Here you go: FastStone Image Viewer 4.9

"Version 4.9 (November 12, 2013)

Added "Design and Print" (press Alt+P), which allows you to print multiple images with text and effects on one page
Improved "Adjust Curves". Now you can click and drag in image to adjust the curves directly. Endpoints of the curves are adjustable
Added "Print Size" option to the Resize tab of the batch convert tool
Added support of video files to the batch rename tool
Added "Auto-Resize" option to the image-scanning tool
Added "Show in Google Maps" and "Show in Google Earth" buttons to the “Image Properties” window. These buttons will be visible if the image has GPS information
Many other small improvements and bug fixes"

http://www.faststone.o​rg/download.htm

Thanks for the heads up.

Thanks!

Don't forget to pay for a license if you're a pro - or give a donation if you're not. These guys should be applauded (and rewarded) for giving us such a great piece of software.

Is this as good as, or better than Irfanview (which i've been using for ~13 years)?

1Tanker wrote in post #16453205
Is this as good as, or better than Irfanview (which i've been using for ~13 years)?

They are pretty much the same. I know I was undecided for quite some time which I preferred - and I still don't know what made me go for FastStone. Being free you could check it out - but you'd probably hate it because it doesn't do things exactly the way you're used to. I know that's what happened when I tried IrfanView again last year - there's nothing wrong with it per se, but nothing that made me want it enough to learn a new way of doing things.

Just be happy that we have two free/cheap programs available.

Thanks for the reminder! I used FS years ago, but sorta' let it blend into the background for the likes of DPP and ACR. But I just viewed the video here:

http://ask-leo.com …ststone_image_v​iewer.html

and it looks like its got some really nice feature now. Kel, the video compares FS to irfanview.

Just for the record, Avast anti-virus reports the fsviewer.exe file in infected with the win32.evo-gen trojan. I have not confirmed whether or not this is a false detection. It apparently popped up 11/13.

Green light from Avira antivirus and Emsisoft Anti-malware.

I wrote FS support, they have not responded.

Edit:

Funny thing is that when avast is run on the install program (FSViewerSetup49.exe) it is negative. It is only when installing and the FSviewer.exe file is pulled out of it that avast detects the trojan.

Follow up:

I isolated the FSviewer.exe file and submitted it to 5 online virus scanners. Out of their 40 or 50 scans, it got one hit from ClamAV (never heard of them). Looks to me like a false positive.

Picture North Carolina wrote in post #16454209
I wrote FS support, they have not responded.

Edit:

Funny thing is that when avast is run on the install program (FSViewerSetup49.exe) it is negative. It is only when installing and the FSviewer.exe file is pulled out of it that avast detects the trojan.

You might try the "portable" version, that's the one I download.

Nice set of features! Appears to be Windows only. Is that correct?

hollis_f wrote in post #16453306
They are pretty much the same. I know I was undecided for quite some time which I preferred - and I still don't know what made me go for FastStone. Being free you could check it out - but you'd probably hate it because it doesn't do things exactly the way you're used to. I know that's what happened when I tried IrfanView again last year - there's nothing wrong with it per se, but nothing that made me want it enough to learn a new way of doing things.

Just be happy that we have two free/cheap programs available.

Ok, thanks Frank. I DL'd it anyways (i'm a hoarder with free software LOL).

Edit: Thanks Dan, will watch the video.

I used FastStone years ago, but not since I started using Lightroom for image management. It looks like it would be great for viewing images on they fly, however.

One question about the editing tools. I have gotten used to the non-destructive nature of LR edits. I don't expect that FastStone does things that way, but does it automatically edit a copy to protect the original?