Last updated:
April 2, 2022
User rating:
30 votes
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).
Features:
Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
Support of many popular image formats
True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
Histogram display with color counter feature
Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
Image EXIF metadata support plus comment editing for JPEGs
Supports dual-monitor configurations
What’s New:
Used a new database engine for better performance, capacity, and reliability
Added “Pre-scan folders into thumbnail database” tool under Settings menu. This tool can be used to get the thumbnails ready before visiting the folders/drives
Added a rating system to classify files from 1 to 5
Added 3 new sorting options: Date Taken, Rating and Tagged
When copying or moving files, tags and ratings will be preserved in the database
Optimized the program for reduced launch time, faster folder tree creation and network folder access
Enhanced the 3 built-in themes: Bright, Gray and Dark
File size of selected items shown in status bar
In windowed view, merge two status bars into one to maximize viewing area
Now you can shuffle images in current folder before thumbnail creation is complete
Added an option (Settings> “Dual Monitor” tab) to select the secondary monitor when more than 2 monitors are detected
Added “Center” option to Image Strip Builder
Added “Preserve Aspect Ratio” option to Image Size in Design and Print tool
Added hotkeys for Google Maps (Ctrl+Shift+M) and Google Earth (Ctrl+Alt+M) when current image has GPS coordinates
Added “EXIF Lens Model” option to caption in Contact Sheet, text in Slide Show and text in Batch Convert tool
Many other small improvements, including vulnerability and bug fixes
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