Editing IrfanView (section)

==Reception==
Irfanview has been positively reviewed as "really good" for easily and rapidly viewing and manipulating images, with its editing and drawing tools.<ref name="Harris2">{{Cite book |title=HTML, XHTML, and CSS All-in-One Desk Reference For Dummies |last1=Harris |first1=Andy |last2=McCulloh |first2=Chris |publisher=[[Wiley Publishing]] |page=97| isbn=978-0-470-18627-5 |year=2008 |access-date=23 June 2010 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w9kLLI-0exgC&pg=PA97}} Features extensive introduction and opinion.</ref> Other writers have focused on its ability to open a wide variety of image formats.<ref name="Brundage"/><ref name="Nelson"/> In a series of image quality tests conducted in 2004, compared with commercial image compressors and [[Adobe Photoshop]] 7, Irfanview 3.91 produced "consistently better images than the Adobe Photoshop JPEG encoder at the same data rate", and its JPEG2000 compression quality "closely followed" the best codec, [[JasPer]]."<ref>{{cite book |chapter=JPEG vs. JPEG2000: An Objective Comparison of Image Encoding Quality |last1=Ebrahimi |first1=Farzad |last2=Chamik |first2=Matthieu |last3=Winkler |first3=Stefan |title=Applications of Digital Image Processing XXVII. Proceedings of the SPIE |volume= 5558 |pages=300–308  |date=November 2004 |editor-last=Tescher |editor-first=Andrew G.  |doi=10.1117/12.564835 |citeseerx = 10.1.1.65.5495|s2cid=6393903}}</ref> According to IrfanView's official website, since 2003, IrfanView has been downloaded over 1 million times per month. One independent review in 2017 described Irfanview, as "the [[Swiss Army knife|Swiss Army Knife]] of image viewers".<ref name=TechRadar/>