{"id":5868,"date":"2011-09-23T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2011-09-23T02:22:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-09-23T08:22:39","modified_gmt":"2011-09-23T02:22:39","slug":"irfanview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/irfanview\/","title":{"rendered":"IrfanView"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.irfanview.com\/\">IrfanView<\/a> is a Windows-only swiss army knife for images. It&#8217;s lightning fast, opens just about any format known to man, and runs off a portable or network drive. Oh, and it&#8217;s free as in beer.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve used IrfanView for more than a decade, and the developer has been cautious to add features but not interface bloat. It&#8217;s never gotten slower. It gets really powerful when you start using shortcut keys.<\/p>\n<p>Want to resize an image? Ctrl-R.<br \/>\nRotate it? Press R for right, L for left.<br \/>\nSave? S.<br \/>\nCrop? Draw a box and hit Ctrl-Y.<br \/>\nScreen capture? C.<br \/>\nPaint tools? F12.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not a full-fledged photo editor, but it does come with a basic assortment of filters, including pixelate, blur, and red-eye reduction. It can use standard 8bf (Photoshop) plugins too. It&#8217;s got a very powerful batch processor and converter. Watermarks, sizing, compression, naming, it&#8217;s all there.<\/p>\n<p>About the only feature I wish IrfanView had was a curves editor, but that&#8217;s easily solved with a free plugin called SmartCurve. For marking up screenshots and documentation, it can&#8217;t be beat. For cropping and resizing, there&#8217;s nothing faster.<\/p>\n<p>IrfanView doesn&#8217;t replace PhotoShop, Gimp, or even Picasa. It just means you&#8217;ll use them a whole lot less often, and only when you&#8217;re planning to spend some quality time with an image. For day-to-day editing and management, IrfanView is infinitely faster and easier.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s free for non-commercial use, $12 USD for commercial use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple, powerful, and free image viewer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"0","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}