Ai Picture Utility v8
AiPICT v7.x (Updates)
- New uninstaller and setup
- Improved/simplified toolbars (new look)
- Imaging tool bar for easy access to common imaging tasks (e.g., flash fill, unsharp mask)
- AutoReference function (improve color balancing one step)
- Variable Flash Fill (with batch command)
- Enhanced Gamma view (integrated Flash Fill attenuates overexposed midtones)
- Fit Width viewing mode
- Thumbnail sizing slider up/down buttons
- Magnification slider with up/down buttons
- Enhanced confirmation dialogs
- Prompt on Close option (to hide Viewer)
- Enhanced thumbnails
- on-the-fly resizing
- handy thumbnail sizing slider
- faster, optimized for FAT/NTFS 64KB clusters
- improved thumbnailed HTML catalogs/Web page creation
- Simplified user options
- More advanced options
- Enhanced Tree view interface (faster, more robust, cleaner look)
- Enhanced copy/paste functions (selection, grid)
- Enhanced Slide Album interface
- enhanced Property Box
- improved access to slide properties (XP-style controls)
- delete/recycle, copy/move functions enabled only in Album (management) mode
- Closing application via taskbar menu did not respond if Viewer
was hidden; changed. Tools|Hide function added to Viewer module
to Hide Viewer with active Window modules
- Intergrated Explorer (Treeview and Listview)
- integrated batch file management
- variable thumbnails and views
- drag and drop, shortcuts/links
- network support
- tool tips, and more ...
- Fully virtualized listview
- high capacity (more than a million objects)
- extreme speed (up to 8000% faster)
- WYSIWYG ('What You See Is What You Get') print dialog (shows actual image sample)
- Enhanced threading model (faster XP execution)
- Extensive Windows XP optimization
- More XP Theme user interface tweaks
- Enhanced Slide Album interface
- Faster screen refresh
- Faster Unzipper drag & drop imports
- GIF support
- Explorer enhancements
- XP-style tool tips (optional) for listview items
- customized for different views
- backwards-compatible with Win9X, WinME, Win2000
- displays complete long filenames, image dimensions,
file size and date for any listview object
- Session-persistent sorts (e.g, by size, date ...)
- 'Confirm deletions' option
- skips prompts when recycling files (more productive)
- does not affect session folder delete warning
- REFERENCE image function 'restores' an image to a 'baseline' state
to remaster color corrections (see Reference.bip). It simulates what originating
artist (or device) 'saw' prior to making color balancing adjustments and
effectively reverses unbalanced adjustments applied by miscalibrated cameras
(or scanners) as well as color modifications made on 'uncorrected' displays.
Incorporates an adaptive curve-fitting algorithm (i.e., kurtosis) to remap
pixel distributions from image statistics. Available batch command.
- Improved AutoWhite image function boosts brightness to ensure whites
are "truly" white, while smartly supressing highlights to avoid
"overexposure". Advanced users can apply original algorithm as
an advanced batch command and customize their own white balancing
effect (see Adv_White_balance.bip).
- Improved AutoFlash image function boosts shadows and midtones, as if
a camera with flash was applied, while smartly keeping highlights
(i.e., "flash fill" effect). Advanced users can apply original
algorithm as an advanced batch command and customize their own
flash fill effect (see Flash_Fill.bip).
- Improved AutoGamma image function boosts midtones without sacrificing
contrast. Advanced users can opt to apply original algorithm as
an advanced batch command.
- Resizeable "Browser for Folder" dialog with session history
- quick access to recently accessed folders
- Edit box (to directly type-in paths)
- native network support
- 'Up one level' function
- Added advanced batch commands to Viewer's Compute menu
- Backup (CopyToBackup)
- Restore (CopyFromBackup)
- Slide Album enhancements
- Added Properties function to display source file information
- Faster thumbnailing (icon retrieval) of multimedia file types
- Faster cut operation in detailed (report) view
- Faster image ranking / pixel match method (up to 400% faster)
- Histogram image ranking method
- more effective and accurate (greater hits)
- replaces Hues and Luminance methods
- compares overall color and gray scale distributions
- Batch Unzipper enhancements
- Added OLE drop support to conveniently add thousands
of archives from multiple locations for batch extraction
(e.g., from deeply nested folders listed by Windows Find).
- 'Extract all' function now extracts individual ZIP files
to its originating source folders (default with prompt).
- Added Skip duplicate target files (option); if disabled,
a duplicate filename is created to handle unusual ZIP files
which contain duplicate files (e.g. Pictureview ZIP files).
- 'Cache Kill All' conveniently clears 'Recent' links too
- Naturalize CCD filter
- variable "film noir" effect
- corrects/compensates for gray scaling
error exhibited by digital cameras
- batch command available
- Naturalize RGB filter
- variable "film noir" effect
- "naturally" boosts shadows or highlights
- batch command available
- RGBMIN (gray scale function)
- isolates low luminance pixels
- can be used to correct 'weak' blue levels
- batch command available
- Enhanced DateName function
- added milliseconds from creation timestamp
- YYMMDD_HHMMSS_NNN format
- minimizes (or eliminates) filename collisions
- added hook in integrated explorer menu
- TextMark regions adjusted to accomodate large fonts
- Enhanced shell monitoring of un-broadcasted
folder changes made by concurrent applications
- DateName function (rename your digital photos by date)
- uses file datestamp
- optional full filename rename
- prefixes YYMMDD_HHMMSS to filename
(avoids collisions with similarly dated files)
- DePixelate filter (eliminate digital camera artifacts)
- proprietary CCD mosaic filter
- better edges and lines in resampled digital photos
- improved color fidelity in resampled digital photos
- DEPIXELATE Advanced Batch command
- choice of two CCD sensor filters
- retains original image size for additional
image processing (see enhanceCCD.BIP)
- RESIZE% Advanced Batch command
- RESAMPLE% Advanced Batch command
- variable upsampling (101% to 799%)
- variable downsampling (1% to 99%)
- automatically maintains aspect ratio
- Enhanced "Gaussian Blur" algorithm (more sensitive)
- Enhanced "Clean" algorithm (more sensitive)
- Misc. user interface tweaks.
- Assignable mouse wheel click functions
- Mouse wheel navigation option to display (or play)
previous/next image (or multimedia) file
- More optimization
- Faster start-up/activation
- Faster clean-up and application close
- Smaller footprint (reduced resource overhead)
- Slide Album multiple instances
- Shell notification
- Folder size function (scans and calculates bytes used)
- fast, robust 64-bit support
- integrated Report view (for sorting)
- recursive (includes all sub-folders)
- more productive (avoids checking Properties box)
- facilitates mastering of CD/DVD media backups
- NO EXPIRATION (30-day limit removed)
- Faster batch rename, add extension
- Enhanced Batch Delete
- faster
- optional expert mode (per session)
- avoids additional confirmation step
- New Hotkey to unmark files (* for keypad users)
- Misc. user interface tweaks
- Batch Delete shortcut (Ctrl-Del)
- Cut slide(s) shortcut (Ctrl-X)
- Unmark shortcut (Ctrl-X)
- Enhanced image filters dialogs
- optional thumbnail preview image
- interatively switch between views
* actual (scrollable) view
* fitted (thumbnail) view
- "Real time" interactive filter previews
- AutoTest option avoids pressing Test button
- added to all image processing dialogs
- more convenient and productive
- Bookmark resequencing functions (move items before/after items in queue)
- Instant slideshow exclusion of folders with "filename" extensions
- Running slideshow temporarily disables logs to Recent folder (faster)
- Unmarking bookmark, deleting or moving current file proceeds to next
bookmarked file instead of previous (more productive and convenient)
- Kill (all) Recent folder links function
- XP-style "recent" folder for Win9X users
- Enhanced Open and Save dialogs
- Enlarged preview thumbnail of Open dialog
- XP-style "places" bar with "recent" folder link
- WimME, Win2000 compatible
- auto-detected, auto-configured
- Enhanced OLE drag and drop routines
- Shortcut creation added to Listview drag and drop ops
- robust parent validation
- faster refresh
- Batch Unzipper interface enhancements
- Integrated Explorer updated only after all archive extraction (faster)
- Reorganized and added file operations on selected archives for users
with complicated extraction and archive management needs (e.g., Pictureview
newsgroups users)
- Batch ZIP list is no longer cleared if exceptions are detected
(e.g., duplicate target files) as a convenience to users with huge
ZIP archive lists
- 64-bit support
- Faster recursive lists (up to 200% faster)
(e.g., importing contents of entire hard disk volumes)
- to Slide Album
- to Viewer bookmarks (Instant slideshow)
- Slide Album enhancements
- enhanced database functionality
- query for slides by date and/or size
- reorganized menus for find/match routines
- optional large toolbar buttons (button text)
- Album mode now adjusts GUI for faster operations
- accelerated screen update (source slides deletion)
- jump to first selected slide after query of keyword search
- Viewer Enhancements
- faster screen refresh
- Upsampled Fit is now persistent (i.e., recalled as user setting)
- duplicate Tile menu on Viewer as a convenience
- New Hotkey to copy current file
- Additional Textmark variable
@@F inserts original filename (if any)
- More bulletproofing (fault tolerance)
AiPICT v6.x (Updates)
- Enhanced ALL clipboard copy/paste functions
- Enhanced ALL device-dependent (DDB) functions to maintain full color informtion
- Enhanced ALL image processing and image analyses functions with
- device-specific code for 15-bit (32768 color) displays
- device-specific code for 16-bit (65536 color) displays
- Faster setup (no options dialog during startup)
- Enhanced grid (collage) function
- Enhanced Fit-to-screen mode (faster)
- optional upsampling
- auto-centering option
- Isolated JPEG save process for Windows 2000 and XP
- Customized Window tiling routines for Windows 2000 and XP
- Toolbars now sport the XP-style "hot" look.
- More optimization
- XP specific code (auto-detected)
- faster individual image decoding
- faster viewing/refresh routines
- faster slideshow image decoding
- faster JPEG decoding in AutoReduce mode
- optimized Photoshop (PSD support)
- optimized memory allocation/usage
- Best Fit viewing mode
- automatic smooth resampling
- automatically adjusts to window size
- integrated Gamma option
- Enhanced 4:3 NTSC and 16:9 widescreen viewing modes
- up to 400% faster
- automatic smooth resampling
- automatically adjusts to window size
- integrated Gamma option
- Enhanced Image Processing dialogs
- Enhanced JPEG Wizard dialog
- simplified
- larger test/preview area
- Optimize coding (always on)
- High accuracy (always on)
- Enhanced printer routines for multi-page DCX and TIF files.
- Enhanced Textmark (variable font, style, color, size, outline color)
- Textmark variables
- @@D inserts date in current system format
- @@C inserts copyright symbol
- General interface tweaks
- Simplified menus for importing files
- Instant slideshows (bookmarks)
- Slide Album (bookmarks)
- optional recursive lists
- Refreshed merged toobar and pathbox restore if hidden on application exit.
- Redundant Select All command added to Edit menu
- imaging menus
- modal dialogs
- viewport dialog
- context Help links
- display change detection
- Image VIEWPORT functions
- Facilitates use of Hand tool to scroll image in a viewport to set a region of interest
- Adjust client window to any desired rectangle
- Copy contents of viewport to clipboard
- Adjust Viewport shortcut (for access without menus)
- AUTO_FLASH (automatic tuning function)
- automatic, no parameters
- uses smart procedural heuristics
- optimally "brightens" shadows and midtones
- applicable to a wide variety of photos
- batch command
- Enhanced MASK_CONTRAST bitmap compute function
- Enhanced AUTO_GAMMA (automatic tuning function)
- AutoWhite function (classic White Balancing)
- Tune RGB color
- true remapping function for novices (w/ interactive dialog)
- tunes brightness and contrast via image statistics
(mean and std. deviations of RGB pixel distributions)
- MAP_RGB batch command
- Viewer enhancements
- Optimized BMP support for 16 MB (or larger) images
- faster thumbnailing (up to 400% faster)
- faster viewing (up to 400% faster)
- smaller GDI resource utilization
- ASF, WMA, WMV playback support
- Duplicated Edit commands in pop-up menu
- enhances full screen editing
- facilitates faster collage creation
- Region Zoom (auto-magnify region of interest)
- shortcut (Alt-R)
- replicable (per session)
Valid rectangles are reused, e.g., for image comparisions
- Half JPEG preview mode
- views LARGE JPEG files quickly
- designed for sifting through large image sets
- Pathbox pop-up menu
- Merge Tool bar and Path box option
- Full Screen menu only option
- pathname/filename shown as a menu item
- fully optimizes viewing with all menu functions
- hides all controls in current configuration and shows only menus in full screen mode
- Redundant bookmark menu (toolbar)
- Added direct link (button) to JPEG Compression Wizard in Save Dialog
- Smarter menu and shortcut de/activation when switching between forms and apps
- Program Exit is now Program Close (same as MSIE)
- ESC key now closes Image Info window
- Windowed slideshows now hide all auxiliary windows.
- Location of saved images independently tracked per session.
- Removed default PNG Gamma
- PNG is now the default Save As format.
- Resizeable Open Dialog (with thumbnail preview)
- Resizeable Save Dialog
- Viewer shortcut changed to Ctrl-Home
- Viewer shortcut for Duplicate function (Ctrl-D)
- Multimedia playback now use default Volume settings
- Screen Gamma for optimal vidcap viewing (e.g., DVD)
- Widescreen (16:9 ) and TV (4:3) views
- designed for DVD, (X)SVCD and (X)VCD image captures
- automatic image resampling to desired aspect ratio
- integrated Instant slideshow support
- integrated AVL slideshow support
- Hotkeys
- W Windowed or Full Screen toggle
- G Screen Gamma (midtone brightness)
- B (randomly access bookmarks)
- E (explore current folder contents)
- D (recycle)
- M (move)
- H (Half Screen hotkey)
- U (Unmark bookmark)
- F (Fit-toscreen toggle)
- R (Run slideshow)
- 7 (75% zoom)
- 5 (50% zoom)
- 2 (25% zoom)
- Up and Left arrows (previous image)
- Down or Right arrow (next image)
- Hotkeys are now available in normal windows.
- Airbrush filter
- smooths selected colors only (e.g., skin tones)
- interactive dialog with color picker
- enhances JPEG compression
- accomplishes complex layering and filtering in one step
- JPEG artifact generator
- facilitates experiments to minimize JPEG artifacts
for improved compression and quality
- batch processing script included (see deArtifact.bip)
- Enhanced Mask Edges function
- Subtract Compute function
- subtracts pixels using cached bitmap
- can be used to isolate edges (see included smooth_by_subtraction.bip)
- Batch Delete
- Batch Move
- Batch Unzipper enhancements
- Automatic batch extraction parameters (no prompts)
- Auto-delete after successful batch ZIP extraction
- Batch Processing enhancements
- Faster resizing, smooth downsampling and upsampling
- Optimized batch image processing buffers
- Batch filenames tracked in lowercase
- New command (clears script)
- PROMPTSTRING command (interrupt dialog with comment)
- Removed command echoes when analyzing images
- Removed filename additions from bookmarks
- Batch Move can be invoked via Move toolbar button (with Ctrl key).
- Batch Delete can be invoked via Delete toolbar button (with Ctrl key).
- Batch Rename filenames imported in ascending order.
- Add Extension filenames imported in ascending order.
- Advanced Batch Commands
- TRACE (provides a prompt with abort option after each step)
- LOADFILE advanced batch command for specialized image procesing tasks
with with custom bitmaps (e.g., grayscale masks)
- BORDER_TOPBOT for masking unsightly scan lines
- CONFORM (forces image to "look like" a reference image)
- forces consistent colors in a collage or image series
- CONFORM_RED forces red plane
- CONFORM_GRN forces green plane
- CONFORM_BLU forces blue plane
- CONFORM_LIT (remap luminance)
- CONFORM_GAMMA (remap all gamma channels)
- CONFORM_GAMMA_RGB (remap individual RGB gamma channels)
- RGB mapping info function
- calculates RGB mean and std deviations
- populates Batch editor with CONFORM data
- Batch Editor interface enhancements
- Prompt to discard script on application close.
- Location of BIP files independently tracked per session.
- Opening BIP file with integrated Explorer activates Batch Editor.
- Instant Slideshow maximum delay increased to 3600 seconds
- Slide Album enhancements
- Faster Duplicate recognition
- Enhanced image matching
- faster neighborhood matches
- boosted sensitivity of user index threshold
- boosted sensitivity of aspect ratio threshold
- Automatic pruning (removes unique slides)
- keeps duplicate candidates only
- variable match tolerance
- Duplicate detection by Neighborhood match
- Duplicate detection by CRC (exact binary compare)
- Remove redundant Slides by Pathname function
- ensures all slides are unique
- accelerates duplicate removal by CRC or Image Matching
- rationalizes and master albums with updated folder contents
(e.g., download folders)
- User interface enhancenments
- Slides (filenames) imported in ascending order.
- Removed extra scrolling spaces in Thumbnail view
- Added pop-up menu commands in Album mode for managing source files
- arrange (standard sorts) and reverse sort
- cut slide(s)
- relocate slide(s)
- match slide
- column views (all, slide, image properties)
- reverse order sort (reflects manual reordering)
- first selected slide focus
- viewer activation with no selection (view/open toolbar button)
- Album info (album size can estimate if it fits CD-R or DVD-R)
- Virtualized, high capacity
- fast thumbnail validation (up to 20000% faster)
- database capabilities
- accelerated slide imports (up to 4600% faster)
- accelerated slide exports (up to 26000% faster)
- accelerated AVL encoding/decoding (up to 1300% faster)
- .AIP (Ai Picture List) bookmarks import/export
- .AVC (Ai Slide Catalog) database format
- Image Analyses enhancements
- Faster
- increased sensitivity of DIFFERENCE function
- increased sensitivity of Complexity Rating
- Detail index (quantifies sharpness)
- Normalization (standardized for cross comparisons)
- Region of Interest comparisions (compares zoomed areas)
- Composite ratings
- Replaced Signal-to-Noise index with Overall Rating
- User interface enhancenments
- Automatic comparison (if two images bookmarked)
- Short cut (Space bar)
- Pressing SHIFT key adds Complexity rating
- Pressing CTRL key invokes an executive comparison of two images
- Info toolbar button triggers analyze function with Shift and/or Ctrl keys
- Image Analyzer (image quality stats)
- identifies "original scans" (helps you choose which image to keep)
- mean and variance for separate RGB and HLS planes
- Color Gamut (diversity) index
- Image Smoothness (or sharpness) index
- JPEG artifacting (quality) index
- Image Matching & Sorting enhancements
- Automatic Duplicate Finder
- by CRC (sorts and finds exact duplicates)
- by Image (sorts and finds duplicates by image)
Our proprietary algorithm does it in minutes;
it would take weeks with brute force algorithms.
- Complexity rating
- differentiates images on a linear scale
- can also predict image compressibility
- Custom sorts with primary, secondary or tertiary sort keys
- Sort by Neighborhood match (fine tuning via brute force)
- Sort by Aspect ratio (can be used as primary sort key)
- Sort by Image Complexity
- Auto-populate function
- can be assigned as primary, secondary or tertiary sort key
- Improved User idx sensitivity
- Extra index (additional sort/query field)
- Extra idx and User idx copy/swap functions
- Explorer search now excludes non-graphics files
- Negative Correlations (treated as more distant matches)
- Blind correlations (standardized image reference)
- Enhanced image matching and ranking algorithms
- Match by correlation (Pearson r product moment coefficients)
- Fuzzy logic option
- Exclude by aspect ratio
- Exclude by user index
- Pre-processing filters Mosaic, Posterize, Attenuate
- Virtualized, shared and persistent thumbnail scheme
- breaks 2 Gb barrier (over a BILLION thumbnails)
- faster thumbnailing creation/record access (up to 150% faster)
- shared across instances (no duplicates)
- optimized presets (less disk cluster usage)
- High capacity listings (up to a MILLION objects)
- Bookmarks (e.g., reviewed images)
- Files (e.g., Batch conversion)
- Slides (e.g., Instant slideshow)
- XP-style makeover (backwards compatible with Windows 95, 98 ...)
- Enhanced memory utilization (independent swap files)
- Memory utilization check function
- JPEG Wizard integrates Cleaning Mask filter for sharp yet smooth images
at high compression levels (replaces Gaussian filter)
- New or Enhanced image functions
- Compute Bitmap Difference (shows subtle changes between similar bitmaps)
- Smoother downsampling (removes "jaggies")
- Random image generator
- High-quality 256-grayscale color reduction
- Threshold Mask function (monochrome mask)
- RGBMAX function (custom gray scale conversion)
- Overhauled HLS and HLSINV masking functions
- Compute functions adapted for DDBs (with AutoReduce option enabled)
- Posterization (perfect for tiny PNG web graphics)
- 256-color reduction without dithering
- 16-color reduction without dithering
- Variable bits per pixel posterization
- New Batch Commands
- QUANTIZE256
- QUANTIZE16
- POSTERIZE
- TRUECOLOR
- REFRESH
- PROMPT (user batch interrupt with dialog)
- File Association functions
- Set (for AiPICT associations)
- Change (can link to any app)
AiPICT v5.x Updates
- Batch UnZip utility
- extracts multiple ZIP files in ONE step
- perfect for multi-part image series
- DOWNSAMPLE batch command
- resizes images to fit given rectangle
- maintains correct aspect
- uses smooth (BiCubic) resampling
- can be used to create thumbnails or reduced preview (sample) images
- PhotoShop (PSD) support
- integrated slideshows, Slide Album and Viewer
- Paletted, TrueColor, CMYK, MultiChannel, DuoTone, CIE and Lab variants
- Uncompressed and compressed
- Total rewrite of all device-dependent functions
- faster thumbnails
- 50% to 200% faster decoding
- fixes incompatibilities with reported Windows 2000 SP2 video drivers
- Full image editing and collage functions
- New image
- Copy from selection
- Paste to selection
- Copy from Grid selection
- Paste to Grid selection
- device-independent (matches color depths)
- Enhanced look & feel
- Simplified Viewer pop-up menu for "one-hand" operation
- Fast Refresh display option.
- Enhanced Info function
- Optimized toolbars.
- DIVX playback compatibility routines.
- Synchronized Viewer and Windows Explorer folders
- Faster Print Support
- Enhanced Batch format conversion
- Enhanced Save As functions
- Enhanced Normalize function
- Enhanced Optimize function
- Enhanced Equalize function
- AutoGamma function
- AutoBalance function
- AutoContrast function
- AutoLighting function
- AutoSaturation function
- Map Lighting compute function
- Mask Grayscale compute function
- Color Limiting functions (color supression)
- Enhanced PNG support
- Enhanced TGA support
- Enhanced BMP and DIB support
- Enhanced TIF support
- Deflate (Zip, ZLib) support
- read/write support for Adobe PhotoShop and ImageReady variants
- Added 'NEGATIVE' to batch commands
- Added 'GRAYSCALE' to batch commands
- MAP_ALL batch command replaced with MAP_EQ for flexible settings
- Advanced Batch utility functions
- RELOAD
- NOMODIFYFLAG
- SAVE
- COPYTOBACKUP
- COPYFROMBACKUP
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