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PicView

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Jun 13, 2024 Last updated

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# Change Log

Gallery Improvements

New Thumbnail Stretching Options

You can now choose from six different stretching modes for displaying gallery thumbnails:

Uniform: Thumbnails maintain their aspect ratio, fitting within the display area without cropping.

Uniform to Fill: Thumbnails maintain their aspect ratio but fill the display area, potentially cropping part of the image.

Fill: Thumbnails fill the display area, potentially distorting the image to fit.

None: Thumbnails are displayed at their original width.

Square: Thumbnails are displayed in a square ratio.

Fill Square: Thumbnails fill a square area, potentially distorting the image to fit.

These options are available for both the bottom gallery and the full gallery views.

Fixed Gallery Navigation

Keyboard navigation within the full gallery has been improved and fixed.

UI Improvements

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Settings Window Update

Size adjustments for both the bottom gallery and the full gallery are now more user-friendly.

The new thumbnail stretching options are also integrated into the settings.

Drag and Drop Enhancements

Drag Preview Fixes: Instances where the drag preview was not correctly closed have been resolved.

Performance Enhancements: PicView now responds more quickly when dragging images over the application.

Faster Color Choice Loading

PicView now loads color choices faster, when the default color choice has been changed.

Language Updates

Updated German translations.

Updated Danish translations.

Stability and Bug Fixes

Crash Fix: Resolved an issue that caused a crash when changing the sorting mode if no images were loaded.

Startup Menu Fix: Fixed an issue where the startup menu was not being removed correctly when pasting from startup with no image loaded.

Miscellaneous Updates

Magick.NET: Updated to version 13.9.1.

AutoUpdater.NET: Updated to version 1.9.0.

Description

PicView is a free, open-source picture viewer for Microsoft Windows OS. This image viewer has a clean user interface (by default, it will show a black UI, but you can change it to white - it does look good on both colors), well structured, providing you access to a good range of features.

You can get fast access to image info, effects, and much more (most of its features are listed below in the "Features" section). Some alternatives provide a bloated UI, which makes you feel lost when it comes to so many features, that's not the case here, as its interface is pretty neat. If you're looking for an image manager, this one is exciting as it has all the necessary options that you might need when it comes to such an app. 

Note: PicView requires you to install the .NET framework. The installer package will attempt to download and install it automatically. Otherwise, you have the option to download the portable version separately (without the .NET framework) or the fully portable version (with .NET self-contained).

Features

- view pictures inside archives such as ZIP, RAR, 7z, 7Zip, Iso, Cab, Wim, Tar, BZip2, RAR(requires 7-Zip or WinRAR to be installed)

- view pictures inside comic book archives such as cbr, cb7, cbt, cbz, cba

- resizes dynamically to fit the image resolution

- customizable interface (choose between dark or white theme, etc.)

- shows the file name, resolution, and the size of the picture in the title bar

- easily browse through the image folder using the intuitive arrow keys

- rotate and flip the image

- option to show the full screen or contained gallery

- right-click menu option that you can use to open/save in a different graphic editor

- file history so you can easily pick up the work from where you left off

- 26 different shader effects (image filters), including negative colors, old movie effects, pencil sketch, etc.

- support for most popular graphic file formats: jpg, jpeg, jpe, png, bmp, tif, tiff, gif, ico, jfif, webp, psd, psb, xcf, svg, heic, tga, ddsb, 3fr, arw, cr2, crw, dcr, dng, erf, kdc, mdc, mef, mos, mrw, nef, nrw, f, pef, raf, raw, rw2, srf, x3f, pgm, hdr, cut, exr, dib, emf, wmf, wpg, pcx, xbm, xpm, wbmp

etc.

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