Faststone Image Viewer 7.8

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

Homepage – https://www.faststone.org

Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.

Size: 7.79 MB

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