FastStone Image Viewer 4.1

Rated 50/50 by Iana55 at Aug 27, 2010

Fast is the name with this software. It reads images quicker than any other and supports all formats. It was the only software that would read .nef files from the D300, D3 and X on the day they were released, including Nikon's own software. Not the most powerful manipulator of images but does the basic stuff. As an image viewer I have used Faststone daily for nearly 4 years and have found it superb for sorting through a large quantity of pictures. The twin screen functionality is excellent, placing thumbs on one screen and full ikmage on the second (or vice versa). It is a tool I always recommend to my students.

Rated 50/50 by getusama at Aug 27, 2010

This is absolutely a fantastic image software for both basic editing and browsing. I was lookin for such a software with which you can resize / makes changes in a way that is easy to apprehend. I absoltely love this software. It could have been a little better if it was a little faster.

Rated 50/50 by pfeight at Sep 1, 2010

Easy to use to crop and edit photos. No cons yet.

Rated 20/50 by okbookman at Sep 3, 2010

Works great, is fast. Does NOT have a search feature, which is very import to most people. I will have to use a different image viewer for doing searches.

Rated 20/50 by tfro71 at Sep 5, 2010

does what it is supposed to do not stablewith more then a few thousand pics . Keeps crashing. ****

Rated 50/50 by ruah7 at Sep 8, 2010

Supports all types of images, and has lots of features. Easy to install and use. There are no cons about this product. Excellent image viewer. When in full screen mode moving ur mouse cursor to the top, right, left, and bottom of the screen displays various options. I've been using this for a couple of years now, it's my favorite image viewer. Cannot believe its completely free.

Rated 50/50 by int_revisor at Sep 10, 2010

Image viewer with explorer type interface. You can cut/crop and change image format. You can easily call an external image editor, etc. Nothing particular...

Rated 40/50 by gsymons1 at Sep 14, 2010

Easy to use and always ready when downloading digital photos.Could have a few more functions but that spoils really simple Nothing to dislike.

Rated 50/50 by oldgringoaz at Sep 14, 2010

When I download an image from the internet or my email, I copy any pertinent info and use the comment feature to add it to the image .jpg file. I then use the part of the copy info to rename the .jpg file. Makes for great classification of images. It took me a couple of years to find that I could resize a batch of various sized images to one standard size in one operation. It's easy to use and does many incredible things with image files.

Rated 40/50 by andrewgould at Sep 20, 2010

Intuitive like no other in its category. Claims to be colour managed for TIFF and JPEG files, but does not seem to be. I've been using FastStone Image Viewer for a long time now, downloading each new version. As I say above, it's just so intuitive to use, and looks and feels the way I remember ACDSee to have been in the days when it was lighter. It should certainly serve those who want to do quick basic fixes to their photos, and I imagine that most users of it in that type of situation will not have got up to profiling their monitors. If they have, though, the one problem I see is that the promised colour management for TIFFs and JPEGs doesn't show. I've confirmed this by comparing jpegs exported out of Adobe Lightroom 3 with the originals within Lightroom. As I have Lightroom, you may wonder why I'm still interested in FastStone Image Viewer. As great as Lightroom is, I still find this FastStone viewer a to be a much quicker way to preview new RAW files straight from the camera card, to do my first round of deleting shots, before importing into Lightroom. I wholeheartedly recommend FastStone Image Viewer to serious amateurs and professionals for that purpose.A word about FastStone support, though. FastStone ask for donations, and the reason why I have not donated is because, in my experience, they do not answer support questions at all, even when as a serious photographer, you're giving them feedback on what does not work, which in this case is the aforementioned colour management problem. A pity...

Rated 40/50 by JinJin_Can at Sep 20, 2010

Easy to use. Downloading the pic from the camera has some issue highly recommended for the beginner.

Rated 50/50 by silvatek at Sep 20, 2010

Ease of use. No cons that I can think of. Better than Irfanview.

Rated 50/50 by redclift at Sep 21, 2010

Fluent user interface, especially the 'pop-up' menus in full-screen view. Can't think of anything major

Rated 50/50 by GSmatt18 at Sep 29, 2010

everything its great that you can resize lots of photos at the same time none its all good

Rated 50/50 by Laurie7120 at Oct 1, 2010

Fast, simple, easy to use. Took me awhile to figure out how to save it and what image I was saving. A friend found it, told me about it and now we use it frequently. Great product!

Rated 50/50 by cheesebrie.c at Oct 2, 2010

Easy to use and free. Is perfect for mesaves a lot of time I see none perfect

Rated 50/50 by psniteowl at Oct 8, 2010

So easy to edit pictures, sort them. I don't have any cons. This is my main photo software, I use it daily.

Rated 50/50 by jhenseler at Oct 17, 2010

Great menu. I found no cons for this program.

Rated 50/50 by rahul_does at Oct 19, 2010

I have installed new loyalties in my heart and uninstalled all other viewers from my PC. This, presently, seems the ULTIMATE! None, Whatsoever. A suggestion, though. It needs Image Tagging facilities. Just like MP3 tagging software can import filename as a title, to be read by MP3 players. If only it allowed the user to import filename as a Caption/title, it would have been

Rated 50/50 by Ben-Teoh at Oct 23, 2010

Fantastic for working with large batches of imagesVery easy to use with a lot of options Still trying to find one! Worked as it described straight away. I needed to resize, watermark and rename a large batch of images and I was dreading having to do it manually. FastStone Image Viewer made the job very easy and the images looked great. Worked so well, I donated!