At its heart, IrfanView is an image viewer with some editing functions thrown in for good measure. Nobody will mistake it for PhotoShop anytime soon. But you'd be surprised just how much you can do with this free utility.
First of all, IrfanView can handle pretty much any image file type you throw at it. But second, it includes a ton of basic options for editing images, including cropping, resizing, rotating, and applying effects like sharpen, blur, and red eye reduction. Version 4.20 includes a ton of updates, including improved relative zoom, an "auto crop borders" feature which removes outside lines of the same color, and a shiny new icon set.
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7-18-2008 @ 3:17PM
Demodave said...
I love IrfanView. I have Photoshop Elements to do the brunt of my picture manipulation and organization. But when I need to do a quick crop or resize to an image, IrfanView starts immediately with no load time and gets the quickie job done....and done well.
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7-18-2008 @ 3:45PM
lars said...
I dropped IrfanView in favor of XnView - It's really nice!
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7-21-2008 @ 7:43AM
kimmokor said...
XnView is nice but they really don't have anything original on IrfanView of which it's features are functionality is copied from. In my experience it's just a buggier unstable version of IrfanView.
7-18-2008 @ 4:13PM
Rarst said...
There is interesting new function (actually another program RIOT plugged in) in 4.20 "Save for web". It is not as good for PNG as bruteforce optimizers but can save to GIF and JPG as well... Ability to compress to specific file size is interesting if you need to prepare bunch of images for host with size limit.
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