundaries of the screen.
Other features of the program include high-quality image enlargement and creation of a slideshow with music with more than 150 effects of transition between slides, lossless editing of the JPEG format, adding user comments, support for scanners, histogram output and much, much more. All common graphic formats are supported: BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. The program also knows how to work with RAW files of different manufacturers of digital cameras: CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG.
FastStone Image Viewer offers an impressive set of features for image viewing, editing, and conversion packaged in a user-friendly interface.
- An image browser and viewer with an interface similar to that of Windows Explorer;
- support of the overwhelming majority of graphic formats;
- Full-fledged full-screen mode with zoom support and unique pop-up menus;
- excellent image magnification with the customizable "Lupa" tool;
- Powerful editing functions: resize, rotate, crop, blur, sharpen, adjust light levels, colors, levels, and so on;
- eleven different algorithms for optimal image size conversion;
- Color effects: black and white conversion, sepia, negative, red, green and blue channel adjustments separately;
- special effects: annotations, shading, adding frames, imitation of the effect of painting and drawing, optical distortion effects, etc;
- overlaying texts, lines and geometric shapes on images;
- the Cloning and Treatment Brush tools;
- an excellent tool to remove the red-eye effect;
- a multi-level command to cancel the last action;
- Quickly change one of the standard image scales;
- image management, tagging and drag and drop support;
- a histogram;
- comparing several images to each other;
- support for EXIF metadata and JPEG comments;
- batch processing of images;
- Create a slideshow with many frame transitions;
- Printing support with full control over the result;
- creating desktop backgrounds;
- to capture images from the screen;
- scanner support;
- Flexible adjustment of functions performed by command from the mouse wheel;
- skin support;
- support dual-monitor configuration.