IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista.

It is trying to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView is trying to create new and/or interesting features in its own way, unlike some other graphic viewers, whose whole "creativity" is based on feature cloning, stealing of ideas and whole dialogs from ACDSee and/or IrfanView! (for example: XnView has been stealing/cloning features and whole dialogs from IrfanView, for 7+ years).

IrfanView was the first Windows graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple (animated) GIF support. One of the first graphic viewers WORLDWIDE with Multipage TIF support. The first graphic viewer WORLDWIDE with Multiple ICO support.


Some IrfanView features:

• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview 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
• 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
• 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

What's New:
· Option to Search files (File menu or Thumbnails, Hotkey: CTRL+F)
· Support for PDF export (PlugIn) (Thanks to ComSquare AG)
· New Thumnails option: Load file list from TXT
· New zoom workwise: Centered zoom or based on old scroll position
· Zooming and scrolling is now possible in slideshow mode
· Many new effects added: Unsharp mask, Fish Eye etc. (Thanks to GENiEBEN)
· New Flash Plugin for Flash 5 or later! (Thanks to Remio)
· - Option to transfer files by FTP (Thumbnails window, PlugIn)
· Option to set the Start folder (Properties->Misc 2)
· New image option: Auto adjust colors (Thanks to Andras Horvath, www.log69.com)
· New effect: Chromatic Aberration (Thanks to Thomas Strauss)
· Support for SIF format (Formats PlugIn)
· Support for PVR format (DreamCast Texture, Formats PlugIn)
· Support for AWD format (Artweaver Format, PlugIn)
· Support for VTF format (Valve Texture Format, PlugIn)
· WMF format check added, to avoid WMF vulnerability (Thanks to Jakub Debski)
· New Thumbnails sort options: Sort by portrait/landscape
· Fullscreen option: Use right mouse button for scrolling (Properties -> Misc 1)
· Fullscreen option: Set display multiplier (for wide screen displays)
· New placeholders for EXIF/IPTC: $E, $I => to load all EXIF/IPTC data
· Command line change for /resample! (see i_options.txt for examples)
· New command line options: /resize_long, /resize_short (see i_options.txt)
· New command line option: /panorama=(direction,file1,...,fileN)
· New command line options: /bright=value, /gamma=value
· Command line switch for /info: /fullinfo (write EXIF, IPTC and Comment)
· Updated CRW/CR2 PlugIn, please install newest Canon DLLs (see i_plugins.txt)
· Option to show a warning on ESC thumbnails exit (Thumbnails options)
· New options in dialog: Create custom selection
· Support for MP4 format (Quicktime PlugIn)
· At request of Luratech: JP2/JPM/LWF/LDF are not available in Batch mode
· New Hotkey: SHIFT + P = Copy current filename to clipboard
· Added YUV (4:2:0) format support to Formats PlugIn
· Help file format changed to CHM (Compatible with Windows Vista)
· Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (add-all button, ANI/CUR loading, batch text)