Ai Picture Utility v8

Ai Picture Utility (AiPICT) views, edits, enhances, manages and organizes photos -- plays multimedia too. Are your digital photos too bright, too dark, over-exposed or under-exposed? AiPICT's advanced batch image processing and conversion procedures empowers digital photo professionals with unlimited combinations to correct or enhance any image. Advanced (and unique) filters provide capabilities found only in expensive commercial software; these include variable equalization and remapping, unsharp mask, histogram analyses, masked bitmap operations, contrast enhancement and restoration, ...

Has you picture collection grown and become unmanageable? Quickly thumbnail entire drives (or offline CD/DVD volumes) and organize images by visual content (or date, size, keyword) with its Slide Album; proprietary image analysis can even quantify and rank picture quality. Integrated batch rename, rename by date, move/delete functions seamlessly coordinate with its Explorer (Treeview and Listview) and helps collectors peruse massive picture series downloads. Included Batch UnZipper extracts multiple ZIPs unattended too.

You can also create impressive slideshows (or presentations) with choice of 173 cool effects, variable delays, windows-in-windows, gamma, background color, rotation, comments and other properties (per slide). Format support includes PNG, PhotoCD, Photoshop, GIF, BMP, PCX, TGA, WMF, DCX, Multi-page TIF (w/ anti-aliasing for easy reading), MP3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, MIDI, CD audio, WMV, WMA, ASF ...

Its speedy viewer is unmatched; includes gamma, widescreen, zooming, fit-to-window options. JPEG Wizard creates tiny, high-quality files. Aside from standard cut and paste functions, its grid and viewport makes collage creation a breeze. Common imaging tools include "red eye" removal, JPEG Comments and EXIF camera data, TWAIN cameras/scanners, instant (fast loading) wallpaper, variably-sized and positioned prints, smooth resizing, rotate-by-degree, borders, image text (with variables), automatic color correction ... and more!

AiPICT v8.2.5

• Enhanced drive and folder refresh routines
  • Media insert/removal triggers drive redetection
  • Manual drive redetection function (e.g., USB and Firewire drives)
  • Expanded pop-up Refresh menu (more accessible)

• Tweaked default settings during setup
  • Batch Unzipper is set to extract duplicate files(renamed) by default
  • Embedded thumbnails options disabled by default
  • Scaled (Half JPEG mode) enabled by default for optimal viewing of "4000 pixel" images

• Tweaked folder navigation and history routines
• Integrated "Allow Partial JPEG" option under Half-JPEG mode control
• Misc interface tweaks

• Faster JPEG image series decode (up to 133% faster)
• Faster image screen updates
  • removed refresh caused by variable image sizes
  • removed flicker when viewing scrolled images with AutoGamma option

• Variable Listview fonts
  • greater accessibility
  • variable font size, typeface, style, color
  • font size and typeface are saved and recalled

• Asymmetric tiling of Viewer and Explorer windows
  • greater customization
  • adjusts Viewer to "dock" beside Explorer
  • left-handed or right-handed functions
  • taskbar-aware

• Auto-backup of Viewer bookmarks
• Disabled AutoGamma setting was not saved; corrected.

• FREEWARE!
  • Yes, free for personal, non-business use.
  • No nag screens (no reminders).
  • Fully-functional; no disabled functions.

• Instant thumbnailed web pages
  • FAST
  • different templates/style
  • HTML image catalogs
  • DVD/CD image catalogs
  • variable thumbnail sizes
  • more ...

• Misc. interface tweaks.

• Fast BMP (disable) option to handle non-compliant files.
• Some internal code optimization.
• Misc interface tweaks.

• High-level renaming functions (Windows Shell interface)
• Custom workaround routines for aspect ratio resampling
• Misc interface tweaks

• Custom aspect ratios to view WYSIWYG square pixels on
  • SXGA (1280x1024) displays
  • 15:9 (1280x768) displays
  • any display, roll your own

• Expanded warning messages for corrupt ZIP archives

• Screen Gamma settings are now saved and recalled
• Enhanced rotate dialog
• Enhanced validation/sorting of bookmarked items
• Double-clicking Viewer image activates built-in Explorer
• Slideshows now use enhanced gamma curves with flash fill
• Misc interface tweaks

• Added Jump to slide # function in Slide Album
• New Folder creation added to Copy/Move dialogs
• Enhanced string input dialog
• Enhanced color selection dialog
• Enhanced gamma dialog
• Enhanced magnification dialog
• Enhanced disabled icons
• "Recent" folder support for all Windows versions
• Batch UnZipper window is now saved and restored
• Variable (user-definable) JPEG scaling for rapid reviews of larger image sets
• Double-clicking an *.AIP file in built-in Explorer automatically
  populates Viewer bookmarks and launches an Instant Slideshow.

• New setup and uninstaller

• Enhanced interface elements
  • solutions-oriented controls
  • enhanced menus, consolidated and rationalized for easier access

• Redesigned interactive imaging dialogs
  • digital darkroom focus for newbies and pros
  • Fix OverExposure dialog
  • Fix UnderExposure dialog
  • Fix Contrast Levels dialog
  • Color Balance dialog
  • Color Saturation dialog
  • more ...

• AVL Remote Control
  • present and discuss slides for unlimited periods
  • jump to any slide in your presentation
  • continue playback anywhere in your slideshow
  • fine-tune presentations

• DVD/CD slideshow mastering
  (create stand-alone slideshow authoring on DVD/CD)

• Improved JPEG support
  • More bullet-proofing routines for compressing large, high-detail images
  • Advanced JPEG compression now supports maximum setting (i.e., "500") for ultra-tiny files
  • Embedded JPEG thumbnails and images
  • View Embedded image function
  • Faster thumbnailing option
  • Partial JPEG load option
  • Faster, intelligent Half-JPEG mode
    (loads only what is required for viewing)

• Comparisons Window
  • easily compare two modifie images side-by-side
  • synchronized scrolling in actual viewing mode
  • dual fit-to-window viewing mode

• New Lab commands (formerly Batch commands)
  • ROTATE_FINE
  • FLIP_VERTICAL
  • FLIP_HORIZONTAL
  • CONTRAST_LOW
  • BRIGHTNESS_LOW
  • MAP_RGB_LOW
  • UNWASH_EX
  • UNCOOK_EX
  • ATTENUATE_EX
  • SUPPRESS_EX
  • GAMMA_SUPPRESS_EX
  • CONTRAST_HIGH
  • BRIGHTNESS_HIGH
  • MAP_RGB_HIGH
  • FLASH_FILL
  • BACK_FILL
  • MAP_RGB_EX
  • MAP_LIT_EX
  • OPTIMIZE_EX
  • MAP_EQ_EX
  • REPLACE_RGB
  • REPLACE_RGBINV

• Enhanced WHITEBALANCE function (uses remapping)
• Enhanced AUTO_WHITE function
• Enhanced AUTO_BALANCE function
• Curvilinear Contrast adjustment method
• New Color Replace functions

• More robust Paste Image function
• Expanded "classic" contrast and brightness tuning range to +255- for finer adjustments.
• Expanded "classic" brightness shifting tuning range to +255- for finer adjustments encompassing "true black" and "true white".