FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 Beta  beta

Publisher's Description:

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.

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Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	DrTeeth	Jun 25, 2008
Version:	3.6 Beta
Perfection.
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Reviewer:	spamdigger	Jun 25, 2008
Version:	3.6 Beta
Anyone know how to view EXIF data *without* having to go to full view and moving mouse to the right hand side? TIA.
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Reviewer:	JeRrYFaR	Jun 25, 2008
Version:	3.6 Beta
This is a welcome surprise! Skins or not, this program is my all-time-favorite for picture viewing and some editing. I've tried them all, including the Wildbit Viewer and come back to this one everytime. Glad to see they're continuing development, as it's been a LONG time since there have been any updates.
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Reviewer:	us3r	Jun 25, 2008
Version:	3.6 Beta
Bugs which occured while displaying some BMP files has been fixed :). EDIT: "Anyone know how to view EXIF data *without* having to go to full view and moving mouse to the right hand side? TIA" Ctrl + I
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Reviewer:	aloishammer	Jun 25, 2008
Version:	3.6 Beta
Another me, too: most of the skins waste a lot of real estate on lower-res displays, a lot are ugly, and there needs to be, at minimum, an option to simply use the default Windows GUI toolkit. And since submitting a bug report to FastStone hasn't produced any response at all, I'll mention it here: I *desperately* need an option to switch off metadata retrieval and automatic thumbnail generation for occasions when I'm viewing a large folder over a wireless link. This kills FSViewer.exe, the host CPU, and the wireless link until metadata generation and retrieval are complete, or FSViewer's killed off. FSViewer generates useless thumbnails even if the view's switched to list/detail, and refuses to switch view types in any case if it's busy generating those thumbnails. Better threading in the GUI, please.
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