Quick Windows File Viewer with Benefits — IrfanView

Sometimes you just need a quick way to view an image and make a couple of adjustments.  At times like these you don’t need Adobe Photoshop, and since you probably don’t even want to keep the image when you’re finished, you probably don’t want to put it in your Picasa collection.

For quick image viewing and adjustments, you can’t beat IrfanView.  IrfanView is a free Windows file viewer that is very fast and comes with a boatload of features.  Some fairly advanced like the ability to use Photoshop filters.  Most important though is IrfanView is very fast to open a picture, crop it, resize and save it again.

Some of our favorite features

• Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Paint option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Fast directory view (moving through directory)
• Batch conversion (with image processing)
• File search
• Email option
• Multimedia player
• Print option
• Change color depth
• Scan (batch scan) support
• Cut/crop
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)

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