IrfanView 4.66

4 from 3 Reviews

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative Freeware (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer.

IrfanView is known as the first graphic viewer for Windows which has provided GIF support.

Its revolutionary character has also made it one of the first applications offering Multipage TIF support and the first graphic viewer with Multiple ICO support.

IrfanView seeks to create unique, new and interesting features, 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 10+ years).

The interface looks basic and simplistic, but once you start exploring the menu, you discover lots of advanced options. Additionally, you can add to IrfanView a variety of third-party plugins so you can view almost any image format you can think of.

IrfanView has a long list of features you will discover on the go: supporting the most common file formats, thumbnail/preview option, toolbar skins option, support for Adobe Photoshop Filters, batch conversion with image processing, fast directory view, multipage TIF editing, file search, email option, a multimedia player, print option, scan support, IPTC editing, screen capturing, lossless JPG rotation, hotkeys, Unicode support, and not performing registry changes without the user’s action or permission.

With the help of IrfanView, you can extract icons from EXE, DLL and ICL files, apply effects (blur, sharpen, filters etc.), change color depth, perform file searches, and enjoy paint options (drawing lines, arrows or circles) and straighten images.

IrfanView has been around for many years and it is being constantly updated. It is very well-organized and compact, even if it features so many options. It is also available in a portable version.

IrfanView is simple enough to encourage beginners and advanced enough, at the same time, to please power users.


Changes to IrfanView 4.65:

- Option for Dark mode: Properties->Viewing (works best with Windows 10/11)
- New option in Insert Text dialog: Text rotation (90 deg for vertical text)
- New in Slideshow dialog: Option to set different time for each file (new button: "Change time" for selected files)
- "Paste into Selection": Second paste (CTRL+V) will also apply the image
- New Hotkey after "Paste into selection": SHIFT + Click within selection: Apply pasted image and keep selection
- New Edit menu: Apply image effects to inverted selection (non-selected area)
- New option in Properties->Editing: Set custom filename for pasted image
- Option to read XMP data in the IPTC dialog
- New Histogram effects in Effects Browser dialog
- Improved support for tabs in text in Insert Text dialog (CTRL + Tab)
- New PlugIn for AVIF format
- The Replace File dialog shows preview of both images
- The Fine Rotation dialog can be resized
- New in Fine Rotation dialog: draw a straight line to rotate
- The Histogram dialog can be resized (Local dark mode using right button)
- Slideshow/Automatic mode will suspend system sleep while running
- Command line: "/append" will append all pages from the input file (if "/page" option is not used)
- SVG PlugIn loading bugs fixed
- JP2 PlugIn loading bug fixed

Reviews & Comments
IrfanView 4.59
Ibrahim
on 18 December 2021
excellent and very lite application, full of useful features and options.
I have been using it since 2005.
IrfanView 4.33
Jim
on 07 June 2012
I wished that I could help Bill.
(I have Win 7 and just installed that version of IrfanView, without any problems, right into my Program Files (x86) folder.) I would guess, uninstall and check you install options, carefully?

My problems is with the Slideshow Mode and their Full Screen Options (Full Screen / Slideshow). None of them seem to be working or holding within Full Screen Mode? :(
IrfanView 4.33
bill
on 03 April 2012
the program installs ok, but it installs itself to the desktop in windows 7, 64 bit
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