FastStone Image Viewer 4.0 (Freeware)

FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and image organizer for Microsoft Windows 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 touches 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, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).


HOMEPAGE: www.faststone.org/FSViewer
TYPE: (Freeware)
DOWNLOAD: FSViewer Setup 4.0
Direct download from FH
SIZE: 4.53 MB
GOOGLE HITS: 500k+
Features:

Highlights:

+Relatively fast HQ image/thumbnail viewing (using Lanczos resampling algorithm)
+Support for dual head configuration
+Custom order arranging (via DnD) and automatic renumbering
+Color space management
+ Magnifier lens
+Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on USB key, including all user settings.

Other more common features include:

+Support for all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA), with a particular focus on popular digital camera RAW formats.
+Thumbnail cache and database
+Basic image editing tools ( resizing, cropping, color correction, red-eye removal
+Lossless JPEG rotations
+Side-by-side image comparison tool (up to 4 at a time)
+Fully customizable contact sheet Builder* Emailing
+Memory card image retriever
+Slideshow (including music and many transition effects)
+Emailing

FastStone Image Viewer 4.0 Improvements:

•  Enhanced the skins and toolbar icons. Now the windows have drop shadow effect in Vista and Windows 7
   
•  Added "Search and Replace" to Batch Rename
   
•  Added "Renaming Preview" to Batch Rename
   
•  Enhanced "Conversion Preview" in Batch Convert. Now it is possible to compare the original and converted images side by side
   
•  In Advanced Options for Batch Convert, added an option to specify whether color adjustments (brightness, contrast, sharpening etc.) should be made before or after resizing.
   
• Shows GPS information in the "Image Properties" window. A "Show in Google Earth" button will be available if the image has GPS information
   
•  Added "Border Effects" under Edit menu
   
•  Added an option to remove EXIF/IPTC data when emailing images
   
•  Added shortcuts for favorite folders
   
•  Improved performance on network folders
   
•  Improved compatibility with Windows 7
   
•  Fixed bugs
   
•  Other minor improvements