Imagine is an image and animation viewer

Image viewer

An image viewer or image browser is a computer program that can display stored graphical image; it can often handle various graphics file formats...

 developed by Chun Sejin for Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, capable of viewing numerous image formats, including ANI, ANM (Deluxe Paint

Deluxe Paint

Deluxe Paint is a bitmap graphics editor series originally created by Dan Silva for Electronic Arts .The original version was created for the Commodore Amiga and was released in November 1985...

 Animation), BMP, CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW

CorelDRAW is a vector graphics editor developed and marketed by Corel Corporation of Ottawa, Canada. It is also the name of Corel's Graphics Suite...

, CDT, PAT, CMX, CUR

ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately...

, DCX

PCX

PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,...

, DDS

DirectDraw Surface

The DirectDraw Surface file format , from Microsoft, is a standard for storing data compressed with the lossy S3 Texture Compression algorithm, which can be decompressed in hardware by GPUs and consoles like the Playstation Portable, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360...

, EMF

Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components....

, GIF, ICL, ICO

ICO (icon image file format)

The ICO file format is an image file format for computer icons in Microsoft Windows. ICO files contain one or more small images at multiple sizes and color depths, such that they may be scaled appropriately...

, JPE

JPEG

In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

, JPEG

JPEG

In computing, JPEG . The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality....

, MacPaint

MacPaint

MacPaint was a bitmap-based graphics painting software program developed by Apple Computer and released with the original Macintosh personal computer on January 22, 1984. It was sold separately for US$195 with its word processor counterpart, MacWrite. MacPaint was notable because it could generate...

, MNG, PBM

Portable pixmap

The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project....

, PCD

Photo CD

Photo CD is a system designed by Kodak for digitizing and saving photos in a CD. Launched in 1992, the discs were designed to hold nearly 100 high quality images, scanned prints and slides using special proprietary encoding. Photo CDs are defined in the Beige Book and conform to the CD-ROM XA and...

, PCX

PCX

PCX is an image file format developed by the now-defunct ZSoft Corporation of Marietta, Georgia. It was the native file format for PC Paintbrush and became one of the first widely accepted DOS imaging standards, although it has since been succeeded by more sophisticated image formats, such as GIF,...

, PGM

Portable pixmap

The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project....

, PIC, CEL

Autodesk Animator

Autodesk Animator was a 2D animation and painting program created in 1989 by Yost Group for Autodesk and ran on a PC under MS-DOS....

, PNG, PPM

Portable pixmap

The phrase Netpbm format commonly refers to any or all of the members of a set of closely related graphics formats used and defined by the Netpbm project....

, PSD, PSP (Paint Shop Pro image)

Corel Paint Shop Pro

Paint Shop Pro is a raster graphics editor and, later in the series, a vector graphics editor for computers running the Microsoft Windows operating system that was originally published by Minneapolis-based Jasc Software. In October 2004, Corel Corporation purchased Jasc Software and the...

, RAS, RLA, RLE, SGI (RGB,BW)

Silicon Graphics Image

Silicon Graphics Image or the RGB file format is the native raster graphics file format for Silicon Graphics workstations.Common file endings are:*SGI or RGB 3 colour channels*RGBA 3 colour channels and alpha...

, SPR (Pro Motion Animation), TGA

Truevision TGA

Truevision TGA, often referred to as TARGA, is a raster graphics file format created by Truevision Inc. . It was the native format of TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display...

, TIFF

Tagged Image File Format

TIFF is a file format for storing images, popular among graphic artists, the publishing industry, and both amateur and professional photographers in general. As of 2009, it is under the control of Adobe Systems...

, WBMP, WMF

Windows Metafile

Windows Metafile is a graphics file format on Microsoft Windows systems, originally designed in the 1990s. Windows Metafiles are intended to be portable between applications and may contain both vector graphics and bitmap components....

, XBM

XBM

In computer graphics, the X Window System uses X BitMap , a plain text binary image format, for storing cursor and icon bitmaps used in the X GUI.XBM files differ markedly from most image files in that they take the form of C source files...

, XCF, and XPM

XPM (image format)

X Pixmap is an image file format used by the X Window System, created in 1989 by Daniel Dardailler and Colas Nahaboo working at Bull Research Center at Sophia Antipolis, France, and later enhanced by Arnaud Le Hors....

.

Features

Imagine has a variety of features, including:

• Viewing a variety of image types
• Shows information of image/animation files
• Shows Exif information
• Shows transparency
• Extracts frames from animations
• Saves animation file (APNG
  APNG
  The Animated Portable Network Graphics file format is an unofficial extension to the Portable Network Graphics specification. It allows for animated PNG files that work similarly to animated GIF files, while supporting 24-bit images and 8-bit transparency not available for GIFs...
  
  /Animated GIF file/AVI/Flic/Pro Motion Animation)
• Various image effects (Flip, grayscale, negative, change color depth, swap colors, rotate, resize, effect filter, edit palette, transparency set, etc.)
• Highly customizable
• Plugin add-on available
• Multilingual support
• Unicode support (Separate build for Windows NT and above)
• Shell extension support (Integrates with Windows Explorer
  Windows Explorer
  This article is about the Windows file system browser. For the similarly named web browser, see Internet ExplorerWindows Explorer is a file manager application that is included with releases of the Microsoft Windows operating system from Windows 95 onwards. It provides a graphical user interface...
  
  , generates thumbnails)
• Total Commander
  Total Commander
  Total Commander is an Orthodox File Manager software for Windows, Windows CE, and Windows Mobile. Some features include a built-in FTP client, file compare, archive file navigation, and a versatile multi-rename tool with regular expression support....
  
   lister plugin

History

Imagine was first publicly released under version 0.3.0.0 on July 16, 2003. A newer version (v0.3.7.0) was released on July 22, 2003, containing only a few bug fixes.

Version 0.4.0.0 was released July 24, 2003, with new options and commands in the program. On July 28, a minor update was released with the ability to edit a color palette. The same day, v0.4.1.1 was released fixing a PNG bug. v0.4.7.0 was released August 1, 2003 with support for more file formats and the option to show transparency. v0.4.8.0 was released the next day, with the option to save an image to the PNG file format. v0.4.9.0, was released August 6, 2003, with support for more file formats in the viewer.

v0.5.0.0 was released August 10, 2003, with an added status bar, saving options, and several shortcuts.

On September 6, 2003, v0.6.0.0 was released with support for the RAS (Sun Raster Image) file format, the SGI, RGB, BW (Silicon Graphics Image) file format, auto color conversion when converting formats, the ability to change color depth, the ability to set an image as a wallpaper, a keyboard shortcut for palette editing, and background preferences.

v0.7.0.0 was released November 22, 2003. It added support for several file formats, and some minor tweaks and bug-fixes. A followup version, 0.7.0.1, was released November 24, 2003 and fixed a Runtime error on Windows XP

Windows XP

Windows XP is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops and media centers. First released to computer manufacturers on August 24, 2001, it is the second most popular version of Windows, based on installed user base...

. v0.7.3.0, on January 1, 2004, added support for Zoom in/out on an image, drag'n'drop, an 'open' command, and fixed several bugs.

v0.8.0.0 was released on February 7, 2004 with more bug fixes and added features.

v0.9.0.0 was released September 16, 2005, notably containing unicode support and tons of new features and bug fixes.

On March 2, 2008, v1.0.0 was released with toolbar skinning, a capture screen feature, as well as bug fixes and some minor feature additions.

Several minor versions have been released since v1.0.0, the latest being v1.0.8 on Sep 24 2011.

External links

• Website: Imagine forums