FastStone Image Viewer is a cool, little image utility. As it’s name suggests it is an image viewer (an excellent I might add) and with a few photo editing features. It is “freeware” so that means it is 100% free and will not lock you out in the future, asking you to pay any money (but you can make a donation to the company out of your kind heart).

The basic image viewer that is built into Windows 7, Vista and XP is very basic with limited options. It also only reads a few image formats. In contrast FastStone is an advanced image viewer that has a few built-in photo editing options like cropping, resizing and red-eye removal. It can also almost any image format on the Internetⁱ, including Adobe Photoshop. It can also change the format of an image to another one (ex: change my photos in .tiff format to .jpg format).

FastStone Image Viewer website: http://faststone.org/

In the following FastStone Image Viewer video tutorial I will take you step-by-step and you will easily learn the following…
1. How-To download and install FastStone Image Viewer
2. How-To force Windows to make FastStone Image Viewer the default image viewer
3. How-To adjust the photo magnification setting and how to use it
4. How-To rotate an image
5. How-To crop an image
6. Tour of various settings and options
7. How-To create a screen capture and save it to your computer