IrfanView. Enough said.
But seriously, this is my absolute favourite image viewer by a mile. It’s the Swiss army knife of image utilities. It chops, it dices, it:
- views (over one jillion formats)
- saves
- converts
- resizes
- rotates
- thumbnails [new verb, invented just now, by me]
- slideshows [ditto above], into an executable or screensaver too
- removes red-eye from photographs
- extracts: icons from executables, frames from animated gifs etc
- and so much more
As an aside, something for which I use IrfanView a lot is reducing the size of an email. Allow me to explain… no really, please do: For some reason, pasting a screen capture (good old Print-Screen button) into an email you’re composing in Lotus Notes makes for a very big email — usually about 2MB. Paste-copy that screen capture into and out-of IrfanView first and you end up with an email of about 200KB, with no loss of quality. Same goes for Lotus WordPro and its documents. Maybe it’s just a feature of Lotus products but if your email client or word-processor exhibits similar bloating, perhaps give this little trick a try.
