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Honeyview is a fast image viewer supporting compressed image files often used for comics/manga/photos. Enables slideshow views with repeat, randomize, transitions, filters, interpolation, rotation and zoom options.
Unlike many graphics programs, Honeyview can show all images from an entire directory tree and not just one folder.
Functional on 64-bit and supports most common image types including BMP, JPG, GIF, PNG, PSD, DDS, JXR, WebP, J2K, JP2, TGA, TIFF, PCX, PGM, PNM, PPM, and BPG. Animated GIF, PNG, WebP, BGP. Raw images: DNG, CR2, CRW, NEF, NRW, ORF, RW2, PEF, SR2, and RAF. Archives (without extraction): ZIP, RAR, 7Z, LZH, TAR, CBR, and CBZ.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the "Portable" ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch Honeyview32.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | CDisplayEx |
What's new? | See: https://www.bandisoft.com/honeyview/history/ |
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ripu
on 2015-07-25 10:43
It's the best image viewer I've ever used. Awesome UI and hotkeys, fast; everything I wanted in an image viewer. Near perfect.
juverax
on 2021-03-14 14:17
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I tested Honeyview with a "very large" graphic file" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights#/media/File:The_Garden_of_earthly_delights.jpg ), 175Mb. |
RealWorld Paint is an image, photo, and animation editor that includes support for layers and layer styles, photo retouching, and vector layers. Also supports Photoshop plugins, animated GIF and PNG formats, and a variety of downloadable extras including plugins, layer styles, brushes, etc.
The program includes a basic screen capture program, and can import/export to Photoshop, GIMP, and Paint.NET editors. A command-line interface is available for exact coordinates when drawing shapes and an in-place calculator for use with simple expressions (like "256/3") when setting filter parameters.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes. The embedded Internet Explorer control writes some files (cache) and some registry entries. Do not open the Online page within the app to prevent this. File thumbnails are stored in %TEMP% folder. |
Unicode support: | Yes |
Path portability: | Automatic relative path (eg. ..\..\personal\work.doc) |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch RWPaint.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | GIMP, PhotoFiltre |
What's new? | http://www.rw-designer.com/paint-versions |
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kiwichick
on 2011-10-12 05:36
Links to the website and download don't work
billon
on 2016-05-07 04:48
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You can always try latest (unstable) version - http://download.rw-designer.com/latest/RWPaint.zip |
Dynamic Draw is a vector graphics editor useful for making flowcharts, line drawings, org charts, buttons, etc. It is an object-oriented drawing and design program with an intelligent linking system. It can export to other vector graphics formats such as SVG as well as non-vector graphics formats like JPG, TIFF, PNG, EMF, WMF, PSD, BMP, and PSD.
The program supports OLE allowing one to copy objects and paste to other OLE applications and vice versa, but the portable mode may experience issues with this.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 |
Writes settings to: | %TEMP% folder |
Dependencies: | GDIPLUS.DLL |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | BSD |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch DynamicDraw.exe. Optionally, the program comes with video help files that take up 25 megs of space in the LangId\1033 folder. These files can be removed to save space without impacting the program, but deleting the entire folder will cause the program to crash on launch. |
What's new? | See: https://dynamicdraw.com/download/changes.php |
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portafreeuser
on 2011-01-10 05:07
seems like this program deals with the registry, it comes with some registry files and their contents hint that the registry gets modified a lot by this program...
Guido76
on 2023-06-14 10:35
It is not possible to downnload this software v6.4.1
Guido76
on 2023-06-15 04:00
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I'm revising my comment. |
Artweaver is an image editor that tries to simulate natural brush tools eg. chalk, charcoal, pencils. It supports common image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, TGA, TIFF, PNG and PSD, in addition to its own format (AWD). Image editing functions includes selection, gradient, crop, fill, transparency, layers, effects (sharpen, blur, emboss, mosaic etc.).
A pro version is also available with additional features.
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Runs on: | Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Win11 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware |
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What's new? | See: https://www.artweaver.de/en/changelog |
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dany
on 2011-12-08 00:06
@foxcole: click the link in 'how to extract.', you need to replace bin/innounp.exe with the latest version, yours only supports versions up to 5.1.1. Innounp version 0.36 supports unpacking version 5.4.2 Inno Setup installers.
Happy.Camper2
on 2017-03-10 19:34
Sadly, The Artweaver Team will shutdown on
PapaiMark
on 2022-07-14 22:02
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After trying for 20 minutes the most basic operation, copy a part of the image and paste it elsewhere in the same image, |
PhotoDemon is a fast, feature-rich photo editor with rotate, resize, crop, etc. and a variety of color, contrast, filters and other graphics tools. The program also allows adding text, a metadata viewer/editor, on-canvas paint tool, layers, screenshot too, and works with common graphics formats including BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG, TIFF, PSD, JP2, JXR, PPM, TGA and WEBP.
The program also supports macro edition and batch processing.
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Runs on: | WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 / Wine |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | BSD license |
How to extract: |
Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch PhotoDemon.exe. Optionally, delete unnecessary language files. |
Similar/alternative apps: | LazPaint, paint.net |
What's new? |
See: https://photodemon.org/news/ |
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PhotoDemon
on 2020-09-11 16:28
Hi Zorro. PhotoDemon developer here. PD shouldn't have any new dependencies between v7 and v8. (In fact, its system dependencies haven't really changed since the Windows XP era!)
zorro
on 2020-09-20 14:01
Hi PhotoDemon ;-) - just wanted to send you a screenshot of the message appearing when I try to start the program... but PhotoDemon updated itsself and now the problem is gone. Means version 8.2 is working like a charm (and like old version 7.0) on my machine. Thanks for so much backwards-compatibility!
PhotoDemon
on 2020-09-21 15:49
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Thank you so much for the follow-up, Zorro! My favorite bugs are the ones that fix themselves. :D |
AntiDupl.NET is a tool to search for and delete identical or very similar pictures. Includes a customizable difference threshold and can highlight image differences, supporting JPEG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, PNG, EMF, WMF, EXIF, ICON, JP2, PSD, DDS, TGA and WEBP files.
The program can also detect image defects.
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | Microsoft.NET Framework 2.0 |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | MIT License |
How to extract: | Download the self-extracting archive to a folder of your choice. Launch AntiDupl.NET.exe. |
Similar/alternative apps: | ImgSearch |
What's new? |
See: https://ermig1979.github.io/AntiDupl/english/index.html?page=news.html |
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webfork
on 2017-03-21 02:08
I thought my similar image analysis program of choice was more than adequate but this program is remarkably good. The program works really fast on a TON of images and the change detection is very useful.
__philippe
on 2017-03-21 12:12
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on 2018-01-23 07:38
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Russian users are reporting some issues with AntiDupl v2.3.9 |
Pictus is a fast, lightweight image viewer featuring an uncluttered interface and a variety of customisable settings. Image scaling, navigation, zoom and pan options can be adjusted, in addition to mouse actions and basic in-viewer image rotation and contrast adjustment.
Supports the most common image formats: BMP, GIF (incl. animated), JPG, PCX, PNG, PSD (Adobe Photoshop), PSP (Corel Paint Shop Pro), TGA, TIFF, WBMP, WEBP (static only) and XYZ. 64-bit version available.
Note: Program is no longer developed.
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Runs on: | Vista / Win7 / Win8 / Win10 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
License: | MIT License |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
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Specular
on 2015-05-03 13:47
@smaragdus, EXIF metadata (rotation at least) is a planned feature, judging by the Github issues page.
smaragdus
on 2015-11-15 19:00
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STDU (Scientific and Technical Documentation Utility) Viewer is intended to combine a variety of document, text, and graphics format viewers into one. The program includes a modern tabbed interface, search, rotate, thumbnail view, etc. The program can also export pages to an image file, create bookmarks, and more.
Primarily supporting formats used (as the program name suggests) for scientific/technical docs (TIFF, PDF, DjVu, XPS, and JBIG2), the program also supports a variety of others including FB2, Comic Book Archive (CBR or CBZ), TCR, PalmDoc(PDB), MOBI, AZW, EPub, DCX and both standard and specialized image formats (PCX, WMF, EMF, PSD).
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Runs on: | Win2K / WinXP / Vista / Win7 |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Dependencies: | GDIPLUS.DLL only on Windows 2000 |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | Yes |
License: | Freeware for private or educational use -- commercial users must register. |
How to extract: | Download the ZIP package and extract to a folder of your choice. Launch STDUViewerApp.exe. |
What's new? |
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hamasaki
on 2015-04-28 03:10
Doesn`t work half the time, keeps saying the epub file is corrupt. Yet, they open in Sumatra and just about any other epub viewer with no issues.
Specular
on 2017-11-15 14:16
Anyone know security-wise if this is still worth using? It's now been more than two years without an update and I wonder what the risk to using it is, vs say Adobe Reader with its never-ending vulnerabilities.
webfork
on 2017-11-19 18:17
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@Specular: I think if you're asking a question like that, it's probably wise to use an updated viewer. There have been a few PDF vulnerabilities over the past year, but I think you have to enable various Adobe-only extras that I don't think STDU has in it's program. |
@icon sushi is an image-to-icon converter that supports alpha channel, transparency mask, WinXP 32-bit icons and multi-icon ICO files. It imports ICO, BMP, PNG, PSD, EXE, DLL and ICL files. It exports ICO, BMP, PNG and ICL files.
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Runs on: | Win95 / Win98 / WinME / WinNT / Win2K / WinXP / Vista |
Writes settings to: | Application folder |
Stealth: ? | Yes |
Unicode support: | No |
License: | Freeware |
How to extract: |
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What's new? |
Full changelog at http://www.towofu.net/soft/aicon_history_e.txt. |
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Nergal
on 2009-01-30 15:45
Seems to Work perfect on Vista SP1
Wizzer at Colour4Free
on 2009-09-07 12:06
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Tried most of the icon editors listed and found that the application works in XP SP3 and Vista. |