Saves starting up Photoshop when you click on a PSD file by accident. I now just open everything in MaxView because it's so fast.
In the settings for FastStone Image Viewer you'll find almost exactly the same associations tab as shown just above and below.) (Note: If you don't want to pay for MaxView I recommend making FastStone the default viewer for image files. Then if you still want PSD files to automatically open in Photoshop, uncheck that box. Go to the Association tab in Settings:Ĭlick on "Select All". To make MaxView the default viewer for ALL image files, start MaxView. You can download a 45 day free trial version to see if you like it. Just beware, that since December 2008, MaxView is no longer free, the license fee is now $20. Two reasons: (1) It's much faster to open (almost instant because it's such a small quick program), and (2) if I'm already viewing images in FSIV I can view the image I selected in Windows Explorer at the same time, and without jumping out of the folder I was viewing in FSIV.
I much prefer using FastStone MaxView as the default viewer for all my image files. (Forget about icons and default programs, just show me how to get thumbnails.) They are FastStone Image Viewer icons, meaning these files will open in FSIV by default. Obviously this is a reason to browse your folders using FastStone, but it's also nice to be able to see thumbnails of your image files in Windows Explorer, or in an Open or Save As dialog box.īelow we'll learn how to make this happen, but the icons shown here remind me of something I want to change first. If you look at a folder of RAW files using Windows Explorer, and even though the view is "Large Icons", you might see something like this:Įven in the Details Pane at the bottom, there's very little useful information. Users of FastStone MaxView gave it a rating of 5 out of 5 stars.(5/2009, updated 4/2012) If you find our tips useful, please support us The most prevalent version is 3.3, which is used by 50 % of all installations.įastStone MaxView runs on the following operating systems: Windows. It was initially added to our database on. The latest version of FastStone MaxView is 3.3, released on. It was checked for updates 188 times by the users of our client application UpdateStar during the last month. OverviewįastStone MaxView is a Freeware software in the category Graphics Applications developed by FastStone Soft.
It is a handy tool for quickly viewing, rotating, resizing, cropping, annotating and printing images. It even lets you view images in password-protected ZIP and RAR archive files directly and instantly, which is a perfect solution for viewing private images. Its intuitive layout lets you view images in a variety of ways. FastStone MaxView is a fast, compact and innovative image viewer that supports all major graphic formats.
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