Faststone Image Viewer 7.8

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2023-09-29 00:00 43499

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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 touches 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.

FastStone Image Viewer 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, SRF and DNG).

FastStone Image Viewer Features:

True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels etc.
Eleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
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)
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
Create fully configurable Contact Sheets
Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
Acquire images from scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG and PNG
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
Offer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
Support dual-monitor configurations
Configurable mouse wheel support
Support multiple program skins
Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
And much more…

Changes in Faststone Image Viewer 7.8 (September 28, 2023):

Added “Search by Name” to toolbar above thumbnail browser
Added drag-and-drop functionality to viewing panel. You can drag and drop image or video files from external sources (e.g. Windows File Explorer) into image viewing area to view files directly
Added Shadows and Highlights to batch conversion tool (Advanced Options -> Adjustments)
Added Contrast and Gamma options to Scan Board
Added keyboard shortcuts to change “Auto Image Size” option. Press Ctrl+Shift+K for “Auto Fit”. Press Ctrl+Shift+L for “Lock Zoom Ratio”
Added more options to “Mouse Click” in Settings window
Added “Load from File” and “Save to File” in Settings window
Added support for AVIF format
Presets in Resize tool are customizable
Moved Rename tool to a higher position to avoid covering the center of the image
Enhanced Draw Board:
- Added Text with effects (curve, outline and shadow)
- Added Emojis
- Added preset color lists (click * button to select a preset color)
- Flip/Rotate image objects
- Zoom In/Out ranging from 1% to 5000%
- When editing text, press Ctrl+Del or Ctrl+Backspace to delete an entire word
Enhanced PSD format support
Enhanced Wallpaper support on Windows 10/11
Improved loading speed of Apple DNG raw files
Fixed compatibility issue with iOS 17 when importing photos/videos from iPhone
Many other small improvements and bug fixes

Changes in Faststone Image Viewer 7.7 (August 24, 2022):

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