Superb Features in FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 Final
Managing and handling digital images can be stressful and unpleasant without a suitable tool. FastStone Image Viewer is a free image browser, converter and editor you could probably try if you are looking for an image management tool to handle your memorable digital images. Available free for home users, FastStone Image Viewer features all the basic and necessary functions to handle your stored graphical images. FastStone’s image viewing and browsing functions are faster and more stable compared to Windows Picture Viewer. It gives maximum flexibility to users by providing a direct view of the directory structure available on a hard disk. With this facility, users can organize their pictures in a more convenient approach.
FastStone Image Viewer allows basic editing features such as red-eye removal, rotating, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, converting and adding texts. 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. FastStone Image Viewer 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 latest release FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 Final can be downloaded via the direct link here. Some changes have been made in this version:
• Now it runs on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
• It plays video files (avi, wmv, mpg) in slide shows
• It is possible to show EXIF / Histogram information and work on the thumbnails at the same time. Just press I key to turn the Image Properties window on/off
• The “Batch-Convert” (under Tools menu) has been improved:
o Allowed Sorting Files in the Input List
o Added “Expand Mode” option to the Canvas tab of the “Advanced Options” window
o It is now possible to “drag and drop” files from Windows Explorer to the Input List
• The “Draw Board” (under Edit menu) has been improved. Now annotation objects (texts, lines, boxes etc.) can be edited by re-opening the Draw Board (press D key)
• Added “Animated GIF” as an output option in Multi-Page File Builder
• Added “Multi-Page File Splitter” (under Create menu), which is used to split a multi-page file into single files
• Added “Panorama Image Builder” (under Create menu), which is used to put multiple images side by side horizontally or vertically
• Improved the Print dialog
• Fixed some bugs
FastStone Image Viewer might be small in size, approximately 4.06MB, but it gives you all the necessary functions to manage your images. This innovative image application also furnishes you with EXIF Metadata such as ISO Speed rating, exposure time, Max aperture, flash, focal length, exposure bias, etc. With this informative details, you can improve your photography skills as well.
FastStone Image Viewer feeds users with EXIF Metadata
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November 14th, 2009 21:29
Free and functional! It meets my basic requirement and been using it since 2006, especially Convocation Photography where I need to choose best shot among 3-4 photos. The compare tool best does the job where most professional photo editors lack. Thank you so much, Faststone!
August 25th, 2009 09:18
Three years ago, I switched from IrfanView to Faststone. Every year or so I go back and look at FastStone’s competitors. Every year I find Faststone is better for my needs. As a photographer, I’m interested in what it will do, and how well it does it. Speed also counts.
FastStone fits my workflow (including links to Photoshop and GIMP) and never crashes.
My only criticism is support – I can’t find a good forum where the product is discussed and supported by other users.
May 16th, 2009 01:52
I’m fed up with FastStone ass licking. This software should just be called “stone”. It has among the ugliest skins I’ve ever seen, moreover, skins are sooo 90′ this thing looks shockingly out of place on Vista and Windows 7.
It was a great app perhaps on Windows 95 but now it looks old, it’s not that fast and I find it to be completely unremarkable.
Also, it’s not freeware, more like begware as it asks you for money once you have used it for a while.
The “review” above is just pathetic, it sounds like a cut and paste from bad marketing crap.