If you are asked about installing an optional browser-toolbar make sure that option is not selected (unless you want a new toolbar in your browser – it is not a part of Irfanview). Once you have downloaded the application double-click the saved file. You can get to one of the download sites from the Irfanview home page. Frankly, I think it would be better if you spent your time downloading it and installing it. I could wax lyrical about all the features available. exe file on the stick without the need to install it. You can load it onto a memory stick and connect it to any USB enabled computer. Any edit you make is only saved to the original if you actually save your screen version back to the original file. So if you make a mess of doing an edit you can go back one step. One brilliant feature allows you to edit the photo, including adding text or making other changes, but without affecting the original. Irfanview is a lot less scary and easier to use than many of its contemporaries in this field. Photography starters would find this application excellent as a way to get started in image editing. Advanced users might use the quick and rugged features to do many simple tasks. There are facilities for straightening angled horizons, cloning out the dust spots or undesirable elements of the picture, applying special effects… and lots of other things. For example there is a great little image editor, while simple and rugged, it’s accurate and effective – providing simple versions of functions available in other more powerful image editors. In fact there is much more in this excellent application.

The basic list of functions in Irfanview is shown above. one of the most popular viewers worldwide!

Irfanview review