FastStone MaxView 2.9

FastStone MaxView is a cutting-edge image viewer that offers you a lot of interesting and helpful features. The program not only allows you to view images, but it also includes many editing features and effects you can apply to your images very easily. In fact, although this tool is considered an image viewer, it could perfectly be cataloged as an image editor and even as an image converter.

The program can open image files in all popular formats and even in many not-very-popular ones, like CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, DNG and others. However, it only supports saving image files in ten well-known formats including JPEG, BMP, GIF, PNG, TGA, PCX and even PDF. As a plus, the program can acquire images not only from existing image files, but also from your scanner or digital camera directly. As for the editing functions, the program supports from very simple ones, like rotating and resizing your images, to more advanced ones like adjusting your images' blur, sharpen, lighting, color balance, etc. You can also crop your images or add text, lines and shapes to them in an editor that resembles MS Paint.

One of the most powerful features of FastStone MaxView is its capability of opening image files contained in archives like ZIP or RAR files, without needing to unpack them first. You can even navigate through your image files contained in encrypted and password-protected archives, and save the effects and modifications you apply to them without requiring to unpack/repack them, which would be the normal process. more