That aside, FastStone Image Viewer is a superb program that punches above its 16MB weight and free price tag. You can’t yet edit videos, even though the video player contains editing buttons – a minor confusion that needs to be ironed out. Meanwhile, in the program’s browser view, you’ll find a new ‘Specify date range’ field to help you control those unwieldy import sessions.Īs ever, FastStone incorporates a nimble photo editor that lets you crop, resize and straighten photos tag and watermark your images adjust colour and exposure create slideshows configure print jobs, and even remove blemishes. You can now set a video to play on a loop or play the next file automatically use mouse gestures to fast-forward 10 seconds within a video or skip to the next video and remember playback position. The playback-control bar now hides automatically until you next move your mouse, similar to VLC. There are visible changes too, notably in the overhauled full-screen video player.

Large ‘batch’ operations – that let you convert, move or rename multiple files in one go – are now significantly faster than in other photo-management software, including Adobe’s pricey Lightroom. Its new version focuses on letting you handle photos, videos and folders as quickly as possible.

Faststone video editor