is a popular , or other choices with all the
Plugin s - available in a single download). It does not have extensive image creation and painting capabilities like
Adobe Photoshop or
GNU 's
GIMP . Rather, IrfanView is designed to be a lightweight viewer/player.
The program is named for its creator, Irfan Skiljan of such as
BMP ,
GIF ,
JPEG ,
PNG ,
TIFF , non-image media files such as
Flash ,
Ogg Vorbis ,
MPEG ,
MP3 , and even text files.
The program is incredibly small; the latest version 3.98 is about 900 Kb in size only. Still Irfanview is a very fast and powerful
Software . However, it should be noted that a five-megabyte plugin is necessary in order to view many file formats. Apart from converting file formats one can create
Screensavers using his or her own favorite images by Irfanview. These screensavers can even be exported to other computers and run even if Irfanview is not installed in that computer. It can also create icons by converting common graphic files into '.ico' format.
IrfanView's image editing capabilities, while lacking a freehand drawing mode, can still accomplish a wide variety of editing tasks. The program has built-in
TWAIN support for retrieving images from
Scanners ; it also has extended support for taking
Screenshot s. It can crop, resize, and rotate images. Image colors can be adjusted by modifying the brightness, contrast, tint, and so forth. Many of these changes can be applied to multiple images in one operation, using
Batch Processing .
Since version 3.92, the installer can choose to also install an
EBay toolbar in order to support the developer. In version 3.92, the toolbar is checked by default (hence was being criticized as
Spyware ). The option is unchecked in version 3.97, and replaced with an option to install
Google Desktop Search in 3.98.
