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IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows 9x/ME/NT/2000/XP/2003/Vista. 

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 8+ 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 (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

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


USAGE AGREEMENT

IrfanView is provided as freeware, but only for private, non-commercial use (that means at home).

IrfanView is free for educational use (schools, universities and libraries) and for use in charity or humanitarian organisations.

If you intend to use IrfanView at your place of business or for commercial purposes, please register and purchase it. I want to continue working on this program, therefore, your registration will be an incentive for me to add new functions and increase the program's quality.

Any suggestions, feedback and comments are welcome and won't be ignored.

If you are a commercial user and you like this program (or are a home user who wants to support/donate further development), please register/donate by sending US$ 12.00 or EUR 10,- (this is the price for one (single) licence) to the address below.
Please send cash only. (I cannot accept high check cashing fees at the bank)


Address:

Irfan Skiljan
Postfach 48
2700 Wiener Neustadt
Austria, Europe


Commercial users: please contact me by E-Mail for prices and discounts. Note: If you want, you can buy the licenses using PayPal or credit card. 
  
Thank you VERY much! 

Your support will further the development and entitle you to future versions of IrfanView. Your registered version will include your name in the About box. 


In case of bugs and problems with any supported formats, please send me an e-mail message.


Changelog:

Added History list for Random slideshow ("No file repeat" removed)

New multipage images menu: Create Multipage PDF

Option to save changes on exit (Properties->Misc 1, default: OFF)

TIF loading bugs fixed (Thanks to j00ru//vx)

New command line option: /filelist=txtfile; Examples:
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:mypics.txt
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:mypics.txt /thumbs
i_view32.exe /filelist=c:mypics.txt /convert=d:*.jpg
=> use files from mypics.txt as input for different operations 

New Contact Sheet options: Set custom paper size and units

Options to set start parameters for external editors (see Help file/button)

External editor names are showed in the menu text

New Panorama dialog option: Add space between images

Browsing: if CTRL + number (0-9) pressed, the file index increases by number

New wallpaper menu: Stretched - proportional

New Slideshow dialog option: Remember last file index on exit

New option to show DDS alpha color (Properties->Misc. 1)

Support for WSQ format (Wavelet Scaler Quantization, PlugIn by Steven Venable)

New Thumbnail option: Use full file path for sorting (if subfolders loaded)

New thumbnails tree menu: Load subfolders

New hotkeys: SHIFT + arrows = Move selection rectangle

New hotkeys: 
SHIFT + N = Create new image; 
SHIFT + V = Add canvas;
CTRL + SHIFT + Y = Auto crop borders; 
CTRL + SHIFT + J = Lossless JPG crop;
SHIFT + O = Fit window to image;
F11 = show/hide mouse in Fullscreen/Slideshow 

Several PlugIns are changed/updated, please install the newest versions
http://www.irfanview.com/plugins.htm

Some minor bugs/features fixed/added (scrolling)

Two small 4.22 bugs fixed: Next toolbar button, PDF saving