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 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 frames, 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 and DNG).

Features

  • Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
  • Support of many popular image formats
  • 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, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
  • Histogram display with color counter feature
  • Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
  • Image EXIF metadata support plus comment editing for JPEGs
  • Supports dual-monitor configurations

What's New

  • Loads HEIC/HEIF faster by 40% to 100%
  • Added "Show Dimension" option to Settings -> Thumbnail tab
  • Added "25%" and "75%" options to the Quick Resize menu
  • Added an option to Settings -> Programs tab to open external programs using Alt key instead of Ctrl key
  • In Draw Board, you can now draw objects continuously without having to select the drawing tool repeatedly
  • For Batch Convert/Rename:
    • You can now customize the template list for filenames
    • Added "Keep Screen On" option to the batch processing dialogs
  • For GPS:
    • Added a new GPS format DDD° MM.MMMM'
    • Added "Show in Open Street Map" option
  • For RAW files:
    • Supports OM-1 ORF format
    • Added "RAW Filter" option to Settings -> RAW tab. This option puts a filter on toolbar to show or hide RAW files with a single click
    • When RAW files are hidden by disabling "View RAW files in" option in Settings -> RAW tab, you will have the following new options:
    • Handle (rename, delete, copy, move) RAW+JPEG together
    • Open RAW in external programs
  • Improved text rendering quality in slideshow
  • You can now rotate all pages in a multi-page tiff file with a single click
  • Other minor improvements and bug fixes