FastStone Image Viewer 4.1

Rated 50/50 by virtual_ad at Jan 10, 2008

Excellent. I use it all the time. It's fast, looks great and gets the job done :)

Rated 50/50 by serendipityguy at Jan 16, 2008

A must have for every computer. what I love about this software are the quick and easy keyboard commands, how it give complete image management of png, jpg, gif and more, the ability to open a window from within the application, the slide show, the ability rename multiple images, simple drop & drag from one directory or drive to the next, there are so many more features inside FastStone Image Viewer, so much more most indeed. • Double click on a thumbnail image or single click on this icon to switch to a Full Screen view of the image • In Full Screen, move your mouse pointer to the bottom border of the screen where a control bar (see next figure) will pop up to provide fast access to major program functions. (Note: Moving your mouse pointer onto this control bar will enable the mouse wheel to be used for zooming in/out on the image) • In Full Screen, move your mouse pointer to the right border of the screen where an image properties window with EXIF metadata will pop up • In Full Screen, move your mouse pointer to the top border of the screen where a thumbnail browser window will pop up to provide fast access to other images in the same folder and other program commands • In Full Screen, move your mouse pointer to the left border of the screen where a panel will pop up to provide fast access to file and image editing functions • In Full Screen, move your mouse pointer to the right-bottom corner of the screen where the Windows Taskbar will pop up to provide fast switching to any other programs being run (Windows XP only) • When the mouse cursor becomes a magnifier shape , it means the displayed image has been formatted to fit within the current available window or screen area. Now you can press and hold the left mouse button and the image will be viewed in a magnifier. With the left mouse button being held down, moving the mouse around will move the magnifier across the image. The Magnifier zoom ratio and Magnifier size

Rated 30/50 by pedigree at Jan 17, 2008

- No unicode filename support - Still uses its own stupid skin/theme engine which I cant disable, regardless that it has a faux XP skin. If I want XP theme, let me disable your skin engine and use the systems default theme - No multiple instances - Files accessed via UNC paths take FOREVER to load. Map a drive instead if you want network file access

Rated 40/50 by DudeBoyz at Jan 22, 2008

A very good freeware alternative, but I do think the interface issues are holding it back in terms of user appeal.

Rated 30/50 by dhry at Mar 28, 2008

"Mystery meat" navigation? Had to chuckle. Anyway - there's a big dealbreaker with this program and that's the fact that, as a previous reviewer pointed out, you can't disable it's built-in skin. Some of us don't WANT a skin. Learn from foobar2000's simple yet powerful design, make skins an option and speed the damn program up.

Rated 40/50 by spamdigger at Jun 25, 2008

Anyone know how to view EXIF data *without* having to go to full view and moving mouse to the right hand side? TIA.

Rated 50/50 by JeRrYFaR at Jun 25, 2008

This is a welcome surprise! Skins or not, this program is my all-time-favorite for picture viewing and some editing. I've tried them all, including the Wildbit Viewer and come back to this one everytime. Glad to see they're continuing development, as it's been a LONG time since there have been any updates.

Rated 50/50 by us3r at Jun 25, 2008

Bugs which occured while displaying some BMP files has been fixed :). EDIT: "Anyone know how to view EXIF data *without* having to go to full view and moving mouse to the right hand side? TIA" Ctrl + I

Rated 50/50 by aloishammer at Jun 25, 2008

Another me, too: most of the skins waste a lot of real estate on lower-res displays, a lot are ugly, and there needs to be, at minimum, an option to simply use the default Windows GUI toolkit. And since submitting a bug report to FastStone hasn't produced any response at all, I'll mention it here: I *desperately* need an option to switch off metadata retrieval and automatic thumbnail generation for occasions when I'm viewing a large folder over a wireless link. This kills FSViewer.exe, the host CPU, and the wireless link until metadata generation and retrieval are complete, or FSViewer's killed off. FSViewer generates useless thumbnails even if the view's switched to list/detail, and refuses to switch view types in any case if it's busy generating those thumbnails. Better threading in the GUI, please.

Rated 50/50 by DrTeeth at Jun 25, 2008

Perfection.

Rated 40/50 by Zoroaster at Jun 25, 2008

I agree with the bother of the imposed skins, really annoying, that's why a 4/5. Otherwise, remains my default image viewer

Rated 50/50 by Vimes at Jun 25, 2008

Excellent application and very useful at doing what it is meant to do. Top marks from me :)

Rated 50/50 by mharvey at Jul 15, 2008

spamdigger: If you hit I while an image is selected in the browser it will pop up the "Image Properties" dialog which will incude the EXIF data.

Rated 50/50 by ZenoLabs at Aug 27, 2008

Here's the changelog, Dong K. Kong: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerBeta.htm Great image viewer, just don't like the fact you can't turn off skin customization to have a "standard" viewing of the window interface.

Rated 40/50 by Captain Hook at Aug 27, 2008

Very nice and good program. However, I wish that it could show all my movies taken from my digital cameras since they are all in .mov format. Also all my pictures taken from my mobilephones are in .3GP format. Hopefully this will be in the pipeline for further development of this fine viewer/player.

Rated 30/50 by kindbud1 at Aug 27, 2008

Functionality: 5 Completely ignoring countless requests to ditch the custom skinning engine: 0 I'll generously average this out to a 3.

Rated 50/50 by jing66@gmail.com at Aug 27, 2008

"It plays video files (avi, wmv, mpg) in slide shows." It is nice that I can sit back and watch both images and videos in a slide show by simply pressing S key.

Rated 20/50 by Dong K. Kong at Aug 27, 2008

If there's nowhere to find what is new, there are few reasons too actually give it a score, ain't it ?

Rated 50/50 by drorharari at Aug 27, 2008

FastStone Capture is a great program. It takes a very little resources but it does almost all you might possibly need in terms of capturing and it does it with ease and elegance. In this version, FastStone added the ability to capture "screencasts" which are videos (with audio) of what goes on a screen. The coolest thing in this is the amazingly small video files generated by the program (without compromising on video recording quality). Recommended! (p.s., I am a proud registered user of this program - well desrved).

Rated 50/50 by radiomaffia at Aug 27, 2008

Everything FastStone produces is good software, this one as well. It's a pitty FastStone PlAYER 3.2 for videofiles have not been updated since 2004. Except for FastStone Capture everything stayed freeware :-). If you liked ACDSee Classic 3.1 back in the early days of ACDSee you will like this piece of software as well!! 5 STARS