IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact, and innovative graphic viewer for Windows. There are additional plugins available here as well as a IrfanView 64-Bit and portable versions.

Its goal is to be simple for beginners and powerful for professionals.

IrfanView Features:

Many supported file formats (click here the list of 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

Advantages of IrfanView 32-bit over 64-bit version:
It runs on a 32-bit and 64-bit Windows
Loads all files/images for normal needs (max. RAM size is about 1.3 GB)
It needs less disc space
All PlugIns will work: not all PlugIns are ported (yet) to 64-bit (like OCR) and some 32-bit PlugIns must be still used in the 64-bit version, some with limitations (see the "Plugins32" folder)

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

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