With the development of digital technology, more and more digital products are used universally in our life. Digital camera is widely used all over the world especially today. We often take large numbers of photos in various occasions with our digital camera and store them on our hard disk in different directories. We also download pictures which we are interested from the websites. But view and manage these photos later are not a easy work for us. So a powerful and full-function image viewer is very important for us. Fortunately, I catch sight of a full featured image viewer which can view and manage images in batch over the Internet when I am surfing on-line. This is IrfanView which was published by Irfan Skiljan, did you know that? I have used it for a long time and I can insure that it would be very helpful for you as well.

IrfanView is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer for Windows. It has been around for many years and keeps getting better. In addition to standard image viewing, it includes many additional features including slideshow, batch conversion, image adjustment, image editing, resizing, panorama stitching, auto EXIF rotation and more. The functionality can be further extended via plug-ins that are widely available. Even though Irfan offers a powerful set of features, the interface lacks behind modern image viewers that often offer more user friendly operation and better thumbnail browsing features. With IrfanView even some basic features like EXIF display, lossless rotation etc. require us to download and install additional plug-ins. There certainly are more user-friendly and attractive image viewers, but few that offer all the functionality, and extendibility that IrfanView can provide. IrfanView includes many features beyond simple image viewing, but its interface not streamlined; not as easy to use; weak thumbnail browsing.

Some detailed functions and features of IrfanView include: Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats); Multi language support; Thumbnail/preview option; Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc; Toolbar skins 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; Fast directory view (moving through directory); Batch conversion (with image processing); Multipage TIF editing; File search; Email option; Multimedia player; Print option; Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF; 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 much more.

IrfanView 4.20 is a Image Viewer product from irfanview.com, get 5 Stars SoftSea Rating, IrfanView is probably the most popular and feature packed free image viewer for Windows. It has been around for many years and keeps getting better. In addition to standard image viewing, it includes many additional features including slideshow, batch conversion, image adjustment, image editing, resizing, panorama stitching, auto EXIF rotation and more. The functionality can be further extended via plug-ins that are widely available. Even though Irfan offers a strong set of features, the interface lacks behind modern image viewers that often offer more user friendly operation and better thumbnail browsing features. With IrfanView even some basic features like EXIF display, lossless rotation etc. require you to download and install additional plug-ins. There certainly are more user-friendly and attractive image viewers, but few that offer all the functionality, and extendibility that IrfanView can provide.
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.
It is trying to be simple for beginners and strong for experts.
IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 8+ years).
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.
IrfanView features:
* Many supported file formats
* Multi language support
* Thumbnail/preview option
* Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
* Toolbar skins 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
* Fast directory view (moving through directory)
* Batch conversion (with image processing)
* Multipage TIF editing
* File search
* e-mail option
* Multimedia player
* Print option
* Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
* 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
* Unicode support
* 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 much much more The license of this graphic software is Freeware, you can free download and free use this Graphic software.