Image Processing Lab

Image Processing Lab is a software utility which can be used in order to view and edit pictures from your hard drive, with support for many formats, including JPG, PNG, TIF, BMP and GIF.

The installation process is uneventful and runs smooth, while the interface boasts a clean design. You can open several images at a time, a very useful feature as it means that you can multi-task. Aside from that, you can reload, copy, paste or save images to the hard drive as PNG, JPG or BMP files, as well as print all items.

This software tool encompasses a lot of simple editing which enable you for example to clone images, as well as undo actions, zoom in and out, flip, mirror, rotate or crop pictures. Moreover, you can control the brightness, contrast and saturation level, invert colors, and add a sepia or grayscale effect.

Some more advanced settings can also be taken for a spin, such as extracting just the red, green or blue channels, transforming to or from polar, generating noise, and adding oil painting, jitter, pixelate and water wave effects. The program also enables you to detect edges and corners, filter blobs, fill holes, find quadrilateral, and show or hide histograms and image statistics.

CPU and memory usage remains at a low level and therefore, the computer’s performance is not going to suffer in any way. Our tests have not revealed any kind of errors or crashes. Taking all of this into consideration, we can safely say Image Processing Lab is a useful piece of software. It also encloses a friendly environment, a good response time and enough options to tinker with.