FastStone Image Viewer is an

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and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided

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for personal and educational use, . The program also includes basic

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tools.

Features

Highlights: *Relatively fast HQ image

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viewing, using

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algorithm *Support for

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configuration *Custom order arranging, via

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, and automatic renumbering *Batch operations including rename and convert *

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management (partial, it ignores the monitor profile) *Magnifier lens *Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on

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, including all user settings. *Preview of quality loss when saving in lossy file formats (such as

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). *If in fullscreen mode, pops up an image gallery, detailed image information, editing options, or program options at the border being touched by the mouse. Other features include: *Supports all major graphic formats ( BMP,

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, PNG,

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, WMF,

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, and TGA), with a focus on popular digital camera RAW formats such as Canon's CR2 and CR3, and Sony's ARW. *Displays Exchangeable image file format (

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) camera information *Thumbnail cache and database *Basic image editing tools: resizing, cropping,

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, red-eye removal *Advance image editing tools: clone brush,

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, levels, and unsharp mask. * Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping *Side-by-side image comparison tool *Fully customizable

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Builder*Emailing *Memory card image retriever *

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, including music and many transition effects *Emailing

Versions

The FastStone Image Viewer was first released in 2004 by FastStone Soft. Since then, new stable versions have been released regularly. Since version 3.1, a multilingual version has been available, supporting Simplified and Traditional Chinese,

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, French,

German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) **Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ger ...

, Hungarian,

Italian Italian(s) may refer to: * Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries ** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom ** Italian language, a Romance language *** Regional Ita ...

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

Polish Polish may refer to: * Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe * Polish language * Poles, people from Poland or of Polish descent * Polish chicken *Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin screenwr ...

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Port ...

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, and Swedish. This Windows program is provided in three forms: as a normal-install executable, a zip file of the same, or as a fully portable no-install zip file. According to FastStone, version 2.7 and all previous releases have been found to be using improperly licensed images and icons, and as a result, FastStone requested that version 2.7 and older copies of FastStone Image Viewer cease to be used, with all licenses updated to version 2.8 for both free and commercial versions. This announcement was made on their web site the same date that version 2.8 was posted.

Issues

*As of version 4.2, resizing of animations (i.e. animated GIFs) is not supported. Thus they can only be viewed at 100% scale, this includes thumbnails. *When the program starts, a delay may occur as the thumbnail view is managed, more so the first time when the thumbnail cache database is built. *The portable version (from

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) sometimes has problems saving its settings, ignoring them at random. Quitting and restarting the app (not PortableApps or the underlying OS) usually solves this problem.

External links

* * Shortcuts v 4.3 (German PDF)
Features in Faststone Image Viewer
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Features

Versions

Issues

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