FastStone Image Viewer 4.1 Beta Fileforum Pick

4.5 out of 5 stars 4.5 (1244 votes)

BETA (December 31, 2009)

Windows 2000/9x/XP / Freeware / 179,708 downloads

FastStone Image Viewer is an image browser, viewer, converter and editor with an easy to use interface and a nice array of features that include resizing, renaming, cropping, color adjustments, watermarks and more. It also includes an intuitive full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information and thumbnail browser via hidden toolbars that emerge when you touch the edge of your screen with the mouse. Other features include a high quality magnifier and built-in slideshow with 60+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image frames, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA.

  • Publisher

    FastStone Soft

  • Homepage

    FastStone Image Viewer

  • Uninstaller

    Yes

  • Latest Changes

    - 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

    - Enhanced Contact Sheet Builder

    - Other minor improvements

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  1. 5 out of 5 stars
    radiomaffia

    Reviewing 4.1 Beta (Jan 4, 2010)

    Use it many years after I was bored of of ACDSee 3.1 and newer version became bloatware. FastStone Image Viewer Multi Language 4.1 is just a good peace of software and you don't have to look any futher if you ask me.Great for beiing FREEWARE

  2. 5 out of 5 stars
    PAEzz

    Reviewing 4.0 (Nov 24, 2009)

    I love this app.
    The best fullscreen mode around, lots of tools/information/options all available just by moving the mouse to an edge of the screen (love the directory viewer).
    Add to that the screen capture, slideshow builder, contact sheet maker and lots of other great tools, it really is the ultimate image viewer.

  3. 5 out of 5 stars
    FatBastard

    Reviewing 4.0 (Nov 23, 2009)

    This is the best picture viewer EVAH (in my opinion) and it's free !!!

  4. 5 out of 5 stars
    B__B

    Reviewing 3.9 (Sep 19, 2009)

    Cannot live without that little great utility.
    The program is well organized, resembles ACDSee before it became bloated, it is quite fast, and is very stable.
    I do no longer waste time and trash the hd with Picasa and such heavyweight applications when I can look and manage my pics' folders with FastStone.

  5. 4 out of 5 stars
    NoOneImportant

    Reviewing 3.9 (Sep 15, 2009)

    I used to use a shareware viewer. Faststone does everything I need for free and the latest version is even keyboard compatible with it. However the shareware felt faster because it prefetched the next photo and cached the thumb nails.

    Caution: lossless jpeg rotation changes one dimension of the resolution of the photo into a multiple of 8 on my PC.

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  1. Nov 18, 2009 - 11:35 PM
    MetaFS

    Multiple Instances: From my time as a windows-programming professional it was quite easy to allow multiple instances, does anyone know why FS is without support for multiple instances ?
    Or did it get really complicated with the modern Windows-Versions?

    I definitely hope to see this feature to start more than one instance.

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