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Common Features of AiPICT and AiPICX

Download AiPICX from TUCOWS. Built-in Explorer - Do you work with a lot of images? Our custom Explorer features a handy thumbnail slider to adjust your thumbnail view on-the-fly! Windows XP users will appreciate thumbnail support for PSD (PhotoShop), PCD (PhotoCD), multi-page DCX, TIFF fax files and other file types; it is also much faster -- run a benchmark and see for yourself.

Review and manage up to a million files with handy batch delete, move, rename functions. One step walk functions can populate bookmarks or slides with contents of your entire hard disk (or DVD/CD volume). Windows 98 users can visually manage images with thumbnails without upgrading. XP users will appreciate our variably-sized thumbnails; complete folders are also thumbnailed in the background (to save you time). Unlike XP, you can delete all thumbnails, instead of hunting for all those thumbs.db files lurking on your hard drive.

Image Viewer - Are you tired of waiting for over-bloated apps to initialize plug-ins and filters just to view a downloaded image? Our Viewer module loads quickly and boast the fastest JPEG implementation; it has a clean interface that can be configured with numerous viewing and magnification options (e.g., gamma, widescreen 16:9 aspect, centered, fit-to-window, full screen). You can also view multi-page DCX and TIFF fax files (with anti-aliasing for easy reading) as well as PSD (PhotoShop), PCD (PhotoCD), PNG, BMP, PCX, TGA, GIF, WMF and EMF files. AiPICX includes support for FPX (FlashPix).


Download AiPICX. Image Toolkit - Need quick fixes for your digital photos? Novices are immediately empowered with auto-enhancement functions (e.g., Auto Contrast, Auto Flash, Auto Balance) that do all the thinking for you. A handy imaging toolbar provides easy access to one-click image processing solutions, e.g., improve color balance and exposure, enhance sharpness ...

Included are standard imaging tools to suit everyday needs, such as "red eye" removal, TWAIN camera and scanner support, instant wallpaper, variable print sizes and positions, color tuning, brightness and contrast, rotate-by-degree (to straighten crooked images), smooth resampling, borders, image text with variables ... more!

Professionals will appreciate advanced image processing functions, found only in expensive commercial apps (e.g., variable unsharp mask, variable equalization and remapping). Our unique imaging functions are also indispensable additions to any digital photo enthusiasts' arsenal of tools.

Our proprietary functions include a CCD naturalize filter that corrects the unnatural harshness introduced by CCD camera matrices, a Cleaning filter that smoothes-out blemishes while keeping edges sharp, a Gamma saturation function that boosts only midtone colors, a Gamma Flash Fill function that boosts only shadows and dark midtones, a Contrast Suppression function to deal with over-exposures, ... and much more!

Image Editor - both include standard editing functions: copy, paste, trim, crop. In addition, regions of interest (selections) can be edited or made into collages -- grid and viewport functions facilitate the effortless copying and pasting of selections.


Click here for Imaging Tutorial Image Processor - Advanced (and unique) filters can combine and sequence operations to fix (e.g., backlighting, over-exposure, under-exposure) or enhance any image (e.g., glamour photography). A formidable array of smoothing, sharpening, contrast enhancement and restoration, histogram-based algorithms and color correction functions to adjust RGB, hue-luminance-saturation (HLS) and gamma components in vast combinations with numerous bitmap compute functions.

Batch Image Processor & Converter - You can readily replicate a series of image processing functions that can be applied to image sets with similar characteristics; apply batch processing to enhance images (e.g., resize, brighten, rotate, add a border and text) prior to converting up to a million images unattended. Our unrivaled set of lab commands let you create unlimited, custom imaging procedures to suit common and uncommon tasks.

Duplicate Detection - both support CRC functions to identify exact duplicates; when forced to choose between "identical" images, both feature an Image Analyzer that quantifies image quality. The Image Analyzer provides useful image statistics and can tell you which image has more JPEG artifacts (i.e., has been recompressed) without having to magnify and visually inspect the images (which can be rather daunting and time-consuming). A Difference function is also included to visually highlight subtle changes between two "identical" images. Both also decode JPEG Comments and EXIF data (camera data) -- as originals usually have additional file info, you can tell immediately which is the original.

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Both integrate a Slide Album that boasts image matching functions to find images that "look like this"; it can be used to identify all modified duplicates on your entire hard drive -- or simply used to organize images visually. You can manually sort images by correlation, hue, lighting and raw pixel differences to find similar images. As a database you can query for filename, date, size, comment ... as well as sort with multiple custom key fields (e.g., CRC). Moreover, it can catalog multiple offline volumes too -- more than a million slides are supported.

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Multimedia Playback, Presentations and Slideshows - both can create and playback AVL slideshows with separate audio, video, graphics tracks and rich text. Video playback is simple - no "skins" or complicated interface elements. Audio playback is straightforward; jukebox sequencing of audio files is also included. Any of the 173 cool effects can assigned to any slide (or randomly generated); multimedia support includes MP3, WAV, AVI, MPEG, VideoCD, Quicktime MOV, AIFF, CD audio, MIDI, Sun AU, RealAudio, RealVideo,WMA, WMV ...

Included is an AVL Remote Control which resembles a typical remote control for presentations. You can present and discuss slides for unlimited periods as well as jump to any slide in your presentation. It is activated when you stop a slideshow by clicking the slideshow window (or by pressing Esc key) during playback.


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The Slide Album can create impressive slideshows or presentations that can be visually arranged and sorted with variably assigned delay, background, gamma, rotation, slide comments, windows-in-windows and more. AVL slideshows can be easily mastered and burned on DVD (or CD); runtime files to distribute and run your slideshow are included. The Slide Album performs a dual function; it is a multimedia organizer that manages entire volumes of source material -- even if archived offline; with walk functions, you can quickly list contents of all nested folders and populate the Slide Album unattended; thumbnail caching, nimbly keeps track of offline source material.

Batch UnZipper - both can extract multiple ZIP files unattended (avoids opening and closing ZIP extraction windows). You can select multiple ZIP files from the built-in Explorer and conveniently extract all ZIPs to source folder (and subsequently recycle the source archives) in one step - a tremendous time-saver if you repetitively extract multiple image sets from different folders. You can also extract a single ZIP archive (or individual files from an archive). Pictureview newsgroup users will appreciate being able to randomly select archives and list contents during selection.



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