[ Freeware - Shareware ] Simple Application Review

First time i meet internet i usually using ACDsee for image viewer and editing but know ACDsee it's more complex application and use many space in my harddisk. Many image viewer you can find in internet from free until shareware.

I found free image viewer with great feature and i like use it cause it lite and have feature - feature like ACDsee, FastStone Image that the application name, this is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments.

Not just it faststone serve many features from high quality magnifier, musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. You can find the interface looks like explorer so it easy so we feel like browse in our explorer.

This application supports all major graphic formats from BMP, JPEG animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA not other that this application support for RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG) this RAW format usually use in popular digital camera format.

This is system required that faststone recommended

• Windows 98SE, ME, NT, 2000, XP, Vista
  
• 256MB RAM
  
• 10MB space in hard drive
  
• Mouse (with scroll-wheel recommended)

You can see on this list for complete feature but you can find more feature when you explore this application

• Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
  
• Support of many popular image formats:
• True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
  
• Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
  
• Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
  
• Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
  
• Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
  
• Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
  
• Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
  
• Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
  
• One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
  
• Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
  
• Histogram display with color counter feature
  
• Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
  
• Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
  
• Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
  
• Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
  
• Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
  
• Print images with full page-layout control
  
• Create fully configurable Contact Sheets - just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
  
• Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
  
• Acquire images from a scanner
  
• Versatile screen capture capability
  
• Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
  
• Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
  
• Create a no-install fully portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
  
• Configurable mouse wheel support
  
• Supports multiple program skins
  
• Supports dual-monitor configurations
  

You can donwload this application at here and enjoy with your new image viewer.