FastStone Imaging Tools consist of four separate programs that allow you to get very specific imaging tasks done.
Since they are individual programs they are small, fast loading and allow you to concentrate on the task at hand. And guess what? All of them are FREE for home users except the screen capture tool.
FastStone Image Viewer 3.4 – Download Now!!
An image browser, converter and editor that supports all major graphic formats including BMP, JPEG, JPEG 2000, GIF, PNG, PCX, TIFF, WMF, ICO and TGA. It has a nice array of features such as image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping, color adjustments, musical slideshow and much more.
FastStone MaxView 2.1 – Download Now!!
A tiny, very fast and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats. Its intuitive layout and commands allow everyone, from beginners to professionals, to view and manipulate images quickly and efficiently.
FastStone Photo Resizer 2.4 – Download Now!!
An image converter / resizer intended to enable users especially digital camera owners to convert, rename, resize, crop, rotate, change color depth, add text and watermark to images in a quick and easy BATCH mode.
Faststone Capture 5.9 – Download Now!!
A powerful, flexible and intuitive screen-capture utility. It allows you to capture anything on the screen including windows, objects, full screen, rectangle / freehand-selected regions and scrolling windows/web pages.
ScreenCapture is the only tool from FastStone that is not free. It’s Shareware but worth every penny of $19.95.
[techtags: Free Software, Image Tools]
Software suites like these are too good to be free but it seems like the company who made these software tools believes in the saying that the best things in life are for free. Kudos to them for that!