FastStone Image Viewer
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 FastStone Image Viewer | |
| Developer(s) | FastStone Soft |
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| Initial release | 9 October 2004[1] |
| Stable release | 7.9
/ 17 October 2024[2] |
| Written in | Delphi |
| Operating system | Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10/11 |
| Size | 6 MB[3] |
| Available in | 20 languages |
| Type | Image viewer and editor |
| License | Proprietary, free for non-commercial use |
| Website | www |
FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer software for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use. The program also includes basic image editing tools,[4] like cropping, color adjustment and red-eye removal.[5]
Developed by FastStone, it was first released in 2004 and new stable versions have been released regularly since. It is available as an executable installer, zip, and a portable zip version.[6]
Features
[edit]- Thumbnail viewer[4] (using Lanczos resampling algorithm)
- Crop Board and Draw Board
- Resizing, cropping, color correction, red-eye removal, clone brush, curve (tonality), levels, and unsharp mask
- Side-by-side image comparison
- Resampling
- Magnifier lens
- Batch operations including rename and convert
- Color space management
- Slide show, including music and transition effects
- Memory card image retriever
- Displays Exif camera metadata
- Support for BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA - including raw formats like Canon's CR2 or Sony's ARW
Reception
[edit]Upon release, the software site SnapFiles rated it five stars out of five.[7] It also received five stars by the editor of Download.com.[8] A PCWorld magazine review of version 4.0 of FastStone Image Viewer in 2011 noted the software's "lightning-fast" display of pictures. The reviewer felt that one of its greatest advantages was its "wide variety of file formats" the software supports.[9] Rick Broida of CNET wrote in 2015 about version 5.4: "This freeware gem remains an essential download for anyone looking to view, edit and organize their photos." Broida thought that it was a "bit more robust" compared to IrfanView.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "FastStone Soft - FastStone Viewer". Archived from the original on 2004-10-09. Retrieved 2023-10-04.
- ^ "FastStone Image Viewer History".
- ^ a b "Freebie Friday: FastStone Image Viewer". CNET. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ a b "FastStone Image Viewer - Great Image Viewing and Manipulation Program". 11 October 2010.
- ^ "User-Friendly, Free and Fast Image Processing Program". 2017-12-21. Archived from the original on 2017-12-21. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "Download FastStone Image Viewer". www.faststone.org. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
- ^ "FastStone Image Viewer - full featured image viewer". Archived from the original on 2004-12-29.
- ^ "FastStone Image Viewer - Reviews and free downloads at Download.com". web.archive.org. July 3, 2007.
- ^ "FastStone Image Viewer". PCWorld. Retrieved 2023-12-21.
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