Features
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Popularity:
#1 in Image Editing Software (out of 2623 products)
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License:
Free
- Editor's Rating:
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
36,596,965
- Requirements:
Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
- Limitations:
No limitations
- Date Added:
July 16, 2008
Publisher's description of IrfanView
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.
Version 4.2 adds Basic Unicode support and new options.
Editor's review of IrfanView
4.0 stars
- "Simple, fast, and free"
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?
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 2130 votes
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10 out of 18 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.2
"I like this program BUT it has a keylogger!"
Pros: Good for what it does...
Cons: ...but its just not worth the keylogger thats embedded in it. I disabled the keylogger with Agnitum and the program ran fine but its just not worth it to me
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3 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.2
Cons: too cluttered and many other downloads with more features and more.
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6 out of 8 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.2
Pros: ACDSee? Money? Why? IrfanView is for free. Supports like every image format on this planet. It's fast. User-friendly. Simply a good piece of software. Did I mention it's free? :D
Cons: Could get nicer icons for images. The red cat (or whatever that is) looks weird.
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7 out of 7 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.2
Pros: Much more user-frienly than the two previous versions. The display come automatically to the monitor size, and you have a "center" function for printing. The zoom-in zoom-out function is perfect ; it had some flaws in the two previous versions, now you can visualize any part of the picture you wish while zooming into it.
Cons: No other languages than German and English yet. But I suppose they will come.
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: IrfanView 4.2
"Best free viewer with some extras."
Pros: Handles most formats, all that I ever use.
Quick and easy to use.
Simple editing like resizing and rotation included.
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