Graphic Apps

PicView

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Feb 27, 2025 Last updated

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# Change Log

## Improvements

- **Enhanced Preloader:** Improved the preloader to boost loading speeds when renaming, deleting, or adding files within the current directory.

- **Enhanced Light and Glass theme:** Made visual Improvements and fixes to the `Light theme` and `Glass theme`.

## Bug Fixes

- **Image zoom panning:** Fixed an issue where images could not be dragged properly in full-screen or maximized mode when `Autofit` was enabled (#185).

- **Margin Reset:** Fixed an issue of margins not resetting correctly, when entering or exiting maximized window state (#185).

- **Crop Mode Layout:** Fixed an issue where the layout was incorrect when entering crop mode with the bottom gallery visible. PicView will now automatically hide the gallery when entering crop mode and show it again upon exiting.

- **Crop Mode:** Fixed the interface menus not closing when entering crop mode.

- **Multipage TIFF Navigation:** Fixed an error that caused an incorrect file count and prevented navigating back to the first page when viewing multipage TIFF files (#190).

- **File Renaming:** File renaming inconsistencies and crashes has been fixed.

- **Thumbnail Generation:** Fixed instances where thumbnails were not generated for newly added images in the current directory.

- **Image Display:** Fixed some instances where images appeared blank instead of being displayed.

- **Full-Screen Startup:** Fixed a fullscreen startup issue where the buttons in the top right corner were not visible.

- **Full-Screen Restore:** Fixed an issue where returning from fullscreen mode to the regular window did not work when pressing the hotkey associated with the fullscreen function.

- **Folder Drop Functionality:** Fixed instances where certain functions did not work correctly after viewing the first file in a folder when the folder was loaded via drag-and-drop.

- **Glass Theme:** Fixed incorrect colors and visual layout issues when using the `Glass theme`.

- **Image Effects:** Fixed image saving, where image effect was not applied.

- **Image Effects Stability:** Fixed possible crashing when changing the image effects.

- **Startup Image Rendering:** Fixed a bug where images were rendered incorrectly at startup when the image was larger than the window and the window was resizable.

- **Window Title Bar Size:** Fixed the window title bar size being incorrect when image scrolling was enabled and the window was resizable.

**Scrollbar Layout:** Fixed the scrollbar being larger than the layout when scrolling was enabled, and the window was resizable.

## Miscellaneous

- **Set as Wallpaper Shortcut:** Added a convenient `Set as wallpaper` shortcut to the `Effects window` dropdown and context menu.

## Languages

* Added Japanese

Description

PicView is a free, open-source picture viewer for Microsoft Windows OS. This image viewer has a clean user interface (by default, it will show a black UI, but you can change it to white - it does look good on both colors), well structured, providing you access to a good range of features.

You can get fast access to image info, effects, and much more (most of its features are listed below in the "Features" section). Some alternatives provide a bloated UI, which makes you feel lost when it comes to so many features, that's not the case here, as its interface is pretty neat. If you're looking for an image manager, this one is exciting as it has all the necessary options that you might need when it comes to such an app. 

Note: PicView requires you to install the .NET framework. The installer package will attempt to download and install it automatically. Otherwise, you have the option to download the portable version separately (without the .NET framework) or the fully portable version (with .NET self-contained).

Features

- view pictures inside archives such as ZIP, RAR, 7z, 7Zip, Iso, Cab, Wim, Tar, BZip2, RAR(requires 7-Zip or WinRAR to be installed)

- view pictures inside comic book archives such as cbr, cb7, cbt, cbz, cba

- resizes dynamically to fit the image resolution

- customizable interface (choose between dark or white theme, etc.)

- shows the file name, resolution, and the size of the picture in the title bar

- easily browse through the image folder using the intuitive arrow keys

- rotate and flip the image

- option to show the full screen or contained gallery

- right-click menu option that you can use to open/save in a different graphic editor

- file history so you can easily pick up the work from where you left off

- 26 different shader effects (image filters), including negative colors, old movie effects, pencil sketch, etc.

- support for most popular graphic file formats: jpg, jpeg, jpe, png, bmp, tif, tiff, gif, ico, jfif, webp, psd, psb, xcf, svg, heic, tga, ddsb, 3fr, arw, cr2, crw, dcr, dng, erf, kdc, mdc, mef, mos, mrw, nef, nrw, f, pef, raf, raw, rw2, srf, x3f, pgm, hdr, cut, exr, dib, emf, wmf, wpg, pcx, xbm, xpm, wbmp

etc.

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