Details

PrivateEye is an image viewer for RISC OS.

It requires RISC OS 3.6 or later and a Boot sequence with the Nested Wimp and a 32-bit Shared C Library.

Features

• Loads and displays both bitmap and vector images:
  • Sprites, JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs
  • DrawFiles and ArtWorks
• Bitmap effects:
  • Adjust gamma, brightness and contrast
  • Blur and sharpen
  • Change saturation and apply histogram effects
• Alpha channel support
• Bitmap rotation with interactive preview
  • Rotation is lossless for JPEGs
• Native JPEG display using SpriteExtend’s on-the-fly renderer
• Inbuilt lossless “cleaning” transparently loads progressive JPEGs
• JFIF, Exif and Adobe metadata information
• Multiple-channel histogram
• Display images may be saved:
  • Convert JPEGs, GIFs and PNGs to into Sprites
• Any number of images may be open concurrently
• Customisable key map
• Interactive help (use it!)
  

Screenshots

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Paper style document backgrounds. (First appeared in version 3.20)

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Improved JPEG format information. (First appeared in version 3.10)

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Pixeloo’s untooned Jessica Rabbit demonstrates improved transparency support. (First appeared in version 2.85)

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Olivia Wilde demonstrates JPEG metadata display. (First appeared in version 2.75)

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Eva Green demonstrates the effects window. (First appeared in version 2.50)

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Tigger the cat demonstrates the interactive rotation dialogue. (First appeared in version 2.00)

Download

Current version: 3.20 (18 Nov 2022)

• Download (840K Zip)

Source Code

The PrivateEye source lives on github at https://github.com/dpt/PrivateEye.