Why I love (and highly recommend) Irfanview.

Every time I use Irfanview I discover some other little magical power-packed feature that comes in handy.  Besides being able to view all your images in the way you like them, it does a lot more than just resave and resize in different formats. If you install of Irfanview’s free plugins, this little, non-bloated program packs a huge punch and can help you with very sophisticated requirements. And I mean more than viewing slideshows, although it can do that, too.

There are a lot of image viewers out there, such as the popular (and commercialware) ACDSee, but none of them can hold a candle to Irfanview.

With Irfanview, you can implement sophisticated batch processes such as twain processing (scanner, camera);  mass image renaming, batch resizing, batch image type, batch processed rotating, batch saturation changing,  batch DPI, batch sharpening, brightness, contrast, color balance, text overlay, color depth and RGB assigning, and more. You can add and strip EXIF data, add EXIF comments, take screenshots, assign desktop wallpaper. It’s also a multi-media player–and a damn good one that can handle anything you toss at it.

Irfanview is not a big bloaty program, and its interface is simple and intuitive.

Irfanview is constantly upgrading and improving their fabulous software, and it still remains (amazingly) free. Just make sure you download all the plugins so that you get all the benefits of Irfanview. I love it, I couldn’t work without  it, and am grateful to the folks at Irfanview for continuing to make it available for free. Download it, you’ll love it.

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