What's new in Image Eye 9.3
Jul 7, 2022
- New in v9.3:
- Auto-hide of index window title bars, customization of keyboard commands, Arm64-version, and more.
New in Image Eye 9.2 (Jul 28, 2020)
- Support for Google WebP format. Multi-monitor and high-dpi display improvements.
New in Image Eye 9.1 (Nov 4, 2015)
- New in v9.1: Open Source, 40% faster jpeg-decoding, auto-background color option, and more.
New in Image Eye 9.0 (Nov 20, 2013)
- 64-bit native version
- support for deep color
- HDR image viewing
New in Image Eye 8.0 (Aug 27, 2010)
- General improvements:
- Image Eye is now "donationware" for non-commercial use. This is a type of freeware. There's no fee to use it, no nag boxes, no advertising, no time limit, no reg-codes, and no crippled features. However we do make this plea, that if you like it and use it, you can/should to make a voluntary donation - both as a "thank you", and to support the continued development of Image Eye. For commercial use, we do ask for a small license fee.
- Added parallel processing support for several operations - boosting performance considerably when running on modern multi-core CPU's.
- Unicode text is now supported - both for file names and for translations of the user interface.
- Added support for "keyword" text meta data.
- Added support for several types of EXIF-format camera meta data: Manufacturer, Model, Exposure time, F-Number, ISO speed rating, Shutter speed, Aperture, Exposure bias, Flash, Focal length, Exposure mode, White balance.
- Added support for Adobe Extensible Metadata Platform ("XMP") text meta data with the following file types: .JPEG/.JPG, .PNG, .GIF, .PSD, .TIFF.
- The program now supports the Windows Vista / 7 "Default programs" and "Open with" features (this replaces the deprecated "file types" tab in the options).
- The program settings will now be remembered (stored in the Windows registry) *only* if the program has been installed using Setup.exe. I.e. if you run Image Eye.exe on a machine where it has not been installed, then it wont leave any traces on that system. This can be usefull if e.g. running it on a borrowed computer.
- Several additional performance enhancements through rewrites & code optimizations, e.g. ~10% faster JPEG decoder.
- Viewer improvements:
- The background is now translucent (with "glass effect") when viewing transparent images, or if you make the viewer window larger than the image (NB, this can be turned off in the viewer options, and it is automatically disabled in fullscreen mode; furthermore, it's not availabe in Windows XP, and neither is it when viewing 1..8-bit non-transparent images).
- When the viewer window is not captioned, any images with transparency will now have a transparent background, i.e. they'll be "look through" (when the window is captioned, it gets the translucent background).
- File directories are now parsed by a background thread that caches the file names in memory. This makes the "Next / Previous image" commands much faster when there's very many files in a directory, or when working e.g. with network drives.
- Multi-core (parallel processing) support for very much faster resampling (scaling) of large images.
- Additional image resampling speed improvements through various tricks and code improvements, e.g. better cache usage & a bit of data prefetching, data dependency optimizations, and new SSSE3 instruction code paths (if your CPU supports it).
- Multi-core (parallel processing) support for faster image adjustments (color, contrast, sharpness et c).
- The image adjustment 'Sharpness' control now has a separate (considerably faster) code path for grayscale images.
- Improved the file open dialog:
- It is now resizeable, i.e. you can enlarge it in order to more easily browse among many files.
- The "recent" (paths) list now looks better.
- The right-hand preview pane has been replaced with a smaller preview image below the file list.
- File information is shown next to the preview image (file type, resolution, comments - if any).
- As an alternative to the "View" button, you can click on the preview image to open it.
- Added support for displaying up to three overlay texts of various kinds (e.g. comment meta data - c.f. the viewer options).
- NB; these are show only when the viewer window is captioned (i.e. when you move the mouse over it).
- The "Next / Previous image file" commands will now also show images from file links.
- Improved compatibility with Windows 7 and Vista.
- Index improvements:
- Multi-core support for parallell decoding of multiple thumbnail images.
- For a more modern look, the image icons are now drawn with a simple black border, replacing the 'button' style. It now also high-lights when you move the mouse over an icon.
- Added support for a translucent background ("glass effect" - NB; not available in Windows XP).
- You can now navigate using the keyboard (cursor keys move focus, enter viewes, context key shows menu).
- You can now select multiple icons by holding down control or shift while clicking with the mouse (or using the enter key), then right click to do a copy/move/delete on all the selected files.
- Added an option to show image comments. (Note: if you are using index cache files created by an earlier version of Image Eye, then you need to delete the cache before you see any comments).
- Smarter automatic window sizing.
- You can now double-click (on the background, not on an icon) to a maximize or restore the window. Also, the mouse "browse back" button now navigates to the parent directory.
- An option named "Icon size stored in cache overrides selected icon size" replaces the earlier per-directory "Save options in cache file" option.
- Link files now also get image icons, and can be opened the same as other files.
- Axed features:
- Dropped support for older Windows versions - minimum required OS version is now Windows XP with SP3.
- Dropped printing support (there are better ways to print, with more layout control).
- Dropped some seldom used file formats (.FIF, .JP2/.JPC, .MAC, .NEO, .PIC, .PBM/.PGM/.PNM/.PPM, .PXR, .RAS). NB: these can still be read & converted using our Any Image software.
- Dropped MMX instruction support (MMX was superceeded by SSE2 with the Pentium 4 and later).
- The axing of these features served to reduce the executable size by ~100KB (a saving which unfortunately was eaten up by the size of the new multi-core run-time).
New in Image Eye 7.4 (May 8, 2007)
- Support for SSE2 instructions makes it even faster than before
New in Image Eye 7.2 (May 5, 2006)
- New in v7.2: Save index to bitmap function, and more.