[Script] Quick Picto Viewer and Fast Slideshow creator

[robodesign]

Hello, guys!

I developed a new application ... It is ... something different....

This is an image viewer and editor based on the GDI+ and FreeImage libraries. It can open 85 image file formats: .hdr, .raw, .tif, .emf, .wmf, .png, .bmp, .gif, .jpeg and many others.

QPV is also able to create image slideshows and cache very large dynamic lists of files. Unlike other applications of this kind, it can load, on my system, a list of 500000 files in under 10 seconds, while XnView Classic or Irfan View need more than 15 minutes.

Quick Picto Viewer is also able to play sound files associated with images, automatically or on demand, and even generate slideshows that are in synch with the audio files duration. Supported audio formats: WAV, MP3 and WMA.

Since Quick Picto Viewer v4, users can also edit images by using freely rotated elliptical or rectangular selections. Common functions provided: paste in place, color adjustments, draw arcs, lines or shapes, insert text, soft edges blur area and so on.

Features:

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• Support for 85 image file formats, including various Camera RAW formats.
• List images as thumbnails with preset aspect ratios: square, wide or tall. Easy to adjust their size as well. Use T and +/- keys.
• Adaptive multi-threaded thumbnails caching to sizes ranging from 600 pixels to 125 pixels. On very fast PCs, no caching occurs.
• Touch screen friendly hot-areas on the UI to navigate or zoom into images.
• Sort images by histogram average or median point, resolution, aspect ratio, or by similarity.
• Options to control brightness, contrast, saturation and RGB color channels balance/intensity.
• Advanced yet easy to use auto-crop for images.
• Elliptical and rectangular selections, rotated at any angle.
• Image editing: soft edges blur, insert text, paste in place, draw arcs, lines and shapes, transform selected area, rotate, flip, crop and more
• Draw free-form curved paths or polygonal lines; options to use fill with color or gradients, or use as alpha masks.
• Alpha masks support when pasting images in place or when using the transform tool. The mask can be a gradient [linear, box, radial], an image file or a previously drawn path.
• Adaptive auto-adjustment of brightness, contrast and saturation of displayed images.
• Display images in grayscale, inverted or personalized colors. Option to save adjusted image, or apply adjusments on multiple images in one go.
• Real-time histogram for any image color channel of the image displayed.
• Various modes to adapt images to window.
• Images can be rotated or mirrored horizontally and vertically in the viewport.
• Multiple list view modes. Display the indexed files as an easy to scroll list with or without details.
• Multiple slideshow directions available and easy to change speed between images: random order, backwards or forwads.
• Option to keep a record of seen images and have these skipped during slideshows or erased from the index list
• Perform JPEG lossless operations in batch: flip or crop images.
• Perform actions on image files: resize, rotate [at any degree], crop, change/adjust colors, rename, convert to different file formats, rename, delete, copy or move.
• Batch processing. You can apply any of the previously mentioned action or operation on multiple files at once.
• Multi-rename allows adding a prefix and/or suffix to renamed files, or to count them, or search and replace strings in file names.
• Acquire images from scanners.
• Copy files from Explorer and paste in Quick Picto Viewer, or from QPV to Explorer.
• Paste texts from clipboard and render them as images. Text and background colors, font style, alignment and size can be personalized.
• Quick Picto Viewer has its own slideshow formats to store list of folders and cache files lists: plain-text and SQLite database.
• Ability to selectively refresh the cached files list from selected folders.
• Option to filter the list of files using keywords. The operator | [or] is allowed.
• Very fast loading of cached or not cached lists of files. Tested with 700000 images and it loads in 10 seconds on my system.
• Resize and crop images preserving alpha-channel on save even when image colors are adjusted.
• Support for animated .GIFs in slideshows.. HD GIFs support as well.
• Support for multi-paged TIFFs and GIF frames. Ability to go through each image frame/page.
• Support for drag 'n drop of folders or files onto main UI.
• Paste image from clipboard and save it. 17 file formats supported for saving an image.
• Copy to clipboard: the entire image or an area selected from it.
• Adjustable user interface font sizes and colors.
• Ambiental textured window background. Automatically generated background based on the current image displayed.
• Multi-monitor support.
• Fancy welcome screen random-generated images :-).
• All the potentially lengthy operations can be stopped with Escape or by a single click on the main window :-).

ZIP Package compiled [x64 / x32]
http://marius.sucan.ro/media/files/blog/ahk-scripts/quick-picto-viewer-compiled.zip

Source code on GitHub
https://github.com/marius-sucan/Quick-Picto-Viewer

Current version: 4.3.1 -- Release date: 2020, 25th of June.




Since Quick Picto Viewer v4, it relies on AHK_H for multi-threading.

Please send me feedback and suggestions.

Best regards, Marius.

[toralf]

Impressive. Well done.

[burque505]

Awesome, Marius.
Regards,
burque505

[elModo7]

Wow this is huge!
Thank you for posting Marius.

[iPhilip]

I am considering adding image resize and cropping.

Thank you, Marius. Image resizing and cropping would be awesome!

[robodesign]

Hello, people!

Thank you for the positive feedback.

I released a new version (yesterday) with improvements to how one can update a files list (a slideshow file)..

What I have left to add to this image viewer is.... paste image from the clipboard, rotate, crop and resize images... If I add these, I would say then, it is a complete image viewer..... Which one of these should I add first? ^_^

Best regards, Marius.

[robodesign]

New version:

- v3.0.0 (2019-06-23)
- it now caches images at screen resolution if they are three times larger than the current screen resolution, when images are adapted to fit-to-window
- bug fixes and minor improvements

Best regards, Marius.

[ozzii]

My thought it's the rotate/crop/resize.
This is the most used functions.

[robodesign]

Okay, thanks... I'll try to implement those. No promises. I'm still a beginner ^_^

Resizing should be easy. It's mainly boring user interface work.....

I'm still working on polishing what's already there..... Today, for example, I managed to optimize a certain function that was utterly slow with large folders lists. I'll push the update tomorrow on GitHub.

Best regards, Marius.

[Thoughtfu1Tux]

Wow, this is phenomenal work! Way to go!

[robodesign]

Hey, people !

Thank you , Thoughtful Tux.

I updated Quick Picto Viewer. Today I was testing it with over 700 thousand files and I discovered I can do more fixes.

- v3.1.0 (2019-06-25)
- [new] option to have QPV immediately stop the slideshow when the user performs actions, eg. presses keys or changes the window focus
- the UI is now visually highlighting selected or removed files in real time, when the thumbnails list is displayied
- improved performance for updating very large static folders lists and immense files lists
- improved the performance for counting files in folders [in a cached files list]....

I suspect I am ready with polishing details... Therefore, I might begin soon adding crop, resize and paste.

Best regards, Marius.

[ozzii]

Thank you robodesign

[robodesign]

Hello, amigos!

My pleasure , ozzii! I hope you will like the new version.

Resizing images is here now, in batch as well ;-).

- v3.2.0 (2019-06-28)
- [new] option to resize image; this operation can be performed on multiple files at once, in batch.
- using the image resizer, one can convert images colors to grayscale, flip images or adjust gamma and brightness, keeping intact the image dimensions
- [new] Heads-Up Display elements to indicate when multiple files are selected, or when the image is displayied with altered colors, flipped; or when you can pan the image.
- when you copy the image to the clipboard, it is now copied as seen in the picture viewer, with effects or color alterations applied.
- other small fixes or improvements...

Feedback and suggestions, always welcomed.

Best regards, Marius.

[robodesign]

Hello, guys!

A new version of Quick Picto Viewer is here:

- v3.3.0 (2019-07-09)
- [new] option to copy files to a specified destination
- [new] option for automatic brightness and contrast calibration of images
- [new] option to paste and save image from the clipboard
- [new] option to rotate images [in image resize panel]
- [new] it now maintains a history of filters; the filtering dialog window is no longer using InputBox
- [new] it also maintains a history of multi-rename patterns; the dialog window is no longer using InputBox and it now includes a Help section
- [new] a new window for copy/move files that improves access to different folder destinations; it also records a history of folder destinations
- improved file information panel; making use of JustMe's GDI+ GetProperty implementation
- bug fixes to how folders list are updated
- better handling of some errors

Feedback is welcome. Thank you very much .

If anyone interested, image cropping, still planned. And optimizations for the option to auto-adjust brightness/contrast...

Best regards, Marius.

[ozzii]

Thank you Marius for your work.
Impressive from my point of view....

[robodesign]

Thank you very much , ozzii!

To my utter surprise, a major bug slipped into yesterday's version... I just pushed a new version with a fix for it....It prevented users from opening files. My apologies...

It should work fine now, please let me know guys if you find bugs/errors or have any suggestions.

Best regards, Marius.

[elModo7]

It's nice to see this getting even better!

[robodesign]

Hello, guys and girls! ;-)

I am finally ready to publish a new version... It is all about colors this time ;-). Lots of work was put into for brightness, contrast and saturation adjustment options for images.

Based on the user settings, I create /generate a Color Matrix for GDI+. If one enables auto-adjustment mode, I retrieve first the histograms [L, R, G, B] and based on the statistics I derive from these, I set user friendly brightness, contrast and saturation levels.

Here's the complete change log:

- v3.4.0 (2019-07-19)
- [new] option to control image saturation level
- [new] added image color modes to display R, G and B channels, individually
- [new] option to choose in which mode the image colors should be auto-adjusted
- [new] option to control RGB channels intensity; this is useful for tinting images [only available through the colors adjustment panel]
- [new] a panel dedicated to adjusting image colors; i made this to facilitate Quick Picto Viewer usage with touch screens
- [new] welcome screen images, randomly generated patterns [inspired by @flyingDman from AHK forums]
- improved formula for auto-adjust image brightness and contrast
- further reduced the time to calculate image color adjustments, by 98% compared to v3.3.5; thanks to @swagFag on AHK forums! THANK YOU VERY MUCH !

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I hope you will like this new version.... next is .... image cropping options

PS. If you cannot find the menu option to invoke the colors adjustments panel, you can invoke it with U key...

Best regards, Marius.

[arcticir]

Do you have plans to increase support for webp? Thanks.

[ozzii]

Just want to say : Thank you !!!!