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Description of FastStone Image Viewer

If you want your images to look the best they can--but you don't have a professional photographer's budget--check out FastStone Image Viewer. This freebie lets you browse and view your images in a Windows-Explorer-like interface. FastStone image viewer supports all major image formats, including BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, JPEG2000, PCX, PNG, PSD, TAF, TIF, and WMF. It includes EXIF metadata support as well. You can crop, resize, flip, rotate, and adjust colors on your images and compare them side by side.

You can also convert your images from one format to another; in fact, you can even convert or resize your photos in batches. If you need to take a closer look without resizing, use the Full Screen image viewer to zoom in and size things up with the clear magnifier. Once you're done, you can apply over 150 transitional effects in a slideshow.

Note: FastStone Image Viewer is free for personal and educational use only. Commercial users must register the software. Enthusiastic personal or educational users may make donations through the vendor's site.

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• Reviewed by: TonyRony

  08-01-2011

  Duration of ownership: 2 Months

  Strengths: Highly intuitive user interface and great feature set.

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  Overall Evaluation: I manage a social networking group and our members often send photos to me to be added to our group. On one occasion someone sent over 100 photos, but the format wasn't compatible with the group. As I searched for an appropriate utility, I discovered FastStone, which I had already installed, but had never used before. Because the interface is so cleverly and beautifully designed, I never needed to check for help of any kind. Additionally, the format conversion worked in a flash without a hitch. FastStone Image Viewer is a five-star utility all day, every day.

• Reviewed by: Gurbefanie

  07-12-2011

  Duration of ownership: 5 Years

  Strengths: This viewer is fast, versatile (the latest version 4.6 is even smarter than 4.0)

  Weaknesses: None

  Overall Evaluation: A winner!

• Reviewed by: dyoung61

  08-18-2010

  Duration of ownership: 3 Months

  Strengths: You can do hundred's of files at one time. Very good resizer.

  Weaknesses: I have not found any weakness in this software.

  Overall Evaluation: Very good software & would definitely recommend.

• Reviewed by: WiscoKid

  05-03-2010

  Duration of ownership: 1 Days

  Strengths: Great interface. Simple to use with a pop-up instruction of how to use when first viewing a picture. Very fast when downloading even a large amount of pictures. Hover over the right side to bring up an extensive view of the picture's characteristics. Press Esc key to close that picture. The Undo is at the lower left corner when you hover over the left side to bring up those tools.

  Weaknesses: None so far.

  Overall Evaluation: This is what Windows Photo Gallery should be -- surprised MS hasn't "stolen"/incorporated it into its viewer. Can't go wrong with it.

• Reviewed by: jworman

  02-04-2010

  Duration of ownership: 3 Years

  Strengths: Faststone viewer does a superb job of resizing, emailing photos, viewing, renaming, change time stamp, light editing, generating slide shows, etc. The list goes on and on. If you need to do something with a photo, Faststone viewer will probably do it. When you think it does it all, they come out with a new version with improvements.

  Weaknesses: None that I can think of.

  Overall Evaluation: Faststone viewer is a first rate program. Faststone also has other programs, some free, some shareware. All the programs I have work great and do tasks that I don't find elsewhere.

• Reviewed by: teejg

  02-03-2010

  Duration of ownership: 5 Years

  Strengths: Viewing thumbnails in a variety of sizes, with folder tree on the left - Viewing photos in their original size (up to your screen size) and allowing you to edit as you view. - Viewing a slide show (at full screen size). All Windows Are Resizable. ---- BEST program for cropping in any format 16:9, 4:3, 5x7, 8x10, or choose your own size. MAINTAINS THE CHOSEN FORMAT AS YOU ARE RESIZING. I have never seen a program that can do this and I have them all. Same for resizing, you can resize individually or resize a whole folder of files using the email feature (and saving them to a file). ---- Has all the standard editing features including Red Eye Removal.

  Weaknesses: I NEVER HAD A PROBLEM. I wish it had cloning and the ability to add text.

  Overall Evaluation: Easy to use. Simply the BEST for viewing and editing your photos for the first time. Also the BEST for viewing.

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