IrfanView is a free and powerful image viewer and converter for Microsoft Windows. This freeware supports most of the existing file formats (notably GIF, JPEG, EPS, BMP, ICO, TIF, AVI, WAVE…) and tries to be easy to use for beginners. IrfanViews offers multi-language support, Thumbnail option, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects (Adobe Photoshop filters), EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

It is one of the powerful software which supports around every image format and you dont need to roam here and there for finding new image viewer for every file format.So even if you have IrfanView 4 you should upgrade your version to get the latest features which are awesome.

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Features in IrfanView 4.23 :

  • Added History list for Random slideshow (“No file repeat” removed)
  • New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF
  • Option to save changes on exit (Properties->Misc 1, default: OFF)
  • TIF loading bugs fixed (Thanks to j00ru//vx)
  • New command line option: /filelist=txtfile; Examples:

i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt /thumbs
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:\mypics.txt /convert=d:\*.jpg
=> use files from mypics.txt as input for different operations

  • New Contact Sheet options: Set custom paper size and units
  • Options to set start parameters for external editors (see Help file/button)
  • External editor names are showed in the menu text
  • New Panorama dialog option: Add space between images
  • Browsing: if CTRL + number (0-9) pressed, the file index increases by number
  • New wallpaper menu: Stretched – proportional
  • New Slideshow dialog option: Remember last file index on exit
  • New option to show DDS alpha color (Properties->Misc. 1)
  • Support for WSQ format (Wavelet Scaler Quantization, PlugIn by Steven Venable)
  • New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded)
  • New thumbnails tree menu: Load subfolders
  • New hotkeys: SHIFT + arrows = Move selection rectangle
  • New hotkeys: SHIFT + N = Create new image; SHIFT + V = Add canvas;CTRL + SHIFT + Y = Auto crop borders; CTRL + SHIFT + J = Lossless JPG crop;SHIFT + O = Fit window to image; F11 = show/hide mouse in Fullscreen/Slideshow
  • Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (scrolling)
  • Two small 4.22 bugs fixed: Next toolbar button, PDF saving
  • Best part of it is that it supports hell lot of formats which you can see from here.

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