What kind of viewers, resizers, and graphic editors have been on my computer. But of all the freely distributed programs for viewing, cataloging and editing, in the end there was only one left on the computer - and this is FastStone Image Viewer. This program is very similar in appearance and functionality that is loved by many, but has become paid program ACDSee. In fact, it was the introduction of fees for ACDSee that prompted us to look for a replacement.
FastStone Image Viewer became such a replacement. And it must be said that the replacement turned out to be better than the original - faster, lighter, easier to use.
Downloaded for review latest version 5.1. The download was carried out from the official website - http://www.faststone.org. And now the program is downloaded and installed. Let's begin to study it in detail.
The first characteristic of the program is the list of supported formats graphic files, with which the program can work. With FastStone Image Viewer you can work with photos in all popular formats. The program supports BMP, GIF, CUR, ICO, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, TGA, PSD, TIFF and WMF. In addition, FS Image Viewer allows you to view some RAW formats from popular cameras (CRW, NEF, PEF, CR2, RAF, ORF, MRW, SRF and DNG). In general, the program is perfectly compatible with all common formats.
After installing the program, it is logical to compare it with common graphic file formats on the computer. This is done through context menu- select programs - open with - select FastStone from the list of suggested programs. And now, when the program is associated with the necessary files, open its main window.
FastStone Image viewer - main program window The program has a classic interface. The header is reserved for main menu items - through the functionality of the main menu of the program, you can perform all the necessary actions. But this is for those who like to work through the menu.
Almost all features of the program are duplicated in the form of buttons located under the main menu. I personally work using buttons and a context menu. Perhaps I almost never use the main menu.
Let's look at the main window of the program - it is divided into 4 main areas
1. top - area of the main menu and buttons
2. left top part- file Manager. It is very convenient to use. You can quickly get to any folder on your computer with any nesting level.
3. lower left part - preview window for the selected image
4. large window on the right - designed to display all images in the selected folder.
All buttons are located under the main menu.
faststone image viewer - buttonsLet's look at their purpose one by one
1. Launches the wizard for uploading photos from a camera or memory card. In the wizard you can batch rename copied files
2. Calls up the file open dialog box
4. Go to view the previous one in the list in the image folder
5. Go to view the next image in the list in the folder
6. Zoom button in the viewport
7. Zoom out button in the viewport
8. The button returns the viewed image in the viewing window to its original scale
9. Clicking turns on or off anti-aliasing of a highly scaled image
10. Actually not a button, but just a drop-down list. Again, you can select the image scale for the viewing window (similar to button 6, only round ones are set purely)
11. Tool for working with the image viewed in the viewing window. The default is hand. It allows you to simply drag and drop the enlarged image. You can also select a rectangular selection tool, a circular selection tool, or a Magic Lasso selection tool.
12. Launches a slideshow consisting of images located in the current folder
13. Allows you to change the image size (resizer)
14. Allows you to crop the image
15. Launches the image drawing tool (the tool is similar to MS Paint)
16. Image cloning/retouching tool
17. Lighting correction tool (light, shadow, brightness, contrast). A handy thing if you need to quickly make out the shadows in a bad photo.
18. Rotate the image 90 degrees counterclockwise
19. Rotate the image 90 degrees clockwise
20. Image comparison wizard (up to 4 at a time). Just like in the children's game about 10 differences
21. Screen capture tool. Like PrintScreen, but more functional. You can select an arbitrary area.
22. Scan Wizard. A very convenient thing. And a good replacement for the standard Windows Scan Wizard
23. Wizard for sending images by mail. Before sending, it can resize the images being sent. Very convenient, but for full operation you need an email client configured on your PC
24. Print selected images
25. Calls up a window of all program settings.
26. Selecting and changing the appearance of the program
27. Jump to button full screen mode
And now the purpose of the buttons on the panel below:
1. Return to last viewed folder button
2. Forward button. If you understand what it is for, write in the comments
3. Move a folder up in the folder hierarchy
4. Update the contents of the directory being viewed
5. Add the current folder to your favorites list
6. Create a new folder in the current one
7. Copy content to target folder
8. Move content to target folder
9. Delete marked objects
10. Display images in a folder as thumbnails
11. Display images in a folder as a detailed list
12. Display images in a folder as a simple list
13. Folder content filter (selects what the program will display) - only graphics, video, and graphics and video
14. Sort files in a folder by various attributes.
15. Delete button. No. Not deleted. Delete was number 9. This is the button to clear the browsing history. So that.
Experienced users know very well that in Windows programs the same result can be achieved in several ways. FastStone Image Viewer is no exception.
Many of the actions with images can be performed through the context menu. Let's see what options it offers:
As you can see, many functions are duplicated and this is normal. One user will go one way, and the other - you guessed it, right? - to others! This kind of duplication is good. After all, someone has mastered one way to achieve a goal, while someone acts differently, but still achieves success.
The program capabilities we have considered are not all. The most interesting thing happens when you open any selected image in full screen. This is where the small and very pleasant know-how of the program in question comes into play. The image expands to full screen. There is not a single button. It can be viewed in its entirety, the picture is not cluttered with panels and buttons. This is what it looks like
It's hard for you to see, but in the upper left corner the program displays some information about open image-name, memory footprint, size in pixels. It would seem - what else can be done here. But it is possible. The program supports simple gesture controls. If you hover your cursor left, up and right in sequence, toolbars will appear.
This is what it looks like:
If you point the course upward, a ribbon appears in which you can select an image to view, and above the ribbon you can see the path to the folder with images on the left, and a panel with additional buttons on the right.
We move the cursor to the left edge of the screen and get a toolbar like this
I won’t go into a list of possibilities - you can already see well what’s offered in the pop-up menu. I can only say that the range of possibilities is large and will be sufficient for most users who decide to correct a slightly necessary image.
Now look at the panel that appears when you hover your cursor over the right edge of the screen
And at the same time a panel with EXIF information appears, you can also call up a histogram and edit comments for this JPEG file.
Exit full screen mode by pressing ESCAPE on your keyboard
So we went over the appearance and capabilities of the FastStone Image Viewer version 5.1 program
Let me add in conclusion that the program is also equipped with a batch file renaming wizard and a batch file conversion wizard (this means converting them from one graphic format to an arc). I won’t tell you where these masters are hidden in the menu. If you carefully study the program's capabilities, you will find them yourself.
Recently on the Odnoklassniki website, one subscriber asked me a question, which free graphics editor I can recommend pictures. And since I myself use Image Viewer To view the graphics, I decided to write this review with a short description. To date the program FastStone Image Viewer is one of the best free analogues ACDSee for both editing and converting pictures and photos. And the most important thing is that this program has a huge number of functions on board that are simple and easy to configure.
Description of the main functions of FastStone Image Viewer
Here is a description of some of the main features of Image Viewer. This program includes viewing pictures of any format, the ability to compare any graphic files, removes red eye, the ability to send files via e-mail, plus batch processing, resizes, crops, improves colors, batch renaming function, can flip JPEG images without degrading quality. Sketch databases (their cache), which many competitors do not have, a multifunctional magnifying glass. There's a great slideshow feature, many of which include music slideshows, as well as about 150 effects and transitions.
Currently, all new versions of FastStone Image Viewer are completely free, and since we are looking for free editor pictures, which means that such a program will suit us. This software can be easily downloaded on the OF website by clicking on the link “”. After downloading and installation, the main program window, after launch, will look approximately as shown in the picture below.
After launching the program, you need to execute it initial setup. And it will start with the simplest. First, let's make sure that FastStone Image Viewer opens all our graphic images as the default program. In addition, we select a mode that will open our photos without any problems.
To do this, in the main program window at the top, look for the “Settings” tab or use (F12). In the additional window that opens, select “View”. Here we find the “Open associated files” section as shown in the picture below and select “In windowed mode”.
We have chosen the mode for opening pictures, now in the same window we look for the “Associations” tab, opening which we put a tick in the “Browse in FastStone Image in the menu Windows Explorer"And below, check the boxes next to the types of files that you would like to open using this program. Let’s say you decide to open any file with this utility, in this case, simply click on the “Select all” button below, by clicking this you will select all file formats.
Confirm the selected action with the usual “OK” button and close the program. Then we check the functionality of the settings we made. To do this, open any graphic file, your photo, if the above steps are performed correctly, then the photo will open with the provided editor.
If you noticed that the picture or photograph opened in windowed mode, if you remember this opening mode, we set it ourselves a little higher, respectively, if this mode does not suit you, go back to the settings and select full-screen mode or as an overview. It's up to you to decide which one to use. In order not to mess around with the settings once again, there is also quick way change the mode shown in the picture below.
You can scroll through pictures or photos either using the index arrows located on the navigation panel, or using the “Left” or “Right” keyboard, if it is a mouse, then simply turn the wheel to “Back” or “Forward”, there is a slide show mode.
Please note that FastStone Image has a huge range of different tools, and I will only focus on some of them, describing them in more detail.
Removing red eye using Image Viewer
The most popular photo editing is most likely the red eye effect, which usually requires correction. So, launch Image Viewer, select a photo in which we will remove red eyes, then select the “Edit” tab in the main menu of the program. We move along the drop-down menu to the “Reduce red-eye” item.
After opening the window, I recommend increasing its scale from at least 100% to 200% for ease of editing the picture. Place the cross of the mouse on the red area of the eye, trying to pull it down from the center and a little to the right. It is advisable during the selection not to touch the area of the eye itself, only the red area. Having highlighted required area, click “Remove redness”. We perform the same manipulations with the second eye, details in the screenshot below. If you don't know how to take a screenshot, read the topic.
Let's say you decide to save not only the converted file, but also the original one, for this you just need to press the combination shortcut keys Ctrl + S or “Save As”, while giving a different name to the file, thereby saving two pictures at the same time with different names.
After saving, you can compare our photos. In order to compare them, hold down the Ctrl key and select those photos that you are going to compare, then on the control panel select the tool called “Compare selected photos”. This program has the ability to compare up to four photographs or pictures at the same time.
We crop and encode photos
We've sorted out the red eyes, let's move on to cropping and encoding images and photos. For example, we liked a certain section of the picture and wanted to cut it out. To do this, double-click on the photo we need, and then select a tool such as “Crop”. After entering the editor, press and hold left button mouse and using the cursor, select the area of the photo we need and click “Crop to lossless file.”
After the cut file is ready, save it, you can do this with the same combination of Ctrl + S buttons and then assign a new name to the picture.
Resizing pictures or photos
Now a little about changing the size of the picture; you can do this directly in Explorer itself. Image programs Viewer. To do this, select a picture or photograph and then select a tool such as “Resize”.
This program is capable of resizing images in several ways, these parameters depend directly on your goals and objectives. And they change in the form: pixels, percentages or print size.
Let's say you wanted to compress an image by reducing the size of the picture to half its real (weight). To do this, select the “Percentage” item in the control panel and reduce the size of our file to 50%. In order to maintain the proportionality of our picture, check the “Maintain proportions” sub-item; this item will allow us to simultaneously reduce the height and width of the file. It happens that the file size requirements are set for certain pixels, in which case we will use a subsection called “Pixels”; in this case, we deliberately indicate the size of the image in terms of width and height in the required pixels.
Decorate pictures with stencils or watermarks
The Image Viewer program can very quickly decorate your pictures or photos beautiful frames, watermarks, as well as other specials. effects, quite quickly in a couple of clicks.
Consider making a stencil. Everything is simple, as usual, click on the picture that we will decorate twice, go to the “Effects” tab, then “Stencils” and look for the template format that we like, after choosing we confirm our actions with the “OK” button. All of our above actions, including this, must be saved using the standard Ctrl+S button combination.
As I said, the functionality of the FastStone Image Viewer program has no limits; it is quite capable of solving many problems in editing your graphic files, pictures and photographs. It has a very simple and easy-to-use interface with a huge number of functions, and will be an indispensable image editor for many users.
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Modern digital photography allowed anyone to take pictures in almost unlimited quantities. There is no longer any need to save film, and there is no need to print photos, everything is stored on the computer. Now any amateur photographer has thousands of photographs stored on his computer.
FastStone Image Viewer (or FS Image Viewer) is one of the most popular programs for viewing, editing and managing photos. The program has a huge range of functions that will be more than enough for any amateur photographer. Moreover, the program is completely free and can be downloaded from the official website ().
FastStone Image Viewer is also regularly updated with new features. At the time of writing current version program is 4.6. In addition, the program is completely Russified. Therefore, understanding its capabilities will not be difficult.
With FS Image Viewer you can work with photos in all popular formats. The program supports BMP, GIF, CUR, ICO, JPEG, JPEG 2000, PCX, PNG, TGA, PSD, TIFF and WMF. In addition, FS Image Viewer allows you to view some RAW formats from popular cameras (CRW, NEF, PEF, CR2, RAF, ORF, MRW, SRF and DNG).
The FastStone Image Viewer interface consists of two parts: a full-screen interface for viewing and editing photos, and file manager to manage your photo archive.
Opening any photo (with a simple double-click) opens a full-screen interface for viewing and editing. This interface has hidden toolbars. You can open these panels by moving your mouse pointer to the right, left, top, or bottom edge of the screen.
You can see one of these panels in the screenshot. This is a panel designed to launch photo editing tools. This panel can be considered the main one; it is the one you will use most often. Among the main functions that can be launched from this panel are functions such as photo cropping, resizing, red-eye removal, lighting correction, color correction, level correction, curve correction and sharpening/blur. These features are more than enough for any amateur photographer.
The file manager (screenshot above) can be launched by clicking on the FastStone Image Viewer program shortcut or from the full-screen interface. The file manager interface is divided into three parts: a folder tree, a photo preview and a list of files in a folder.
At first glance, the file manager seems like a useless feature that only gets in the way. But over time you get very used to it. Using a file manager, you can manage your photo catalog much faster and more efficiently. You can launch any of the photo editing tools described above directly from the file manager.
Also worth mentioning are features such as batch conversion and batch renaming. You can see the window interface for batch conversion in the screenshot above.
Sometimes these functions turn out to be incredibly useful. For example, you need to send several photos by email. If your photos are 5-10 megabytes, this could be a problem. In this case, the batch conversion function will help us. With its help, you can quickly reduce the weight of photos by choosing a lower resolution and specifying the compression level. Moreover, these parameters can be applied immediately to a group of files, thus saving a large number of time.
FastStone Image Viewer is a program designed to view images in the operating room Windows system. Considered one of the best programs to view images in the free group. The interface is multilingual and includes Russian, which will allow you to easily and quickly use all the functions of this program. You can download and install it absolutely free from the official website. This image viewing application is perfect for inexperienced users, as it has an intuitive Russian interface with a set of the most necessary tools for editing and working with images of various formats.
The utility includes a file manager and a database. The main features of the program include viewing, editing and converting images. FastStone Image Viewer supports a large number of graphic formats, as well as some video file formats.
This list does not describe all the functions, but only the main ones that this device offers us. software.
First, you need to download and install the program from the official website, since it is completely free for non-commercial use. On the website you can download as full version program, and Portable (portable, which does not require installation to work in it), it is also possible to download or view instructions for working with the program in English.
After you have downloaded the distribution, install it. Follow the installer's steps during the installation process. After the installation is completed. Launch the FastStone Image Viewer program.
On first launch this application will scan the system and determine where all the images for fast work with them. The first thing you will see is this program’s file manager, with which you can open the file you need for viewing or editing.
The program has a classic interface. At the top you can see the main menu with which you can perform fine settings programs and work with various tools. For ease of use, under the main menu there is a toolbar designed to quickly call and launch the necessary functions without the need to open and search for them in the tabs of the main menu.
In the central part, you can observe the program's file manager, which displays folders and files that you can interact with and open. On the left side you can see the Explorer tree, which displays all the drives and folders present in your operating system.
In the lower left corner there is a preview window, with which you will not need to open the file to view, but simply select the image and see what is depicted in it. You can also resize all the fields in the program window by simply hovering over the border you want to expand or reduce. 
When you open the image you want, you can use the toolbar or click right click mouse over the image and select the tools you need for editing (cropping, rotating the image, adjusting colors, etc.) or retouching.
To open an image in full screen, you just need to double-click on it or right-click and select the first item “Full screen” in the drop-down menu. 
To create a slide show, you need to select the required number of images or select a folder with images that will be used in the slide show and right-click on it, select “Slideshow” from the drop-down menu. After this, a settings window will appear in which you can define the background color, the duration of display of one slide in seconds and mark the options you need when playing your slide show. After completing the settings, you can run and view the created slide show or save it. 
Today you are introduced to FastStone Image Viewer, which is a great solution for those who need to quickly and easily edit images. It is worth noting its fairly broad functionality, which fits perfectly into a very simple and intuitive interface.
I advise you to download and install this software as standard application for viewing images, as it is quite lightweight with quite a lot of functions and tools. This program is an excellent replacement standard means Windows image viewer.
It is also worth noting the quite popular and the desired function batch file processing, which will help you simultaneously rename a large number of images or convert files from one format to another, as well as perform a large number of actions simultaneously on a large number of files.
If you are thinking about which program you should choose for viewing and editing photos, I can say with confidence that by choosing FastStone Image Viewer you will never regret it.
Hello users Today I would like to tell you about such a program as FastStone Image Viewer, and I will also tell you how to remove it.
The process of the program is FSViewer.exe, well, this is a note.
FastStone Image Viewer is a small program that is designed to view pictures, can show thumbnails, and generally do a lot of other things. main feature, as I understand it, this is working with a large number of pictures, and the program is not buggy, unlike Windows Explorer. But I won’t argue, it’s possible that such bugs have already been fixed in Windows 10.
The program is entirely in Russian and this is also a plus
So, let me write to you in the form of a list what FastStone Image Viewer can do:
In general, these are the things, as you can see, this is not just a picture viewer, but also a small editor, and due to the fact that the program is free, we can conclude that the program is suitable
This is what FastStone Image Viewer looks like:
To select a picture, just go to the folder through the built-in explorer:
Here are the effects:
More effects, this is the Colors menu:
Here in the Edit menu there is such a tool as Clone and Retouch:
This is a very interesting thing. Select a picture, then click Cloning and retouching. Next you need to select a starting point, this is what will be cloned. Hold Ctrl and click once on the area you want to clone. And then you can paint with that area. To be honest, I didn’t really understand how it works, but here’s what I came up with:
Cool features in my opinion
But if you don’t like FastStone Image Viewer for some reason, or you simply don’t need it, then you can delete it.
I advise you to do this not just through the built-in Windows features, and through a special deleter, this is . Yes, it may seem complicated to you at first glance, but in reality there is nothing complicated, try it
Well, now how to remove FastStone Image Viewer using Windows itself, open the Start menu and select Control Panel there:
Now we find the Programs and Features icon:
On the list installed programs you need to find FastStone Image Viewer and right-click, and then select Delete:
The removal will begin and go very quickly:
And there will be a message that the entire removal was completed successfully:
Well, that's all, as you can see, there is nothing complicated here!
There is also a point with the registry, if you are an advanced user, you can clean it of any remaining debris after FastStone Image Viewer. To do this, launch the registry, press Win + R, write regedit there and click OK. Then in open editor registry press Ctrl + F, write FastStone Image Viewer and search. All found keys will be highlighted, right-click on them and select Delete:
To continue the search, then press F3 and so on until there is a message that the search is complete. In principle, instead of FastStone Image Viewer, you can search for garbage simply using FastStone, so you can find more of it
Well, it looks like I wrote everything and told you everything, now you know what kind of program FastStone Image Viewer is, all I have to do is wish you good luck
04.06.2016
