IrfanView 4.72 – Graphic Viewer

One of the Most Popular Graphic Viewer and Editor Worldwide

14-05-25

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IrfanView is one of the most popular Graphic viewers and editors worldwide.

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact, and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is a fast, simple freeware image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more.

In addition, it features drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN support, slide shows, batch conversion, and modifications such as color depth, crop, blur, and sharpening.

IrfanView aims to develop new and interesting features, distinguishing itself from other graphic viewers that often rely on cloning features or stealing ideas and entire dialogs from ACDSee or IrfanView!

Some IrfanView Features:

32-bit and 64-bit versions
Many supported file formats (https://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm)
Multi-language support
Thumbnail/preview option
Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to a CD)
Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen, etc.
Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
Drag and drop support
Fast directory view (moving through the directory)
Batch conversion (with image processing)
Email option
Multimedia player
Print option
Change color depth
Scan (batch scan) support
Cut/crop
IPTC editing
Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
Capturing
Extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs
Lossless JPG rotation
Many hotkeys
Many command-line options
Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like “I Agree” or “Evaluation expired”
No registry changes without user action/permission!
Many PlugIns
and much more

Changes in version 4.72 :

New option in Batch dialog: Use Multithreading for conversion
Note 1: Some old/third-party Plug-ins do NOT support multithreading!
Note 2: Save format options with a preview do NOT support multithreading!
Note 3: Multithreading uses (much) more system memory.
New Edit menu: Restore last selection
New zoom feature: CTRL + Middle mouse button click: Fit to window and back
New option in EXIF dialog: Choose tags for the display (in Context menu)
A confirmation dialog is shown for the wallpaper change menus
New effect in Image->Effects menu: Stained Glass (thanks to Mathias Westerdahl)
Add Border effects can work on selections
New Add Border effects: Broken lines/frame
New option in Export Tiles dialog: Add extra space to each tile
New hotkey: CTRL + F4 = remove current file from slideshow list
New command line option to replace color (like in the dialog Replace Color)
/replacecolor=(rOld,gOld,bOld,rNew,gNew,bNew,tolerance,transparency)
New slideshow hotkeys (for timer slideshow):
CTRL + SHIFT + “,” (comma): Reduce timer by 0.5 sec
CTRL + SHIFT + “.” (point): Increase timer by 0.5 sec
Support for more DNG subformats (CamRAW PlugIn, 64-bit only)
Loading issues in CADImage PlugIn fixed (thanks to Trend Micro)
Several plug-ins are changed/updated, please install the newest versions:

Some IrfanView Features:

Changes in version 4.72 :

IrfanView Screenshots