What's new in MegaView 20.0
Sep 1, 2020
- Added: New Camera Raw formats: .CR3, .SR2, .ARW, NRW, .KDC, .MEF, .CAM, .PTX, .PXN, .RDC, .RW2, .RWL, .SRW
- Added: New Image formats: DirectDraw Surface (.DDS), Microsoft HD Photo/JPEG XR (.WDP, .JXR, .HDP), High Efficiency Image Format (.HEIC, .HEIF) and WebP Images (.WEBP)
- Added: New Video format: MP4 Video
- Added: Blurred Image background style (like on YouTube when displaying portrait videos)
- Added: Add Text, shapes, lines, arrows and images to the current image
- Added: More modern UI styling
- dded: When changing UI styling selector immmediately shows preview of new style
- Added: Retouch tools: Interactive brushes to fix image content: Smudge, Inpaint, Blur, Smooth, Sharpen, etc.
- Added: Clone Brush tool
- Added: Brush tool, spray can, texture and image brushes
- Added: Eraser tools
- Added: Crop and Perspective fix Tool
- Added: Rotate tool
- Added: Image rulers
- Added: Measurement Tools
- Added: No reg warning on start up
- Added: Improved the styling of all columnar grids
- Added: Smoother scrolling of various controls, such as Feature overview
- Added: New splash screens and About Boxes
- Fixed: May not get correct status of options hwen right-click the search kewyords grid
- Fixed: Errors while displaying map
- Added: Display of buttons on glyphs now optional
- Added: All dialogs are now sizable
- Added: Various layout and styling improvements on dialogs
- Added: Faster display of Tools menu
- Fixed: Does not show next thumbnail mode when togging display modes
New in MegaView 15.0 (May 21, 2015)
- Added: Now includes a Portable Devices (WPD) class for accessing content on connected devices
- Added 3D Book Flip and Cube Rotation transition effects
- Added five transition effects that can display text (e.g. a single character or cycle the letters of a word)
- Added six Pacman style transition effects
- Added five six other effects including jigsaw puzzle, random bars and rotational sweeps
- The style of sixty transition effects can now be further modified using TransitionsDrawAlternative
- Much optimization and improvement of transition code
- Fixed temperamental triangular wipe transition effect
- Improved EXIF compatibility with Picasa
- Added support for reading BigTIFF (>4GB TIFFs)
- Added support PSB format (large Photoshop PSD)
- Fixed: infinite loop reading some 16 bit gray scale BMP images
- Fixed: exception reading TIFF (jpeg-7 compression) and RGB color space
- Fixed: some Exif-GPS tags (out of Exif standard) cannot be read correctly
- Fixed: loading EXIF incorrectly set also GPS fields
- Fixed: bug reading EXIF tags
- Fixed: AV reading some (corrupted) PSD files
- Fixed: AV reading some CCITT encoded TIFFs
- Fixed: TImageEnView copes with animated GIF files without explicit delay intervals
- Fixed: infinite/long time loading reading TIFF with corrupted string tag size
- Fixed: bug writing uncompressed dicom images
- Fixed: AV loading parameters or counting TIFF frames when there is a ICC color profile embedded
- Fixed: cannot read some jpeg compressed DICOM images
- Improved DICOM reading speed and memory requirements
- Added: now DICOM decoder can read multiple sequence items (subtags)
- Added: now TIFF reader supports RGB color-mapped images with PlanarConfiguration
- Added: optimized CMYK to RGB conversion speed
- Fixed: corruption of EXIF Maker Notes
- Fixed: DICOM reader can correctly detect root images
- Fixed: DICOM/JPEG2000 9..15 bit gray scale images were not read correctly
- Added: Proc Previews dialog now supports AutoImageEnhance1 and AutoImageEnhance3
- Added: Save Parameters dialog is now resizable and has improved layout
- Fixed: TIFF-CCITT decoder may run infinite loop reading corrupted files
- Fixed: TIFF-CCITT (1D) encoder may corrupt image using TIFF_FillOrder
- Added: Pan Zoom effects are now much smoother due to frame blending
- Fixed: Loading jpeg2000 encoded DICOMs with BitsStored less than BitsAllocated may produce incorrect results
- Added: New EXIF tags: CameraOwnerName, BodySerialNumber, LensMake, LensModel, LensSerialNumber, Gamma, SubjectArea, SubjectLocation
- Added: DCIM acquisition now uses Portable Devices API (WPD) so it can retrieve from all connected devices
- Added: Now outputs XMP meta-data in file info dialog
- Added: Can now save to DICOM format
- Added: Now supports the most recent official list of nearly 5,000 Dicom tags
- Added: Larger Getting Started dialogs
- Added: Updated splash screens
- Added: Better default size for main window
- Removed: Office formats from default formats list
- Fixed: "Tip of the Day" dialog may clash with "Update Available" dialog
- Changed: Toolbars no longer float
- Added: Cooler styling for THistogram
- Fixed: 8965 Error: Index page buffers corrupt in table
- Added: Image auto-enhancement and gamma correction dialog
- Removed: Deprecated watch folder function
- Added: Now remembers default folder in Rename dialog
- Fixed: Dragging a file to copy it does not move the file reference from it
- Added: Confirmation details now more obvious, e.g. using "Yes to All" rather than "All"
- Added: Avoids showing tips on start if auto acquiring from a camera
- Added: Promoted image display quality option
New in MegaView 14.0 (May 21, 2015)
- Roundup of many unofficial releases
New in MegaView 13.0 (May 21, 2015)
- Updated database engine for improved performance
New in MegaView 12.0 (Apr 19, 2011)
- Mouse Gestures:
- Click and drag the screen to quickly navigate, view and manage your photos, e.g. drag left to show the next image, draw an X to delete or an upside-down U to rotate
- Double-size thumbnails:
- Need a better view of your photos? Use the new file display option for super-sized thumbnails
- Improved Maps:
- Better support for maps using the GPS fields added by your camera, including maps in the main window and display of markers for all selected files
- Enhanced Styling:
- The User Interface has been overhauled with updated graphics, modern windows styled thumbnail grids and a new skin, "Chrome"
- New Transition Effects:
- 26 cool transition effects featuring hearts, stars, crosses and explosions have been added to spruce up your slideshow
- Autoplay Support:
- When inserting a disk, thumb drive or camera to your computer MegaView is now offered as a view or retrieval source (including Windows 7 and Vista)
- Improved Performance:
- Optimization of many functions including image display using multicore processing
- Better Video Support:
- Smoother display of video files during slideshows
- Color Histogram in File Information Window:
- Display the color range for the current photo in the File Information dialog
- Open File Location:
- New function to immediately go to the folder of a file in Favorites mode
New in MegaView 11.3 (May 8, 2010)
- Added: Can now use multimedia control keys to navigate files
- Added: Manual and automated checking for updates
- Added: Some performance optimizations
- Fixed: May get an error when exporting keywords and descriptions to IPTC
New in MegaView 11.2 (May 8, 2010)
- Changed: No longer shows IPTC warning for non-JPEG and TIFF files when exporting keywords and descriptions
- Fixed: In rare situation JPEGs with certain EXIF fields can be corrupted when saved
- Fixed: Slideshow interval display issue when using long display times
New in MegaView 11.1 (May 8, 2010)
- Fixed: Slow parsing of big folders due to always reading EXIF date
- Fixed: View video frames option may be disabled if Simplified UI option is enabled
- Added: Text captions also display when using the multiview option
- Fixed: Some issues editing pages of TIFF files
- Added: Some stylistic improvements
- Changed: Mouse wheel always scrolls the current control. If no scrollable control is focused the mouse wheel setting under Tools > Options, Other determines whether the wheel navigates the file list or zooms the image
- Added: Shift key inverts the mouse wheel function
- Changed: Updated Help file
- Added: Added support for newer camera RAW formats
- Fixed: File info dialog may not clear when adding new information
New in MegaView 11.0 (Oct 5, 2009)
- Huge improvements in styling, wording and layout in the 80 most used windows
- Display a map showing the location of the current photo (if photo includes GPS field)
- Display a histogram of your image color range
- 24 new transition effects
- Graphics enabling you to rapidly select motion and transition effects
- More image formats: Windows Media HD Photos (*.hdp,*.wdp), Multipage PCX (*.dcx) files, enhanced DICOM and huge TIFF files
- New Advanced Options dialog provides access to 30 power settings
- Automatically clear the thumbnail cache when closing MegaView
- Quickly reposition in file and keyword grids by clicking the first few letters of name
- Improved desktop wallpaper features including instant "Undo"
- + Windows 7 support including progress display in the Windows Taskbar
New in MegaView 10.2 (Jan 2, 2009)
- 1 Automatically rotates digital camera photos for correct display
- 2 Zip files are now natively supported. Browse Zips like normal folders with thumbnail support
- 3 New dockable tool window displays all information for the current file, including camera and music fields
- 4 Now supports a much wider range of digital camera Raw photo formats
- 5 Dicom Medical Imaging format is now natively supported
- 6 Automatically plays associated sound files of images
- 7 Added many digital camera (EXIF) fields, including all GPS fields and Windows embedded data
- 8 Full Vista support: Now offers much more Vista specific improvements
- 9 Significant improvements to styling throughout the software
- 10 Now provides full support for multiple monitor usage
- 11 Images can be automatically scrolled simply by hovering the cursor over the display
- 12 Numerous changes to layout and wording throughout the application to make it easier to use
- 13 Faster loading of many image formats
- 14 Automatically hides favorites mode when not in use
- 15 New buttons: "Go up" on folder tree toolbar and Rotate buttons on main toolbar (when image editing toolbar is hidden)
New in MegaView 10 (Sep 3, 2008)
New in MegaView 9.0 (Sep 11, 2006)