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FastStone Image Viewer 4.0

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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. 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, SRF and DNG).

* 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)
* 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 - just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
* Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
* Acquire images from a scanner
* 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
* Create a no-install fully portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
* Configurable mouse wheel support
* Supports multiple program skins
* Supports dual-monitor configurations
* And much more...

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History updates

FastStone Image Viewer 4.0 [11-20-09]

  • Enhanced the skins and toolbar icons. Now the windows have drop shadow effect in Vista and Windows 7
  • Added "Search and Replace" to Batch Rename
  • Added "Renaming Preview" to Batch Rename
  • Enhanced "Conversion Preview" in Batch Convert. Now it is possible to compare the original and converted images side by side
  • In Advanced Options for Batch Convert, added an option to specify whether color adjustments (brightness, contrast, sharpening etc.) should be made before or after resizing.
  • Shows GPS information in the "Image Properties" window. A "Show in Google Earth" button will be available if the image has GPS information
  • Added "Border Effects" under Edit menu
  • Added an option to remove EXIF/IPTC data when emailing images
  • Added shortcuts for favorite folders
  • Improved performance on network folders
  • Improved compatibility with Windows 7
  • Fixed bugs
  • Other minor improvements
  • Other versions : 3.9 3.8 3.7

    FastStone Image Viewer v3.9 [06-12-09]

    Enhanced "Multi-Page File Builder" and "Image Strip Builder" under "Create" menu
    Added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser
    Improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser
    When dragging thumbnails, now it is possible to cancelĀ  dragging by pressing Esc key
    Multi-page TIFF files can be saved as multi-page PDF files
    Added 2 languages: Czech and Swedish
    Fixed bugs
    Other minor improvements

    FastStone Image Viewer v3.8 [05-04-09]

    Now it is possible to draw callout (cloud, oval, rectangular...) objects in "Draw Board"
    Translated user interface into 15 languages
    Added option "Number of Copies" in the "Print" dialog
    Added option "Color Subsampling" (also called "Chroma Subsampling") for saving JPEG files
    Optimized for better performance
    Fixed a bug in version 3.7 that the program cannot auto-refresh when viewing files in a network folder
    Fixed a bug in previous versions that the program cannot view animated GIF files with zero frame delay time
    Other minor improvements

    FastStone Image Viewer v3.7 [02-09-09]

    Added Preview to the "Batch Convert" tool. Now it is possible to preview the conversion by clicking the "Conversion Preview" button
    Added a checkbox to allow converted files to be saved in their original folders in the "Batch Convert" tool
    Enhanced the "Cover" style of Set as Wallpaper. Now it is possible to zoom and drag an image to set any particular part of it as wallpaper
    Now it is possible to adjust EXIF Timestamp by both hours and minutes using the "Change Timestamp" tool under "Tools" menu
    Added an option to the Settings to determine which (move or copy) action to take when files are dragged to the folder tree
    Enhanced the Magnifier to view large images faster
    Updated the RAW format library. Panasonic RW2 files are supported
    Fixed some bugs

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