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 touches 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 annotation, 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, SRF and DNG).
New Features:
Improved the loading speed of JPEG images and embedded preview of RAW images. The improvement is noticeable for big images. The Smooth option is turned on by default for better image rendering.
Added an option to the Settings (press F12) to specify the location (top or bottom) for displaying filename information in full screen.
Added "Auto Crop" to Rotate window
Enhanced Contact Sheet Builder.
Other minor improvements.
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Enhanced the skins and toolbar icons. Now the windows have drop shadow effect in Vista and Windows 7
Added "Search and Replace" to Batch Rename
Added "Renaming Preview" to Batch Rename
Enhanced "Conversion Preview" in Batch Convert. Now it is possible to compare the original and converted images side by side
In Advanced Options for Batch Convert, added an option to specify whether color adjustments (brightness, contrast, sharpening etc.) should be made before or after resizing.
Shows GPS information in the "Image Properties" window. A "Show in Google Earth" button will be available if the image has GPS information
Added "Border Effects" under Edit menu
Added an option to remove EXIF/IPTC data when emailing images