New quick selection dialog with predefined format values!

We improved a little bit the user interface, adding a quick selection dialog that allows you to set the values in the format selection dialog with one single click!

This makes the file a lot easier for people without image processing experience and speeds up the work of proffesionals.

After selecting the format you get back to the well known format edit form where you can tune the predefined parameters to exactly match your needs.

A small update will be published in the next days. We added experimental support for the german language (translations may still be lacking quality).

A new update to the site is also programmed for the next month. We want to add some wiki features such as FAQ and to publish the help online so that you can contribute to it.

2.5.0.1 is out! Image processing support added with 4 functions: Brightness/Contrast, Frame, Watermark and Grayscale conversion.

Note: Conversion formats from versions previous to 2.5.0.0 are not supported anymore. The reason is that the new image processing options require a sort information for the operations that was not available before.

Image processing is on its way!

We plan to release in January (around the 15.01.2010) a version supporting also some image processing algorithms (i.e. brightness/contrast, frame, watermark, grayscale).

18.01.2010 - we entered the test phase and expect to release AZImage in two weeks. The version number will be increased to 2.5.0.0 since the new conversion formats are not backwards compatible.

Now with Facebook support!

We released 2.4.4.0 as a second step toward 2.5. We added the Facebook upload feature. Few words about this:
- the google login handling and upload to Picasa Web Albums had to be changed as well. If you encounter any issues with that, please do not esitate to contact as (email, blog, ...)
- the facebook platform is not as stable as google at the moment. The result is that sometimes some of the pictures will not be uploaded (the tradeoff was to possibly upload duplicates; we decided not to). We are working on this, but cannot promise to get it fixed soon since it depends on a lot of external factors.

Update 20.12: we made some progress on the facebook upload. It seems that we found and handled all special cases. The current small bugfix release (2.4.4.1) includes these bugfixes. Please share your experience with us on facebook (we are the user SoftEx Comp)

We had to post a quick fix with the version 2.4.3.2. The installer script was buggy, it forgot to create a directory and that implied automatically that a lot of the functionality was disabled or not working properly. No issues are encountered on systems where AZImage was only updated, because the directory was already there. Sorry for that, it was really painful for us!

The version 2.4.4.0 is prepared. It will include, as a preview, the upload to Facebook feature. We are looking for volunteers to do the proper testing. As a reward you will get full Licenses for AZImages.

The flickr upload feature is not coming very soon. We wait for more than 2 months to get an application key from Yahoo! to start testing.

We posted the update with the version number 2.4.2.0. RAW Formats are now configurable when loading (see menu under Options), as well as JPEG.

A bugfix for the exif information was also included and the exif library updated to 0.6.18. The resut is that right now the exif information is kept when resizing the image (dimensions of course are updated). We also copy some information from the raw image like camera model and camera maker.

Another minor performance improvment is the fact that we load the thumbnail from the raw image for the preview and do not process the raw image completely.