Ai Picture Explorer (AiPICX) is a graphics application that was designed to help you create, format and manage images and multimedia files.

Networking support and Batch UnZipper (extracts multiple ZIP files unattended) is included.

Built-in Slide Album rapidly thumbnails your entire drive (supports more than a million slides) and organizes images by similarity to find exact or modified duplicates; proprietary Image Analysis can quantify image quality, rank and sort images that "look like this".

Slide Album can also create multimedia slideshows (or presentations) with variable delays, 173 cool effects, windows-in-windows, gamma, background, rotation, comments and other properties (per slide).

Our speedy viewer is unmatched and includes gamma and widescreen viewing options; included JPEG Wizard creates tiny files with amazing quality. Everyday imaging tools include standard editing functions; EXIF camera and JPEG comments; collage creation grids; "red eye" removal; automatic color tuning and balancing; TWAIN camera and scanner acquisition; instant wallpaper; variable print sizes and positions; smooth resizing; rotate-by-degree; screen capture; color reduction and more ...

Batch image processing and conversion can be applied to a million files -- unattended; unique smoothing and sharpening filters, bitmap compute and histogram-based functions can be combined in vast sequences to correct and enhance any image (see Tutorial).

Content providers (and collectors) can create thumbnailed HTML catalogs for DVD R/RW, DVD-R/RW, CD-R/RW mastering or simply track contents of removable media with contact sheets or comments and 3D navigation buttons. Novices will appreciate our Web Pages for Dummies wizard.

Popular format support includes PNG, FlashPix, PhotoCD, Photoshop, BMP, PCX, TGA, WMF, DCX, Multi-page TIF (with anti-aliasing for easier reading), MP3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MIDI, CD audio, WMV, WMA, ASF and more ...

Note: Free for personal use.

What's New in This Release: [ read full changelog ]

Added UNEQUALIZE function:
· restores information in bright regions of interest
· makes white transparent materials more sheer
· corrects overexposed images

Added BOOST BRIGHTNESS function:
· surfaces information in bright regions of interest
· makes dark transparent materials more sheer
· corrects underexposed images

· Optimized multi-core thumbnailing (up to eight cores).
· Optimized multi-core embedded thumbnail extraction.
· Added MKV (Matroska Multimedia Container) support.
· Added MP4 (MPEG-4) support.
· Enhanced JPEG thumbnail extraction with updated application marker detection and improved detection of files that are not JFIF-compliant.
· Added 80+ MegaPixel support (e.g., 7760x10328).

Improved JPEG partial views:
· JPEG decoding now includes 1:16 and 1:32nd sampling for FAST viewing.
· JPEG partial view selection dialog now facilitates finer settings.

Improved thumbnail caching:
· Cache folder can be assigned to larger or faster drives (e.g., thumb drive).
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