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ClickView - Image Viewer / Graphics Viewer

The onboard Image Viewer or Editor window supports the following file formats:

 bmp, cur, dib, emf, gif, ico, jpg, pbm, pcx, pgm, png, ppm, rle, tga, tif, tiff, wmf.

The viewer also supports animated GIF files.

The editing features include rotate, flip, resize, resample along with full Color Adjustment and Special Effects.

As with all the image viewing/editing Toolbars - the toolbar buttons may appear on one line or multiple lines depending on the horizontal size of the window. Below are brief descriptions of the toolbar functions and it should be noted that all available options are available via a right-click menu inside the viewing window.

 

 

Zoom Slider and Drop-Down Control:  The displayed image may be sized anywhere from 1 to 2000 percent of the actual size. By default, it will appear at 100 percent or actual size. You may adjust the size in three ways: Moving the Slider control left or right, using one of the preset sizes via the Percent drop-down box or by selecting the currently displayed percentage in that box and retyping any desired size.

Save: Presents both the "Save" and "Save As" options.  The "Save As" option allows you to save the current graphic as a variety of file types.

Undo: Undo becomes active after you perform any action on the graphic and will undo the previous action.

Cut, Copy, Paste: When your cursor is over the displayed graphic, it will change to a "+" crosshairs. You may then left click and drag a selection area. Cut will remove that section of the graphic and put it in Clipboard leaving a "hole" where the selection was. Copy will copy the selected area to Clipboard. Paste will expand the canvas and paste the selected area next to the orginal graphic - you must place you cursor outside the orginal graphic and click before using paste.

Edit Items: Provides the following options:

  • Negative - presents a reverse negative of the graphic.

  • Gray Scale - will render the image in 256 shades of gray.

  • Clear - will remove all graphics from the canvas.

  • Resize - presents the resize dialog box - resizing will crop the image up to the upper left corner.

  • Resample - presents the resample dialog box to resize the entire image.

  • Reduce Colors - allows you to reduce the number of colors in the image between 4 and 256.

  • Background As - presents color picker allowing you to select any color as the canvas background.

Rotate: Allows you to rotate the graphic by degrees.

Flip Horizontally: Will flip the graphic left to right.

Flip Vertically: Will flip the graphic top to bottom.

Color Adjust: Launches the Color Adjustment functions (see below).

Effects: Launches the Special Effects functions (see below).

Animate: When animated gif files are loaded - only the first frame will appear in the viewing window. Clicking the animate button will launch the animation of the graphic.

Print:  Print, Print Preview and Print through Application options.

Open in Application: This will launch the file into its native Windows associated applicaton.

 

Color Adjust

The Color Adjust function allow you to modify the full spectrum of colors applied to your graphic. It provides a real-time preview window of what effect your modifications will have.  To apply any changes to the graphic - click the double arrow button between the Source preview and the Result preview and then click OK.

 

 Special Effects

The Special Effects function lets you apply Special Effects to your graphic such as Blur, Find Edges, Emboss and more.  To apply any changes to the graphic - click the double arrow button between the Source preview and the Result preview and then click OK.

You may also save specific settings to a *.flt file that can be later loaded and used with any graphic without having to reset all modifications again.

 

Convert Image Files

  • Save JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) to file (with also 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 subsizes for fast preview).

  • Save TIFF (rev.6.0, Packbits, LZW, CCITT G.3 and G.4) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces to file.

  • Save PNG with various compression levels.

  • Save compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16,256 or 16M colors to file.

  • Save compressed and uncompressed PCX in 2,16,256 or 16M colors to file.

  • Save 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 or 256 colors GIF to file.

  • Save DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX).

  • Save Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM

 

To Convert/Save image - click "Save As" icon of image window toolbar - set "Save As" image format type and click "Advanced" button to set various parameters.