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.