FastStone Image Viewer 4.1

Rated 50/50 by Runefire at Mar 20, 2010

"A must have program for everyone who uses a computer!" What I love about this program is it's one of the best around and it's free. I had to get this to edit a lot of pictures that no other program would edit not even some of the paid programs I bought. None that I know of. I really liked this program and have installed it on all my computers and even my friends and family's computer and when I work on computers for people I install this for them so they can take advantage of a wonderful free program.

Rated 40/50 by Skipgoldenrod at Mar 22, 2010

"Versitile image viewer" Easy interface, wide range of image types Nothing really. Good addition to your toolbox

Rated 50/50 by markrbb75 at Mar 25, 2010

Extremely easy to use. Most of the basic tools I need such as Resizing, Red-Eye, Crop, Color Adjustments, Sharpen/blur, Add Text, etc. and a few of the more advanced toys like Morph, Border Effects, Bump Map, etc...again, EASY to use and FAST None at all I was asked to take photos of my son's 18th birthday party. It was being held at a school gym, indoor basketball court. The overhead lighting was awful and my flash wasn't helping. I couldn't get the white balance correct, but I figured I'd just shoot everything I could and sort it all out later. After the party, as I viewed the pics on my laptop, I was not happy with what I saw and my wife needed the pics put on a disc right away so she could show the kids at church. I went to the CNET website and read their reviews on photo editing products. The review I read about FastStone sounded promising and even though I had never heard of it, I trust CNET's opinion so I downloaded it right from their website. BTW, it's free! FastStone turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. I was able to correct all the red-eye and the lousy lighting, crop and resize and basically turn out some not-so-bad pics. I took the shots on Saturday, corrected them and put them on a disc that evening and gave them to my wife to show at church on Sunday morning. I am very happy with this product and even though I also have Photoshop Elements, I will probably be using FastStone more often since it's so easy and fast for the basic editing.

Rated 40/50 by aztectwin at Mar 25, 2010

"good Stuff" Does what it says not seen any yet

Rated 50/50 by deweyrankin1 at Mar 27, 2010

"does what it says" The options to edit are right up there with all the hundred dollar programs. I really like the way the tool bars apear when needed, and hidden otherwise, lets you actually see the full screen photo. Like it so well, will buy the upgrade version So far I haven't found anything that free over rides The hidden tool bars are a great idea, The use of full screen view is great

Rated 40/50 by pnewmarch at Apr 6, 2010

Very easy to use and stable. Excellent for dealing with very large batches - skim through, tag the ones you want - then deal with just those.Basic editing is limited but works well - can easily break out to special editor.Quick mark-up comments etc It is good at remembering what you were doing except when marking-up or freehand cropping. It would be nice if these defaulted to the same operation as last used.Careful when deleting folders - occasionally hangs. I recently used this to prepare a batch of 16 000 photos on 19 DVDs for a report. Sorting, fixing bad lighting, selecting and annotating, captioning and repackaging into sets of folders with appropriate filenames. Finally putting the whole lot into PDFs.It got the job done at a rate of about 1000 pics a day all told. Only a couple of hiccups!It seems invaluable for that kind of thing. Picture can be assembled into slideshows or PDFs for screen viewing (with captions and notes)Index/contact sheets can also be printed in configurable formats, but it can be a little tricky getting the settings right.The file renaming is good as far as it goes, but cannot edit names - only add prefixes or suffixes (with numbers), or else replace completely. So it may help to use a file renamer as well.When you've done all that, you find yourself looking for a program that can quickly add hyperlinks to a text, with less fuss than a certain well-known word processor!An absolute MUST HAVE! Updated on Apr 6, 2010

Rated 50/50 by kemosabe at Apr 7, 2010

I can pull together a bunch of photos and email them direct to my family and frieds. Cannot think of a negative right now.

Rated 50/50 by danstheman7 at Apr 17, 2010

Quick load, light on resources. Seems to be one of the best free suites for photo viewing. None at all.

Rated 20/50 by ThatGuyDesigns at Apr 18, 2010

Quick and free Design not overly great, reminded me of shareware back in the '90s. Help file wasn't very helpful at all, very little information and the keyword search was limited to the 5 or 6 section titles. I mainly needed something quick/small/simple to edit meta/exif tag information on photos where the data was missing but, wasn't able to do much beyond view the information. Otherwise, windows picture/fax viewer that comes with WinXP works just fine for viewing files. Editing wise I would use Photoshop since I have it on both the MAC and PC.

Rated 40/50 by weevie at Apr 19, 2010

Used primarily as a viewer this program cleverly allows full-screen (and mouse-click zooms) views, scaled by (custom) percentage to suit your own megapixel (ie: size of image). Low-level image adjustments available from within, exif data, etc etc Very strong on image quality - seems to 'bring out' what you've achieved with your camera (perhaps more than IrfanView does). To get this quality for free is rare indeed. Do not hesitate, but give it a couple of weeks to get used to the options / layout

Rated 50/50 by The_Blinded at Apr 20, 2010

FastStone Image Viewer is one of the best programs to watch and take pictures in order. You have a lot of tools for editing (also in batch) an image. Really great!

Rated 50/50 by bobad at Apr 21, 2010

This is the best free photo viewer/light editor in existence. I rate it 6 stars out of 5. If someone rates it a 2, he simply hasn't tried it. Dude, you need to try the program.

Rated 50/50 by uberfly at Apr 21, 2010

Just fantastic and free!!! Donate a few $$ if you find it useful so it stays that way.

Rated 50/50 by gardenlady110 at Apr 24, 2010

I like the many features of this program, there is so much you can do. Love the ability to batch convert, and the many options therein. Also love the border options, and the tweaking tools available. Nothing I can think of, I would like to see a couple more effects available, but that is a very minor request. I have been using Fast Stone now for about a year, updating when new versions come in. I liked it so much that even though it is free, I made a contribution. The product, as you stated, is great for all but professional designers. I keep discovering new tools in the program that I can use and I use it a lot for batch resizing and bordering photos for my website. Many choices are available within the program, and I have recommended it to many of my clients and students for a tool that goes beyond the very basic photo editing you find with other programs. I think it's that good.

Rated 30/50 by kendp at Apr 27, 2010

Excellent for photos. Fast, configurable, and handles many formats. I especially like the ability to quickly compare several photos to see which version you prefer after editing. With more and more cameras shooting video, the fact that video is not supported is a very serious lack. Before I started shooting video clips, I thought Faststone was the best image viewer. Now I am looking for one that does it all to replace it. If it handled video, I would give it 5+

Rated 40/50 by dnci at Apr 28, 2010

Simplicity, speed, reliability, free, compatible with Win 7 (64-bit) none so far Worthy tool for pictures viewing, editing, and showing.

Rated 50/50 by dcookinh at Apr 28, 2010

ease of use great editing tools Not much wrong with it Best free software I have used... compares with CCleaner

Rated 30/50 by billt3256 at Apr 28, 2010

Good image viewer and can do some basic editing. Does not allow easy rating of images. I had used this viewer for a long time but stopped using because the 5 star rating function was not integrated in the viewer. The new version has not added this feature.

Rated 50/50 by hotcana at Apr 28, 2010

Small footprint easy to customize and fast to work with if your pictures need just some correction than this is all that is needed I like everything I like to make photo's with the camera and not in the darkroom this is with neg film and with Digital so unless you want real special effects like persons in places where they are not etc, than you will need Photoshop or something simelair however for regular corrections this program covers it all

Rated 50/50 by us3r at Apr 29, 2010

Version 4.2 (April 29, 2010) * Now it is possible to batch convert images into PDF files * Enhanced the magnifier * Optimized the loading speed of Windowed View * Fixed some bugs introduced in version 4.1 * Other minor improvements