PHOTOSHOP DISCLAIMER:
There’s no replacement for Photoshop! Photoshop does it all and does it better than everything else!

I find myself recommending this to more and more people every day so I thought it would make a good blog entry. As always, the programs I recommend are free… just as all software should be.

With that said, if you work with photos a lot, Faststone Image Viewer is an absolute MUST HAVE! The list of things this program can do is staggering!

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).

It does batch conversion, batch renaming, watermarking, resizing, red-eye removal, cropping, lossless rotation, bluring, sharpening, color enhancement, color reduction, gray scaling… I could go on for a good while here but I think you get this point. If you’ve ever wanted to do it to a photo, Faststone Image Viewer can do it!