IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more.
It's one of the best image viewer available.
Note: IrfanView is free for personal use; the registration fee for commercial use is $10.
Here are some key features of "IrfanView":
· Many supported file formats
· Multi language support
· Thumbnail/preview option
· Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
· Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
· Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
· Fast directory view (moving through directory)
· Batch conversion (with image processing)
· Multipage TIF editing
· Email option
· Multimedia player
· Print option
· Change color depth
· Scan (batch scan) support
· Cut/crop
· IPTC editing
· Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
· Capturing
· Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
· Lossless JPG rotation
· Many hotkeys
· Many command line options
· Many PlugIns
· Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
· No registry changes without user action/permission!
What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]
· New capture option: Region capture (Thanks to grebulon)
· as option in Capture dialog or hotkey: CTRL + PrintKey)
· OCR Feature/PlugIn added (Options menu, Hotkey: F9, full image or selection)
· PlugIn download: http://rerecognition-download.ch/irfan/kadmos44/KADMOS.htm
· New command line switches for /capture
· 4 = use region capture, 5 = start in capture mode using dialog settings
· New and re-arranged Properties dialogs
· New Color Management options in Properties->Viewing (new LCMS PlugIn needed)
· Burning PlugIn: can burn using Nero or Windows interface (WinXP or later)
· Support for JLS format (JPEG-LS, PlugIn by KATO Kanryu)
· Support for WBZ/WBC/WB1 formats (Webshots formats, PlugIn by V. Paramoshin)
· New display option: Use Resample for zooming (Menu: View->Display options)
· New fullscreen option: Use Resample for zooming (Properties->Fullscreen)
· Option to save changes on exit in now also used for image/file change
· New option in Batch-Scan dialog: Remember last scan counter
· Previou...
Reasons why this program is marked as ad-supported:
· Offers to download or install software or components (such as browser toolbars) that the program does not require to fully function: Google Toolbar for Internet Explorer
