Pictoscope General Description

Pictoscope is an image viewer with all you need to enjoy your digital images in various comfortable ways. It can display mages in four different forms:

• Normal view: the image is contained in a normal window, with borders and clip controls. It is displayed in the original format if it fits in the screen, otherwise it is automatically reduced to the maximum size fitting in the screen. You can then optionally crop or resize the image by dragging the windows borders or the image itself, hide the borders and even set the image in a slow and random motion. The cropped or resized image can be saved in JPEG format with selectable quality level, with original resolution or with the resolution seen on the screen.
• Full screen view: the image is shown in the middle of the screen, on a black background that fills the rest of screen, hiding anything else. You can pass from normal view to full screen view and vice versa by double clicking the image
• Slide show with an optional, barely noticeable status bar showing various indicators, including the number of images unseen compared with the total number of pictures. You can crop and/or resize pictures on-the-fly, using the built-in editing functionality or calling a predefined external editor without breaking the slide show sequence. The modified image will automatically replace the current one in the slide show. You can suspend a slide show, quit the program and resume the show another time exactly from the point of suspension (this sort of hibernation is especially useful when viewing shows with hundreds of pictures). Slide show scripts can be created automatically with a key stroke from the normal view of any picture and include all pictures in the same folder and, optionally, also those contained in all subfolders.
• Thumbnails.

Above functions can be combined with a powerful search capability based on character strings to be found in names of image files contained in a directory or directory tree. Up to three search criteria can be entered, with AND/OR operator. Once obtained the search results, the user can run a slide show or create thumbnail with all the images found, no matter in which directory they are.

 

Pictoscope functions are also included in All-in-1 Personal Organizer.

To see the windows and menus of Pictoscope included in APO as image viewing functions click here.

Pictoscope is compatible with all versions of Windows, from 95 to Vista.