Faststone Image Viewer 7.6

FastStone Image Viewer

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, retouching and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen. Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more. It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, PSD, EPS, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF, ARW, SR2, RW2 and DNG).

FastStone Image Viewer 7.6 changelog:

Used a new database engine for better performance, capacity, and reliability
Added a rating system to classify files from 1 to 5
Added "Pre-scan folders into thumbnail database" tool under Settings menu. Now, use this tool to get the thumbnails ready before visiting the folders/drives
Added 3 new sorting options: Date Taken, Rating and Tagged
When copying or moving files, tags and ratings will be preserved
Optimized the program for reduced launch time, faster folder tree creation and network folder access
Enhanced the 3 built-in themes: Bright, Gray and Dark
File size of selected items shown in status bar
In windowed view, merge two status bars into one to maximize viewing area
Now you can shuffle images in current folder before thumbnail creation is complete
Added an option (Settings > "Dual Monitor" tab) to select the secondary monitor when more than 2 monitors are detected
Added "Center" option to Image Strip Builder
Added "Preserve Aspect Ratio" option to Image Size in Design and Print tool
Added hotkeys for Google Maps (Ctrl+Shift+M) and Google Earth (Ctrl+Alt+M) when current image has GPS coordinates
Added "EXIF Lens Model" option to caption in Contact Sheet, text in Slide Show and text in Batch Convert tool
Many other small improvements, including vulnerability and bug fixes