Peony Photo Converter

Peony Photo Converter enables you to turn images into other file formats. It proposes a very simple method for accomplishing this task and offers support for a wide range of file types.

The installation procedure doesn't take long, and the utility requires you to set up 32-bit Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries in order to work, which is included in the downloaded package. However, you should know that newer versions of the IDE are not supported.

As far as the interface is concerned, the tool adopts a single window that has puts at your disposal just a couple of options. Unfortunately, batch processing is unsupported, so you are restricted to converting only one file at a time. All you have to do is specify the source image, along with the output directory, file name and extension, and let Peony Photo Converter handle the rest. This task is speedy.

The image file types supported for both the input and output are BMP, EXR, GIF, HDR, ICO, JPEG/JIF, JPEG-2000 (file format and codestream), PBM/PGM/PPM, PFM, PNG, TGA, TIFF, WBMP, and XPM. Files with additional formats can be opened as the source, namely DDS, Raw Fax G3, IFF, JNG, KOALA, Kodak PhotoCD, MNG, PCX, Macintosh PICT, Photoshop PSD, RAW camera, Sun RAS, SGI, and XBM.

It's also possible to convert bitmaps (from one bit depth to another), 1-, 4-, 8-, 16, 24- and 32-bit images, together with integer, real and complex images. Moreover, tone mapping is provided for converting RGB float and 48-bit HDR images into 24-bit LDR pictures.

The application carried out tasks rapidly in our tests while remaining light on system resources consumption. No error dialogs popped up, and it didn't hang or crash. Sadly, it hasn't been updated for a long while, doesn't support newer versions of 32-bit Visual C++ 2010 Runtime Libraries, and doesn't permit batch processing.

Peony Photo Converter may seem like a rudimentary program, but it supports numerous file types and offers a straightforward image conversion solution.