ForceVision is an award-winning freeware bitmap image viewer with an attractive ease of use and advanced graphics manipulation capabilities.

Being a lightweight yet powerful software it combines both a graphic files navigation and an image processing just fine. Scanning and printing possibilities will widely expand your opportunities!

ForceVision is a program that allows you to view bitmap images with graphics manipulation capabilities.

Slideshow, full-screen and thumbnails views are basic modes of the viewer serve to properly improve.

Image brightness, contrast, color adjustment, flip, rotate, resize, format conversion and many other viewer's functions handy help improving digital photos within seconds.

Embedded professional graphic filters are a definite asset for a creative individual. Highly customizable program configuration and mode will smoothly serve your everyday needs without annoying reduction and redundancy.

ForceVision supports all imaginable bitmap graphic formats including BMP, CUR, DIB, DCX, EMF, FAX, G3F, G3N, GIF, ICB, ICO, J2C, J2K, JP2, JPC, JPE, JPEG, JPG, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIX, PNG, PPM, PXM, RLE, TARGA, TGA, TIF, TIFF, VDA, VST, WBMP, WMF.

Note: Free only for personal use!

Here are some key features of "ForceVision":

· Support of 36 different graphics formats
· Multiwindow user interface allows to use your desktop space more efficiently
· Multilanguage user interface support: English, Russian, Bulgarian, German
· Multiuser support
· Thumbnails mode
· Full-screen mode
· Slide-show
· Scan and print
· Format Converting
· Includes more than 30 filters and effects!
· 30 image transitions types!
· Automatic and predefined layouts brings the ultimate compatibility with XP themes
· Allows to assign file association icons of your choice!
· Keeps your favourite paths

Requirements:

· Pentium II
· 64 Mb RAM
· 2 MB HDD

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

Added:
· now image processing dialog has a "reset" button
· now it is possible to load URL from Secure HTTP (https://...)
· now it is possible to load URL from FTP (ftp://...)
· improved GIF loading speed
· enhanced jpeg quality when JPEG quality is 100
· improved speed of filtered resampling routines and filtered display
· supports for ICC profiles reading PSD files
· added a strategy to allocate large images in fragmented blocks (to avoid out of memory on fragmented memory)
· ForceVision is DICOM compatible now
· TIFF: now supported LZW compressed TIFF with inverted fill order
· TIFF: added support for planar CMYK (8 bit)
· added support for Unicode
· now Thumbnails displays file icon instead of question mark for unknown files
· enhancements in user interface
Fixed:
· file caching routines were fixed
· fixed artifacs in BumpMapping
· fixed bug loading URL
· fixed bug saving PSD files (sometime PSD are unreadable by Photoshop)
· now preview dialog is correctly displayed under Vista
· preview dialog is slow on resizing
· fail to read alpha channel from some PNG files
· fixed math rounding problems in Bicubic/Bilinear resampling methods