FastStone Image Viewer 4.1

Rated 50/50 by ZenoLabs at Jun 8, 2009

Still the best, men!

Rated 50/50 by us3r at Jun 9, 2009

Simple, well-thought, powerful, fast, free.

Rated 40/50 by dhry at Jun 30, 2009

FS uses 24Mb on startup, XNView uses 15. XN starts up a split second faster. FS definitely has some good ideas though. such as the menus that you can see when moving the mouse to different edges of the screen in full-screen view mode. I'll up my rating to a 4, but it'll never get 5 until they quit forcing the program to use skins mode. This will give the interface an all-round speed improvement and improve memory usage too. Interestingly enough, FS also have a separate "image resizer program" which supports "batch" mode - this functionality is already built into XNView. Until they improve certain aspects of this program - for example the ability to choose your windows positioning (XN gives you 8 relative layouts to choose from) as well as the terrible speed of viewing pictures with the Lanczos3 smoothing enabled (there seems to be NO read-ahead cache and pics take ages to load, whereas XN, even with high-quality resizing, loads them in an instant whilst both caching ahead and keeping the current image in the cache), I'd suggest simply getting XN - there's literally no point in using FS at this time. They're both free and you just get more with XN.

Rated 50/50 by dre belgium at Aug 14, 2009

"all you want" Perfect image viewer. Slide show possible. And many tools to quick resize, crop to anything or 3:2, 3:4, ....., digital camara info view (shutter time, did flash fire, ...) and the most elementary image improvements (gamma, rotation per 0.1deg, ...) none; can't think of any. Oh yes: I would like to be able to change the zoom setting when I click the image.

Rated 40/50 by micro05 at Aug 18, 2009

"A good free program that keeps improving" My favorite image program and it's free Could use a couple more tweaks

Rated 50/50 by weenana at Aug 18, 2009

"FastStone is one of best imager & i've tried a few" i use this to resize photos and lots of images for my cardmaking, i can also change the colours of some images to match others.This is an essencial in cardmaking I would like to be able to rainbow my colours and be able to close crop photos, also to convert these images to png

Rated 50/50 by CXCHRISTOF at Aug 19, 2009

"Fast Easy to use viewer." It just works after installing.Loads of features Duplex scanning with a sheet feeder doesn't work, and pages cannot be stacked. If it did this I would ditch "Pagemaker". This could be a serious business tool to manage files, but it is free. If they ever add the missing features, I would gladly pay for them. Its viewing features knock the spots off my current program

Rated 50/50 by jatarrio at Aug 19, 2009

"the best product I could find for my favourite hobby" The great number of faclities provided together with the ease of use I cannot find any cons I made a lot of recomendations to my friends and relatives and all are very satisfied.

Rated 50/50 by Billobaggins at Aug 23, 2009

"User friendly, lot of quick tweaks & batch convertions" The batch conversion feature At this point there are no cons!

Rated 40/50 by gmhodge at Aug 23, 2009

"An easy to operate and professional looking system." Logical storeage system. None yet......................................... Impressive

Rated 40/50 by r-cnet at Aug 25, 2009

"good basic viewer" quick start-up, simple understandable interface, presets for cropping to many standard picture sizes red eye correction too clumsy to use; printing does not allow selection of standard size photo paper (such as 4x6) an interesting competitor for Google's Picasa and ExifPro (which costs about $20). The interface is simpler and easier to navigate, but the other two offer photo editing features that work well, although they are slower to start up.

Rated 50/50 by Kim Devonix at Aug 28, 2009

"Does it all!" Viewing: excellent. Editing: Very good. Comparison: Very good. Unable to "lock in" magnification level when going from picture to picture.

Rated 50/50 by lindisfern at Aug 29, 2009

"User Friendly" Very easy to use, fast load time. Have had printer issues after some windows auto updates, usually have to re download FastStone program. Have bought quite a few expensive photo/viewer programs that are either too complicated or do not deliver-FastStone delivers without jargon.Have donated twice-hows that for a ref.?

Rated 50/50 by Andes_Help at Aug 31, 2009

"Great tool" Quick and easy installation. I needed someway to view thumbnails of the Microsoft WMF files that I have collected over the years, after Microsoft decided that thumbnails of their own WMF files were too dangerous to see. Why is this required???? If you work with any WMF files you will find a Thumbnail is easier to use than trying to remember what thousands of randomly generated file names like BUTN011.WMF actually look like.

Rated 40/50 by jssussex at Sep 1, 2009

"Does what it;s desgned to do" converts images to any other format you want capture tool is clunky. The other capture tool is shareware. If you need a tool to convert to other formats this will meet your needs.

Rated 40/50 by cityranch at Sep 3, 2009

"Great Program to see a lot of photos fast" Can run through a number of Photos, Tag the ones I want to look at - from different folders - and bring the tagged ones up to view only them. Tags are restricted to one tag. Would be nice to put in your tag names. I like it, does what it is designed to do and does it very well.

Rated 50/50 by jpap93 at Sep 4, 2009

"Very Good Viewer" Excellent image viewing plus batch conversion. Gifs don't work properly.

Rated 10/50 by tfuhrman2 at Sep 9, 2009

"Complicated Difficult" none that I found All I want to do is resize to put in e-mail & online. Maybe this is a bit over my head. I was not able to resize at all with ease!

Rated 40/50 by AdHoc51 at Sep 11, 2009

"Fast, free, fairly intuitive, allows basic editing." Fast, free, intuitive folder explorer, basic fixing, cropping etc. After cropping and saving to file you see the crop box has moved to elsewhere on your photo and you think, "Oh no," but it's OK, the correct cropped area has been saved.

Rated 50/50 by Jfsham at Sep 14, 2009

"Top 3 Image Viewer" Easy and fast to manage after getting used to the functioning. It doesn't load images like Picasa does on the background which sometimes gets annoying. It loads images smoothly and can load CR2, raw files which is superb! Few setups like switch view mode to window mode and some others depends on your personal taste then it becomes a very good image viewer. I highly recommend this product, it is one of the best image viewer out there.