IrFanView, a nice little image editing application

Jasper — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 12:06:00 +0000

Cropping, resizing, format converting, batch processing are simple forms of image manipulation that you could do in every version of Photoshop, but why use a program that uses large amounts of memory and burns a hole in your pocket?

IrFanView does all these things with a tiny program (version 4.23 is only 1,28 MegaBytes) that uses little resources and is totally free. Let’s look into the list of file formats this freeware program supports:

Extension	Format Name	Read	Save

Graphic formats:
ANI, CUR	Animated Cursor	X
AWD*	Artweaver format	X
B3D*	BodyPaint 3D format	X
BMP, DIB	Windows Bitmap	X	X
CAM*	Casio digital camera format (JPG version only)	X
CLP	Windows Clipboard	X
CPT	CorelDraw Photopaint format (CPT version 6 only)	X
CRW/CR2*	Canon RAW format	X
DCM/ACR/IMA*	Dicom/ACR/IMA file format for medical images	X
DCX	Multipage PCX format	X
DDS*	Direct Draw Surface format	X
DJVU, IW44*	DjVu File Format	X
DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG*	CAD Formats (Shareware PlugIns)	X
ECW*	Enhanced Compressed Wavelet	X	X
EMF	Enhanced Metafile Format	X	X
EPS, PS, PDF*	PostScript Formats (Ghostscript required)	X
EXR*	EXR format	X	X
FITS*	Flexible Image Transport System	X
FPX*	FlashPix format	X
FSH*	EA Sports FSH format	X	X
G3*	Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format	X
GIF	Graphics Interchange Format	X	X
HDR*	High Dynamic Range format	X
HDP, WDP*	Microsoft HD Photo format	X
ICL, EXE, DLL	Icon Library formats	X
ICO	Windows Icon	X	X
ICS*	Image Cytometry Standard format	X
IFF, LBM*	Interchange File Format	X
IMG*	GEM Raster format	X
JP2, JPC, J2K*	JPEG 2000 format	X	X
JPG, JPEG	Joint Photographic Experts Group	X	X
JPM*	JPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm	X	X
KDC*	Kodak digital camera format	X
LDF*	LuraDocument Format	X	X
LWF*	LuraWave Format	X	X
Mac PICT, QTIF, MP4*	Macintosh PICT format (Apple Quicktime required)	X
MNG, JNG*	Multiple Network Graphics	X
MRC*	MRC format	X
MrSID, SID*	LizardTech’s SID Wavelet format	X
DNG, EEF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3F*	Digital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma)	X
NLM, NOL, NGG*	Nokia/LogoManager files	X
PBM	Portable Bitmap format	X	X
PCD	Kodak Photo CD	X
PCX	PC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation	X	X
PDF*	Portable Document format	X	X
PGM	Portable Greymap format	X	X
PIC*	Softimage PICT	X
PNG	Portable Network Graphics	X	X
PPM	Portable Pixelmap format	X	X
PSD	Adobe PhotoShop format	X
PSP*	Paint Shop Pro format	X
PVR*	DreamCast Texture format	X
RAS, SUN*	Sun Raster format	X
RAW, YUV*	Raw (binary) data	X
RLE*	Utah RLE format	X
SFF*	Structured Fax File	X
SFW*	Seattle Film Works format	X
SGI, RGB*	Silicon Graphics format	X
SIF*	SIF format	X
SWF, FLV*	Macromedia Flash format	X
TGA	Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA)	X	X
TIF, TIFF	Tagged Image File Format	X	X
TTF*	True Type Font	X
TXT	Text (ASCII) File (as image)	X
VTF*	Valve Texture format	X
WAD*	WAD3 Game format	X
WAL*	Quake 2 textures	X
WBMP*	WAP Bitmap format	X
WMF	Windows Metafile Format	X
WSQ*	Wavelet Scaler Quantization format	X
XBM*	X11 Bitmap	X
XPM*	X11 Pixmap	X

* with plug-ins

As you can see there are a lot of formats that you can open with this program, although you can’t edit them and save them in the same format. This makes it a great program to convert some of the more exotic fileformats for use on the web. Another nifty feature of IrFanView is that you can create your own screensavers with it, based on pictures you like. It can also read the EXIF-data from the pictures you made with your digital camera.

To complete the package there are quite some plug-ins that add a lot of nice little features.

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IrFanView, a nice little image editing application