A View to IrfanView

If you look around you, it appears that everyone is taking pictures. Capturing images is very easy and you can use all kinds of devices, from the high end digital camera, your cell phone, to the KIDIZOOM camera (winner of the 2008 Canadian Toy Testing Council /Energizer Battery-Operated Toy of the Year).
But now that you have all of these pictures, what do you do with them?

• You could store them on some sort of media (CD, DVD, hard drive, Media cards etc…)
• You could print them.
• And in this era of social sharing you will probably want to share some of these with family and friends.

But before you share these you will probably want to modify them, resize/resample, crop, do some red eye corrections, add some effects like changing the colours, converting to black and white or sepia, maybe even flip them or rotate them.
To do this you could use a variety of different software but for ease of use and a LOW cost solution, I would recommend IrfanView

IrfanView (pronounce "EarfanView") is a freeware image viewer that was written by Irfan Skiljan from Jajce, Bosnia. The application is small and does all of the above modifications as well as other neat effects.
So before you post your large files, why not create thumbnails or even resize them to a more Web friendly format?

IrfanView is free and there are several wonderful online and downloadable tutorials (Google it)that will help you in you quest to become the next Yousuf Karsh!