IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows.
IrfanView features include:
- Many supported file formats
- Multi language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
- Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
- Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
- Drag & drop support
- Fast directory view (moving through directory)
- Batch conversion (with image processing)
- Multipage TIF editing
- Multimedia player
- Print option
- Change color depth
- And much more...
Change Log:
- Improved Resampling (Speed; Lanczos artefacts: thanks to Marcel Lancelle)
- New feature: Add watermark image (Edit menu and Advanced batch dialog)
- Improved zooming: CTRL + wheel (keep mouse coordinates) and centered zoom
- Support for WebP format (Weppy format, PlugIn, reading + saving)
- Support for PDN format (Paint.NET format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)
- Support for XCF format (GIMP format, PlugIn, thanks to ComSquare AG)
- Face Detection Plugin (Thumbnails window, thanks to MulticoreWare guys)
- New JPG save option: Try to save with original (estimated) JPG quality
- Improved/changed sort menus (XP/natural order)
- New batch rename option: Run test rename
- New Thumbnails menu: Refresh selected thumbs
- Batch dialog, Output directory: Placeholders are now allowed
- New Properties dialog: Zoom / Color management
- New expert zoom option: Edit table with fixed zoom values (Properties->Zoom)
- New fullscreen options: Center image, Text layer (Properties->Fullscreen)
- New option in "Create multipage TIF/PDF" dialog: Load filenames from TXT file
- New options in JPG IPTC/Comment dialogs: Allow Unicode PlugIn to change text
- New command line option: /cmdexit (close current IrfanView after command line)
- TIF bug with SGILog compressed images fixed (reported by Secunia, thanks!)
- New special INI option to hide common folders in Open/Save dialog (see FAQs)
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + K = Keep Scroll position
