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IrfanView is a freeware software for image viewing. It's small and simple, perfect for both professionals and beginners. Among its features the most interesting are: supports the most popular file formats, thumbnail/preview option, support for Adobe Photoshop Filters and many more.

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  1. Description
  2. Features
  3. File Formats
  4. Communities
  5. Further reading

Description

IrfanView is the perfect tool for optimizing, viewing, converting and batch processing images. It also has additional features for playing movies and sounds.

Features

File Formats

IrfanView supports a wide range of file formats. For some of the it might be necessary to download additional plugins available here: http://www.tucows.com/preview/415586

ExtensionFormat Name
1.Graphic formats
ANI, CURAnimated Cursor
AWDArtweaver format
B3DBodyPaint 3D format
BMP, DIBWindows Bitmap
CAMCasio digital camera format
CLPWindows Clipboard
CPTCorelDraw Photopaint format
CRW/CR2Canon RAW format
DCM/ACR/IMADicom/ACR/IMA file format for medical images
DCXMultipage PCX format
DDSDirect Draw Surface format
DJVU, IW44DjVu File Format
DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVGCAD Formats
ECWEnhanced Compressed Wavelet
EMFEnhanced Metafile Format
EPS, PS, PDFPostScript Formats
FITSFlexible Image Transport System
FPXFlashPix format
FSHEA Sports FSH format
G3Group 3 Facsimile Apparatus format
GIFGraphics Interchange Format
HDRHigh Dynamic Range format
HDP, WDPMicrosoft HD Photo format
ICL, EXE, DLLIcon Library formats
ICOWindows Icon
ICSImage Cytometry Standard format
IFF, LBMInterchange File Format
IMGGEM Raster format
JP2, JPC, J2KJPEG 2000 format
JPG, JPEGJoint Photographic Experts Group
JPMJPEG2000/Part6, LuraDocument.jpm
KDCKodak digital camera format
LDFLuraDocument Format
LWFLuraWave Format
Mac PICT, QTIF, MP4Macintosh PICT format
MNG, JNGMultiple Network Graphics
MRCMRC format
MrSID, SIDLizardTech's SID Wavelet format
DNG, EEF, NEF, MRW, ORF, RAF, DCR, SRF/ARW, PEF, X3FDigital camera RAW formats (Adobe, Epson, Nikon, Minolta, Olympus, Fuji, Kodak, Sony, Pentax, Sigma)
NLM, NOL, NGGNokia/LogoManager files
PBMPortable Bitmap format
PCDKodak Photo CD
PCXPC Paintbrush format from ZSoft Corporation
PDFPortable Document format
PGMPortable Greymap format
PICSoftimage PICT
PNGPortable Network Graphics
PPMPortable Pixelmap format
PSDAdobe PhotoShop format
PSPPaint Shop Pro format
PVRDreamCast Texture format
RAS, SUNSun Raster format
RAW, YUVRaw (binary) data
RLEUtah RLE format
SFFStructured Fax File
SFWSeattle Film Works format
SGI, RGBSilicon Graphics format
SIFSIF format
SWF, FLVMacromedia Flash format
TGATruevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter (TARGA)
TIF, TIFFTagged Image File Format
TTFTrue Type Font
TXTText (ASCII) File (as image)
VTFValve Texture format
WADWAD3 Game format
WALQuake 2 textures
WBMPWAP Bitmap format
WMFWindows Metafile Format
XBMX11 Bitmap
XPMX11 Pixmap
2. Video/Audio
AIFSound file, Audio Interchange Format
AU, SNDAudio format used by Sun and NeXT machines
MEDMED/OctaMED sound format
MIDMusical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI)
MP3MPEG audio layer 3 format
OGGOGG Vorbis sound format
RAReal Audio sound format
WAVWindows audio file
ASFAdvanced Systems Format
AVIAudio Video Interleaved
MOV, MP4QuickTime Movie format
MPG, MPEGMoving Pictures Experts Group format
WMA, WMVWindows Media Audio/Video format

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Further reading

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