IrfanView 4.10: simple image editor gets even better

by Brad Linder Oct 17th 2007

You don't need a tank to drive down the street. And sometimes you don't need Photoshop to edit a photo. IrfanView is one of our favorite light weight image viewing/editing applications. Need to open an image, view a slideshow? Check. Want to crop, resize, pixelize, blur, or brighten a photo? Check.

This week IrfanView released version 4.10. The latest update includes support for even more file types and comes packed with new editing features:

New paint plugin that lets you draw lines, circles and boxes on an image (just hit F12 to bring up the paint menu)
Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF files
Lossless JPG Crop added
Support for FLV files
Auto adjust colors on selected portions of an image
A bunch of other bug fixes, tweaks, and new features for editing, opening, and viewing images and multimedia files.

And best of all, you can open and close IrfanView a few dozen times in the amount of time it would take you to load Photoshop. Oh yeah, and it's free. That's nice too.

Tags: image, image-editing, irfanview, irfanview 4.10, Irfanview4.10, photo

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Shibathedog said 12:46PM on 10-17-2007

love this app, upgrading now :D

kevjohn said 2:14PM on 10-17-2007

Paint.net. Alls I'm saying.

mxxcon said 3:06PM on 10-17-2007

kevjohn, you are saying WRONG.
Paint.net is an image/photo editor.
irfanview is not.
before you claim that something is better than something else, make sure you actually use both things.

kevjohn said 3:26PM on 10-17-2007

"The latest update.... comes packed with new editing features..." "Want to crop, resize, pixelize, blur, or brighten a photo? Check."

mxxcon, this article seems to be primarily hyping IrfanV's abilities as an image editor, including: drawing on images, cropping, and color adjustments/corrections. If you're going to be talking about totally free, incredibly useful software, comparing it to other totally free, incredibly useful software should be expected.
before you criticize people's comments, make sure you read the articles the comments are about.

Brad Linder said 3:28PM on 10-17-2007

Now now, you're both pretty.

Paint.net is a great freeware image editor, but sometimes all you need is a lightweight image viewer with some basic editing features like IrfanView. In fact, almost every screenshot and image I post on Download Squad is editing using IrfanView. That's not to say that Paint.net doesn't have more features for the same price. I just don't need those bells and whistles most of the time.

kevjohn said 5:20PM on 10-17-2007

In other words, the Corvette is nice but you'll just stick with your trusty Camaro. Gotcha. :)

Jonathan Harford said 5:22PM on 10-17-2007

kevjohn, you are a very silly man. Isn't a Corvette supposed to be faster than a Camaro?

Jonathan Harford said 5:23PM on 10-17-2007

I have installed IrfanView countless times. It's so fast, I've made it the default JPG handler! I'm happy Mr. Irfan* is still making improvements.

* I don't know the real name of the developer

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