FastStone Image Viewer 4.1 Beta (Freeware)

FastStone Image Vieweris 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).
FastStone Image Viewer's HOMEPAGE: www.faststone.org/FSViewer
FastStone Image Viewer's TYPE: (Freeware)
FastStone Image Viewer's DOWNLOAD: FSViewer Setup 4.1 Beta
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FastStone Image Viewer's SIZE: 4.53 MB
FastStone Image Viewer's GOOGLE HITS: 500k+

FastStone Image Viewer 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 4.1 Beta Improvements:

+ New Features:

•  Improved the loading speed of JPEG images and embedded preview of RAW images. The improvement is noticeable for big images. The Smooth option is turned on by default for better image rendering.
•  Added an option to the Settings (press F12) to specify the location (top or bottom) for displaying filename information in full screen.
•  Enhanced Contact Sheet Builder.
•  Other minor improvements.