Free acronis true image server for windows software for windows

1. Image browser and viewer with a familiar Windows Explorer-like user interface
2. Support of many popular image formats:
3. True Full Screen viewer with image zoom support and unique fly-out menu panels
4. Crystal-clear and customizable one-click image magnifier
5. Superior Red-Eye effect removal/reduction with completely natural looking end result
6. Image modification tools: Resize/resample, rotate/flip, crop, sharpen/blur, brightness/contrast, etc.
7. Eleven resampling algorithms to choose from when resizing images
8. Image color effects: gray scale, sepia, negative, Red/Green/Blue adjustment
9. Image special effects: watermark, annotation, drop shadow, framing, bump map, lens, morph, waves
10. Draw texts, lines, highlights, rectangles, ovals and callout objects on images
11. Multi-level Undo/Redo capability
12. One-touch best fit/actual size image display support
13. Image management, including tagging capability, with drag-and-drop and Copy To/Move To Folder support
14. Histogram display with color counter feature
15. Compare images side-by-side (up to 4 at a time) to easily cull those forgettable shots
16. Image EXIF metadata support (plus comment editing for JPEGs)
17. Configurable batch processing to convert/rename large or small collections of images
18. Slideshow creation with 150+ transition effects and music support (MP3, WMA, WAV...)
19. Create efficient image attachment(s) for emailing to family and friends
20. Print images with full page-layout control
21. Create fully configurable Contact Sheets - just like the pros (and save $$$ on ink)
22. Create memorable artistic image montages from your family photos for personalized desktop wallpapers (Wallpaper Anywhere)
23. Acquire images from a scanner
24. Versatile screen capture capability
25. Powerful Save As interface to compare image quality and control generated file size
26. Run favorite programs with one keystroke from within Image Viewer
27. Offer portable version of the program which can be run from a removable storage device
28. Configurable mouse wheel support
29. Support multiple program skins
30. Support dual-monitor configurations
31. And much more...

The system is fast because the client only needs to download the portion of the whole image that is visible on the screen of the user at their current viewing resolution.

The client requests a view of an image and the server only needs to send back the image tiles necessary for that particular view. This makes it possible to view, navigate and zoom around very large images that would be impossible to download and manipulate on the local machine.

It also makes the system very scalable as the image tile downloads will take the same regardless of the size of the source image.

In addition, to reduce the bandwidth necessary even further, the tiles sent back are dynamically JPEG compressed with a level of compression that can be optimized for the available bandwidth by the client. In this way it is possible to view extremely large gigapixel images in real-time over the internet.

In order for the system to be as efficient as possible, the images are stored in the multi-resolution TIFF tiled pyramidal format. This allows the server to extract regions of the full image at different resolutions very quickly with little processing overhead. Image of several gigapixels in size can be stored on a central server and viewed by many different users without the need to download large amounts of data.

The system was originally devised by the National Gallery in London and the University of Southampton for the Viseum (1996) and Acohir (1999) EU projects.

The aim of these projects was to create a system for viewing very high resolution colorimetric museum images over the internet. In the case of Acohir, to extend the system to handle 3D object sequences. A published paper describing this work is available online.

The current versions of the software, though, have been completely rewritten since then. This kind of system, though, is also applicable to other areas such as geographical informations systems or medical imaging.

Major Features:

1. Fast lightweight Fast CGI server module that can be embedded in most web servers (Apache, Lighttpd, MyServer etc)
2. Several clients available java applet, javascript etc
3. Instant dynamic generation of JPEG overviews or details at any resolution
4. Allows easy viewing of extremely large images (gigapixel size) with no significant memory requirements
5. Standard TIFF-based image format that can be read by many image processing tools (Photoshop, GIMP, VIPS etc)
6. 16 bits per channel image handling
7. Greyscale, sRGB and CIE L*a*b* color spaces
8. Panoramic 3D object image sequences
9. Secure image distribution: only JPEG-compressed views of the image are sent to the client. The full-resolution image does not need to be accessible
10. Example uses: high resolution museum images, geographical information systems, medical imaging etc.
    

Enhancements:

• Major code refactoring all the core now fully modular
• Fix and performance improvements to tile cache system
• Hillshading simulation support added
• Fixed browser caching problem with CVT
• Standalone start-up support via spawn-fcgi
• GCC 4.x compatibility
• Various bug fixes

System Requirements: Windows 95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP/2003, 16 MB RAM, Pentium-133 MHz, 2 MB hard disk space

Enhancements: Upload Images to External Server.