IrfanView is a fast, lightweight, and innovative FREEWARE image viewer for Windows, designed to be simple enough for beginners yet powerful enough for professional users. It features impressive performance and broad format compatibility, making it a leading lightweight Windows image viewer with efficient batch processing.
IrfanView offers broad format compatibility, supporting BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, and TGA, with more formats available through plugins. Its speed and efficiency make everyday image viewing and editing quick and effortless.
The program includes essential features such as drag-and-drop support, directory viewing, TWAIN compatibility for scanners, slide shows, batch conversion, and editing tools like cropping, color depth adjustment, blur, and sharpen. These tools help users manage and enhance images with ease.
Unlike other viewers that mimic existing software, IrfanView focuses on delivering original, practical features that stand out. Its ongoing development emphasizes creativity, stability, and performance, offering a unique experience that continues to set it apart from imitators.
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 IrfanView version 4.73 :
- IrfanView 64-bit for ARM is available.
- New File menu: Open Recent Saved Files
- New Edit menu: Set selection shape: Round shape (circle/ellipse)
- New Edit menu: Crop visible image area (if scrollbars visible)
- New Wallpaper menu: Span (image over all monitors)
- New option in Edit/Set Alpha Color dialog: Use color tolerance value
- New selection hotkey: ALT + Left mouse button on sides: Centered resize
- New option in custom rectangle capture mode: CTRL + click
- (to copy values to Capture dialog option 7, fixed rectangle)
- New command line options for /jpg_rotate (4 new options, see “i_options.txt”)
- New hotkey: CTRL + F4 = remove current file from slideshow list
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + O: Copy image/mouse coordinate to clipboard
- Improved Unicode support in JPG Comment dialog (Thanks to Adrie Koolen)
- Loading issue in WSQ PlugIn fixed (thanks to “Vulnerable Potatoes”)
- Several plug-ins have been changed/updated. Please install the newest versions:
Supported Operating Systems: Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7, 8, 8.1, 10, 11.
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Size: 3.41 MB
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