
The portable version (from PortableApps) sometimes has problems saving its settings, ignoring them at random.When the program starts, a delay may occur as the thumbnail view is managed, more so the first time when the thumbnail cache database is built.
Thus they can only be viewed at 100% scale, this includes thumbnails.
As of version 4.2, resizing of animations (i.e. This announcement was made on their web site the same date that version 2.8 was posted. This Windows program is provided in three forms: as a normal-install executable, a zip file of the same, or as a fully portable no-install zip file.Īccording to FastStone, version 2.7 and all previous releases have been found to be using improperly licensed images and icons, and as a result, FastStone requested that version 2.7 and older copies of FastStone Image Viewer cease to be used, with all licenses updated to version 2.8 for both free and commercial versions. Since version 3.1, a multilingual version has been available, supporting Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish. Since then, new stable versions have been released regularly. The FastStone Image Viewer was first released in 2004 by FastStone Soft. Slide show, including music and many transition effects. Fully customizable contact sheet Builder*Emailing. Advance image editing tools: clone brush, curve (tonality), levels, and unsharp mask. Basic image editing tools: resizing, cropping, color correction, red-eye removal. Displays Exchangeable image file format ( Exif) camera information. Supports all major graphic formats ( BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO, and TGA), with a focus on popular digital camera RAW formats such as Canon's CR2 and CR3, and Sony's ARW. If in fullscreen mode, pops up an image gallery, detailed image information, editing options, or program options at the border being touched by the mouse. Preview of quality loss when saving in lossy file formats (such as JPEG). Portable version to be used without installation, typically installed on USB flash drive, including all user settings. Batch operations including rename and convert. Custom order arranging, via drag-and-drop, and automatic renumbering. Support for multi-monitor configuration. Relatively fast HQ image thumbnail viewing, using Lanczos resampling algorithm. The program also includes basic image editing tools. FastStone Image Viewer is an image viewer and organizer for Microsoft Windows, provided free of charge for personal and educational use, as of version 7.0.