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IrfanView

This software runs on Microsoft Windows (All)

What is IrfanView

IrfanView is a fast, compact, small and free image viewer and converter that will work on almost all Microsoft Windows versions (including XP,Vista,7). A powerful graphic viewer, designed from the scratch to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. IrfanView is the first Windows graphic viewer that comes with support for multiple (animated) GIF, Multipage TIF and Multiple ICO. It has support for many graphic file formats (constantly updated). Just a couple of them: BMP, DIB, JPG, JPEG, PSD, PDF, GIF, TTF, TXT, ANI, CUR, CLP, DDS, CAM, Mac PICT, QTIF, MP4, WAD, WBMP, RAS, SUN, SFF, PPM ( and many other graphic file formats supported). Support has been extend over the years for video and audio files. Just a shortlist of them: WAV, AVI, WMA, WMV, MPG, MPEG, MP3, MID and many others (keep in mind that for some video and audio files like RA or MOV, MP4 - Real Player/Apple Quicktime required). It offers support for many languages, has preview and paint roles (you can draw arrows, lines or circles etc.), toolbar skins, slideshow is also present at this free and powerful graphic software. Also it has support for Adobe Photoshop Filters, batch conversion (with his image processing), email, file search, printing, it can change color depth, it can add effects (Blur, Filter Factory, Sharpen etc.). Capturing, extracting icons from DLL, EXE, ICLs are just a couple of other features that comes with this free graphic software.

IrfanView Review

I guess my words won't be enough to describe this program at his real value. Many thanks to Irfan Skiljan for creating such a useful graphic software. This is my favorite graphic viewer software for Windows. I use it for the first time back in 2001. It doesn't have extensive painting abilities such as GIMP or Adobe Photoshop. However this is a lightweight player and viewer that has a different purpose. It is fast, easy to use and it can handle many graphic file formats. It is small - his size at the time that I am writing this review is fewer than 2 MB in size. Additionally you can download plug-ins and other skins from official website (see bottom). When you use IrfanView you’re limited only by your imagination. For example, did you know that you can create screensavers and slide shows? (all you need is IrfanView, install it and learn how to use it plus a small collection of images). The best part after you created a screensaver or a slideshow is this: you can run them as stand alone executable on other computers (Microsoft Windows) that doesn’t have this program installed. I guess this says a lot about the abilities of this free image viewer.

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