Fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor

FastStone Image Viewer

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Download FastStone Image Viewer 7.8

FastStone Image Viewer

  -  7.79 MB  -  Freeware
  • Latest Version

    FastStone Image Viewer 7.8 LATEST

  • Review by

    Sophia Jones

  • Operating System

    Windows XP / Vista / Windows 7 / Windows 8 / Windows 10 / Windows 11

  • User Rating

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  • Author / Product

    FastStone Soft / External Link

  • Filename

    FSViewerSetup78.exe

  • MD5 Checksum

    a775de63bc857dccb9f40ea3e61ea7f1

FastStone Image Viewer 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, retouching, and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser, and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches one of the four edges of the screen. Other features of FastStone Image Viewer include a high-quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.

FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2, and DNG).

Features and Highlights
  • Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
  • True Full-Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
  • Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
  • Powerful image editing tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, adjust lighting/colors/curves/levels etc.
  • Eleven re-sampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
  • Image color effects: grayscale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
  • Image special effects: annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, sketch, oil painting, lens
  • Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
  • Clone Stamp and Healing Brush
  • Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with the completely natural-looking end result
  • 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
  • Create a memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
  • Acquire images from the scanner. Support batch scanning to PDF, TIFF, JPEG, and PNG
  • Versatile screen capture capability
  • Powerful Save As an interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
  • Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
  • Offer a portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
  • Configurable mouse wheel support
  • Support program skins
  • Support dual-monitor configurations
  • Support touch interface (tap, swipe, pinch)
  • Support dual instances
  • Play video files (Third-party codecs may be required for old versions of Windows)
  • And much more in FS Image Viewer
Also Available: Download FastStone Image Viewer Portable

  • FastStone Image Viewer 7.8 Screenshots

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What's new in this version:

- Added "Search by Name" to toolbar above thumbnail browser
- Added drag-and-drop functionality to viewing panel. You can drag and drop image or video files from external sources (e.g. Windows File Explorer) into image viewing area to view files directly
- Added Shadows and Highlights to batch conversion tool (Advanced Options -> Adjustments)
- Added Contrast and Gamma options to Scan Board
- Added keyboard shortcuts to change "Auto Image Size" option. Press Ctrl+Shift+K for "Auto Fit". Press Ctrl+Shift+L for "Lock Zoom Ratio"
- Added more options to "Mouse Click" in Settings window
- Added "Load from File" and "Save to File" in Settings window
- Added support for AVIF format
- Presets in Resize tool are customizable
- Moved Rename tool to a higher position to avoid covering the center of the image
- Enhanced PSD format support
- Enhanced Wallpaper support on Windows 10/11
- Improved loading speed of Apple DNG raw files
- Fixed compatibility issue with iOS 17 when importing photos/videos from iPhone
- Many other small improvements and bug fixes

Enhanced Draw Board:
- Added Text with effects (curve, outline and shadow)
- Added Emojis
- Added preset color lists (click * button to select a preset color)
- Flip/Rotate image objects
- Zoom In/Out ranging from 1% to 5000%
- When editing text, press Ctrl+Del or Ctrl+Backspace to delete an entire word

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