It took me a long time to finally try Faststone Image Viewer, but now I like everything about it. With its many useful features, it's more than just a viewer. The program is very easy to use, too, and the overall appearance is pleasing to the eye. Waiting for the thumbnail database to be built takes a little patience, but once that's done, all the thumbnails come up instantly as one jumps from folder to folder. FSViewer is now my default image viewer, but there's still one thing I'd like to see improved: There needs to be some way to set a preference for the UI font sizes. The main menu fonts are OK, but those in the dialogs are tiny and hard to read on the 10-inch screen of my Windows 7 netbook without squinting.

Nevertheless, since this is unlikely to affect users with larger screens, it hasn't prevented me from giving Faststone Image Viewer a well-deserved 5-star rating. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Aug 01, 2015 for v5.4. An image viewer that is a pleasure to use and lets you focus on your photos not on the program. Once set up according to your own taste (choice of skin, mouse and navigation options, etc.) you can just sit back and relax and use this everyday. Very rarely will you need to open another tool to mess with your images, but if you do need to open an image with another program you can do this right from inside Faststone using the 'edit with external program' feature.

Sep 13, 2017. FastStone Image Viewer 6.4: View, edit and convert your image collection quickly and easily with this powerful tool. Operating Systems: Windows 10, Windows 7 (32 bit), Windows 7 (64 bit), Windows 8, Windows Vista (32 bit), Windows Vista (64 bit), Windows XP. Requirements: Languages: English.

I tested many other free image viewers but no others feel as solid as Faststone, solid as a rock (stone) you can say. Recent versions of Faststone image viewer are great but I still prefer the look and feel of version 2.5 the best. Give that version a try if you haven't, sometimes older is better. But either way you shouldn't be disappointed with this program.

I'm an artist and a lover of photography so I have spent many long hours enjoying Faststone. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Apr 15, 2015 for v5.3.

I usually use another image viewer, but I got frustrated by my 'daily driver' and decided to give Faststone a try. There's a lot to like. The interface is clean and intuitive, the features are readily accessible. However, my other software has spoiled me when it comes to file types. There isn't much that XNview can't recognize and display.

FSview doesn't know, for instance, what a Gimp.xcf file is, so it pretends it doesn't exist. I wish that FSIV would at least show a marker that says 'unsupported file type' or something, with a file name, to let the user know that there are other files in a folder aside from what FSIV recognizes. No software is perfect, and I really like some of FSIV's features enough that I'll keep the portable version handy.

Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Mar 13, 2011 for v4.3. FastStone Image Viewer instantly became one of my favorite programs. It has the features and power to do virtually everything I need to do with images but, more importantly, it is efficient and EASY to use. Since downloading this little software gem, that Adobe monster on my computer has seen little of me. Though you will not need it to accomplish most necessary tasks, it is well worth downloading and reading through the tutorial accessible under the 'Help' menu.

FastStone Image Viewer is definitely a keeper! Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Feb 26, 2009 for v3.6. The FastStone image viewer is one of the best if not the best freeware image viewers available. I have just completed testing all free viewers that I could find and a number of shareware ones as well. I found this viewer to be the best of all for our purpose.

It hasn't blow up or created problems on any of our thin clients or PCs. It is compact and does what it says it can do. Which more than I can say about XnView and IrfanView and many others. Not to many bells and whistles but a solid performer that fits on thin clients. If FS would add IBMs IOCA formats and page segments to their list, then it would be a very viable alternative for IBM midrange and mainframe customers. And that's a whole lot of users. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend?

Yes • Posted Sep 26, 2007 for v3.2. First, this is semi-freeware. After several months it'll pop up a screen asking if you want to donate any amount. You have the option of declining (but shouldn't). The program is slightly slow when loading a directory with hundreds of photos. You get not only a nice thumbnail but quick stats and a bigger preview when you click or arrow to the pic. Drag and drop to maintain your album.

Press Enter or double-click a pic and you get into the real power--spend some time exploring. Press 2 for double size. 3 for triple size. Revista Tectonica Rapidshare Premium there.

Move your cursor to each edge of the screen for menus of things you can do. The crop and resize tools are sensational. Other effects are mostly very good to superb. Red-eye removal was okay.

I wish some of the effects were on a right-mouse click but at least there are keyboard shortcuts. The more I use this program, the more I love it. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Jun 07, 2007 for v3.2.

But there are a few very annoying bugs, I've reported them a long time ago however developers didn't bother neither to fix them nor reply to me. I love interface of FastStone, however one of those bugs (FastStone is unable to display into Pentax RAW files embedded JPEG images) is a showstopper for me:( Another annoying bug is very poor serialization of image viewing. Go to folder containing a lot of large JPEG files, even better RAW files and then quickly press Page Down for, let's say, 10 times. Now sit back and relax while FS loads images one by one instead of just jumping straight to eleventh image. Otherwise FS is very nice program and I can easily recommend to anyone who doesn't want to view JPEGs ebmedded into RAW files. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend?

Yes • Posted Jun 04, 2007 for v3.2. Actually the best thing you can do is to work with the following two freeware programs together: xplorer2 and Faststone Image Viewer (FSIV). The interface of these two programs are quite similar (for browsing files) However FSIV can only show image files and will not show anything not related to image files, while xplorer2 will show EVERYTHING, all kinds of files and has a little preview screen in the lower left corner just like FSIV, what I really like is that you can do mirror browsing (which is great!) etc etc. Xplorer2 has a sleek interface and has a very small footprint!

Use it for a while and you are addicted. Now use xplorer2 for file browsing, and let FSIV be associated with all image extensions. So when you find an image file with xplorer2, just click on it and FSIV will open it. It works great, cause both programs are fast and light on resources. Just try it out! Let me know what you think afterwards! Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend?

Yes • Posted Aug 04, 2006 for v2.6. I've been using FastStone for a year now. Over the years I've used many other image viewers including Irfanview, ACDSee, ThumbsPlus, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer, and more. FastStone blows all of them away. It has a great interface, great tools, it's fast, and the full screen mode is incredibly helpful. I have it associated with all of my image files, and I have it setup to open Photoshop when I need to do more advanced editing.

With FastStone's feature set I find that I can do 90% of my image editing without having to even open Photoshop. I've also been impressed how the author is always adding new (and often very handy) features. Due to this it's definitely a program where you want to check for new versions often. I've installed FastStone on several of my friends and families computers, and all of them love it.

In my opinion, no PC is complete without FastStone installed. It's absolutely indispensable.

Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Apr 18, 2006 for v2.4.

I was enjoying to use this program for many months to view and sort images. However every time I brows large size of images in TIFF, PDF, PSD or JPG in folders containing more than 20 images, it takes more much too long time to open compare to other programs. If the images are in regular JPG, the program is excellent in browsing and lightly editing files. I recommended this program to friends and they all like it. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend?

Yes • Posted Mar 24, 2006 for v2.4. One of the greatest browsers out there. My first thought about the product was it can just view image files but i got sold when what i really needed was a viewer not like other viewers out there than can play every little thing no matter how large that file is, so with my work (computer graphics artist) i handle tons of images everyday and the hassle of viewing just the images amidst the flotsam of files is a must! Hope they just fixed the drag and drop feature in the same window.

But even without it it's keeper. Matchless Amplifier Serial Numbers on this page. i always carry a portable version of it on my usb key chain. Review details • Interface • Features • Ease of use • Value • Recommend to a friend? Yes • Posted Mar 14, 2006 for v2.30.