IrfanView vs Microsoft Paint

IrfanView

Description: IrfanView is a free, open source image viewer, editor, organiser and converter program for Microsoft Windows. It supports a wide variety of image formats and basic image editing features like cropping, resizing and color adjustments.

Type: software

Pricing: Open Source

Microsoft Paint

Description: Microsoft Paint is a simple raster graphics editor that comes pre-installed with Microsoft Windows. It allows users to draw simple images, crop and resize images, and apply basic edits like rotating images and changing color palettes. Common uses are making simple diagrams, editing screenshots, and basic image manipulation.

Type: software

IrfanView Features

• Supports a wide variety of image formats including JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP
• Basic image editing tools like cropping, resizing, rotating, color adjustments
• Thumbnail/contact sheet generator
• Slideshow creator
• Batch conversion/renaming of images
• Plugins allow extending functionality

Microsoft Paint Features

• Basic drawing tools (brush, pencil, eraser, etc)
• Basic shape tools (rectangle, ellipse, etc)
• Simple image editing tools (crop, resize, rotate, flip, etc)
• Basic text insertion
• Basic color palette editing
• Saving images in common formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF
• Opening and editing image files
• Copy and paste images or parts of images

IrfanView

• Open Source

Microsoft Paint

• Not listed