Forcevision

Forcevision ScreenshotRating: 55 Star Rating 

Version tested:  3.35.1

Let’s say you want a nice, efficient picture viewing software. You don’t want it to be a full-fledged image editor, but you do want it to support every image format you can possibly come across, you want it to have a nice, user friendly design, and you want it to support essential image editing function such as cropping, converting into different image file formats, image resizing, and image rotation. And, of course, you want it to be 100% free.

If so then ForceVision is the viewer for you; an elegant, one-click image viewing solution that is small yet powerful. Not only can it do all of the above (the batch image file format conversion function is particularly slick), it can also perform image scans (through a scanner). Forcevision also features some (30 or so) filtering options such as red eye correction, sharpening/blurring, etc.

I like this program and highly recommend it. I even grew to like the explorer-style navigation window on the left side of the screen. I had never used any of the filtering options before writing this review, as there are more powerful free software out there that do this sort of thing, so they were a (rather pleasant) surprise for such a small program.

A free alternative to: ACDSee, Firegraphic, etc.

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11 Comments so far

  1. Rick on January 12th, 2007

    So what can this do versus Google’s Picasa?
    Smaller footprint? some features that Picasa doesn’t have?

  2. Dave on January 15th, 2007

    ummm…it’s FREE , so why don’t you just check it out for yourself. I just did and it does things very well. I would suggest that crop and other photo editing features be in another toolbar rather than in the edit menu. This is standard on most programs today.

  3. Mumtaz on April 20th, 2007

    Would appreciate it if you could compare Forcevision with IrfanView and XnView, both free image viewers. May I also recommend comparative reviews for each category as well.

    With best wishes for your excellent website.

  4. dahri on May 9th, 2007

    May i suggest another image viewer to put into the comparative review : FastStone Viewer or FSView

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  9. Zal on November 15th, 2007

    FastStone is great but takes too long to load. They have a mini version:FastStone MaxView which super light and opens in in instant

  10. Mofoo on January 4th, 2008

    faststone maxview rocks way more than forcevision
    much faster to load. don’t need explorer, can pg up/dn. settings/customization much easier

  11. Author on March 8th, 2008

    New version is available. 3.5 Alpha 1.

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