InPixio Photo Maximizer

Focusing on photographs with tiny objects or details that you would like to shift the viewer's attention to, InPixio Photo Maximizer is an intuitive app that comes packed with not only zoom options but also cropping, photo adjustments, denoise, sharpness and film grain features, along with presets.

Wrapped in a clear-cut interface, it's part of a series of software products dedicated for graphic editing made by developer Avanquest. The application is capable of opening graphic files with a wide range of formats, such as PNG, JPG and GIF. RAW images extracted from digital photo cameras can be loaded too.

A menu is hidden under the photo shown in the main window, making it possible to view and navigate other image files from the same directory. There's also a thumbnail-sized representation of the original photo shown next to it, which lets you zoom in and out, indicating the current position on the maximized image.

Some predefined profiles of InPixio Photo Maximizer can be used for quickly cropping the picture, but you can also set a custom size and adjust the angle. When zooming in with the maximizer tool, it's possible to define the zoom level in percentage, long edge, short edge, megapixels and other modes, set the resolution, and pick the algorithm (InPixio, Nearest neighbor, Bilinear, Bicubic, Bicubic sharper, Bicubic smoother, Lanczos).

As far as photo adjustments are concerned, you can tweak the levels for temperature, tint, exposure, brightness, contrast, blacks, shadows, highlights, whites, saturation and clarity. Similarly, it's possible to set the amount and radius when denoising the picture, making it sharper, or adding film grain with InPixio Photo Maximizer.

All these tweaks can be made while previewing changes on the original image in real time. You can easily reset settings for any profile if you change your mind, or create complete presets that will be used in future projects.

Once you're pleased with the results, you can save the photo in JPEG, JPEG XR, PNG or TIFF format. Multiple images with the same applied settings can be exported in batch. In this case, you can configure some advanced parameters for the preferred output filetype, like quality and ICC profile for JPEG or 8-bit/16-bit and lossless for JPEG XR. A printing option can be used too.

Taking everything into account, InPixio Photo Maximizer is extremely easy to use when it comes to image adjustments. It had minimal impact on system performance in our tests.