FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more.
Contents. Features Highlights:. Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing (using algorithm). Support for configuration. Custom order arranging (via ) and automatic renumbering. management.
Magnifier lens. Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on USB flash drive, including all user settings. Other more common features include:. Support for all major graphic formats (, and ), with a particular focus on popular digital camera. Thumbnail cache and database.
Side-by-side image comparison tool (up to 4 at a time). Fully customizable Builder. Emailing. Memory card image retriever. (including music and many transition effects). Emailing Versions The FastStone Image Viewer was first released in by FastStone Soft. Since then, a new stable version of the program has been released every few weeks to few months.
Since version 3.1, a multilingual version has been made available (supporting, and ). This Windows program is provided in three forms: as a normal-install executable, a zip file of the same, or as a fully portable no-install zip file. According to FastStone, version 2.7 and all previous releases have been found to be using improperly licensed images and icons, and as a result, FastStone requested that version 2.7 and older copies of FastStone Image Viewer cease to be used, with all licenses updated to version 2.8 for both free and commercial versions. This announcement was made on their web site the same date that version 2.8 was posted. Issues. Also, as of version 4.0, is not yet supported. When the program is launched, there may be a delay as the thumbnail view is managed, particularly the first time when the thumbnail cache database is built.
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FastStone Freeware Image Viewer 6.7 & PhotoResizer 3.9 Released 30th October 2018 Like its sibling, FastStone Capture, FastStone Image Viewer has a beautifully designed interface, which is intuitive and easy to use. Like Google’s Picasa2, it can be used to browse the images on your hard drives, and like IrfanView it can be used to apply special effects, adjust colours, resize images, convert file types, etc.
It is free for home use, but £34.95 for commercial use (compared to only €10 for IrfanView).