Contaware.com

This site is mainly dedicated to FreeVimager, the Free Image Viewer & Editor for Windows. It can as well play avi video files and some type of audio files. There are many tools around doing that, but the aim of this Freeware is to be a small and handy tool doing what it says and running also as a standalone exe file (installer not necessary).

With Version 1.9.0 (12th November 2008)

• In this release there are bug fixes and speed optimizations, download it from here
• Save As Pdf command
• A New command for empty documents creation
• Shorter tutorials
• Jpeg loading is more fault tolerant
  

Features

• View & Edit graphics file of type: jpeg, bmp, gif, tiff (multi-page), png and pcx
• Works with all Windows versions from 95 up to Vista
• Multi-monitor support: switch form one monitor to another through context menu or TAB key
• The executable only version stores the settings to a INI file
• Preview Display with transparency (useful when working with two or more monitors)
• Unicode support: Open, Edit, Batch Process or Batch Rename your files named in russian, indian, chinese, japanese...
  
• EXIF is displayed and all data are kept when editing and saving images
• EXIF date / time adjustment in batch mode
• IPTC & XMP single file / batch editing support for jpeg and tiff files
• Batch Processing and CD / DVD Slideshow creation
• Recursive directory slideshow to view all files in a directory and it's subdirectories
• Print Preview with image positioning by dragging
• SSE optimized bicubic interpolation for fast and good printing quality
• Size optimized Email sending of image(s)
• Well known editing features like: rotate, crop, resize, brightness, contrast, sharpen, ...
• Live configurable Redeye removal tool
• Live Ansel Adams Zone System Histogram under Brightness, Contrast, ... (thanks Jordi for the suggestion)
• Transparent borders tool (save the result to the alpha channel for png, tiff or bmp)
• Twain Scan multiple pages to tiff and pdf (possibility to Email directly)
• Avi video player has draggable borders in full-screen mode
• Live audio / video time shift slider (to fix out of sync. videos)
• Choosable GDI or DirectX video rendering in YUV or RGB mode
• Basic Audio and CD player
• Zip extraction (context menu entry available)