CactusView

While sitting alone, we usually find images as our best companions that help us to relive those wonderful moments of our lives once again. But, even slight blemishes and poor image quality can ruin your pleasure of viewing all through. So, why not make your image viewing experience even better by trying out the new CactusView 1.0 software, which facilitates you in viewing as well as editing your images. It’s integrated with wide range of features that enables you to form slideshow, view thumbnail list, and edit your images as per your requirements for giving them attractive and striking appearance.

The console of the CactusView 1.0 opens with a dialog box prompting you to select an image for viewing it. The chosen image is then displayed at the mid of main window with various options placed at the top side. You can easily load different format image files like jpg, j2k, jp2, tif, jpe, png, bmp, ppm, along with gif, ico, wmf, psd, jpeg, pdf, emf, and various others. Using the features associated with the program, you can perform various functions. With the options, you can easily scroll through between previous and next image, view image list in the folder, zoom in/out, rotate the image, and make it best fit to the screen. To make your images look attractive by changing it to lighter or darker shades, and editing contrast, brightness, RGB, colors, enhance image, etc. Even, you can crop the desired image area, safeguard it with watermark, apply sketch effect, black and white, emboss, red eye removal, and more. Add beautiful frames to your images with squares, circles, color lines, fade centre, overlay, flowers, magazine, and different other styles. Along with these, the option range includes annotate, crop, copy to clipboard, EXIF information, IPTC information, magnify, and even more to use. Edit the images and finally form them into a slideshow for fantastic viewing experience.

CactusView 1.0 enables you, in addition to viewing images, to perform basic editing of the images to make correction in order to make them more imposing. Considering the variety of viewing and editing features, the software has justifiably been rated with 3.5 rating points.

CactusView is an image viewer that has the following features:
Save to many many many formats e.g.(jpg, jp2, j2k, j2c, jpe, tif, pcx, png, bmp, tga, pxm, ppm, pgm, pbm, gif, wmf, ico, ps, psd, emf, jpeg, pdf, jif, iev, eps, lyr)
Print your images in a wide arrange of layouts and images/page.
List the images in thumbnail format in the folder from within the viewer and select the one you want to view
Slide show of the folder you are viewing with 165 transition effects
Scale Always shows all of the image with option to scale
Rotate image Right / Left Fix the view on the spot while you browse the images
Darker / Lighter Adjust the light on the spot while you browse the images
Resize to any size and or file size with aspect ratio or free W/H , also 256, 16 colors or gray scale
Watermark Add a water mark
Effects Edit contrast, brightness, add effects
Sketch effect This is a lot of fun, make a pencil type sketch of the image
Gray scale Convert to gray
Emboss the image to give it a "3D" look
Frames: Add frames and overlays (one image over another)
Quick Enhance a dark image while you browse the images
Red eye reduction
Add text and or arrows: This is used a lot for images that needs descriptions and annotations
Crop with a rectangle, Circular or free hand to a new image.
Crop: Select any part of the image and crop to clipboard. Select with rectangle, circular or free hand.
Copy image or filename: No need to memorize the image file name or path, just copy it and paste it where you need it. Paste the crop in another windows application
Magnify: Find that small item hidden somewhere
Pixel information: Get the Red, Blue, Green, Hue, Light etc for a specific pixel
EXIF: Get the camera info, and write some of your own info into this data field on the image
Get the IPTC info