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GFX-View V3 - Changes
Changes found in Version 3.1 (Build 430) - (9/05/04)
- Supports Windows Media Player V9 and V10 (Windows XP
only)
- Fixed a compatibility issue with certain Paint Shop Pro
format images.
- Corrected a problem that reversed the blue/red color
channels on 24 bit per pixel
OS/2 bitmaps.
- Updated the Canon image processing to support the latest Canon
digital cameras.
- More performance changes made related to thumbnail
generation and display
- Misc. bug fixes
Changes found in Version 3.1 (Build 429) - (5/12/04)
Changes found in Version 3.1 (Build 428) - (4/11/04)
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Added Thumbnail Database Stats for
Compression Type Used.
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Changed Default Compression type to medium
(JPG) for Thumbnail Database Storage.
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60 |
80 |
100 |
120 |
140 |
160 |
180 |
200 |
|
0-BMP |
737,280 |
1,146,880 |
1,761,280 |
2,375,680 |
3,194,880 |
4,014,080 |
5,038,080 |
6,266,880 |
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1-JPG |
225,280 |
323,584 |
327,680 |
430,080 |
483,328 |
532,480 |
589,824 |
671,744 |
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2-JP2 |
192,512 |
225,280 |
327,680 |
532,480 |
532,480 |
540,672 |
737,280 |
737,280 |
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% |
+17.0 |
+43.6 |
0.0 |
-23.8 |
-10.1 |
-1.5 |
-25.0 |
-9.7 |
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BAE-Software Image
Applications Use Microsoft Access Database Storage.
(Some values are affected by Access Storage Block Rounding.)
Information is based on a random sample of 50 - 24 bit images originally
stored as .BMP files |
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60 |
100 |
150 |
200 |
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0-BMP |
40,198,144 |
105,967,616 |
224,505,856 |
395,587,584 |
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1-JPG |
7,249,920 |
13,897,728 |
26,230,784 |
35,917,824 |
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2-JP2 |
5,304,320 |
13,881,344 |
27,037,696 |
40,194,048 |
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% |
+36.6 |
+0.1 |
-3.0 |
-11.9 |
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BAE-Software Image
Applications Use Microsoft Access Database Storage.
(Some values are affected by Access Storage Block Rounding.)
Information is based on a random sample of 3,213 images originally
stored as .BMP / .TIF / .JPG files |
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Changed Menu Captions for the Image Plus
Editor to be more concise.
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Changed the Main Viewer Display List to not
Auto-sort, When a user reordered a list and saved it, it was reloaded
it re-alphabetized order instead of the way it was saved off.
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Corrected an issue affecting the display
value of the thumbnail generation speed display form.
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Added an additional small application with
BAE-Software GFX-View 3.1 to allow the viewing of ALL the contents of the
Thumbnail Database. This can be accessed through the users Start
Menu - Programs (All Programs for WinXP) - BAE-Software -
BAE-Software Image Application Thumbnail Viewer - BAE-Software Image
Application Thumbnail Viewer. You may contact BAE-Software Support
(support@bae-soft.com) with any
questions.
Changes found in Version 3.1 (Build 427) - (3/14/04)
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A few cosmetic changes.
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EXIF information is now correctly parsed from
Canon 1D and 1DS images that have been renamed from .TIF to .CRW.
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Fixed various problems with loading PICT
format images.
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Fixed various problems with loading Targa
format images.
Changes found in Version 3.1 (Build 426) - (2/06/04)
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Corrected minor unseen issues with dialog box
layouts.
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Added support for raw (NEF) images from the
Nikon D2H camera.
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Fixed some compatibility problems with
reading PCX format images.
Changes found in Version 3.0 (Build 425) - (1/16/04)
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Add Main Viewer
options to expand the Media View Area OR View lists.
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Update Windows Media Player integration to
Windows Media Player 9.0 (User System must have this version installed for
BAE-Software GFX-View 3.1 to start. (Version 3.0.403 is available for
those who choose to use Windows Media Player 6.4.
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Added an Image Effects Task pane to Image
Plus.
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Task Pane Displays Image Effects
and how they will be applied to the current image. As the user
applies an effect to an image the effect selection images are updated to
show how an effect would affect the current image.
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Task Pane Displays the Undo History
in a Top/Down - Newest/Oldest Order
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Task Pane Provides an image mask /
edge effects library. The provided masks can used to place
different edges or edge block masks based on the users choice of
background color.
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Updated Displayed Image / Media Information
Properties. This allows the user access to standard and extended EXIF
file information.
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Image Histogram performance boost.
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Added Image Text options to Image Plus.
The User has control over placement and appearance of text anywhere on the
current image. Provided shadow offset options can be applied using
separate color options.
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Added Color Variation Options to make minor
color shifts in an image.
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Several effect options have been given user
option controls:
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Flip Image
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Rotate Image
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Color Variations
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Emboss / Engrave Edge Effect
Direction
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Image Sharpen Level
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Image Soften Level
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Image Gaussian Blur Level
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Image Median Level
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Image Transformation Effect Levels:
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Warp
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Wave
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Twist
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Double Wave Warp
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Wiggle Horizontal Warp
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Wiggle Vertical Warp
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Red-Green-Blue Levels
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Hue-Saturation-Luminance Levels
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Brightness Levels
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Contrast Levels
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Browse Folder View Thumbnails are now cached
within the main thumbnail database.
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Faster Thumbnail generation.
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Color change again to a more light blue
gradient feel.
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More visual Print / Preview feature.
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Added more intuitive keyboard options to the
Full Screen Slide Show Viewer
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Page Up takes you to the previous
Image.
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Page Down takes you to the next
image.
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Esc hides the Full Screen Slide
Show Viewer returning you to the main viewer with the slide show still
running there.
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Space closes and stops the slide
show and returns you to the Main Viewer.
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Enter pauses and resumes the Full
Screen Slide Show.
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Double Clicking on the Full Screen
Slide Show window closes the viewer and returns you to the Main Viewer.
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Improved the Paint Shop Pro (PSP) format reading capabilities
to handle nearly all variants produced by Paint Shop Pro Version 5 through
8.
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Updated to use the newest release of the Kodak Professional
Digital Camera support libraries.
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Updated support for Canon Image Support Files Version 6.
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A hand full of menu item changes and a few
updated icons.
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Performance Boosts throughout the
application.
Necessary Support Files:
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The download of the latest Digital Camera Support Files for GFX-View V3.1 is
required for the supported Digital Camera file formats to perform correctly.
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Windows Media Player 9.0 needs to be installed on the users computer.
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For thumbnail caching to perform correctly Database support files must be
MDAC 2.5 or above with Jet Database support files for V4.0. (Database
support updates should not be needed for Windows 2000 and above systems).
All downloads can be found here.
Changes found in Version 3.0 (Build 403) - (7/7/03)
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Added Save As .BMP 16 Color to
Image Plus Editor
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Added Save As .BMP 256 Color to Image Plus Editor
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Added Save As .BMP 16 Color to Main Viewer SAVE AS
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Added Save As .BMP 256 Color to Main Viewer SAVE AS
The above .BMP save items decrease the color depth to the noted
number of colors (image may not actually contain enough colors to fill the
entire color count. ex. A 256 color bitmap may only contain 97 real colors).
Because of this any previous additional colors will be lost and can not be
recovered by simply saving to a higher color depth (i.e. .BMP, .JPG, .TIF save
file type options).
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Added Change to 16 Palette to Image Plus Editor
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Added Change to 216 Web Safe Palette to Image Plus Editor
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Added Sorting and Auto Resizing functionality to the Media
Information Summary Report Window
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Added 'Edit with' and 'Preview with (XP Only Compatible)' for
associated file types
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Added an up to nine (9) item Most Recently Used (MRU) Files List to
the 'File' menu of the Image Plus Editor View.
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Added "Display In Full Screen Viewer" option to the Main Viewer
"View" menu.
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Added Image Viewing support for (Total support Image Types= 50):
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(CRW) Canon Raw format is the native image format for Canon digital
cameras, including the 600, G1, G2, G3, Pro90, D30, D60, 1D, 1Ds, S45, and
others. (DCR, TIF, TIFF)Kodak Professional Digital Camera series includes the
DCS 315, DCS 330, DCS 410, DCS 420, EOS-DCS1, EOS-DCS3, EOS-DCS5, DCS 460, DCS
465, NC2000, DCS 520, EOS-D2000, DCS 560, EOS-D6000, DCS 620, DCS 660, DCS 720X,
DCS 760C, DCS Pro Back, and SCS 2000 cameras.
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(FPX) FlashPix digital image storage developed by Eastman Kodak
Company in collaboration with Hewlett-Packard Company, Live Picture, Inc., and
Microsoft Corporation. FlashPix image files contain multiple resolution images
along with transformation information to insure the best display on the viewing
hardware.
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(JP2) JPEG 2000 is an international standard (ISO/IEC 15444-1) for
still image compression. JPEG 2000 supports both lousy and lossless compression
of grayscale and color images.
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(MRW) Minolta is the raw format produced by Minolta DiMAGE 5 and
DiMAGE 7 cameras.
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(NEF) Used by Nikon E5000, E5700, D1, D1H, D1X, and D100 digital
cameras can produce raw CCD images in Nikon Electronic Image Format.
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(ORF) Olympus ORF is the raw format produced by Olympus E-10 and
E-20 cameras.
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(PMP) PMP format is produced by a family of Sony digital cameras,
including the DSC-F1.
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(RAF) Support for the raw format produced by the FujiFilm FinePix
S2 Pro camera.
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(THM) Canon CRW file format thumbnail display files.
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The above file formats support from Grayscale to 48 bit color.
GFX-View supports the viewing and saving to a maximum color depth of 24 bit
(16.7 million colors). Therefore saving viewed images may result in the loss of
some color information. Viewing of images does not result in the loss of any
information.
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Added JPE as an associated file type when JPG is selected. JPG,
JPE, JPEG are essentially all the same file type if a standard JPG encoding
algorithm is used.
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Added JPEG 2000 Save Quality setting to the application Preferences
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Added a "Digital Camera Formats" button to the Preferences - Select
File Types Tab
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Added Scrolling Thumbnail View to the “Browse Folder Viewer”. This
allows the user to view either the single larger image for the filename
selected in the file list or a view of thumbnails for the complete list of
filenames.
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Added a Thumbnail menu to the Thumbnail Viewer to manage basic
Thumbnail Cache Management.
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Added a "Create and Cache Thumbnails in Thumbnail Viewer" option to
the Application Preferences Dialog box.
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Added an "Overwrite thumbnails already in cache" option to the
Application Preferences Dialog box.
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Added support to the Thumbnail Viewer so that Thumbnails are now
cached to a database file located in the Application folder.
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Added support for 3D or Flat (Background) color support for
Thumbnail Viewer generated thumbnails. This setting is found under the
application Settings – thumbnail style.
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Added support for thumbnail background color support for Thumbnail
Viewer generated thumbnails. This setting is found under the application
Settings – thumbnail background color.
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Added select thumbnail size button to the toolbar in the thumbnail
viewer.
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Added support in the Browse Folder Viewer to use the Thumbnail Size
Slider value with creating thumbnails.
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Added Hover selection to the thumbnails displayed in the Browse
Folder view. Simply place the mouse pointer over a thumbnail to select it.
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Added easy viewing of thumbnails and a full size image by allowing
the user to Double-Click on the desired thumbnail or on the larger image to
change view modes.
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Added synchronized Thumbnail and Filename list selection. When you
select in one list you select in the other.
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Added Windows Wallpaper placement options to the View menu of the
Browse Folder Viewer.
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Added support to remember previous application file type
associations so that when a file association is deselected (unchecked) it is
set associated with the previously know application instead of GFX-View or NO
application. Note: The previous application must still be present on the
users system for the association to work correctly. No checking is done to
verify the existence of other applications on a users system.
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Changed the way labels are placed for thumbnails in the Thumbnail
viewer. In the past labels were placed over the bottom 15 pixels of the
thumbnail images. Now they are placed below the thumbnail completely. By
showing or hiding labels you may be able to view more thumbnails on the screen
at a time; this depends on the selected thumbnail size.
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Created all new icons for GFX-View Associated File Types
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Created Main Viewer File Type bitmaps for status bar area.
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Changed the Copyright date to the correct year (2003 instead of
2002), don't know how we missed that since we are almost half into this year.
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Changed Color scheme to standard Windows colors from the Dark Green
feeling (who knows how long this will last)
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Changed the “OK” and “Cancel” buttons on the “What do you want to
do INTRO SELECTION” form to “Select” and “Close” this hopefully will avoid any
confusion that some have been having when trying to learn the application.
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Increased image load speed and overall file display time in some
areas by a large percentage.
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Corrected a problem with displaying the correct thumbnails when the
user changes the thumbnail image size from the Thumbnail Viewer - Viewer menu.
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Corrected a problem displaying the correct Media Properties
information Image Plus when using the View menu Show.... Options.
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Corrected an issue with the Locate Files windows staying displayed
on the screen after the search for files in the Main Viewer had completed.
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Corrected an issue that cause GFX-View to make itself the top most
app during a search for files if the user changed away to another application
but did not minimize GFX-View.
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Corrected File Association issue for Four (4) character file
extensions such as (.JPEG, .TIFF, .MPEG)
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Corrected a small issue with the File Association system updates
refreshing.
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Corrected form resize and refresh issues for the Thumbnail Viewer.
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Corrected form resize and refresh issues for the Browse Folder
Viewer.
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Corrected an issue with placing a wallpaper image as Stretched on
the Windows Desktop.
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Made Changes to the layout of the application Preferences
(Settings) form and added additional menu to directly access the additional
options more easily.
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Added support for storing thumbnails in: Uncompressed (.bmp),
Standard Compression (.jpg), and High Compression (.jp2) formats.
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Added support from the Main Viewer and Image Plus Editor to Map a
Network Drive and Disconnect from a Network Drive
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Thumbnail can be sized from 60, 70, 80, ………..180, 190, 200 pixels
in size that are stored in the thumbnail database file.
Changes found in Version 3.0 (Build 402) - (4/1/03)
- Corrected Restart Issue
- Added to Main View Internet Menu
- Image A Day by (BAE-Software)
- Added Image WhitePoint
- Added Image BlackPoint
- Added Gaussian Blur Effect to ImagePlus
editor
- Enabled Virtual Folders in BrowseFolder
View
- Added Printer Image Size Presets
- A) - 1 - Custom Size
- B) - 1 - Fit To Page
- C) - 1 - 3.5" x 5" - Portrait
- D) - 1 - 3.5" x 5" - Landscape
- E) - 1 - 4" x 6" - Portrait
- F) - 1 - 4" x 6" - Landscape
- G) - 1 - 5" x 7" - Portrait
- H) - 1 - 5" x 7" - Landscape
- I) - 1 - 8" x 10" - Portrait
- J) - 1 - 8" x 10" - Landscape
- K) - 2 - 3.5" x 5" - Portrait
- L) - 2 - 3.5" x 5" - Landscape
- M) - 2 - 4" x 6" - Portrait
- N) - 2 - 4" x 6" - Landscape
- O) - 2 - 5" x 7" - Portrait
- P) - 2 - 5" x 7" - Landscape
- Q) - 4 - 3.5" x 5" - Landscape
- R) - 8 - 2.25" x 3.25" - Landscape
Modify thumbnail window colors
Enabled thumbnail labels by default
Changes found in Version 3.0 (Build 401) - (3/1/03)
- Fixed WBMP checkbox being checked for file associations under settings
when no associations had been set.
- Fixed a problem that did not allow using drawing tools below a given
point in Image Plus viewer / editor.
- Changed Color Scheme (Let us know is you like the brighter color from
build 400).
- Changed the website for a better look and feel. This is an on going
process.
- Restructured the 'Settings' file options layout.
- Reworked the Help and on-line Help some.
- Reworked code for better overall performance.
What is there in Version 3.00 (Build 400)? -
(2/1/03)
GFX-View can display standard implementations of forty
(40) different Graphic file types, save to twenty-two (22) image file types and ten (10) Audio/Video Media file types.
GFX-View provides six (6) different ways to view
graphics files.
You can use:
- The main program viewer
- Thumbnail View
- With IMAGE PLUS - Full screen viewer /
Enhancer
- Full screen slide show viewer
- Explorer Type Browse Folder Viewer
or
- place the images as a desktop slide show.
In addition to a standard file browser list you select the files you REALLY
want to look at and place them in a Display List. The Display List of
files can be saved off for later recall at any time.
Media file types supported include .ASF, .ASX, .AVI, .MID, .MPG, .MP2, .MP3,
.WAV, .WMA, WMV. Multimedia support is provided thru Windows Media Player
Services.
Also you will find that there are 40 Image formats to include ART, BMP, CUR,
CUT, DCX, DIB, EMF, GEM, GIF, HRZ, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPG, LBM, MAC, MBM, MSP, PBM,
PCD, PCX, PGM,
PIC, PNG, PNM, PPM, PSD, PSP, RAS, RGB, RLE, SFW, TGA, TIF,
WBMP, WMF, WPG, XBM, XPM, and XWD
Graphic images can be saved with GFX-View to (21) file
formats including: BMP, JPG, DCX, IFF, MBM (compressed),
MBM (uncompressed), PBM, PCX, PGM, PNG, PPM, PSD, RGB, TGA UnCompressed, TGA
Compressed,
TIF (UnCompressed), TIF (Compressed), WBMP, XBM, XPM, XWD
You may save thumbnails of any image GFX-View reads including .EMF and .WMF
(Windows Meta Files) Clipart.
Graphic images read by GFX-View can be placed as desktop wallpaper in either
tiled, center or stretched layout.
If you've found an image that you like you can copy it or it's file name link
to the Windows
clipboard for use in another Windows program.
GFX-View provides a one stop image properties page for the current graphic
being displayed.
Enhance your images with IMAGE PLUS:
- Red Eye Removal
- Image color count
- Histogram support for RGB and HSV
- HSV color editing will not be supported at this time
- Individual Pixel manipulation
- Image Zooming / Panning / Cropping
- Perform Auto Color (Auto Level)
- Perform Auto Contrast
- Increase / Decrease Color Depth. This
allows settings of 1, 4, 8, and 24 color depth. Note: Changing Depth to
a higher setting does not increase the number of colors in an image.
- 10 Levels UNDO / 1 Level REDO
- Opening images for editing.
- Send image as E-Mail Attachment
- Acquire Image from TWAIN device
- Paste from clipboard to a NEW image
- Edit integration out to MS Windows Paint
- Auto Image Sizing for displaying
- Place Image as Wallpaper
- Toolbar display options (F12 hides both toolbars)
- Custom Zoom Levels and Presets described later
- Image Resizing
- Image Flipping (Horizontally and Vertically)
- Image Rotation (90, 180, 270 degrees)
- Image Color Balance Adjustment
- Image Brightness and Contrast Adjustment
- Color Masking in (CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale)
- Mirroring of image parts
- Create a Negative Image
- Horizontal / Vertical / Neon edge effects
- Emboss / Diffuse / Shake / Solarize
- Smooth / Sharpen Effects
- RGB Color swapping
- Enhanced Printing Support w/Print Preview
- Better control over toolbars and toolbar options
- Better integration between view modes
- Selecting image areas to apply enhancements upon.
- and more See the BAE-Software Website for more
information.
Show off your images with the built in slide show feature. You can set
a delay interval from 1 to 30 seconds. Your slide show can be viewed in
the main viewer, in a full screen viewer or on the Windows desktop. Pick a
list of images you want to see through out the day and put the slide show into
motion. This provides a constantly changing background for you to look at.
For the user with a large library of images, GFX-View can provide a detailed
list of all images in both .html and .txt file formats. By using the list
of selected display files GFX-View checks out each and every file first
providing a summary report. The summary report provides the following items:
- A count of each type of file.
- Number of files in select size ranges.
- How many images by color count.
The detailed report includes all of the above as well as image dimensions (if
obtainable) and file locations on your system.
GFX-View allows for:
- Batch conversion w/enhancements to all save formats at the same time.
- JPEG image display and save options.
- Variable size thumbnails from 50 to 200 pixels square.
- Automatically select:
- Web Formats
- Microsoft File Formats
- Portable File Formats
- All File types
- Remembering the last folder accessed
- File associations integration with Windows
- Windows Media Feature Display Control
at the click of a button to narrow down the search of files to view.
Just select the folder to start looking and GFX-View does the rest.
Changes found in Version 2.10 (Build 327)
- Corrected an error in Print/Preview that caused an accurate preview but a
stretched out image on the printout.
Changes found in Version 2.10 (Build 326)
- Corrected a long delay when adding a file to Display list, sometimes as
long as 15 seconds.
- Corrected delay in displaying .GIF images in Thumbnail view.
- Corrected Main Viewer resize error that sometimes placed the toolbar
behind other controls on the form.
- Corrected an issue with Program Preferences always selecting All Graphic
File types to search for even when the user selected different settings last
session.
- Misc. code corrections that caused certain properties to be set to
incorrect defaults.
Changes found in Version 2.10 (Build 325) posted (8/18/02)
This release is meant to be the next official version of BAE-Software GFX-View.
Along with all of the features fond in Version 2.0 we have add the following
items:
- Better Printing w/Print Preview Support and more control over output.
- Faster searching for files within the 'Main Viewer'
- Better use of 'Main Viewer' space
- More sources for obtaining graphics on the 'Internet' menu
- Faster thumbnail generation in "Thumbnail View" along with a more
featured user interface.
- Image Plus has a boost in performance
in many areas.
- Support for saving to .TIF and .TGA files in addition to the current
.BMP and .JPG
- GFX-View handles .JPG image differently with better lossless enhancment
- Images are now displayed centered automatically
- Better structured toolbars w/options to hide them
- Auto Color Level and Auto Contrast
- Ability to control Windows Media display options within GFX-View 'Main
Viewer'
- GFX-View remembers the last folder visited
- GFX-View now allows you to check for an updated version from the HELP
menu.
- Better User feedback in places where is was needed.
- 10 Levels of UNDO / 1 Level REDO
- When viewing an image in 'Main View' image automatically opens upon
opening IMAGE PLUS.
- Settings (and more of them) are now saved in the registry instead of an
external configuration file.
- and an overall new look within many of the dialog boxes.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 307) posted (6/15/02)
- Misc. bug fixes in the Main Viewer.
- Misc. bug fixes in the Image Plus Viewer
- Enhanced the speed of some of the Enhancement routines in Image Plus.
- Added Check for Updated Version under the Help menu.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 306) posted (4/2/01)
- Corrected an issue with toolbar buttons not being enabled when an image is
loaded from within the Windows File System (Explorer/My Computer).
- Corrected an issue with the incorrect file list tab being selected under
situations when the user clicked cancel from the "Loading Media
List" options or "Select Media Folder".
- Rewrote the the Main Viewer Resize Event code to provide a smoother look, especially
at the application startup.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 305)
posted (3/19/02)
- Corrected possible error situation when double-clicking on an
image-thumbnail in the thumbnail viewer. This action returns the user to
the main viewer where the image is to be displayed.
- Corrected a issue where upon returning to the main viewer when
double-clicking on an image thumbnail the 'Display" image list still had a
previous selection in the list still selected and the new (current) item
selected. Now only the current (correct) one is selected.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 304)
posted (3/17/02)
- New design layout on the GFX-View Main Viewer..
- Corrected a problem with saving a .BMP file in Image Plus
- Corrected a problem with saving a .BMP file in GFX-View Main Viewer.
- Image Plus is now 300% -500% faster in several Image Enhancement routines.
.
- The Status Bar is not displayed in Image Viewer when running the faster
enhanced routines
- Added an "AutoColor" (Auto Level) feature to Image Plus
- Added an "Increase / Decrease Color Depth" item in Image Plus. This
allows settings of 1, 4, 8, and 24 color depth. Note: Changing Depth to
a higher setting does not increase the number of colors in an image.
- GFX-View Displays faster at startup thanks to some reworked code.
- The number of Undoes is now five (5) instead of (10). This was done
for better memory management. When so many undo images are present system
performance can be affected.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 303)
posted (3/9/02)
Corrected a problem that occurred when displaying a non-existent file
in the Thumbnail Viewer. An error was generated while displaying the image
information in the status bar. This error caused the program to exit.
Corrected a problem with the "Graphic File Types" that are included in
file searches. When only the ART or BMP types were chosen while using the
program; after closing out the application and restarting it the next time,
these values were not read back correctly by the load configuration routines.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 302)
posted (3/2/02)
Corrected problem that occurred when placing a modified image as
desktop wallpaper (Centered, Stretched, and Tiled) from IMAGE PLUS.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 301)
posted (2/26/02)
- Fixed a "STOP encountered" error when sending an image as an attachment
from "IMAGE PLUS"
- When the Picture Autosize option in "IMAGE PLUS" is set to
anything but OFF the buttons on the zoom toolbar are ignored.
Changes found in Version 2.00 (Build 300)
posted (2/20/02)
-
Better stability through out the product.
-
The Zoom Viewer has grown up into 'Image Plus'. This includes many new image
enhancement items.
- Opening images for editing.
- Saving to .BMP or .JPG
- Send image as E-Mail Attachment
- Acquire Image from TWAIN device
- 10 Level UNDO / 1 Level REDO
- Paste from clipboard to a NEW image
- Edit integration out to MS Windows Paint
- Auto Image Sizing
- Place Image as Wallpaper
- Toolbar display options (F12 hides both toolbars)
- Custom Zoom Levels and Presets described later
- Image Resizing
- Image Flipping (Horizontally and Vertically)
- Image Rotation (90, 180, 270 degrees)
- Image Color Balance Adjustment
- Image Brightness and Contrast Adjustment
- Color Masking in (CMYK, RGB, and Grayscale)
- Twenty (20) other color filters
- Mirroring of image parts
- Create a Negative Image
- Five (6) edge effects (Including Neon and Shake)
- Emboss / Diffuse / Solarize
- Smooth / Sharpen Effects
- RGB Color swapping
- Basic Printing Support
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Added 'Choose What You Want To Do' introduction screen.
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Added 'Batch file conversion' option to File Menu
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There is a new menu addition to recommended Image / Photo websites. Please
support these sites and they will be there to provide you with resource and
media.
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GFX-View 2002 still supports TEN (10) Audio / Video media file formats. Formats
include .ASF, .ASX, .AVI, .MID, .MPG, .MP2, .MP3, .WAV, .WMA, WMV.
Multimedia support is provided thru Windows Media Player Services.
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Also you will find that there are 29 Image formats to include ART, BMP, CUR,
CUT, DIB, EMF, GEM, GIF, HRZ, ICO, IFF, IMG, JPG, LBM, MAC, MSP, PBM, PCX, PGM,
PIC, PNG, PNM, PPM, RAS, RLE, TGA, TIF, WMF, and WPG.
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We cleaned up the user interface on several of the built in feature display
windows. New icons and restructured menus are the most noticeable.
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Slide show support has been enhanced and allows you to select an combination of
support media file formats to turn GFX-View into a graphics view / jukebox
player. Don't expect to see this replace WINAMP or MUSIC MATCH any time
soon. But you have the ability to play all those files in you Audio / Video
collection.
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Loop around option on media show, forward, reverse and random play orders
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Better gradient backgrounds then with the V 1.xx
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The ability to multi-select files in the main viewer lists allowing the user to
more easily select the files needed. You can then add files to the Display
list, delete files from your system, remove any number of files from the
Display list.
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Drag and drop file names from the Selection list to the Display list and
from either list to the main viewer window.
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The ability to copy the filename to the clipboard for use in any other
location where you need this information. As well as the usual copy
Graphic image to the clipboard option.
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Better integration between the different viewers.
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Advanced List Management Options that include various selection methods and a
FIND option that selects the image names in the Main Viewer lists.
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A better selection of Zoom levels in the Full Screen Viewer: from 10% - 150% (in
10% levels) and 200% - 500% (in 100% levels). Note: Image size can limit
the level of zooming possible. You may only be able to zoom to a lesser
level when viewing larger images.
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Basic file management from within GFX-View to include copying and deleting media
files.
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Added 'Clear Selection List' Button
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Fixed an issue with the system-tray icon hanging around after program ended.
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Corrected an issue with the Display List showing the next to the last item
selected when moving to the last item in the list using the Next Media
File (menu and toolbar) options.
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Fixed problem with incorrect color value being reported for image pixels
in Full Screen Viewer.
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Add an item on the Full Screen Viewer status bar that shows the actual color
currently under the mouse pointer.
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