IrfanView 4.23

• License:

  Free

• Editor's Rating:

  4.0 stars

• Average User Rating:

  4.0 stars (out of 2175 votes) Rate it!

• Downloads:

  37,713,009

• Requirements:

  Windows 95/98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista

• Limitations:

  No limitations

• Date Added:

  December 21, 2008

• Previous Versions:

  Select a version IrfanView 4.2 IrfanView 4.1 IrfanView 4 IrfanView 3.99 IrfanView 3.98 IrfanView 3.97 IrfanView 3.95 IrfanView 3.92 IrfanView 3.91 IrfanView 3.9 IrfanView 3.85 IrfanView 3.8 IrfanView 3.75 IrfanView 3.70 IrfanView 3.61 IrfanView 3.33 IrfanView 3.25 IrfanView 3.21 IrfanView 3.17 IrfanView 3.15 IrfanView 3.12 IrfanView 3.10 IrfanView 3.07 IrfanView 3.05 IrfanView 3.02 IrfanView 3.0 IrfanView 2.98 IrfanView32 2.92 IrfanView32 2.90 IrfanView32 2.85

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Publisher's description of IrfanView

IrfanView is a fast and compact image viewer/converter. It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals. Many supported file formats and features. Features include: multi-language support, Thumbnail option, Painting, slideshow, toolbar skins, fast directory browsing, batch conversion/editing, multipage editing, file search, change color depth, scanning, cut/crop, IPTC edit, capturing, lossless JPG operations, effects, ICC support, EXE/SCR creating, many hotkeys, command line options and plugins.

Numerous changes in version 4.23 include: Added History list for Random slideshow; New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF; Option to save changes on exit; Options to set start parameters for external editors; New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded).

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Editor's review of IrfanView

• 4.0 stars

• "Simple, fast, and free"

This image viewer and editor is a longtime favorite among our staff, and with good reason. IrfanView is simple, fast, and free for individual use. Upon installation, the app attempts to install two Google programs, but you can opt out.

The program lets you open and edit images, as well as multiple media formats. You can cut and crop images, apply batch conversions, add, sharpen, or blur effects, create panoramas, and change color modes easily. The program continues to add support for an array of file formats and has plug-in support for most image, video, and sound formats, including MP3, AVI, audio CD, and WMA. The interface is far from fancy but should be easy enough for most users to figure out. An IrfanView Thumbnails shortcut on the desktop offers an Explorer-like file tree that quickly displays all images in a particular folder. The latest version includes a basic drawing palette made accessible by hitting F12. It contains simple Erase, Draw, Fill, Rotate, Draw an Arrow, and Color Picker commands, perfect for grabbing screenshots and highlighting image specifics.

IrfanView does what it does well. It's not going to replace a major paint program, but why use a meat cleaver to cut a stick of butter?

User reviews

• Average user rating: 4.1 stars out of 2175 votes
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• 5 stars

  Version: IrfanView 4.23

  "Great for editing photos for web or email"

  by dtstell on January 3, 2009

  Pros: Great for sending photos to out-of town relatives, download photos from camera, use batch conversion to shrink files, then the files download easy, even with email virus scanning software.

  Cons: None known

  Summary: A must have
  
  Updated on Jan 3, 2009

  Extra plugins are available for free download at irfanview.net, but it downloads without file extension, need to add .exe to file name to use.

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• 5 stars

  Version: IrfanView 4.23

  "Must have for quick edits, resizes, and viewing"

  by WebWeaver64 on January 3, 2009

  Pros: Small, fast, and does what it needs to.

  Cons: No fancy creating graphics, which I don't actually see as a con

  Summary: Gotta have. I install this on every computer I work on, and nobody has ever said they couldn't use it, or didn't like it.

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• 5 stars

  Version: IrfanView 4.23

  "The very best"

  by INoItAll on January 2, 2009

  Pros: Try it you will never look elsewhere

  Cons: nothing at all

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• 5 stars

  Version: IrfanView 4.23

  "Does Everything!"

  by maneEack on January 1, 2009

  Pros: Opens many photo formats; small program so it loads images fast, easy resizing, extra filters, great quality

  Cons: not that appealing :), cannot use png around shadows

  Summary: I use this program all of the time! It's a great program for creating websites and images to use on them!

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• 3 stars

  3 out of 3 people found this review helpful

  Version: IrfanView 4.23

  "Used to be great, but quality is steadily declining"

  by chengiz on December 28, 2008

  Pros: - Quick, small, efficient
  - Wide support
  - Lots of features and customizability

  Cons: Every version seems to regress a little bit more, which makes me think QA is crap over there. These are showstopper bugs:
  - Next arrow is broken in 4.22
  - Videos dont show picture unless you manually resize

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  Updated on Dec 28, 2008

  Just wanted to add: iirc the last 5 star version of Irfanview was 3.99; you can get it from oldversion.com (see the History of Changes page on the Irfanview site).

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