FastStone Image Viewer noise.

[woof woof]

I couldn't see anywhere to post this so I've posted here...

I've been using FastStone for quite a while but I recently noticed that it's showing excessive noise in some pictures which look perfectly ok in Adobe CS5 and Windows Photo Viewer.

I've looked at the settings but I can't see anything that looks relevant.

Has anyone else seen this and can anyone point me at a fix other than use something else?

 

[droj]

What's the file format of the noisy images, Alan?

 

[woof woof]

Just JPEGs.

 

[droj]

Sorry can't spot anything obvious in settings, and my images here are noise-free.

 

[woof woof]

An example, the first one is a screen shot of the faststone picture and the second is the JPEG I see with the Windows viewer and CS5.

Looking at other pictures I don't think it's just noise that's the problem, there seems to be more sharpening and maybe contrast too. It's as if it's pushing all the sliders... that I can't see...

 

[woof woof]

Sorry can't spot anything obvious in settings, and my images here are noise-free.

Thanks for looking. I really don't know what's going on. I may delete it and reinstall it and see if that does anything.

 

[woof woof]

Quick update...

I've just deleted and reinstalled it and it's fine now

I've no idea what happened but some pictures looked noisy and over processed. I don't remember it always being like that so perhaps something went wrong with the program or possibly a Windows update upset it. Whatever. After being removed and reinstalled it's back to normal now.

Sorry for any time wasted but if anyone else sees this problem the way forward is to delete and reinstall