IrfanView is a freeware image viewer for Microsoft Windows that can view, edit, and convert image files and play video/audio formats. It is primarily a lightweight viewer/player which is noted for its speed, ease of use, and ability to handle a wide variety of graphic file formats, but also has some image creation and painting capabilities. The software was first released in 1996. IrfanView is "provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use", and requires paid registration for commercial use.
IrfanView works under Windows 95 through Windows 7, as tested by Microsoft. It supports numerous file formats including: image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG (includes the optimizer PNGOUT), TIFF, non-image media files such as Flash, Ogg Vorbis, MPEG, MP3, MIDI, and text file
Some IrfanView features:
* Many supported file formats (click here the list of formats) * Multi language support * Thumbnail/preview option * Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc. * Toolbar skins option * Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD) * Show EXIF/IPTC/Comment text in Slideshow/Fullscreen etc. * Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters * Fast directory view (moving through directory) * Batch conversion (with image processing) * Multipage TIF editing * File search * Email option * Multimedia player * Print option * Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF * 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 * Unicode support * Many hotkeys * Many command line options * Many PlugIns * Only one EXE-File, no DLLs, no Shareware messages like "I Agree" or "Evaluation expired" * No registry changes without user action/permission! * and much much more
