Even though the default Windows Photo Viewer gets the job done for most users, there are those that long for a bit more functionality.

And the way you can extend the program even further, by installing free plug-ins from the IrfanView site.It would be almost strange to imagine a modern OS without a built-in photo viewer. The support for editing multi-page TIFFs, or creating multi-page PDF files. The batch scanning option for processing multiple images in a row. Like its slideshow feature, that can save a sequence of your favourite images to an EXE or SCR file. There's a reasonable selection of image manipulation tools (flip, rotate, resize, sharpen, colour corrections), and a basic set of special effects (emboss, oil painting, sepia and so on) can be enhanced by downloading additional plugins.Īnd the more you explore IrfanView, the more smart features you uncover. If you're more interested in working on individual images then you'll appreciate the paint tools, which help you annotate an image by adding text captions, drawing basic shapes, changing colours, and more. A powerful Batch Conversion dialog makes it easy to convert an entire folder structure of images from one format to another. IrfanView is able to save files in 21 formats, too. The program can view icons directly (ICO), extract them from executables (EXE, DLL), even play some video and audio files. Along with the usual JPG, PNG, BMP and GIF comes support for viewing no less than 12 digital camera RAW formats, various game formats (WAD, WAL, VTF), fax files (DCX, G3, SFF) and more. IrfanView isn't just one of those identikit image viewers that handles only the most common file formats, for instance. Windows does a reasonable job of previewing images these days, and you've probably several other image viewers that you can use, if necessary, so installing yet another isn't likely to be high on your list of priorities.

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