IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact, and innovative graphic viewer for Windows. There are additional plugins available here as well as a IrfanView 64-Bit and portable versions.

Its goal is to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView Features:

● Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats)
● Multi language support
● Thumbnail/preview option
● Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
● Toolbar skins option
● Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
● Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc.
● Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
● Fast directory view (moving through directory)
● Batch conversion (with image processing)
● Multipage TIF editing
● File search
● Email option
● Multimedia player
● Print option
● Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
● Change color depth
● Scan (batch scan) support

Advantages of IrfanView 32-bit over 64-bit version:
It runs on a 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
Loads all files/images for normal needs (max. RAM size is about 1.3 GB)
It needs less disc space
All PlugIns will work: not all PlugIns are ported (yet) to 64-bit (like OCR) and some 32-bit PlugIns must be still used in the 64-bit version, some with limitations (see the "Plugins32" folder)
● Cut/crop
● IPTC editing
● Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
● Capturing
● Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
● Lossless JPG rotation
● Unicode support
● Many hotkeys
● Many command line options
● Many PlugIns
● Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired"
● No registry changes without user action/permission!
● ..And much, much more

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