A simple developer's journey

  Hello Pixyway user, a new version of Pixyway has been released: 0.9.5.0. It includes new features, minor bug fixes and some UI updates. Here is a summary of the latest updates than you can find in this version: New editing picture panel (to edit picture's brightness, contrast, saturation and gamma components). You can access it from the top action bar or from the contextual menu. Clean any picture's EXIF data (picture's metadata). This allows you to keep your privacy when you publish your pictures on the web. Resize picture option added: select between 4 resizing algorithms (different rendering behaviors, like pixelated pictures style) The picture's information panel (containing EXIF metadata) has been updated, with actions accessible on the top of the panel + Keyboard SHORTCUTS: [CTRL+I] = Display picture information's panel, [CTRL+L] = Like/Unlike picture, [CTRL+P] = Pin/Unpin the bottom thumbnails bar [CTRL+R] = Dispay RESIZE picture dialog UI minor fixes ❔Ho...

  Version 0.9.3.0 has been released - enjoy colors ! This version introduce a new feature. It's about color management for your pictures. So actually you can use the following functionnalities: - reduce your picture number of colors (using 2 algorithms: posterize (simple) and Quantize that keeps the picture consistency) - you can also convert your picture to black and white or gray levels pictures - you can display the picture's palette (actually the first 2000 colors) and see the HEXA code or ARGB values for each color And and interesting part of the feature is that you can also: export the picture palette: - actually to a new PNG picture containing all the colors - or to a CSV file Other improvements This new version lets you send us comments and feebacks. And new settings (for instance file association) have been added. Enjoy and tell us what you thunk about Pixyway ! Some screenshots here: And as usual, follow us on facebook and Buymeacoffee.com  ! Download here: Pixyway f...

Pixyway picture viewer Hello guys, today I'm proud to announce you that I have just released a Windows app that I made these lasts months. As almost all computer projects never see the light of day , I decided that one of my goal will be to publish it publicly. And today it's done! A brief history One of my prefered subject is image computing, photography and all the digital arts. I don't know if you remeber the Google software "Picasa" but I used to loved it for its simplicity and efficiency. Nowadays, Picasa is only a warm memory and is no more availble... The fact is that all software are transferred to the web :( For some it's justified but for a lot of other I still "don't understand" why... This is not the question of the day, but it made decide to implement a real desktop application that could be replace (even a little bit) my loved Google Picasa app :) It's how Pixyway viewer is borned ! Pixyway quick description With Pixyway you ca...

One important announcement at the Build conference is the release of a new IDE. It is called Visual Studio Code and it is a cross platform editor. It runs on Mac Linux and... Windows ;). It has Intellisense, supports multiple languages, has debugging and git built-in. Visit https://code.visualstudio.com/ to get more information & download.