FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

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Editor's Rating:
5.0 stars
Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
3,586,542
Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server
Limitations:
No limitations
Date Added:
November 24, 2005
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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

From FastStone Soft:

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 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 touch 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 frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF and DNG.

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Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

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.

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8 out of 11 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

"oH mY gOD"

by Superknown on December 20, 2005

Pros: It took a matter of 30 seconds to realize that "FASTSTONE" is the GEM. Detailed yet simple. Very simple to use and intuitive to just dive in. WOW!!!!!!!!!! Conversions can be done by your grandmother. TRY THIS PLEASE

Cons: Move over Rover Jimi took over. No more need for any other programs for viewing Images. Bye to irfanview (which is also awesome!)Quicktime viewer so on so forth

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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

"Powerful, beautiful and FREE!"

by DatabaseDoctor on December 14, 2005

Pros: Full of features, pretty to look at, easy to use, fast, efficient, batch mode and FREE!

Cons: Not a thing is bad with it!

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8 out of 8 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

"The best Image Viewer I have ever met"

by Goodless on November 26, 2005

Pros: first of all - It's small, secondly - It's fast, thirdly - it's free.
I believe the guys who wrote it are very good programmers. :)
forget about waiting while your acdsee loading information,
FastStone will do this in seconds.
Resizing, converting, everything is comfortable.

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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

"The best FREE image viewer program rich with features!"

by Mr. Mazur on December 9, 2005

Pros: Explorer style immage browser lets you view and organize all your image collections quickly and efficiently. There are so many useful tools built into this program that its hard to believe that this program is FREE. Hats off to the programmers of this sure WINNER.

Cons: None that I could find to comment on.

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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.29

"I love it!"

by TracyLynn1015 on November 30, 2005

Pros: Its quick n easy to use. I didn't realize all my pics were bmp. so I needed to get them converted to jpg. and this was the easiest to use.

Cons: I have yet to find anything.

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