Image Eye is a quite specialized image viewer - specialized i.e. for the sole purpose of viewing images as quickly and as practically as possible - and nothing else!

You don't get any menus, tool bars or other fancy - but sometimes very anoying - things cluttering up the window where you want to see a picture an nothing else!

In fact, if you want you can even have the window title bar dissapear when you don't need it, leaving just the image itself!

And there are many handy and practical user interface 'tricks'; e.g. hitting Ctrl-Alt-X to close all image windows - just to mention one!

Here are some key features of "Image Eye":

· Reads many file formats: BBM, BMP, CAL, CALS, CUR, DDS, DIB, FIF, FIT, FITS, GIF, ICO, IFF, JFIF, JPG, JPEG, LBM, MAC, NEO, PBM, PCX, PGM, PIC, PNG, PPM, PSD, RAS, RAW, RLE, SUN, TGA, TIF, TIFF.
· You can select exactly what file formats to be associated with the program.
· Both types of 'prgressive JPEG' files are supported.
· Animated GIFs are supported.
· Multi-page TIFFs are supported.
· 'Raw' image file can also be read.
· High quality color palette optimization when displaying 256, 16, 4 or 2 color video modes.
· Floyd-Steinberg dithering supported for much improved visual quality when viewing 24-bit images in only 256 color or lower video modes and in 15 and 16-bit video modes.
· High-quality 4x4 pixel resampling filter used when resizing images.
· MMX instruction set support for improved speed.
· Small executable size.
· Available in several languages & can easily be translated into more!


Limitations:

· nag screen.


What's New in This Release:

· The "Image adjustment dialog" (previously named the "Color adjustment dialog") is now non-destructive, i.e. if you re-open the dialog after previously having made some adjustments, you'll see that the adjustment sliders are in the position where you left them. And the "Reset" button will now always bring back the original image.
· Add a "Save" button to the image adjustments dialog. This creates an ".iea" file that stores the settings so that the next time you load the image file, they are automatically re-applied. This allows adjustments to be remembered without having to actually edit the image file. NB, if you want to delete the adjustments file, just hit the "Reset" button.
· Added image rotation and mirroring options to the image adjustments dialog. The main point of this is that you can save them together with the other adjustments in the new ".iea" files.
· Add support for Windows links (.lnk files) that links to image files (in both the index and the viewer).
· Added support for reading TIFF images using JPEG compression. It primarily supports the new "compression type 7" but many (if not all) of the deprecated "compression type 6" files can also be read.
· Added the "F" key as short-cut for displaying the "image file information" page (this has also added this to the file menu).
· Added a "-zoom=f" command line option.
· Images with transparency are now composited upon a white background in the viewer.
· Clicking on an index cache file (".iei", normally a hidden file) will now open the index for the directory. Similarly clicking on one of the new adjustment files (".iea", also normally hidden) will open the image that the adjustments refer to.
· A number of minor bug fixes and improvements.