Picgl description
A graphic viewer powered by OpenGL with an image controlling function

Picgl is a FREEWARE image viewer/manager for Windows powered by OpenGL.

Picgl is a graphic viewer with an image controlling function of the free software in which a thumbnail display is possible. Goal is offer of the comfortable inspection environment of digital camera images.

A caption can be attached to an image, or two or more keywords can be added and can be searched. File operations, such as a copy, move, and renaming, are possible.

Here are some key features of "Picgl":

Supported formats
· CxImage The correspondence formats to depend: JPEG, JPEG2000, BMP, PNG, GIF, TIFF, TARGA, PCX
· Susie plug-ins (only in x86 version).

Views
· The view which met at the photography time which disregarded the folder constitution (FreeView)
· It is a respectively free location about thumbnails each.
· Arrange by bulk and inclination (FreeView).
· The view of the order of a file name divided for every folder (DirectoryView)
· The view which searches an image with a similar color rank (ColorOrderView)
· Sorting is available in order, such as color tone of image, resemblance of composition, photographing time, number of times of inspection, evaluation, pixel number, file size, aspect ratio, and format.
· EXIF Showing of information is available.

Search
· Easy caption input from a keyword, a caption, a file name, and a folder name
· Easy keyword input (graphical keyword addition function)
· JPEG comment marker, mutual conversion and tag input of a keyword, and retrieval (FreeView)
· Search from a calender (FreeView)
· Search from a color tone (the order view of a similar color) -> exploitation to duplication enquiry is possible.

Browsing
· Automatic slide view
· 12 kinds of transition effects
· The high-speed display by prediction

Filer
· The copy of an image file, displacement, renaming, creation of suppression and a folder, renaming
· OLE drag and drap

Image processing
· Format conversion and resizing
· Noise reduction (repair), unsharp mask processing
· Brightness, contrast, gamma, color temperature, and saturation, etc. can be adjusted while seeing the histogram

Technology
· OpenGL Used image display
· Always adjust thumbnail size automatically so that the pixel on the limited screen may be used as effectively as possible.


Requirements:

· The big thing of the texture transfer capacity of a video card and VRAM is especially suitable.
· However high-speed CPU may be, if texture transfer capacity is low, the performance of this program will worsen.
· At least 1024x768x32bit VRAM64MBytes screen