IrfanView is a freeware graphic viewer for all Windows platforms. The publisher states that its purpose is to be accessible enough for a novice and powerful for advanced users. In my opinion, this goal is accomplished. When you install the program, you have the option to associate filetypes with it. There is a button for associating only images with the program which I like because usually I only open images with IrfanView. However, the program has a long list of supported file formats. If you want to open even more file types you could download the plugins suite from the publisher’s website.  


This software features multi language support, thumbnail/preview options, slideshow and a function that I also use very much: batch conversion and renaming. Batch conversion is very simple and straightforward and can be accessed using the “Batch conversion” submenu of the “File” menu. You can modify the size, compression rate, output format and many more image properties like brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma correction. These adjustments are possible in batch mode, for multiple files, as well as in single image mode.

Even professionals can be amazed when they see the numerous options IrfanView has to offer. Basically anything is possible with this viewer: rotating the image at a certain angle, cropping an area of the image, converting to negative or grayscale, modifying colour levels, zooming, printing images, applying image effects and much more. I am using this viewer for about 5 years now, and I never had any problems with it. It always starts very fast and it displays images very smoothly.

IrfanView is a freeware graphic viewer for all Windows platforms. The publisher states that its purpose is to be accessible enough for a novice and powerful for advanced users. In my opinion, this goal is accomplished. When you install the program, you have the option to associate filetypes with it. There is a button for associating only images with the program which I like because usually I only open images with IrfanView. However, the program has a long list of supported file formats. If you want to open even more file types you could download the plugins suite from the publisher’s website.  


This software features multi language support, thumbnail/preview options, slideshow and a function that I also use very much: batch conversion and renaming. Batch conversion is very simple and straightforward and can be accessed using the “Batch conversion” submenu of the “File” menu. You can modify the size, compression rate, output format and many more image properties like brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma correction. These adjustments are possible in batch mode, for multiple files, as well as in single image mode.

Even professionals can be amazed when they see the numerous options IrfanView has to offer. Basically anything is possible with this viewer: rotating the image at a certain angle, cropping an area of the image, converting to negative or grayscale, modifying colour levels, zooming, printing images, applying image effects and much more. I am using this viewer for about 5 years now, and I never had any problems with it. It always starts very fast and it displays images very smoothly.