FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

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Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
4.5 stars (out of 1000 votes) Rate it!
Downloads:
3,586,542
Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
April 08, 2005
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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

From FastStone Soft:

FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter, and editor with features including resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustment, watermarks, and a broad array of other image-managing features. It also provides quick access to EXIF information and a thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. FastStone Image Viewer also offers a batch-image converter and resizer, a magnifier, and a built-in slide show with more than 60 transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop-shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, and a histogram. It supports all major graphics formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD (Photoshop format), TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA.

Version 2.0 adds Paper ratio crop to Crop board, adds Side by side image comparison, and enhances Slideshow with 150+ transitional effects.

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Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

5.0 stars
"A completely free imaging workhorse"

For a free program, this multipurpose image tool strikes us as a good find. Although the main window looks too cluttered at first glance, it's intuitive enough after you get your bearings. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows boasts a nice design already, but you can customize it to your liking with several skins. Clicking a thumbnail puts a larger view of the shot in the lower-left pane, and you zoom in simply by dragging the mouse around. Though its image-editing tools can't compete with those offered by a full-featured suite, there's still enough here to make a decent amount of tweaks to your shots. You can resize, crop, remove red-eye, and adjust color, brightness, and contrast. You'll also find a few simple effects and filters, including Lens, Waves, and Morphs. FastStone Image Viewer for Windows can batch-convert files into a number of popular image formats including GIF, BMP, PSD, and PNG, and the slide-show creator allows you to apply transitions, specify the interval between images, and add your own MP3s as a soundtrack. We can recommend this program to everyone but professional designers.

User reviews of FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

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6 out of 7 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

"WOW"

by Corydory on April 9, 2005

Pros: Yet another gem from Faststone. Not only does it carry out the normal funtions of an image viewer, but now it plays MP3's to boot!
Slick and doesn't demand to be the fault image viewer like so many others - but this program deserves to be your default. Wonderful to use plus it's FREE

Cons: None - it deserves the praise.

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3 out of 6 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

"very nice for the price"

by skizz on April 9, 2005

Pros: has many good features,lets you edit many types of photos, fairly easy to use compared to others on the market.

Cons: haven't found any

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0 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

"Excellent program!!"

by kidcougar on April 15, 2005

Pros: I downloaded this viewer, as I do with all software, based on the reviews. I have to say, this is worth every bit of praise that it has received. It's simply great! I use this as my default image viewer.

Cons: NONE

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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

"Perfect, just waiting for multilanguage support"

by noregt on April 20, 2005

Pros: I have compared a lot of image browsers for my work as a teacher and found this to be the best by far. Especially because it will not overtake your windows functionality (Adobe) or flood your PC with workfiles (Google's Picasa). Also it rotates Jpeg files without losing quality (which happens with Windows) and you can preview Photoshop files in a decent way.

Cons: When are they going to come with a multi language version? A lot of my Dutch friends (and pupils) could use it, but they don't because it's just to difficult for them to understand.

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5 stars

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.0

"GOOD JOB"

by mother0fall on April 17, 2005

Pros: Once every five corn seasons you find a program that stands out of everyday things. Such is faststone image viewer. Simply impressive and generous. Dont even think about it- just download one now!

Cons: what's not to like here? Its one of few products that makes the kind of promises that wont get you pregnant.

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