Friday, June 24, 2011

Useful Utilities - IrfanView

Picture viewing/editing programs are a dime a dozen. But most of them seem to fall into one of two categories. Either they are very simple programs with limited capabilities like Windows Image Viewer or Microsoft Paint, or the image viewer is incredibly complex and powerful like Photoshop or Gimp. Sometimes you need simple and sometimes you need complex. But often times you want something right in the middle. Enter IrfanView.

IrfanView is the image viewer/editor that I use the most. It's fast and simple yet has some very powerful features. It handles pretty much every image format, I've never found an image this program won't open. It has batch processing capabilities, slideshow, fullscreen viewing, as well as a good number of effects and editing that can be done to the image. For me this is the perfect program to replace the horrible Windows Image Viewer. Give it a try, you might be pleasantly surprised.

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