Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment.Eleven (yes, 11) resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images.Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.

Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result.

Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier.

True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels.

Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface.

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). 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. 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. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Just the thing for those family photos.FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. And try out the Set Wallpaper Anywhere on Desktop feature which creates stylish montages from a bunch of photos and sets it up as wallpapers. Also included is a Multi-page File Splitter which can extract images from a multi-page file. Image collection tools like Contact Sheet Builder, Multi-page File Builder, and Image Strip Builder. Image EXIF metadata support and comment editing for JPEGs. Image manipulation features like redeye removal, changing color tones, special effects like drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves etc. Batch processing tools which can resize, resample, convert, add a watermark etc to a bunch of images.

In the interests of space, I have left out a few more advanced features and the more obvious ones. I have covered some of the bells and whistles which I really liked. Check out the screenshot above which shows you the screen capture prowess of FastStone.

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