The most powerful and popular graphic viewer. Still it is free.
IrfanView
IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x, ME, NT, 2000, XP, 2003 , 2008, Vista, Windows 7.
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 10+ 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:
- Many supported file formats
- Multi language support
- Thumbnail/preview option
- Paint option – to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
- Toolbar skins 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
- Support for embedded color profiles in JPG/TIF
- 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
- Unicode support
- 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
Supported file formats in IrfanView
| Extension |
Format Name |
Read |
Save |
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| Graphic formats: |
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| ANI, CUR |
Animated Cursor |
X |
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| AWD* |
Artweaver format |
X |
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| B3D* |
BodyPaint 3D format |
X |
|
| BMP, DIB |
Windows Bitmap |
X |
X |
| CAM* |
Casio digital camera format (JPG version only) |
X |
|
| CLP |
Windows Clipboard |
X |
|
| CPT |
CorelDraw Photopaint format (CPT version 6 only) |
X |
|
| CRW/CR2* |
Canon RAW format |
X |
|
| DCM/ACR/IMA* |
Dicom/ACR/IMA file format for medical images |
X |
|
| DCX |
Multipage PCX format |
X |
|
| DDS* |
Direct Draw Surface format |
X |
|
| DJVU, IW44* |
DjVu File Format |
X |
|
| DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG* |
CAD Formats (Shareware PlugIns) |
X |
|
| ECW* |
Enhanced Compressed Wavelet |
X |
X |
| EMF |
Enhanced Metafile Format |
X |
X |
| EPS, PS, PDF, AI* |
PostScript Formats |
X |
|
| EXR* |
EXR format |
X |
X |
| FITS* |
Flexible Image Transport System |
X |
|
| FPX* |
FlashPix format |
X |
|
| FSH* |
EA Sports FSH format |
X |
X |
| G3* |
Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format |
X |
|
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange Format |
X |
X |
| HDR* |
High Dynamic Range format |
X |
|
| HDP, WDP* |
Microsoft HD Photo format |
X |
|
| ICL, EXE, DLL |
Icon Library formats |
X |
|
| ICO |
Windows Icon |
X |
X |
| ICS* |
Image Cytometry Standard format |
X |
|
| IFF, LBM* |
Interchange File Format |
X |
|
| IMG* |
GEM Raster format |
X |
|
| JP2, JPC, J2K* |
JPEG 2000 format |
X |
X |
| JPG, JPEG |
Joint Photographic Experts Group |
X |
X |
| JLS* |
JPEG-LS, JPEG Lossless |
X |
X |
| JPM* |
JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm |
X |
X |
| KDC* |
Kodak digital camera format |
X |
|
| LDF* |
LuraDocument Format |
X |
X |
| LWF* |
LuraWave Format |
X |
X |
| Mac PICT, QTIF, MP4* |
Macintosh PICT format (Apple Quicktime required) |
X |
|
| MNG, JNG* |
Multiple Network Graphics |
X |
|
| MRC* |
MRC format |
X |
|
| MrSID, SID* |
LizardTech’s SID Wavelet format |
X |
|
| DNG, EEF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3F, RW2, NRW* |
Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma) |
X |
|
| NLM, NOL, NGG* |
Nokia/LogoManager files |
X |
|
| PBM |
Portable Bitmap format |
X |
X |
| PCD |
Kodak Photo CD |
X |
|
| PCX |
PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation |
X |
X |
| PDF* |
Portable Document format |
X |
X |
| PGM |
Portable Greymap format |
X |
X |
| PIC* |
Softimage PICT |
X |
|
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics |
X |
X |
| PPM |
Portable Pixelmap format |
X |
X |
| PSD |
Adobe PhotoShop format |
X |
|
| PSP* |
Paint Shop Pro format |
X |
|
| PVR* |
DreamCast Texture format |
X |
|
| RAS, SUN* |
Sun Raster format |
X |
|
| RAW, YUV* |
Raw (binary) data |
X |
|
| RLE* |
Utah RLE format |
X |
|
| SFF* |
Structured Fax File |
X |
|
| SFW* |
Seattle Film Works format |
X |
|
| SGI, RGB* |
Silicon Graphics format |
X |
|
| SIF* |
SIF format |
X |
|
| SWF, FLV* |
Macromedia Flash format |
X |
|
| TGA |
Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA) |
X |
X |
| TIF, TIFF |
Tagged Image File Format |
X |
X |
| TTF* |
True Type Font |
X |
|
| TXT |
Text (ASCII) File (as image) |
X |
|
| VTF* |
Valve Texture format |
X |
|
| WAD* |
WAD3 Game format |
X |
|
| WAL* |
Quake 2 textures |
X |
|
| WBC, WBZ* |
Webshots formats |
X |
|
| WBMP* |
WAP Bitmap format |
X |
|
| WMF |
Windows Metafile Format |
X |
|
| WSQ* |
Wavelet Scaler Quantization format |
X |
|
| XBM* |
X11 Bitmap |
X |
|
| XPM* |
X11 Pixmap |
X |
|
|
|
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| Video/Audio: |
|
|
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| AIF |
Sound file, Audio Interchange Format |
X |
|
| AU, SND |
Audio format used by Sun and NeXT machines |
X |
|
| MED* |
MED/OctaMED sound format |
X |
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| MID |
Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) |
X |
|
| MP3* |
MPEG audio layer 3 format |
X |
|
| OGG* |
OGG Vorbis sound format |
X |
|
| RA* |
Real Audio sound format (Real Player required) |
X |
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| WAV |
Windows audio file |
X |
|
| ASF |
Advanced Systems Format |
X |
|
| AVI |
Audio Video Interleaved |
X |
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| MOV*, MP4* |
QuickTime Movie format (Apple Quicktime required) |
X |
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| MPG, MPEG |
Moving Pictures Experts Group format |
X |
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| WMA, WMV |
Windows Media Audio/Video format |
X |
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