Faststone Image Viewer is a tool you can use to browse for pictures. You can view, edit and convert them, whether you are a novice or experienced user.

It supports many common image formats, such as JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TIFF, and PSD, and it can also save images as PDF.

Once the quick installation finishes, you probably see the interface is based on Explorer, so navigating in Faststone Image Viewer is easily accomplished.

When you locate a folder with images, you can view its content as thumbnails. Double-clicking automatically opens them in full screen. Here you receive a useful tip that says you can access various features by moving the mouse cursor to each edge of the screen.

In the bottom edge is the control bar, where you can use an image navigator and perform quick actions (e.g. resize, crop, clone and heal, adjust lighting, rotate, screen capture).

The right border of the screen grants you access to file properties, such as EXIF metadata, histogram, and general information.

The top margin enables a thumbnail browser window to appear, in order to give you quick access to other images found in the same folder, but you can also use other functions (e.g. create a slideshow).

Finally, in the left border of the screen, a panel pops up, where you can quickly access file and image editing functions, such as rotation, resize and text (e.g. red eye removal), colors (e.g. auto-adjust, adjust curves, sharpen or blur), and effects (e.g. frame mask, border effects, bump map, oil painting).

Furthermore, if you hold down the left button of the mouse on the image, its size changes to full mode, and you can easily move in it.

All these functions are also accessible from the main interface. Additionally, you can allow file tagging, create and organize favorites, build or split files with multiple pages of images (in PDF, TIFF or animated GIF), batch-convert images, and more.

We have not encountered any types of problems, and the software uses a small amount of system memory. You should definitely try this product and see how it fits.