Img2X

Pictures are found under different file formats, each with its own quality specifications. For instance JPG files don’t support transparency, so you might need different types, depending on what you’re doing. If conversion is what you need, then you can rely on Img2X to change an abundance of pictures to the right type required in your projects.

On the visual side of things, the application stores all of its features in a compact, simple interface that poses no accommodation problems whatsoever. The two methods you can use get triggered at the press of a button, but not before you specify what file you want to convert. A small preview is also offered, but sadly, you can’t get a larger view, nor have it opened in the default corresponding program.

Unfortunately, dragging target pictures over the main window has no effect, so you need to rely on the built-in browse dialog for this step. This also reveals the impressive file support, with the possibility to load files like BMP, ICO, GIF, JPG, PNG, PBM, PGM, PPM, TIFF, XBM, XPM, SVG, and TGA, and the me can be used for export.

However, you only get to process a single file at a time, which has a solid impact on overall practicality. There isn’t even a context menu integration to make it easier to convert more files. What’s more, quality is kept intact, and there aren’t any methods to reduce size, or crop any pictures.

The purpose is pretty straightforward. One of the conversion methods simply brings up a save dialog where you need to manually write down the name and extension, otherwise nothings is saved. You can pick one of several advanced processing methods, like mono, indexed8, RGB, or ARGB, but the extension still needs to be manually specified.

Taking everything into consideration, we can say that Img2X comes with a shallow set of features, with the most impact on practicality being delivered by the lack of support for batch processing. Although file support is decent, it can get difficult and time consuming when it comes to converting a whole bunch of pictures.