FastStone Image Viewer — The Complete Guide: Sorting and Comparing Site and Inspection Photos
FastStone Image Viewer is a Windows program for fast image viewing and basic editing. Site and inspection engineers who come back from a visit with hundreds of photos can sort them, compare before-and-after states and mark findings on them — without opening a heavy graphics package.
FastStone Image Viewer
FastStone Soft
An image browser and editor with side-by-side compare, batch convert and rename and annotation — free for personal and educational use.
Get it from the vendorWhat you get
- Fast browsing — move between images and folders with no waiting.
- Side-by-side comparison — several photos on one screen, for example before and after a repair.
- Basic editing — resize, crop and colour correction.
- Annotation — text and arrows to mark cracks, damp or defects.
- Batch work — format conversion and renaming for a whole folder, with RAW, HEIC and PDF support.
Who may use it for free
The program is free for personal and educational use only. Commercial use — for example documenting inspections for a client in an office — requires buying a licence through the order page on the vendor’s site. Students and teachers can use it at no cost.
Related tools
Another image browser with batch processing — XnView MP. For advanced editing — GIMP. To convert and shrink many images at once — Converseen.
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A cross-platform image browser and batch converter supporting more than 500 formats, including RAW and HEIC.
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A fast image viewer with batch convert, resize and rename — for sets of site photos and scanned drawings.
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GIMP
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Converseen
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Convert and resize hundreds of images at once — prepare site photos and figures for reports, including PDF to images.
Get it from the vendorThe bottom line
A fast, convenient tool for managing site and inspection photos. At home and in education it is free; commercial work needs a licence.