FastStone Image Viewer 2.5 Beta 4

FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable and user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. The application has a nice array of features, which include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and colour adjustments.

FastStone Image Viewer is both innovative and intuitive. The application has a full-screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars, which pop up when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

FastStone Image Viewer supports all major graphic formats including:

• BMP
• JPEG
• JPEG 2000
• animated GIF
• PNG
• PCX
• TIFF
• WMF
• ICO
• TGA

The application also supports popular digital camera RAW formats including:

• CRW
• CR2
• NEF
• PEF
• RAF
• MRW
• ORF
• SRF
• DNG

Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.

* Add "Overlay (Right on Left)" button in "Compare Images" window, which helps to identify any slight difference between two images (Screenshot)
* Add "Compare in Full Screen" button in "Compare Images" window (Screenshot)
* Improve Scanner Support in "Scan Board" (press Alt+S). Now you can specify the DPI value of the scanner before scanning (Screenshot)
* Filename sorting now uses "Natural Sort". For example, the order of filenames in:
This version:
File1.jpg, File2.jpg, ... File10.jpg, File11.jpg
Previous version:
File1.jpg, File10.jpg, File11.jpg, ... File2.jpg
* Thumbnail Order is remembered when switching folders
* Add option to turn on / off the Preview window in Browser View (Screenshot)
* Support Image Tagging (in the "Tag" menu) (Screenshot).
o Now it is possible to tag through a large number of photos in full screen by pressing "" key.
o You can filter out the untagged files and focus on (copy/move/edit/slideshow etc) the tagged ones only.
o Options of Image Tagging can be found in "Thumbnail" tab of the Settings (press F12). It can be disabled when option "Allow Image Tagging" is unchecked.
o Tag images in "Compare Images" window (press P key) (Screenshot)
* Fix minor bugs