resource of the week: irfanview

IrfanView is a very fast, small, compact and innovative FREEWARE (for non-commercial use) graphic viewer for Windows.   It is designed to be simple for beginners, but powerful for professionals.  Some IrfanView features:

• Many supported file formats
• Multi language support
• Thumbnail/preview option
• Paint option - to draw lines, circles, arrows, straighten image etc.
• Slideshow (save slideshow as EXE/SCR or burn it to CD)
• Support for Adobe Photoshop Filters
• Batch conversion (with advanced image processing)
• Multipage TIF editing
• File search
• Cut/crop
• Add overlay text/image (watermark)
• Effects (Sharpen, Blur, Adobe 8BF, Filter Factory, Filters Unlimited, etc.)
• Screen Capturing
• Lossless JPG rotation

This is what the program looks like:

This would be a great alternative to some of the proprietary software, and the best feature is the ability to edit multiple images at ones (a limitation of most of its expensive counterparts).  Thanks to Paul for sharing this week's resource!