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IrfanView (pronounced EarfanView) is an extremely fast, small (it still fits into a 1.44 MB Floppy Diskette, though the Floppy Disk is now extinct!) and rock-solid program for editing digital images. IrfanView has been developed by Irfan Skiljan, a Bosnia-born software developer, who has kept it free (for non-commercial use - it costs 10 Euros or 12 US$, for commercial use) for nearly 15 years, ever since the first version was released to the public. IrfanView's popularity is rising by the day - since 2003, it is consistently being downloaded over 1 million times every month!

IrfanView

IrfanView is updated periodically, with new features being added on, based on user feedback and global trends. The current version is numbered 4.25.

 

IrfanView has many firsts: it was the first Windows-based graphic viewer with Multiple (animated) GIF support, one of the first graphic viewers with Multipage TIF support and the first graphic viewer with Multiple ICO support. In the words of its creator, "IrfanView is trying to create new and/ or interesting features in its own way"

 

The latest versions are able to play a number of video file formats, play sound, etc., as well, apart from the digital image editing features that form its core. We at WellOiledPC have been users of IrfanView for many years now and wholeheartedly recommend it for a wide range of basic image editing tasks!
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The screenshot at the top shows the IrfanView Home Page - click to browse it. It is a measure of IrfanView's popularity, that it is downloadable from a number of 'mirror sites' across the world, including the redoubtable CNet.com, TUCOWS.Com, SoftPedia.com, Software.com, etc! Despite its features, the core of IrfanView is packed in under 1.5 MB, with its plug-ins coming in at another 7.5 MB...

IrfanView serves almost all our digital image editing needs at WellOiledPC. We love it for its speed, ease of operations, simplicity and rock-solid stability. So if you have a collection of digital photographs crying out to be edited/ touched up, look no further!

 

Here is a listing of some of the features of IrfanView:

  • Supports a wide number of image file formats (Complete listing of supported file formats at http://www.irfanview.com/main_formats.htm)

  • 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!

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IV User Manual

We at WellOiledPC have published a Comprehensive User Reference Manual in English for IrfanView 4.25, with the Foreword penned by Irfan Skiljan! Order Securely NOW for US$ 10 and master IrfanView!

GREAT VALUE FOR MONEY!

Total Size about 23 MB, Pages 224, across 7 Chapters.

Examples, Screenshots and illustrations on every page!

We recommend Firefox for displaying our PDF Manuals and downloading them to your Computer.
Buy your copy
at USD 10.00!

Steps to begin using IrfanView 4.25:

  1. If you do not have the latest version of IrfanView, download it (free for personal use; Euro 10 for commercial use) at http://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

  2. Download the IrfanView Plug-ins too, from links at the above URL

  3. Click the PayPal button to the right and top, to Securely order your IrfanView 4.25 User Manual

  4. Within 24 working hours of receipt of your payment, we will send you the link, your User Name and Password for downloading your copy of the IrfanView 4.25 User Manual.

IV Help Manual

If you would rather browse/ download our FREE Help Manual before ordering, visit one of the following links to download the FREE Help Manual.

Note that currently, all these three links have the same version of the Help Manual.

  1. http://www.welloiledpc.com/Reports/IrfanView_4_25_HelpManual_lite.pdf

  2. http://www.irfanview.info/test/IrfanView_4_25_HelpManual_lite.pdf

  3. http://www.samshuijzen.nl/sam/arch/manuals/IrfanView_4_25_HelpManual_lite.pdf

The above PDF is about 3.5 MB in size. Do allow sufficient time for it to load into your Browser, before saving it...

Total Pages: 80, spread across 7 Chapters.

The Free Help Manual does not have Examples, Illustrations, etc, that the Comprehensive User Manual has!

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