Asynchronous load/save operations

Add one or more sections with content

Add one or more sections with content

Load and save JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) to file or stream (with also 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 subsizes for fast preview). Read/write APP0-APP15,COM Jpeg markers.

JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1)

Readonly baseline support for single page and multipage DICOM (for medical imaging)

Jpeg Lossless transformations and cut

Estimation of Jpeg file quality

Optional Color Management System (CMS) to process ICC profiles

Support for Microsoft Color Management System to process ICC profiles

Read/write of Exif information (in Jpeg, TIFF, RAW and HD Photo). Can replace EXIF information without loading or changing the original image. Read/write EXIF maker note.

Read/write EXIF-GPS tags

Read/write Adobe XMP info from Jpeg, TIFF, HD Photo and PSD file formats.

Load and save TIFF (rev.6.0 and Tech.Note #2, Packbits, JPEG, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4, ZIP) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces to file or stream. Also FAX (CCITT3), G3F and G3N (Zetafax) formats supported for loading. Supports paletted 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128 and 256 colors images. Supported Adobe Deflate compression (readonly).

Load Big-TIFF .

Load and save Adobe PSD/PSB files. Handling of multiple layers.

Load and save Microsoft HD Photo (also named WMP)

Available external plugins to load and/or save JBIG, RAW, FITS, PCD and many others.

Powerful class to handle TIFF files (add/edit/remove tags, add/delete pages, merge TIFFs, etc...)

Supported several RAW Camera formats (CRW, NEF, ..)

Native operations on TIFF files supports add/remove/extract/enum without decompressing resulting in 450 times faster processing

Read of single TIFF tags

Save PostScript (PS and EPS) format - single and multipage using RLE, G3Fax, G4Fax and Jpeg compression

Save Adobe PDF format - single and multipage images using G3Fax, G4Fax and Jpeg compression

Load and save PNG with various compression levels

Load and save compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16, 256 or 16M color images to files or streams

Load and save uncompressed and black/white WBMP (Wireless Bitmap)

Load and save compressed and uncompressed PCX images in 2,16, 256 or 16M colors to file or stream

Support for RAW files, specifing width, height, color format, bit alignment, etc..

Load and save 2, 4, 8,16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 color GIFs to files or streams

Load and save DCX (multipage PCX) files

Load and save DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX)

Load and save Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM

Load and save ICO (provisions to compose ICO with multi resolution and color depth)

Load WMF, EMF and CUR

Load and save AVI, animated GIF and multi page TIFF

Load and save Window Media formats (MPEG, WMV, etc...), using DirectShow api

Read of a single AVI frame

Read/Write IPTC (IIMV4) information (like PhotoShop file info) from JPEG and TIFF. Can replace IPTC information without loading or changing original image

Support for Alpha Channel (transparent and semi-transparent images)

Editing animated GIF: extract, insert and delete single images

Editing multi TIFF: extract, insert and delete single images

Get image properties without loading

Image acquisition from TWAIN scanners with full control of scanner capabilities and without default scanner user interface. Supports both modal and modeless acquisition

Image acquisition from WIA scanners and cameras

Save/load specific file format parameters and save/load preview dialogs (e.g. you can set quality of a Jpeg and immediately view the quality loss). Places bar on Win2000/Xp/Me.

A property to select language used in dialogs: English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese (experimental), Danish, Turkish, Hungarian or customized by user.

OnProgress/OnFinish events for monitoring saving and loading.

Support for aborting input/output processing

Load alpha channel for GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD

Capture from screen

Load images from the network, using http/ftp protocol (LoadFromURL)

Wang Imaging annotations (load/edit/save)

Read/write XP properties of jpeg and tiff files.

Quality CMYK->RGB and RGB->CMYK conversion using an embedded profile

Printing (and print preview) functions to print single images specifying page alignment or absolute position

Printing of multiple images (organize images in a sheet or in multiple sheets)

Visual component for video capture (freeze frames, save AVI files and real time frames processing). Supports all codec installed and video capture cards

Settable audio capture parameters

Video capture: using DirectShow (WDM) capture drivers. This allows video sources to be selected by code from video input, tuner, etc

Video capture of multimedia files supported by DirectShow

Saving of multimedia files with compressions supported by DirectShow

Flexible image area selections (rectangle, ellipse, polygon and magicwand) including "soft" selection (you specify the selection intensity from 0 to 100%) and feathering selections

Regulation of contrast, HSL, HSV/HSB and RGB components

11 filters for quality resampling (Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, Nearest, Linear, FastLinear, Bilinear, Bicubic, ProjectBW, ProjectWB)

Application of 3x3 filters

Several automatic color/contrast/luminosity enhancement algorithms

Merge two images

Crop selected region

Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) with preview

Frequency domain (FFT) filtering

Preview of all applied effects in a single dialog, with 8 preset filters (blur, edge detection, emboss, highpass1/ 2/ 3, lowpass1/ 2) and save and load filters from files

Conversion to gray scale and negative

Conversions of true color to black/white images with ordered or threshold dithering

Casting of a group of colors to a single color

Rotate to any angle (with enhanced quality)

Horizontal and vertical flip

Edge detection (to convert color images to black/white using edge detection algorithms)

Skew detection (to estimate the orientation angle of the lines of text)

Simple algorithm which helps to remove red eye effect

Bump mapping effect

Lens effect

Wave effect

Write/read hidden text, picture and raw data inside images (pixel amplitude modulation)

Copy, cut, paste and paste into a rectangle of all or part of the image

Multilevel Undo/Redo operations

Application effects to the selected zones (also irregular)

Progress event for monitoring lengthy image processing tasks

Histogram equalization (auto and manual) and threshold

Median cut and Neural network color quantizers, for fast and accurate color reduction

Reduction to any number of colors (with colormap output)

HSV channel separations

A property to select language used by dialogs: English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese (experimental), Danish, Turkish, Hungarian or customized by user

A dialog to view a palette and select a color from it

Maximum (dilation), Minimum (erosion), Opening and Closing filters with preview

Horizontal/vertical pixel density histograms

Noise removal from Black/white images

Gamma correction

Gaussian Blur effect

Soft Shadow effect

Inner Shadow effect

Sharpening effect

Motion blur effect

Optional Color Management System (CMS) to process ICC profiles

Manual correction of Barrel Distortion and Pincushion distortion (lens distortion, underwater distortion)

Supported following native pixel formats: 1bit, 8 bit paletted, 8 bit gray scale, 16 bit gray scale, 24 bit RGB, 32 bit float point, 24 bit CMYK, 48 bit RGB, CIELab

Crop and AutoCrop functions

Encrypt/decrypt function using a 128 bit symmetric key algorithm

Adjust of color temperature

Real time Zoom-in and zoom-out (by percentage, zoom-in rectangular area or by one mouse click, accepts floating point values)

Support for multiple layers with separated transparency and layer mask

Select from 37 layer operations (blend modes)

Moveable, resizeable and rotatable layers (by code or by user interaction)

Magnify layers (rectangle or like a lens/glass)

More than 200 transition effects

Quality zoom effects with six filters (select between fast zoom or quality zoom)

Alpha Channel (transparent images)

B/W filtered zoom-in and zoom-out (for optimal display large B/W images inside small rectangles)

Scrollbar in two dimensions (real time) for the fast exploration of images, and "hand navigation" (click and drag the image with mouse)

Animate bi-color contour of a selected region (polygonal, irregular, circular and rectangular selections)

Magic wand selection (inclusive, exclusive and global)

Multiple selections

Sizeable and moveable selected regions

Save/Restore of selections

Multi-polygonal animated regions

Dithering for non-true color display adapters

Full support for mouse wheel actions

Quality view for projects (ZoomFilter = ProjectBW and ProjectWB)

Coverflow-like effects to present images

Single component to display and animating thumbnails and grids of images. Handles big image sequences without allocating system memory

3D style and customized thumbnails

Save a snapshot (save images, caches, texts...) in a single file to instantly reload the component content

Multi-selection

Load/Save AVI, GIF, DCX, multimedia formats (using DirectShow), multi-page TIFF images

Allows to set a wallpaper (background image)

Multi-threading image loading

Cache to speed-up image rendering

Show a custom or preset background under thumbnails

Loading of EXIF thumbnails to speedup displayes

Load of entire directories of images using multiple threads and extracting EXIF thumbnails

Vectorial objects (lines, box, circles, ellipses, bitmaps, text, multiline text, static ruler, polylines, polygons, angles, arrows-with text, curved text, highlight box) over background image.

Save/Load these objects and import a sub-set of Autocad DXF files.

Undo/Redo capability.

Support to add/edit/delete points of a polygon.

Anti-alias capability.

Settable object transparency.

Object soft shadow effects.

Measurement of lines, perimeters and areas (in pixel, inch, cm, mm or Km units).

Angle measurements.

Saves/loads IEV format (compressed with Deflate, variation of LZ77 algorithm) that includes images and vectorial objects.

Anti-aliased text.

Alpha channel for images objects (transparent images).

Clipboard Cut/Copy/Paste of vectorial objects.

Create polygons from raster image edges.

Remove jagged edges from polygons.

Polygon simplification.