FastStone Image Viewer is an

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and organizer software for

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, provided

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for personal and educational use. The program also includes basic

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tools, like cropping, color adjustment and red-eye removal. 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.

Features

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viewer (using

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algorithm) *Crop Board and Draw Board *Resizing, cropping,

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, red-eye removal, clone brush,

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, levels, and

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*Side-by-side image comparison * Resampling *Magnifier lens *Batch operations including rename and convert *

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management *

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, including music and transition effects *Memory card image retriever *Displays

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camera metadata *Support for BMP,

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, PNG, PCX,

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, WMF,

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, and TGA - including raw formats like Canon's CR2 or Sony's ARW

Reception

Upon release, the software site SnapFiles rated it five stars out of five. It also received five stars by the editor of Download.com. 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. 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 IrfanView () is an image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It can also play video and audio files, and has some image creation and painting capabilities. IrfanView is free for non-commercial use; commercial ...

References

External links

* * Shortcuts v 4.3 (German PDF)
FastStone Pacman, the developer's first product
{{Authority control Proprietary image organizers Pascal (programming language) software Windows multimedia software Windows-only freeware 2004 software

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