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- Operating system: Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/Server 2008/7/NT
- Date added: June 16, 2009
- Total Downloads: 48,433,801
- Downloads last week: 161,478
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- CNET editors' rating: stars
- Average user rating: stars out of 2670 votes
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: Seth Rosenblatt on November 08, 2008
This image viewer and editor is a longtime favorite among our staff, and with good reason. IrfanView is simple, fast, and free for individual use. Upon installation, the app attempts to install two Google programs, but you can opt out.
The program lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can cut and crop images, apply batch conversions, add, sharpen, or blur effects, create panoramas, and change color modes easily. The program continues to add support for an array of file formats and has plug-in support for most image, video, and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, audio CD, and WMA. The interface is far from fancy but should be easy enough for most users to figure out. An IrfanView Thumbnails shortcut on the desktop offers an Explorer-like file tree that quickly displays all images in a particular folder. The latest version includes a basic drawing palette made accessible by hitting F12. It contains simple Erase, Draw, Fill, Rotate, Draw an Arrow, and Color Picker commands, perfect for grabbing screenshots and highlighting image specifics.
IrfanView does what it does well. It's not going to replace a major paint program, but why use a meat cleaver to cut a stick of butter?
Publisher's description
From Irfan Skiljan :IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.25 adds OCR feature, improved color management, support for new picture formats, region capture option, and new command-line options.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.2 stars out of 2670 votes
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Doesn't work for .eps or irfanview forums"
Pros: no pros at all
Cons: had to download dd plus basic program. When I did this it still didn't read the file. So I went through aggravation of having to register for irfanview forum to ask a question and that doesn't work either.
Very frustrating. Complete waste of time. -
Version: IrfanView 4.25
"great for silver surfers to keep up to date"
Pros: odes the work for you
Cons: not found any
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Excellent program, views and quickly edits"
Pros: Easy to use
Cons: Not as powerful as gimp - however it is not aimed at that market
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"I use this instead of Windows Media Player."
Pros: Works great, and easy to use. It is more robust and flexible than other picture and video viewers, with lots of features that Win Media Player doesn't even approach.
Cons: A recent Vista update makes my PC pretend that Irfan View doesn't exist when the Vista dialog box opens to ask you what program to associate with a new file. Even browsing and selecting Irfan View doesn't work. I hate Vista!
Summary: You can create a slideshow of still pictures and movies in a variety of manners by quick and easy file groupings, you can adjust display parameters to optimize images, control how much onscreen text accompanies an image, turn on or off the "use Irfa... read more >>
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Version: IrfanView 4.25
"Unable to play some videos after installed program"
Pros: Many people used it.
Cons: Unable to play video on VLC and Media Player Classic after installed this program. I have no choice, but UNinstaled and everything back to normal.
Confused because there are two separate programs. One is Viewer and the other one is for thumpnails.Summary: There are much better program
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