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.

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

FastStone Image Viewer includes two editions in one installation:
Standard Edition – Free for private or educational use
Professional (Pro) Edition – Registration required. Once registered, Standard edition will be converted to Pro edition

Here are some key features of „Faststone Image Viewer“:

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

Requirements:

· 256MB RAM
· 10MB space in hard drive
· Mouse (with scroll-wheel recommended)

Limitations:

· 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:

· Now it is possible to adjust Lighting, Colors, Levels and Curves within selected areas of an image
· Fixed bugs in the Print and Email dialogs