FastStone Image Viewer is a fast, stable, user-friendly image browser, converter and editor. It has a nice array of features that include image viewing, management, comparison, red-eye removal, emailing, resizing, cropping and color adjustments. Its innovative but intuitive full-screen mode provides quick access to EXIF information, thumbnail browser and major functionalities via hidden toolbars that pop up 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).

Developer: FastStone Soft
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 4,1 MB
Download FastStone Image Viewer 3.6 Beta link

FreeVimager is the Free Image Viewer & Editor for Windows. It can as well play avi video files and some type of audio files. There are many tools around doing that, but the aim of this Freeware is to be a small and handy tool doing what it says and running also as a standalone exe file (installer not necessary).

Features
* View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png and pcx
* Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to VistaImage
* Multi-monitor support: switch form one monitor to another through context menu or TAB key
* Unicode support: Open, Edit, Batch Process or Batch Rename your files named in russian, indian, chinese, japanese…
* EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images
* IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files
* Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation
* Recursive directory slideshow to view all files in a directory and it’s subdirectories
* Print Preview with image positioning by dragging
* Size optimized Email sending of image(s)
* Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, …
* Live configurable Redeye removal tool
* Live Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram under Brightness, Contrast, … (thanks Jordi for the suggestion)
* Transparent borders tool (save the result to the alpha channel for png, tiff or bmp)
* Twain Scan multiple pages to tiff and pdf (possibility to Email directly)
* Avi video player has draggable borders in full-screen mode
* Live audio / video time shift slider (to fix out of sync. videos)
* Choosable GDI or DirectX video rendering in YUV or RGB mode
* Basic Audio and CD player
* Zip extraction (context menu entry available)

Developer: Contaware.com
License: Freeware
OS: Windows All
Size: 10.5 MB
Download FreeVimager 1.5.5 link