IrfanView is a fast and simple image viewer and editor that supports all major graphic formats, including BMP, DIB, JPEG, GIF, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, multipage TIFF, TGA, and more. It’s one of the best image viewer available.

NOTE: IrfanView is free for personal use. Commercial users can obtain a license here.

Here are some key features of „Portable IrfanView“:

· 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

What’s New in This Release:

· Faster JPG loading!
· New Paste options: Paste on left/right/top/bottom (Edit->Paste Special)
· see also the new option: Properties->Editing->Fit clipboard image)
· Changes in Open/Save dialogs (Recent folders box, View mode is remembered)
· Menu „File->Recent directories“ removed (MRUDs are now in the Open dialog)
· New options in Canvas Size dialog
· EXIF + IPTC PlugIns merged into Metadata-Plugin
· New option in JPG IPTC/Comment dialogs: Allow placeholders
· New option in JPG IPTC dialog: Batch editing (if started from Thumbnails)
· New options in Capture dialog (send to Clipboard, Printer, new name patterns)
· Option to show Alpha channel for TIF/PNG/TGA files (menu: Image->Show channel)
· Option to show TIF alpha/transparency (for 32 bit RGBA images, Properties->Viewing)
· Added basic support for EXIF saving from Digi-Cam RAW formats to JPG
· The Effects dialog can be resized/maximized
· AltaLux Effect/PlugIn added (Image->Effects menu, Thanks to Stefano Tommesani)
· Option to set a tolerance…