\nA Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FastStone Image Viewer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n
We featured FastStone Image Viewer approximately three years ago. But the developer has continued to improve it. So, because it is an amazing freeware program – one of the very best – we’re featuring it again.<\/span><\/p>\n We’ve always been big fans of FastStone Capture for a very long time. In fact, it’s our screenshot tool of choice. Sure, it’s old, but the developer still updates it, and it does everything we need it to do<\/span><\/p>\n The other day, I was downloading an updated version of FastStone Capture, and accidentally downloaded FastStone Image Viewer. Now, we are Irfanview fans and have been since Darcy introduced me to it way back in 1998. I’ve used it with Windows 98, Windows 98 SE, Windows ME, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8x, every version of Windows 10, and now with Windows 11. But there’s an opportunity in every miscue, and so it was with this mistaken download.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, I’m not going to lie to you and tell you that I’m about to replace IrfanView with FastStone Image Viewer, but I’m going to tell you that many of you will love the extra features of FastStone Image Viewer that are missing in Irfanview. And I’ve been very tempted to replace a program I’ve been using for 2 decades with FastStone Image Viewer<\/span><\/p>\n FastStone Image Viewer is more than an image viewer — it is also an image browser that instantly provides you with a “contact sheet” of every image in a folder. Plus, you can batch rename, you can create slideshows and even add music, batch resize photos, and much more.<\/span><\/p>\n And rarely do we ever come across a developer who is more verbose than us. But the developer of FastStone Image Viewer is one. So, rather than us telling you all about the program, we’re going to let him\/her do that for you and spare you our rambling diatribe.<\/span><\/p>\n So, we’ll start with some screenshots, and then let Mr. or Ms. FastStone tell you all about FastStone Image Viewer.<\/span><\/p>\n Now, from the developer of FastStone Image Viewer:<\/span><\/p>\n 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, retouching 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 touches one of 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 (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO, CUR and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CR2, CR3, CRW, NEF, NRW, PEF, RAF, RWL, MRW, ORF, SRW, X3F, ARW, SR2, SRF, RW2 and DNG).<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels<\/span> No Adware. No Spyware. <\/span>Free for Home Users<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n So, see? Sometimes mistakes can be fruitful. And we plucked a great freeware pick from this one.\u00a0\u00a0Learn more about and\/or download FastStone Image Viewer from this pag<\/span>e<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n And lucky for us and you … there are no tricky download links or buttons. No malware, spyware, grimware, or other foolishness going on. You can download FastStone Image Viewer<\/a><\/span>\u00a0without trepidatio<\/span>n.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Cloudeight Freeware Pick: FastStone Image Viewer We featured FastStone Image Viewer approximately three years ago. But the developer has continued to improve it. So, because it is an amazing freeware program – one of the very best – we’re featuring it again. We’ve always been big fans of FastStone Capture for a very long time. 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\nCrystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier<\/span>
\nPowerful image editing tools: Resize\/resample, rotate\/flip, crop, sharpen\/blur, adjust lighting\/colors\/curves\/levels etc.<\/span>
\nEleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images<\/span>
\nImage color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red\/Green\/Blue adjustment<\/span>
\nImage special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens<\/span>
\nDraw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images<\/span>
\nClone Stamp and Healing Brush<\/span>
\nSuperior Red-Eye effect removal\/reduction with completely natural looking end result<\/span>
\nMulti-level Undo\/Redo capability<\/span>
\nOne-touch best fit\/actual size image display support<\/span>
\nImage management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To\/Move To Folder support<\/span>
\nHistogram display with color counter feature<\/span>
\nCompare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots<\/span>
\nImage EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)<\/span>
\nConfigurable batch processing to convert\/rename large or small collections of images<\/span>
\nSlideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV…)<\/span>
\nCreate efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends<\/span>
\nPrint images with full page-layout control<\/span>
\nCreate fully configurable Contact Sheets<\/span>
\nCreate memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)<\/span>
\nAcquire images from scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG<\/span>
\nVersatile screen capture capability<\/span>
\nPowerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size<\/span>
\nRun favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer<\/span>
\nOffer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device<\/span>
\nConfigurable mouse wheel support<\/span>
\nSupport program skins<\/span>
\nSupport dual-monitor configurations<\/span>
\nSupport touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)<\/span>
\nSupport dual instances<\/span>
\nPlay video files (Third party codecs may be required for old versions of Windows)<\/span>
\nAnd much more…<\/span><\/p>\n