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- Ai Picture Explorer (AiPICX for short)
- is an integrated Viewer, MediaPlayer,
- Explorer and Slideshow/Screen Saver. Its
- intuitive interface runs multiple copies
- and can mimic My Computer or Explorer.
- Its Browser-style, bookmark interface lets
- you manage or review 1000s of files.
-
- In addition to FAST JPEG viewing, its
- Ultra JPEG Compressor creates tiny files
- with great quality. High-performance
- THUMBNAIL functions can create Instant
- Web Pages or local HTML thumbnail catalogs
- for tracking multiple volumes of CDROMs or
- removable disks (e.g. ZIP drives).
-
- Multimedia support includes MP3 and WAV audio,
- AVI/MPEG/VideoCD video, Quicktime MOV video,
- AIFF and Sun audio, MIDI music, CD audio,
- RealAudio and RealVideo -- in addition to PNG,
- FlashPix, Photo-CD, BMP/DIB, PCX, TGA, WMF, EMF,
- Multi-page DCX, TIFF (w/ anti-aliasing).
- Multimedia slideshows include 173 cool effects
- (per slide) -- integrated AVL editor included.
-
- Plus -- color prints, format conversion,
- TWAIN scans & digital cameras, Instant Wallpaper,
- color reduction, promote, gamma, contrast, trim,
- brightness, smooth resize, rotate by degree,
- negative, halftone, CAPTURE, copy/paste,
- smoothing/sharpening functions ... more!
-
- Requires: Win95/98/NT4.
- Optional: MediaPlayer 2 for audio/video
-
- Note: This is a free upgrade for registered
- AiPICX v3 Users; your name/key is auto-detected.
-
-
- AiPICX v4.1 Update
-
- o Remove "Red eyes"
- o Over-Exposure Correction
- - UnCook filter (proprietary)
- - Gamma Supression ("un-expose" highlights)
-
- o White Balance Color Correction
- - interactive color picker
- - variable color balancing
- - region-of-interest preview
- - smart (histogram-based) default setting
-
- o Parametric Color Equalizer
- - variable range, center "frequency"
- - variable boost/attenuation
- - RGB channel option
- - region-of-interest preview
-
- o Masked Compute functions
- - Combines only desired "frequency" range
- - Variable band and mask strength
- - Isolate shadows, midtones or highlights
- - region-of-interest preview
-
- o Smart (histogram-based) default settings
- - Shadow and Highlight enhancement
-
- o Zero brightness shifting (optimizes Shadows
- for subsequent image processing)
-
- o Swap Compute function
- o Histogram shorcut (Ctrl-H)
- o Select All Images shortcut (Ctrl-Alt-A)
-
- o BugFix: On some systems, slide editor reported
- "negative" free disk space; corrected.
-
- o BugFix: HTML links were all lowercase; corrected.
-
-
- AiPICX v4.0.1 Maintenance Update
-
- o Average Compute function now supports preview.
- o Centrally located BIP files; easier access.
-
- o BugFix: Deleted/moved files were retained
- in thumbnail cache; corrected.
-
-
- AiPICX v4.0 Update
-
-
- o Proprietary "Enrich" smoothing filter boosts color
- variance for improved color adjusments.
-
- o Proprietary "Clean" smoothing filter:
- - retains shadows, highlights and edges
- - boosts JPEG compression up to 400%
- - variable smoothing and strength
-
- o Supress contrast reduction filter;
- corrects "burnt" images.
-
- o UnWash and Attenuate filters (restores contrast).
-
- o Image histogram with RGB channel views.
-
- o Brightness Shifting by RGB channels
- - corrects miscalibrated scans
- - fixes old images with poor color adjustments
-
- o Bitmap compute functions; compare/modify two bitmaps:
- - variably average two bitmaps
- - multiply (enhances contrast)
- - extract minimum (darker) pixels
- - extract maximum (brighter) pixels
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- o PhotoCD steps are now included in user profile;
- maximum resolution is auto-detected during decode.
-
- o Borders (variable color, width and height)
-
- o Text Mark
- - tiny unobtrusive font
- - readable even with moderate JPEG compression
- - add notations, copyright, licensing info or
- date/time stamp to any corner of image
-
- o Batch Image Processing
- - replay batch commands with any image
- - monitor image filters and color corrections
- - quickly test results with uncompressed files
- - apply batch commands to 1000s of images
- prior to Batch JPEG compression
-
- o Proprietary Unsharp Mask - "natural" sharpening
- filter (with no color artifacts) preferred by
- professional photographers and "Net Scanners".
-
- o Contrast Enhancement (histogram stretching)
- - global Shadow/Highlight settings
- - RGB channel Shadow adjustments
- - RGB channel Highlight adjustments
-
- o Hue-Luminance-Saturation controls
- (adjusts color levels like TVs)
-
- o PathBox clipboard copy/paste function
- o DeLace filter for video captures
- - removes "staircase jaggies"
- - minimizes motion blur
-
- o Smart trim function (removes borders)
- o Batch JPEG Compression (with advanced
- compression options)
-
- o Bugfix: Screensaver did not setup
- correctly with Win98; corrected;
-
- o Image match (via visual comparison)
- - find images that "look like this"
- - rank orders with fuzzy logic
- - match by hue distribution
- - match by lighting histogram
- - find duplicates even if resize,
- recompressed, renamed or redated
-
- o Smarter Folder Tree
- - smarter pop-up menu
- - expansion allowed with all items
- - auto-collapse with background updates
-
- o Expanded Rotate menus
- - 90/270 deg. (frequently used)
- - Normal (by 1 deg.)
- - Fine (by "1/100th" deg.)
-
- o Enhanced look & feel
- o Smarter Listview pop-up menu
- o Faster Smart Update function
- o Extensive optimization (some 64-bit routines)
-
- o More accessible:
- - Win98-style Views toolbar button.
- - Explore Go menu with Back/Forward shortcuts.
- - Viewer Tools menu for Slideshow, CD Player,
- Explorer and future utility menu items.
-
- o Dynamic thumbnail caching!
- - alphabetical sort
- - validate cached system icons
- - includes cache management functions
- - variable free disk space warnings
- - thumbnails load instantly with
- previously visited folders
-
- - responds to background file additions
- and deletion via folder monitoring
-
- - Smart Update quickly thumbnails
- additions and removes deletions
-
- o Radically Enhanced Slide Editor
- with Album Management functions
-
- o Super AVL Slideshows
- - 1000s of slides in ONE script
- - limited only by free memory
- - faster/more responsive
- - unlimited/expandable slide properties
-
- - create ONE slideshow using an entire CD,
- fixed hard disk or any removable media
-
- - static cache shows slide info and
- thumbnails with absent removable media
-
- - cache management functions
- - move, copy, delete source functions
- - find slide name function
- - slide rotate by degree
- - slide comments (see below)
-
- o AVL Slideshow comments
- - searchable by keyword
- - displayed on top/bottom of screen
- - can coexist with RTF text screens
- - fill routine populates with display names
-
- o Recursive (batch) file list functions
- to "tag" all files in drive or folder:
-
- - unattended thumbnails of entire CDs (or any
- removable or fixed media) as image album
-
- - review ALL multimedia files in selected
- drive as Viewer bookmarks
-
- - run ALL multimedia files in selected
- drive as Instant slideshow (via bookmarks)
-
- - create and edit ONE AVL slideshow with all
- your multimedia files (with thumbnails)
-
- o Justify label function
- - Explorer
- - Slideshow/Album
-
- o EXIF/JPEG Comments Reader
- o JPEG Comments Writer
- o JPEG Strip function
- - strips non-essential markers
- or comments only (e.g. leaves EXIF info)
- - strips mac binary headers
-