Tutorial 2: Batch processing, auto crop and resize
Tutorial 3: Inspect kinect data, and auto crop a region
This is the "emacs of image editors". It has a small footprint and a simple interface with a lot of neat shortcuts that leaves screen space for the important thing: The images! The interface is optimized for my typical work flow in editing photos, writing papers, powerpoints, and documents, and testing new image processing algorithms. Now in version 2 you can even develop RAW images from most cameras (tested with Canon and Nikon) - you can get even change the settings! It has a lot of other powerful features like blending, retouching, lens distortion, filtering, 3D reconstruction, etc. right at your fingertips.
See the images to the left for examples. The wine bottle was developed from a canon raw cr2 image, and then processed using rotation, crop, saturation, whitebalance, and selective contrast enhancement with the retouching tool..
I use it daily myself as an image viewer and image editor. Use it to view photos, make a slideshow, make a new wallpaper, crop a screenshot to a document, analyse colours, view research PGMs such as 16 bit depth maps from Kinect, straighten up a skewed photo, turn a set of images into a video, batch resize/sharpen/relight/convert, etc. All in shorter time than it takes to start Photoshop!
I've moved on from updating version 2 to using version 3. I work primarilly on the x64 as that is the one I use myself.
There is a x32 bit portable version (a user asked for it) that is large address space aware, so it doesnt run out of memory at 1.2GB. See Here
Imgview 3 uses 16bit images under the hood until you save it as a 8bit format. It reads tiff and PNG with exif so you can "edit in" straight from Lightroom.
New features in version 2.8:
You can now clear the image buffers 1-9 to save memory. As a 32bit program it doesn't have full access to the memory (goes OOM at around 1.2Gb).
Raw .CR2 Canon EOS 6D support
New features in version 2.7:
Vignettting tool: Remove and add vignetting, or use it to relight your scene, because you can click to choose the center and design your own light curve.
Exif data saved with jpegs (shortcut E to view exif data):
- Set it up to always add your name and copyright info
- Add descriptions to jpeg files
- Raw data automatically transfered
Image Controls updated:
- Faster on large images
- Freeform curve replaced by luminance-based vector curve that is separated from gamma, contrast, brightness
- Smooth visual feedback while dragging sliders and the luminance curve
- Now includes colour shift
Raw interpretations for Canon EOS 5D Mark III, Nikon D5000,D5100 and D600 added.
Fixed 26/9: Exif comments and distance works now
Fixed: Autolevels normal/binary mode
Fixed: Save all to new folder not locked up with the new interface
New features in version 2.6:
Better clone tool
Brand new Sculpting Tool
Composition tools:
Fix aspect ratio for selection box, and darken the image outside it
Merge image arrays vertically or horizontally aligned
Improved usability
Fix: extreme shrinking of images needed special algorithms.
Fix: Retouch size shown on the image with a circle of the same colour as the composition frame (Change it with Edit->selection->frame colour
New features in version 2.5:
Make HDR image from buffer 1-2, or 1-3 (using pgm HDR settings)
Retouch tool - clone mode.
Easy categorization mechanics with select/remove/delete
Hold control to deselect, or to zoom faster
Fixed: drag'n'dropping files does not mess up categories
Fixed: use exif info to rotate the jpg images
Fixed: capable of selecting "read thumbnails" in the raw settings.
New features in version 2.4:
Auto Crop! (in Save All to New Folder. All image will have the same size after this. Set alignment and resize settings to choose how it will place the image inside the fixed canvas size)
Make a selection rectangle to how how you want them cropped.
Move and change an existing selection box by dragging it or its edges.
More RAW options
Read jpg exif info (to-do: write exif, incl. the raw exif when storing jpegs and ppms)
New features in version 2.2:
Bug fixes - e.g. if a photo fails to load, it will be removed from the ShowList. And if a filter requires too much memory, it will give an eror msg.
Save to new folder has been updates with a function to copy the originals.
New ShowList save/load feature (like an mp3 playlist).
These two latter features makes it easier to sort a batch of photos.
Better sharpening filter.
Zoom is more intuitive.
Help file has been updated to Win7 support. Content has not been rewritten for v2.2 yet.
New features in version 2.1:
Performance improvements
Raw Support - control negative development in the new preferences window
New Preferences window
New progress window so it doesn't hang on long lasting operations (like save all to new folder, and raw features
Coming soon: Image compositions, batch crop, categorization, and video tutorials
Windows Media Player Plugin Musical Beauty is an example of artificial lifeforms whose fates depend on the fire fountains controlled by the music and your mouse! You can push them in a certain direction; towards a new freind or its death! But be gently, or you will squash them yourself.
This program can be used to annotate video sequences (given as image sequences). in different layers of abstraction; actions, modalities, finger tips, contours, and binary masks.
