Input/output:
. Asynchronous load/save operations
· Load and save JPEG (RGB, GrayScale, YCbCr, CMYK, YCbCrK) to file (with also 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 subsizes for fast preview). Read/write APP0-APP15,COM Jpeg markers.
· supports reading/writing of Adobe Photoshop PSD images with single and multiple layers
· Lossless Jpeg transformations and cut
· Baseline DICOM support (medical imaging)
· Estimate of a jpeg file quality
. Read/write of Exif information (in Jpeg, TIFF, RAW, PSD and HD Photo). Can replace EXIF information without loading or changing the original image. Read/write EXIF maker note.
· read and write XMP tags from Jpeg, TIFF and PSD file formats
· read/write EXIF-GPS tags
. Load and save Adobe PSD files. Handling of multiple layers.
. Load and save Microsoft HD Photo (also named WMP)
. Powerful class to handle TIFF files (add/edit/remove tags, add/delete pages, merge TIFFs, etc...)
· Optional Color Management System (CMS) to process ICC profiles
· Support for JPEG2000: JP2, J2K and JPC code stream formats (JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard, ISO/IEC 15444-1)
· Save PostScript (PS and EPS) format - single and multipage using RLE, G3Fax, G4Fax and Jpeg compression.
· Save Adobe PDF format - single and multipage using G3Fax, G4Fax and Jpeg compression.
· Load and save TIFF (rev.6.0 and Tech.Note #2, Packbits, LZW, JPEG, CCITT G.3 and G.4, ZIP, Abode-Style deflate - readonly) with RGB, CMYK, B/W, CIELab color spaces to file. Load FAX (CCITT3). Also supported 4,8,16,32,64,128 and 256 colors palette.
· Load of several camera RAW formats
· Load of G3F and G3N (Zetafax format)
· native operations on tiff files supported add/remove/extract/enum without decompressing resulting in 450 times faster processing
· Load and save PNG with various compression levels.
· Load and save DCX (multipage PCX) files
· Load and save compressed and uncompressed BMP in 2,16,256 or 16M colors to file.
· Load and save WBMP (wireless bitmap)
· Load and save compressed and uncompressed PCX in 2,16,256 or 16M colors to file.
· Load and save 2,4,8,16,32,64,128 or 256 colors GIF to file.
· Load and save DIB, RLE, TGA (TARGA, VDA, ICB, VST, PIX).
· Load WMF, EMF, ICO and CUR.
· Load and save Portable Bitmap PBM, PGM and PPM
· Load and save AVI, animated GIF and multi-TIFF.
· Load of single AVI frames
· Load and save PBM, PGM and PPM file format
· Support for Wang Imaging Annotations
· Read/Write IPTC (IIMV4) informations (like PhotoShop file info) from JPEG and TIFF. Can replace IPTC informations without load or change original image (this one only for Jpegs).
· Editing of animated GIF: extract, insert and delete single images.
· Editing of multi TIFF: extract, insert and delete single images.
· Support for Alpha Channel
· Get image properties without load it.
· Image acquisition from TWAIN scanners with full control of the scanner capabilities and without default scanner user interface. Supported modeless and modal acquisition.
· Save/load specific file format parameters and save/load preview dialogs (e.g. you can set quality of a Jpeg and view immediately the quality loss).
· Supported WIA devices (scanner and camera)
· A property to select dialogs language (English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese, Danish or customized by user).
· OnProgress event for monitoring saving and loading.
· Allow to abort input/output processing
· Picture property for standard images exchange
· Export/import of windows DIB
· Printing and print preview
· Capture from screen
· Load images from the network, using http/ftp protocol (LoadFromURL)
. Load alpha channel for GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD


Printing:

· Printing (and print preview) functions to print single images specifing page alignment or absolute position.

Video capture:

· Video capture (freeze frames, save AVI files and real time frames processing). Supports all codec installed and video capture cards.
· Video capture: using DirectShow (WDM) capture drivers. This allows video sources to be selected by code ... video input, tuner, etc
· Video capture of multimedia files supported by DirectShow
· Saving of multimedia files with compressions supported by DirectShow

Image processing & analysis:

· Image area selections (rectangle, ellipse, polygon and magicwand). 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).
· Several automatic image contrast/luminosity enhancement algorithms
· Application of 3x3 filters.
· Crop selected region.
· Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) with preview.
· Frequency domain (FFT) filtering.
· Preview of all the effects in a single dialog, with 8 preset filters (blur, edge detection, emboss, highpass1/ 2/ 3, lowpass1/ 2) and save and load filters from file.
· Conversion to gray scale and negative.
· Conversions of true color to black/white images with ordered or threshold dithering.
· Simple algorithm which helps to remove red eyes
· Casting of a group of colors to a single color.
· Rotate any angle (optional antialiasing).
· Horizontal and vertical flip.
· Bump mapping effect
· Lens effect
· Wave effect
· Write/read hidden text inside images (pixel amplitude modulation)
· Copy, cut, paste and paste into a rectangle of all or part of the image.
· Multilevel Undo/Redo.
· Application effects to the selected zones (also irregular)
· OnProgress event for monitoring 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).
· A property to select dialogs language (English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese, Danish or customized by user).
· Maximum (dilation), Minimum (erosion), Opening and Closing filters with preview
· Single pixel read/write
· 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)
· Black/white images noise removal
· Paint of lines, arcs, circles, boxes, etc, onto the image
· Copy of image regions among objects
· Gamma correction
· Gaussian Blur
· Soft Shadow effect
. Inner Shadow effect
. Sharpening effect
. Manual correction of Barrel Distortion and Pincushion distortion (lens distortion, underwater distortion)
. Crop and AutoCrop functions
. Encrypt/decrypt function using a 128 bit symmetric key algorithm
. Cover-flow style reflection and sperpective effects (this is not fully cover-flow effect, just support routines)
. Adjust of color temperature

Image rendering:

· Real time Zoom-in and zoom-out (by percentage, zoom in rectangular area or by one mouse click).
· Magnify layers (rectangle or like a lens/glass)
· Transparent images
· Support for multiple layers with separated transparency.
· It is possible to select 37 layer operations (blend modes)
· Moveable and resizeable layers (by code or by user interaction)
· 163 transition effects
· Quality zoom with six filters (you can select between fast zoom or quality zoom).
· B/W filtered zoom-out (for optimal display large B/W images inside little rectangle).
· Scrollbar in two dimensions (real time) for the fast exploration of the image, and "hand navigation" (click and drag the image with mouse).
· Display a grid to enfatize pixel countors on big zoom
· Animate bi-color contour of a selected region (polygonal,irregular,circular and rectangular).
· Magic wand selection.
· Multiple selections.
· Sizeable and moveable selected region.
· Multi polygonal animated regions.
· Dithering for non-true color display adapters.
· Single component to display thumbnails, grids of images and animations in 3D style.
· Thumbnails multiselection
· 3D style thumbnails
· Full support for mouse wheel

 

Thumbnails:

  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 handling:

· 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 this objects and import a sub-set of Autocad DXF files. Undo capability.
· It is possible to add/edit/delete points of a polygon
· Antialias capability
· Settable objects transparency
· Objects soft shadow
· lines, perimeters and areas measurement (in pixel, inch, cm, mm, Km).
· angle measurement
· saves/loads IEV format (compressed with Deflate, variation of LZ77 algorithm) that includes images and vectorial objects.
· Antialiased text
· Alpha channel for images (transparent images)
· Clipboard Cut/Copy/Paste of vectorial objects
· Create polygons from raster image edges
· Remove polygon jagged edges
· Polygon simplification