There is a new version of Faststone Image Viewer (my favorite photo
viewing app) released 11/19:
FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).
Change log:
Version 4.0 (November 19, 2009) - Enhanced the skins and toolbar icons. Now the windows have drop shadow effect in Vista and Windows 7
- Added "Search and Replace" to Batch Rename
- Added "Renaming Preview" to Batch Rename
- Enhanced "Conversion Preview" in Batch Convert. Now it is possible to compare the original and converted images side by side
- In Advanced Options for Batch Convert, added an option to specify whether color adjustments (brightness, contrast, sharpening etc.) should be made before or after resizing.
- Shows GPS information in the "Image Properties" window. A "Show in Google Earth" button will be available if the image has GPS information
- Added "Border Effects" under Edit menu
- Added an option to remove EXIF/IPTC data when emailing images
- Added shortcuts for favorite folders
- Improved performance on network folders
- Improved compatibility with Windows 7
- Fixed bugs
- Other minor improvements
Version 3.9 (June 08, 2009) - Enhanced "Multi-Page File Builder" and "Image Strip Builder" under "Create" menu
- Added "Copy", "Paste" and "Cut" to the right-click menu on folder browser
- Improved performance of selecting files in the thumbnail browser
- When dragging thumbnails, now it is possible to cancel dragging by pressing Esc key
- Multi-page TIFF files can be saved as multi-page PDF files
- Added 2 languages: Czech and Swedish
- Fixed bugs
- Other minor improvements