Faststone Image Viewer 4.7 is a tool you can use to browse for pictures, view, edit and convert them, whether you are a novice or experienced user.
The program supports many common image formats, such as JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and PSD, and it can also save images in Portable Document Format.
Once the quick installation finishes, you can meet the Windows Explorer-based interface, so navigating in Faststone Image Viewer is easily accomplished.
When you locate a folder with images, you can quickly glance at its content in the form of thumbnails and double-clicking automatically opens them in full screen. Here you receive a useful tip that says you can access various features by moving the mouse cursor to each edge of the screen.
In the lower part of the GUI you can find the control bar and use an image navigator as well as performing quick actions (e.g. resize, crop, clone and heal, adjust lighting, rotate, screen capture).
The right border of the screen grants you access to file properties, such as EXIF metadata, histogram, and general information.
The top margin enables a thumbnail browser window to appear, in order to give you quick access to other images found in the same folder, but you can also use other functions (e.g. create a slideshow).
Finally, in the left border of the screen, a panel pops up, where you can quickly access file and image editing functions, such as rotation, resize and text (e.g. red eye removal), colors (e.g. auto-adjust, adjust curves, sharpen or blur), and effects (e.g. frame mask, border effects, bump map, oil painting).
key features
- Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
- 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
- Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
- Slideshow creation with 150 transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
- Versatile screen capture capability