IrfanView 4.28

Irfan Skiljan - (Non-Commercial Freeware)

IrfanView is a great choice to view photos with a simple, efficient and lightweight tool.

Irfanview is a free program designed for photo management. It is mainly intended for beginners in the field, but has all the tools it takes to do the work of a professional.

IrfanView can quickly visualize a multitude of graphics, video and audio formats. It allows, among other things, open the following file formats: JPEG, Jpeg 2000, PhotoCD, GIF, ANI, CUR, TIF, ICO, ICL, EXE, DLL, SWF, WAV, ASF, MOV, BMP, DIB, RLE, GIF, PNG, JPG, PCX, DCX a viewer, Multipage PCX, TGA, RAS, CUR, ANI, PSD, AVI, MPEG, MID, RMI, AIF, AU, SND, WMF, EMF, IFF, PBM, PGM, PPM, EPS, LWF , CLP, CAM, G3, PSP, ICL, Video CD, SFW, Icons in EXE / DLL, PCD, and more.

Functions like slideshow, scan, e-mail, printing and automated conversion are available. IrfanView is compatible with the effects of Photoshop Filter Factory. The program also allows reading EXIF / IPTC data.

User can add a variety of plugins (to play MP3s, shockwave).

With this application it is possible to draw, modify or tag pictures. Creating a slideshow is also facilitated. Simply select the photos you want to show in the desired order of appearance, and once that is done, it remains to be saved in the format. Exe or .Scr. It is even possible to burn it to a CD.

Title:: IrfanView 4.28
File Size:: 1.4 MB
Requirements:: Windows (All Versions)
Language:: en-us
License:: Non-Commercial Freeware
Date Added:: 16 Dec 2010
Publisher:: Irfan Skiljan
Homepage:: http://www.irfanview.com
MD5 Checksum:: B6E892A731D3358291DD206DE4A9764E

- Option to support IrfanView by installing Google Chrome browser (OPTIONAL !)
- New multipage images feature: Show page thumbnails (Hotkey: F10, menu: View) (Uses thumbnail settings from Thumbnails window, use TAB for focus change)
- New multipage images option: Change pages using Page keys (Properties->Browsing)
- New color management option in Properties->Viewing: Set input ICC profile file for images without embedded ICC profile (default: sRGB)
- New edit menu: Show selection grid (None, Golden Ratio, Thirds)
- New edit menu: Redo (one step, hotkey: CTRL + J)
- Video Playbar showed if DirectShow option used (Fullscreen: B = toggle playbar) (see Hotkeys help page; Thanks to Henner Helmers for testing)
- Option to show an image color channel, menu: "Image->Show channel" and
- Option show the channel as color or grayscale (Properties->Browsing/Editing)
- Selection: hold CTRL key pressed during drawing to make a proportional selection with the ratio from "Create Custom selection" dialog
- New selection hotkeys:
> ALT + arrows: change width/height of the selection rectangle
> CTRL + arrows: proportional resize of the selection rectangle
> Arrows: If no scrollbars visible: Move selection rectangle
- New placeholder options for: $D, $d, $F and $N => allow partial text, example: $N[0-5] => get first 5 characters from the file name
- New window display options: Fit to window width/height
- New Email PlugIn option: Resize large images (Advanced options work on the first page only)
- New Batch resize option: Resize based only on new/old DPI value
- Vertical and horizontal flip can be applied on selections
- New print dialog option: Collate (for multiple copies of multipage images)
- New Insert-Text dialog options: Antialiased text and Centered (batch mode)
- New Sort dialog option: Insert before selected file (for Batch/Slideshow)
- New JPG-Transform PlugIn option: Write/remove JFIF JPG header
- New Capture dialog feature: Set timer value as decimal number
- New hotkey: click into image + SHIFT = copy hex color value to clipboard
- New thumbnail sizes for 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 ratios (Thumbnail window options)
- New selection color/method for items in Thumbnails window
- Improved extraction of video frames (more formats supported if Codecs installed)
- New feature for advanced users: define an external editor for every extension => see FAQs for an example, [CustomEditors]
- New PNG save option: Save transparency as Alpha channel (Thanks to Thomas Henlich)
- Command line: /advancedbatch and /convert can process all pages from multipage TIF
- Command line: /extract works now for GIF/ANI animations too
- New command line option: /export_pal=palfile (export palette to a PAL file)
- New hotkey: SHIFT + F5 = Refresh (force resample, if set in display options)
- New hotkey: SHIFT + Home/End = Load first/last page in a multipage image
- New hotkey: CTRL + D = Image->Add border/frame
- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + X = Set as wallpaper: Proportional
- Menu change: Create max. custom selection moved to "Create maximized selection"
- At request of Luratech: removed support of LWF/LDF formats (projects/formats stopped, buffer overflows reported)
- Several PlugIns are changed/updated