Faststone Image Viewer

		Categories: Photo-Journal •March 17, 2008

I’ve been searching for a lightweight, easy to use, reliable and most of all fast Image Browser for years.

Having used a variety of different systems, Adobe Bridge included ( and even Lightroom, though
more interesting than Bridge) I was never really satisfied. True that everybody has a different workflow,
but when you use Photoshop as your main editor - you need an alternative - that does need much
System resources on top of Photoshop.

A couple of months ago I retested a software, that I looked at several years ago and which fell through then.
It’s the Fast Stone Viewer - available for free at the Faststone Website .

And this little program has everything I wished for.

Fast loading
Clear and uncomplicated interface
Basic Editing features, like crop, resize, rotate
When in full size view moving the mouse to the top, left, right or bottom border invokes several menus
editing(left), fileinfo(right), thumbnails(top) and quickedit (bottom) …That’s really neat and useful
Batch editing (resize) and rename
Great Favorites settings
One keystroke transfers the selected image to your editor (e.g. Photoshop)
One keystroke copies or moves image(s) to a favorite folder or a new selected one
Slideshow
Image and thumbviews are highly customizable
Background and layout are also easily changeable.
Low in resource demand. Mine is using about 1% of my memory.
Screen capture features