A free image viewer

I come across this free image viewer the other day. It is quite nifty and the best part of it, is that it is free for home user. It can be a replacement for ACD See.

FastStone ImageViewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. Its features include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. It has a full screen mode that provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and other major functions via pop up toolbar that appears when your mouse touches the four edges of the screen.

Other features include a high quality magnifier and a musical slideshow with 150+ transitional effects, as well as lossless JPEG transitions, drop shadow effects, image annotation, scanner support, histogram and much more.

It supports all major graphic formats (BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, animated GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA) and popular digital camera RAW formats (CRW, CR2, NEF, PEF, RAF, MRW, ORF, SRF and DNG).

You may download it from http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm. The current version is version 3.6. Even though it is free for home users but I will advise business users to pay USD$34.95 for it.