An image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an simple and user-friendly interface

Its modern 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 touch the four edges of the screen.

It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and well known digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, MRW, RAF, PEF, ORF, NEF, SRF and DNG).

FastStone Image Viewer includes two editions in one installation:

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor.

Faststone Image Viewer has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.

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.

• Standard Edition - Free for private or educational use

· Professional (Pro) Edition - Registration required. Once registered, Standard edition will be converted to Pro edition

These are the main features of this software

• Configurable mouse wheel support
• Create a no-install completely portable version of the program that is run from a removable storage device
• Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
• Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
• Versatile screen capture capability
• Acquire images from a scanner
• Choose and set desktop wallpaper from your image collections
• Print images with full page-layout control
• Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
• Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
• Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
• Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
• Histogram display with color counter feature
• Image management, including tagging capability and Copy To/Move To Folder support
• One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
• Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
• Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
• Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
• Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
• Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
• Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
• Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
• True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
• Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface

· Supports multiple program skins

Limitations of this software

· FastStone Image Viewer, MaxView and Photo Resizer are provided as freeware for private (non-commercial) or educational (including non-profit organization) use. In these cases, you are granted the right to use and to make an unlimited number of copies of these programs. However, for commercial use, it is required to purchase a license.

What's new in this release

• Improved Rotate by any Degree
• Added option Print current page just in Print dialog

· Fixed some bugs...