FastStone Image Viewer 8.3

The camera RAW formats supported by FastStone Image Viewer are CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG.

The most important adjustments you can make to your photos with FastStone Image Viewer are red-eye removal, resizing, emailing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments.

The first interesting thing you will notice about FastStone Image Viewer is the innovative full screen mode; it uses hidden toolbars which pop up when you take the cursor of your mouse at the four edges of the screen.

You can also enjoy a high-quality magnifying tool, lossless JPEG transitions, image annotation, drop shadow effects, musical slideshows with more than 150 transitional effects, scanner support, histogram and many other features.

FastStone Image Viewer allows you to access file properties easily, such as EXIF metadata, histogram etc. directly from the main screen of the application, instead of going to the file location and viewing properties after right-clicking on the file.

Other features of FastStone Image Viewer are file tagging, creating favorites, batch conversion, and building and splitting files with multiple pages of images (PDF, TIFF, animated GIF).

Changes to FastStone Image Viewer 8.3:

- Added ZIP Archive option to the Create menu, allowing you to compress selected files into a ZIP file
- Added shortcut Ctrl + 0 to reset image zoom to 100%
- Reintroduced Update file timestamp option in the Save dialog
- Restored [File index / Total files] information beneath the Preview window, after the filename
- Improved handling of long file names
- Improved support for multi-monitor systems
- Improved email support for Unicode file names
- Fixed a reliability issue affecting batch conversion of HEIC files to other formats
- Optimized the shutdown process so the application closes more quickly
- Keep file selections highlighted in Details and List views even when the application is inactive
- Fixed a bug in Draw Board where drawing lines and arrows could create unwanted pixel noise
- Other improvements and bug fixes
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FastStone Image Viewer is totally recommended to average and beginner users who need a reliable viewing and basic editing tool; one of the aces in FastStone Image Viewer’s sleeve is supporting camera RAW formats.