GraphX Viewer

an image viewer with some nice editing capabilities

GraphX Viewer, 863Kb

GraphX Viewer is a free image viewer for those wanting to look at pictures of a wide range of common image formats: GIF, JPEG, PNG, BMP, PCX, TARGA, RAS, TIFF, and XWD. This is great for pics for the internet, which are in gif or jpeg format. But GraphX Viewer is more than a viewer-- nice editing features are included. You can cut, copy, and paste pieces of pictures, can zoom in and out, and manipulate the picture in several ways:

adjust the color (brightness, contrast, gamma)
rotate the picture
crop the picture
emboss with selectable light angle
adjust sharpness
remove noise
equalize luminosity
some types of mirroring
enlarge, shrink, or stretch a picture
An undo command lets you set things back to the way things were before you used any of these goodies.

Pictures can be saved in any of the formats or as a postscript or encapsulated postscript file. Options are available for each format. For example, you can save a gif as a 16 color rather than 256 color.

The editing features are great-- it's easy to forget GraphX is mainly a viewer. Just remmeber you can't edit the individual pixels, draw circles, rectangles, add text, etc. And you can't start a new blank picture, or add blank space to an existing one. Paintbrush can be used to supplement GraphX Viewer's editing limitations because it can do what GraphX can't. Just keep the file in .bmp format which both these programs can read until you are all done. Then just save the picture in whatever format you want the final product in.

A handy thumbnail feature creates and displays a thumbnail catalog of picture files and directories you select. Each thumbnail is quite viewable, and not just a blurry little mess like many thumbnails. This feature is very nice for picking out a picture from a bunch of files, or viewing a picture collection. Click on a thumbnail, and the full sized image is displayed.

GraphX Tips:
Scrolling a picture is slow if you use the arrows at the end of the scroll bar. It's much faster to scroll using the handle (the square that moves along the "track" of the scroll bar) or by clicking on the areas between the handle and the arrows.

If you want to make transparent GIF try Hugh's Gif Tool to transparentize it.

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