Image Eye is a simple image viewer for viewing and browsing images. Its small, with very fast and highly tuned code. Uncompromising image quality.

Clean with no unnecessary menus and toolbars wasting your desktop space.

Able to read all of the common image file formats. High quality, non-destructive, image adjustment options. Index feature with fast thumbnail creation. Available in several languages.

By default, even the window title-bar is hidden when you don't need it, leaving just the image with a thin black border. There's also are many handy and practical user interface 'tricks'; e.g. hitting Ctrl-Alt-X to quickly close all image windows – just to mention one!

“Image Eye is "donationware". This is a type of freeware. It is 100% free for non-commercial use – there's no advertising, no time limit, no reg-codes, and no crippled features. However, if you use and like it, then you are encouraged to make voluntary Donations Here.”

Features:

• The only image viewer you need for viewing & browsing images.
• Clean with no unnecessary menus and toolbars wasting your desktop space.
• Uncompromising with the image quality.
• Small and very fast, highly tuned code.
• Reads all common image file formats.
• It's easy to rotate, mirror, zoom, pan, and adjust contrast, brightness, sharpness, hue, saturation, gamma, et c.
• Image adjustments can be saved non-destructively and automatically reapplied when you next open the image.
• There's an image index feature with very fast thumbnail-icon creation.
• It does not attempt to be a half-baked editor, format converter, or media player.
• It does include a simple slide show scripting language.
• The user interface has been translated to several languages.
• Asynchronous file I/O: Images are decompressed at the same time as data is being read – i.e. it doesn't wait for file reads to finish before starting to decode.
• Speculative decoding & caching of images: While you view a file, the next file in the directory is invisibly being decoded, so that it can be brought up very quickly. And when you move to a new image, the old one is remembered (if memory allows), so that there's no delay if you toggle back and forth between two images. ‘
• Data parallelism exploitation: Many heavy computational tasks are considerably sped up by using SSE2 and SSSE3 instructions (if your CPU supports it). These "SIMD instructions" work on 4, 8 or even 16 numbers in parallel.
• Task parallelism exploitation: Heavy computational work is considerably sped up by dividing big jobs into smaller tasks that are distributed on multiple CPU cores (if available). Work stealing and dynamic load balancing techniques ensure that all cores are busy.
• Hand tuned code optimizations: Certain critical sections are optimized by hand either in assembly code, or using compiler intrinsics.
• Code branching: Common cases are handled using specialized code that is faster than the generic routines.
• High quality resampling: All resampling (image resizing) is done using Catmull-Rom interpolation – arguably the best 4×4 kernel filter.
• Text meta data handling: Text info tags can be read from several formats – Adobe XMP, IPTC IMM, EXIF, PNG, TIFF tags, PSD, GIF and JPEG comments.

Image Support:

• Reads many file formats: BBM, BMP, CAL, CALS, CUR, DDS, DIB, FIT, FITS, GIF, ICO, IFF, JFIF, JPG, JPEG, LBM, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAW, RLE, SUN, TGA, TIF, TIFF.
• Supports Windows 7 / Vista's "Default programs" and "Open with" features for file associations.
• Animated GIFs are supported.
• Multi-page TIFFs are supported.
• 'Raw' (headerless) image files can be read.
• High-quality Catmull-Rom (4×4 filter kernel) resampling filter used when resizing images.
• Optimized optional SSE2 and SSSE3 instruction set code paths for much improved speed.
• Multi-core support for much improved speed.
• Small executable size.
• Available in several languages & can easily be translated into more!

Open image file dialog features:

• Image resolution and file format information displayed for the selected file.
• Preview of the selected image file.
• The last viewed image is automatically selected and the file list is scrolled so that it is visible.
• The most recent directories from which an image has been opened are remebered in a list and you can go back again to them very quickly (NB, this can be turned off for privacy).
• Open an index view of all images in the directory by pressing a single button.

Image viewer features:

• Launch the program and open images in multiple ways – choose the one that suits you best! You can launch it from the start menu, by clicking on a file in the Windows Explorer, or from an already open Image Eye window.
• Browse images in a directory using the index mode, or using the 'open image file' dialog, or from a viewer window using previous/next image commands, or by pressing down the mouse wheel (if you have one) and rotating it.
• The image adjustment dialog lets you adjust brightness, contrast, sharpness (using a true 'unsharp masking' algorithm), hue, saturation, gamma, luminance, red, green, blue, negative, rotation and mirroring controls.
• Image adjustments can be saved and automatically re-applied the next time you open the image file – all without modifying the original image file.
• File operations: Copy, rename, move, delete, erase. The erase command will wipe the file several times with random data before setting the file size to 0 then deleting it (bypassing the recycle bin) – use for sensitive data.
• Function to capture images of the while screen shots or of selected windows.
• View images in windowed or in full-screen mode.
• Freeze mode sticks an image to the desktop so that it can't be moved until unfroozen – and it is automatically opene again if you restart your computer.
• Zoom in and out using high quality filtering.
• Set images as the Windows wallpaper.

Index features:

• Fast thumbnail index creation.
• The 'recurse sub-directories' command lets you optionally create an index displaying all files of all sub-directories.
• Optionally save thumbnail icons in a cache file on disk for even faster retrieval next time.
• Generate the cache automatically, manually, or not at all.
• Lossless compression of cache files.
• Select what ifno you wish to be displayed (directories, non-image files, names (1, 2, or 3 lines), comments, resolutions, file sizes, File dates, extensions).
• Sort the index icons in various ways.

Slideshow features:

• A slide show scripting language allows you to roll your own slide-shows and presentations.
• The 'Create slideshow script' dialog automatically creates slideshows for viewing of all the files in a directory using various options – in case you don't want to edit a script manually!

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OS Requirement:

Win XP SP3/Vista/Win 7

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