Ai Picture Explorer Changelog

What's new in Ai Picture Explorer 8.9

• Added UNEQUALIZE function:
• restores information in bright regions of interest
• makes white transparent materials more sheer
• corrects overexposed images
• Added BOOST BRIGHTNESS function:
• surfaces information in bright regions of interest
• makes dark transparent materials more sheer
• corrects underexposed images
• Optimized multi-core thumbnailing (up to eight cores).
• Optimized multi-core embedded thumbnail extraction.
• Added MKV (Matroska Multimedia Container) support.
• Added MP4 (MPEG-4) support.
• Enhanced JPEG thumbnail extraction with updated application marker detection and improved detection of files that are not JFIF-compliant.
• Added 80+ MegaPixel support (e.g., 7760x10328).
• Improved JPEG partial views:
• JPEG decoding now includes 1:16 and 1:32nd sampling for FAST viewing.
• JPEG partial view selection dialog now facilitates finer settings.
• Improved thumbnail caching:
• Cache folder can be assigned to larger or faster drives (e.g., thumb drive).
• Records now sport '.REC' extension for faster shell (system) response.
• Records now store more information to avoid redundant file access.
• Cache folder and records can be excluded from real-time anti-virus scanning to accelerate performance of thumbnail generation and retrieval.
• 'Redo thumbs' function now skips embedded previews when you need to update only selected thumbnails with corrupted or mismatched previews.
• Built-in Explorer now appends slides to Slide Album with recursive folder listings of a selected folder.
• Enhanced Lab Script:
• Added 'No Undo' option for faster batch processing (e.g., 1000s of files).
• Added 'Add commands as JPEG comment' for referencing and tracking Lab modifications.
• Added 'Fix Aspect Ratio' function to scale marquee to original image proportions (e.g., 1920x2880 marquee inside 4800x7200 original).
• Added fine edge UNSHARPMASK function option.
• Faster filter functions; up to 20% faster for UnsharpMask and Cleaning filters.
• Added CROP_EX lab command with rectangle parameters that can be easily edited.
• Enhanced marquee:
• Setting marquee with CRTL key reuses width/ height dimensions .
• Current marquee can be moved to new [x,y] coordinates with automatic clipping.
• LOADFILE lab command now supports wildcard to load the same filename with a different extension. Facilitates batch image processing to include images that were prepared by a previous batch process.
• Retooled RESIZE functions for speed.
• Added DISTILL function to quickly downsample images with subtle smoothing effect to avoid 'jaggies' and JPEG artifacts.
• RESAMPLE%% and RESIZE%% lab commands are now accurately tracked with exact parameters to modify similar images.
• Added MOD as second parameter for even boundaries. Applies to RESIZE, RESAMPLE and DISTILL commands.
• Retooled CONFORM functions to remap the colors of any image during a session using statistics of a reference image:
• Added GET_CONFORM_DATA to save Conform data in memory.
• Added USE_CONFORM_DATA to remap colors of current image with Conform data in memory.
• Added USE_CONFORM_SAT_DATA to remap saturation plane with Conform data in memory.
• Increased size of image processing dialog/ preview.
• Increased size of JPEG Compression dialog/ preview.
• Added folder size calculation of listed files to Explorer window.
• Added filename (of viewed image) to Comparison window panes.
• Added 'Open Containing Folder' function for shortcuts.
• Added Reload menu command to viewer popup menu.
• Added Batch Rename function to convert filenames to lowercase.
• Confirmation dialogs now reappear in moved positions during a session.
• Simplified Clear cache function.
• Added Explore pop-up command to Viewer window.
• Replaced BORDER_TopBot with BORDER_LetterBox.
• Alt-D sets focus on Viewer's Pathbox (similar to Firefox).
• Enlarged Print Dialog for greater precision when positioning print image.
• Help file rewritten in compiled HTML format (CHM) format with active context sensitive help.
• Obsolete CD Player removed from Explorer window menu; slideshow functionality retained.
• Bugfixes:
• MASK_CONTRAST preview and apply results were different; corrected.
• Flipping between fitted view and region zoom was disabled when image was modified; corrected.
• Batch conversions to BMP failed depending on memory configuration; corrected.
• Batch conversions to JPG aborted on some multi-core systems with complex lab command scripts; corrected.
• Accumulated recent links eventually caused a prompt to delete invalid shortcut; corrected.
• Images exceeding maximum PhotoCD dimensions were skipped; corrected.
• URL files could not be deleted/ recycled; corrected.