FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, as of version 5.5.

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 (partial, it ignores the monitor profile)
• Magnifier lens
• Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on USB flash drive, including all user settings.

Other features include:

• Supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA), with a focus on popular digital camera RAW formats.
• Displays Exchangeable image file format (Exif) camera information
• Thumbnail cache and database
• Basic image editing tools: resizing, cropping, color correction, red-eye removal
• Advance image editing tools: clone brush, curve (tonality), levels and unsharp mask.
• Lossless JPEG rotations
• Side-by-side image comparison tool
• Fully customizable contact sheet Builder* Emailing
• Memory card image retriever
• Slide show, including music and many transition effects
• Emailing

Versions

The FastStone Image Viewer was first released in 2004 by FastStone Soft. Since then, a new stable version of the program has been released every few weeks to few months.

Since version 3.1, a multilingual version has been available, supporting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

This Windows program is provided in three forms: as a normal-install executable, a zip file of the same, or as a fully portable no-install zip file.

According to FastStone, version 2.7 and all previous releases have been found to be using improperly licensed images and icons, and as a result, FastStone requested that version 2.7 and older copies of FastStone Image Viewer cease to be used, with all licenses updated to version 2.8 for both free and commercial versions. This announcement was made on their web site the same date that version 2.8 was posted.

Issues

• As of version 4.2, resizing of animations (i.e. animated GIFs) is not supported. Thus they can only be viewed at 100% scale, this includes thumbnails.
• When the program starts, a delay may occur as the thumbnail view is managed, more so the first time when the thumbnail cache database is built.

See also

• Comparison of image viewers
• FastStone Capture
• FastStone MaxView
• FastStone Photo Resizer

References

External links

• Official website
• Shortcuts v 4.3 (PDF)