Irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support.
One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support.
The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.


Some IrfanView features:
Many supported file formats (click here the list of 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
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command line options
Many PlugIns
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
No registry changes without user action/permission!
and many more

http://www.irfanview.com/

Grand Dad

The Care and Feeding of Irfanview
Everything you ever wanted to know about Irfanview in an easy to understand way.

http://gd.tuwien.ac.at/graphics/irfantut/

IrfanView PlugIns
A normal IrfanView version includes the following (most important) PlugIns:
Effects, Icons, Mpg, Slideshow-EXE and Video.

Plugins updated after version 3.99:
1. jpg_transform.zip - Jpg_Transform: fixes the problem with 0 EXIF-DPI (Photoshop crash).
2. impdf.zip - ImPDF: fixes the Win98 problem.
3. ftp.zip - FTP: fixes the Exit button problem.

IrfanView Plugins Downloads»

IrfanView 4.23 Released
Release date: 2008-12-29
Two small 4.22 bugs fixed:

• Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (scrolling)
• Next toolbar button, PDF saving

http://www.irfanview.com/

IrfanView 4.25

Changes

- New capture option: Region capture (Thanks to grebulon)

- OCR Feature/PlugIn added (Options menu, Hotkey: F9, full image or selection)

- New command line switches for /capture

- New and re-arranged Properties dialogs

- New Color Management options in Properties->Viewing (new LCMS PlugIn needed)

- Burning PlugIn: can burn using Nero or Windows interface (WinXP or later)

- Support for JLS format (JPEG-LS, PlugIn by KATO Kanryu)

- Support for WBZ/WBC/WB1 formats (Webshots formats, PlugIn by V. Paramoshin)

- New display option: Use Resample for zooming (Menu: View->Display options)

- New fullscreen option: Use Resample for zooming (Properties->Fullscreen)

- Option to save changes on exit in now also used for image/file change

- New option in Batch-Scan dialog: Remember last scan counter

- Previous "Search files" dialog results showed again on next search

- Batch rename dialog: Last 15 rename patterns are saved

- New Thumbnails sort options: Sort by image DPI

- New placeholder: $p (image DPI)

- New buttons/options in File-Replace dialog for multiple files

- Resample bug with very special images fixed (TIF bug reported by Secunia, thanks!)

- The option "View->Lock zoom" works now with all display options

- Show PNG and TGA/DDS alpha color options merged (Properties->Viewing)

- New command line option: /reloadonloop

- Command line, /convert: exit codes added: 0 = OK, 1 = load error, 2 = save error

- Support for TIFs with 12 bits per channel

- New option in Postscript PlugIn: Enable Antialiasing for better quality

- New button in EXIF dialog: Show in GeoHack-Wiki (for GPS coordinates)

- New help menu: Check homepage for updates

- Browsing hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + number (0-9), decrease file index by number

- Several PlugIns are changed/updated

http://www.irfanview.com/