FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

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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:
January 30, 2007
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Publisher's description of FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

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 annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

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Editor's review of FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

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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11 out of 12 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

"i wouldn't have any other image viewer than this!"

by playtom on February 4, 2007

Pros: this app packs a big punch of features, include some of the essential special effects, crop/resizing, and basic drawing board for some simple doodles. but more amazing, is it's superb organizing/gallery feature, compelete with slideshow, full screen viewing, drag-and-drop support, image tagging, crystal-clear mangifer, mutliple-page file builder, contact-sheet builder, image converting/batch, and much more. it's easy to use and comes with several skin of its own, not to mention it's portable and support dual-moniter. this is the absolute premium solution for homeusers. i strongly recommend to give it a try.

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1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

"Way better than Windows Picture & Fax Viewer."

by Irobotbender on February 21, 2007

Pros: Although I have a semi professional, highly rated photo editing program, I seldom use it anymore, partly because my computer is a 7 year old XP converted from ME, runs at 1.8 with 256mb ram & it constantly freezes my computer, but mostly, FastStone is quicker & easier to use & does basically everything I want. This program is probably my favorite out of a few others I've tried & works just fine for 99.99% of all my photos & rarely slows my computer.

Really like the full screen mode when double clicking on a picture. From there, you can do a lot of editing as well as get a full description of your photo, exposer, shutter speed, everything, easily accessible. Double click again to return to main screen. Modifying a photo for emailing is a little cumbersome but very handy. Nice slide show feature as well allowing you to show the file name, camera, model, date & time the picture was taken with a font, color & size of your choice. Also has 156 transitional effects, kewl man. Has a screen shot tool, also easier than Windows. Currently, FastStone is set to open all my pictures & does it well.

Cons: No actual screen saver, only a slide show. Slide show shows only pictures in a specific folder, not all folders.

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5 stars

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

"love this software"

by gaurav_12 on February 11, 2007

Pros: freeware.it is so small in size when compared to photoshop or acd see and yet it gives an average user some great tools to edit and manage the digital photo collection.doesn't even feel you are running the program due to its small system requirements.

Cons: none

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5 out of 6 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

"Good...takes a little thinking to use, but nice."

by abbiesdisciple1 on January 31, 2007

Pros: Lets me do a wide variety of things with my images including changing them to another format which is easier for me to work with and easily changes their sizes (proportionately, too). Good interface. Doesn't take up a whole lot of room.

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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful

Version: FastStone Image Viewer 2.9

"Great app!"

by christr on February 2, 2007

Pros: I've been using FastStone for almost 2 years now. Over the years I've used many other image viewers including Irfanview, ACDSee, ThumbsPlus, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and more.... FastStone blows all of them away. It has a great interface, great tools, it's fast, and the full screen mode is incredibly helpful. I have it associated with all of my image files, and I have it setup to open Photoshop when I need to do more advanced editing. With FastStone's feature set I find that I can do 90% of my image editing without having to even open Photoshop. I've also been impressed how the author is always adding new (and often very handy) features. Due to this it's definitely a program where you want to check for new versions often. I've installed FastStone on several of my friends and families computers, and all of them love it. In my opinion, no PC is complete without FastStone installed. It's absolutely indispensable.

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