IrfanView

IrfanView is a small but powerful image viewer and editor for Windows. Despite being tiny it can do a lot! A great guy named Irfan Skiljan created it in 1996 and both regular folks and pros have loved it since.

What’s so great about IrfanView? It’s easy to use and does a ton of stuff.

The clean and simple look won’t confuse you with too many buttons. But don’t let that fool you – it’s packed with tools for viewing, changing and fixing your photos.

IrfanView can open over 100 different types of image files! From everyday photos like JPEGs and PNGs to special files like medical images. So you can open any picture file you come across.

One of the best things about IrfanView is how fast it is. Pictures open in a split second even on older, slower computers. It’s also super fast when working with many images at once. You can resize, rename or add effects to hundreds of photos with just a few clicks!

Need to fix your photos? IrfanView has you covered. You can:

• Make pictures brighter or darker

• Fix colors that don’t look right

• Remove red-eye from flash photos

• Apply fun filters to your images

It’s not fancy software like Photoshop but it handles everyday photo fixes perfectly.

Want more features? IrfanView lets you add plugins – extra pieces that give the program new abilities. These can help with things like working with more file types or adding special effects.

**IrfanView is perfect if you want to: **

• Look through your vacation photos quickly

• Change pictures from one format to another

• Make a cool slideshow

• Do some quick edits

The best part? It doesn’t slow down your computer like bigger programs do. It even has a portable version you can carry on a USB drive!

For anyone who wants a simple but powerful way to manage and edit photos without the headache or cost, IrfanView is one of the best out there today.

• New option: Keep existing alpha/transparency color (Properties-Viewing)Show checkerboard image; Alpha/Color also used for saving
• New option in Increase Color Depth dialog: 32 BPP (with alpha layer)
• New option in Replace Color dialog: Set transparent color (if 32 BPP image)
• New Image menu: Edit or Set alpha/transparency color
• New option: Show Browse buttons in main window (Properties-Browsing)
• Fine Rotation option can work on selections
• New in OCR PlugIn: read QR or Barcode (thanks to ZXing guys)
• New slideshow hotkey: SHIFT + "," (comma): Toggle random and automatic time
• New Print dialog option: Reverse pages (for multipage images, page ranges)
• Support for EXIF data in WEBP files (EXIF dialog)
• Command line: "/effect" can be combined with "/slideshow", like:i_view64.exe /slideshow=c:\mypics.txt /effect=(30,0,0)
• Loading issues in several PlugIn fixed (thanks to Trend Micro)(CADImage, Formats, CamRAW, DjVu, JPM, ECW, WSQ)
• SVG PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to nerty_nerty)
• EXR PlugIn loading bugs fixed (thanks to leeho and Who4mI)
• Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions