• Asynchronous loading and saving
• Lossless JPEG rotation and cropping
• Support for Color Management Systems to process ICC profiles
• Loading and saving of digital camera (EXIF) fields in JPEG, TIFF, RAW and HD Photo files (without modifying the original image)

  

• Loading and saving of EXIF GPS fields

  

• Loading and saving of Adobe XMP fields from JPEG, TIFF, HD Photo and PSD files
• Raw camera support including access to internal thumbnails and other data fields
• Loading and saving of IPTC data (most commonly used by Photoshop) from JPEG and TIFF files (without modifying the original image)
• Quick reading of image properties (dimensions, color depth, etc) without loading image
• Image load and save dialogs which include a preview and relevant save settings

  

• Support for alpha channel in GIF, TIFF, PNG, ICO, CUR, TGA, PSD files
• Load images directly from the internet (using http/ftp protocol)
• Encryption and decryption using a 128 bit key

• Images can be automatically displayed "To-Fit" or with real time zoom. Six quality settings are available to enhance its display (from fastest to best quality)
• Images from digital cameras that support EXIF rotation data can be automatically displayed with the correct orientation
• 180 stunning image transition and Pan-Zoom effects

  

• Many selection types: rectangle, ellipse, polygon and "magic wand" (to instantly select a colored area) and other options (including selection intensity and feathering)

  　

• Other mouse interaction options include mouse wheel support and click-dragging to navigate and zoom the image
• Multilevel undo and redo
• Support for alpha channel (transparency) and multiple layers (with 37 layer blend modes). All layers can be moved, resized and rotated (programmatically or by the user)

  

• Display and navigate images using Coverflow-style animation

  

• Image resizing with 11 quality filters including Triangle, Hermite, Bell, BSpline, Lanczos3, Mitchell, FastLinear, Bilinear and Bicubic
• Many color adjustment facilities including contrast, HSL, HSV channel separation, RGB, histogram equalization, Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT), gamma correction, temperature and noise removal. All can be applied programmatically or using the built-in dialog

  

• Image effects including custom filters, bump map, lens, wave, morphing, Gaussian and motion blurring and sharpening. All can be applied programmatically or using the built-in dialog

  

• Conversion to gray scale and negative
• Conversion of color ranges
• Image cropping, auto-cropping, flipping and rotation with anti-alias
• Edge and skew detection

  

• Red-eye removal
• Soft shadow and inner shadow effects

  

• Supports a wide range of native pixel formats: 1 bit, 8 bit paletted, 8 bit grayscale, 16 bit grayscale, 24 bit RGB, 32 bit float point, 24 bit CMYK, 48 bit RGB, CIELab

• Acquire images from Twain (modal and modeless) and WIA compatible scanners and cameras

  

• Capture from screen
• Visual and non-visual components for video capture (supporting freeze frames and real-time processing). Supports all installed codecs and video capture cards

  

• Video capture and saving of multimedia using DirectShow

Powerful thumbnail components that displays a grid of images, videos and other files (e.g. read from a folder or database table): Many style and other customizations, including wallpaper Supports multiple selection and/or checkboxes Display all frames/pages of: AVI, GIF, TIFF or video files (using Directshow) Very memory efficient and fast with multi-threading background image loading, caching and optional use of embedded thumbnails

Vectorial Object Component

Vectorial Editing component that allows you to add and manipulate objects on a background image:

• Width object support: lines, boxes, circles, ellipses, bitmaps, text (including curved, multi-line and formatted), rulers, polylines, polygons, angles and arrows
• Many object options including transparency, soft-shadow and anti-alias
• Save/Load to compressed IEV format and import from AutoCAD DXF files
• Undo and redo support
• Measurement of lines, perimeters, areas and angles
• Full clipboard support

• Over 170 actions for all common ImageEn functions, allowing you to build applications with minimal code
• Printing of single images and sheets of multiple images, including print preview support

  

• Data-aware versions of image and thumbnail components to automatically display files stored as blob or path references in a database table
• One-click selection of languages for all dialogs with support for: English, Italian, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Greek, Russian, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Japanese, Czech, Finnish, Farsi, Chinese, Arabic, Danish, Turkish, Hungarian, Korean, Serbian and Norwegian
• Also works with the standard TImage component and TPicture class

Format	Notes	Load	Save
JPEG	Supports 1/2, 1/4 and 1/8 sub-sizes for fast preview
JPEG2000
GIF	Including editing and display of animated GIFs
PNG
BMP	Compressed and uncompressed
TIFF	Editing and display of single and multipage TIFF.  Also supports FAX, G3F and G3N sub-formats
PCX	Including DCX (Multipage PCX) format
Raw Camera Formats	Including Digital Negative Format (*.dng), Canon (*.cr2, *.crw), Kodak (*.dcr), Minolta (*.mrw), Nikon (*.nef), Olympus (*.orf), Pentax (*.pef), Fuji (*.raf), Leica (*.raw), Sony (*.srf) and Sigma (*.x3f)
Icons (ICO)	With multiple resolution and color depth support
DICOM (Medical Imaging)	Single and multipage
Adobe Photoshop (PSD)	With multiple layer support
WMP	Also known as Microsoft HD Photo
PostScript (PS and EPS)	Single and multipage
Adobe PDF	Single and multipage images
Metafiles (WMF and EMF)
Cursors (CUR)
AVI	Including retrieval and modification of frames
Media formats (MPEG, WMV, etc)	Via the Directshow API
And many more	Paintshop Pro (*.psp), Kodak Photo-CD (*.pcd), Alias Wavefront RLE (*.pix), Apple Pict (*.pict), Dr. Halo (*.cut, *.pal), FITS (*.fits), Gimp Image (*.xcf), Graphviz Dot (*.dot), HDF (*.hdf), HP PCL Printer Image (*.pcl), JBIG (*.jbig, *.jbg, *.bie), Khoros VIFF (*.viff), Kodak Cineon (*.cin), Magick (*.miff), Matlab (*.mat), Portable Bitmap (*.pbm, *.pgm, *.ppm, *.pxm), Scalable Vector Graphic (*.svg), Seattle File Works (*.pwp), SGI Wavefront (*.rla, *.rpf), Pagis Pro (*.xif), SGI (*.bw, *.rgb, *.rgba, *.sgi), DPX (*.dpx), Sun Rasterfile (*.sun), Truevision Targa (*.tga, *.targa), Vicar Rasterfile (*.vicar), Wireless Bitmap (*.wbmp), XWindows Bitmap (*.xbm) and XWindows Pixmap (*.xpm)  Note: Extended formats are supported via Plug-in