Sharp IMG Viewer 2008 is a resource explorer which lets to open images, extract from various sources, save images in other formats, view image properties including metadata, perform operations on selected images.
Sharp IMG Viewer 2008 is developed for the .NET Framework 2.0 or later. .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 is highly recommended to install the program.
The most important supported features are:
- Loading and saving of images in a variety of formats
- Extracting images from assemblies, archives (ZIP, GZIP, BZIP2, TAR, Z, PPMd, 7z, LZMA, XZ, RAR, XAR, Microsoft Cabinet and WIM formats), disk image files (ISO, FAT, NTFS, EXT), virtual disk files (VMware VMDK, Oracle VirtualBox VDI, Microsoft VHD, XenServer Virtual Appliance XVA, Apple DMG), Windows executables, resources, Shockwave Flash (SWF), video, compound and compiled help files
- Transferring image data from scanner or camera
- Sending image to E-mail and Skype recipients
- Easy access to image metadata
- Converting bitmap's bit depths from one to another
- Accessing frames in an image when there are multiple
- Basic manipulation of images, such as rotation, flipping and resampling
- Alpha compositing and alpha blending
- Import and export to Adobe PDF files
- Drag and drop support
- Clipboard copy and paste operations support
Recommended hardware:
- Intel® Pentium® processor, or an AMD Opteron, AMD Athlon64 or AMD Athlon XP processor 400 MHz (800 MHz+ recommended)
- 128 MB RAM (256 MB recommended)
- 40 MB hard disk space
- 800 x 600 256 colors display (1024 x 768 High Color - 16-bit recommended)
- mouse or pointing device
Supported operating systems:
- Microsoft® Windows® 98
- Microsoft® Windows® Millennium Edition
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Professional
- Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server
- Microsoft® Windows® XP™ Home Edition
- Microsoft® Windows® XP™ Professional
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003
- Microsoft® Windows® Vista family
- Microsoft® Windows® 7
- Microsoft® Windows® Server 2008
Supported image file formats
| BMP |
Windows or OS/2 Bitmap format (*.bmp;*.dib;*.rle) |
| ICO |
Windows Icon format (*.ico) |
| CUR |
Windows Cursor format (*.cur) |
| GIF |
Graphics Interchange format (*.gif) |
| JPEG |
JPEG Group format (*.jpg;*.jpeg;*.jpe;*.jfif) |
| PNG |
Portable Network Graphics format (*.png) |
| TIF |
Tagged Image File format (*.tif;*.tiff) |
| WMF |
Windows Metafile format (*.wmf) |
| EMF |
Extended Metafile format (*.emf) |
| PBM |
Portable Bitmap format (*.pbm) |
| PGM |
Portable Graymap format (*.pgm) |
| PPM |
Portable Pixelmap format (*.ppm) |
| PFM |
Portable Floatmap format (*.pfm) |
| TARGA |
Targa format (*.tga;*.targa) |
| HDR |
High Dynamic Range format (*.hdr) |
| WBMP |
Wireless bitmap format (*.wbmp;*.wbm) |
| XPM |
X11 Pixmap format (*.xpm) |
| XBM |
X11 Bitmap format (*.xbm) |
| CUT |
Dr. Halo format (*.cut) |
| DDS |
DirectDraw Surface format (*.dds) |
| FAXG3 |
Raw Fax format CCITT G3 (*.g3) |
| IFF |
Amiga IFF format (*.iff;*.lbm) |
| JNG |
JPEG Network Graphics format (*.jng) |
| KOALA |
Commodore 64 Koala format (*.koa) |
| MNG |
Multiple Network Graphics format (*.mng) |
| PCD |
Kodak PhotoCD format (*.pcd) |
| PCX |
Zsoft Paintbrush PCX bitmap format (*.pcx) |
| PSD |
Adobe Photoshop format (*.psd) |
| RAS |
Sun Rasterfile format (*.ras) |
| SGI |
Silicon Graphics SGI format (*.sgi) |
| PICT |
Macintosh PICT format (*.pct;*.pict;*.pic) |
| EXR |
ILM OpenEXR format (*.exr) |
| JP2 |
JPEG-2000 File format (*.jp2;*.jpc) |
| J2K |
JPEG-2000 codestream format (*.j2k;*.j2c) |
| ANI |
Animated Cursor format (*.ani) |
| PDF |
Portable Document format (*.pdf) |
| RAW |
RAW camera image formats (many extensions) |
Formats supported when writing are marked in bold
Supported video file formats
| MPEG-1,MPEG-2 |
MPEG video files (*.mpeg;*.mpg;*.m1v;*.m2v;*.mp2;*.mpa;*.mpe;*.ts;*.ifo;*.vob) |
| ASF |
Windows Media files (*.asf;*.wm;*.wmv;*.wmd) |
| AVI |
Audio-Video Interleaved files (*.avi) |
| FLM |
Adobe filmstrip files (*.flm) |
| SWF |
Shockwave Flash files (*.swf) |
| FLV |
Flash video files (*.flv) |
| OGG |
Ogg files (*.ogg;*.ogv) |
| MOV |
QuickTime files (*.mov;*.qt) |
| 3GP,3G2 |
Mobile video files (*.3gp2;*.3gpp;*.3gp;*.3g2) |
| MP4 |
MP4 format files (*.mp4) |
| MKV |
Matroska files (*.mkv) |
| MVI |
Motion Pixels files (*.mvi) |
| NUT |
NUT Open Container format files (*.nut) |
| DV |
DV video format files (*.dv) |
| YOP |
Psygnosis YOP files (*.yop) |
| SIFF |
Beam Software SIFF files (*.siff) |
| CDG |
CD Graphics format files (*.cdg) |
| IV8 |
IndigoVision 8000 video server files (*.iv8) |
| NSV |
Nullsoft Streaming Video files (*.nsv) |
| NUV |
NuppelVideo files (*.nuv) |
| RM |
RealMedia files (*.rm;*.rmvb) |
| SMK |
Smacker video files (*.smk) |
| AVS |
AviSynth files (*.avs) |
| MFX |
Material eXchange format (*.mfx) |
| GXF |
GXF format (*.gxf) |
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12/30/2008: Version 1.0.3285.26952.
Support for uncompressed MS-CAB archives and files compessed using MSZIP compression method was started.
2/12/2009: Version 1.0.3330.22936.
Support for MS-CAB files compessed using LZX compression method was added.
3/16/2009: Version 1.0.3362.20557.
Presentation of some image metatata tags was changed.
Russian language translation was added.
4/06/2009: Version 1.0.3382.23945.
Menu items were added to send the selected image to E-Mail and Skype recipients.
Crop Image dialog was added to crop the selected image and display cropped image in a new tab page.
4/20/2009: Version 1.0.3397.26658.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.12.0.
Support for the Portable Floatmap image format was added.
Menu items were added to export and merge the images to Adobe PDF files.
Crop Image dialog was enhanced.
5/18/2009: Version 1.0.3425.20809.
Password Security options were added saving the images to Adobe PDF files.
Image Composition form was added to composite layers against a background.
5/29/2009: Version 1.0.3436.16828.
Support for self-extracting MS-CAB files was added.
8/31/2009: Version 1.0.3530.24162.
100% managed support for 7z and LZMA files was added.
Support for uncompressed Microsoft Windows Imaging (WIM) files and files compressed using LZX compression method was started.
10/14/2009: Version 1.0.3573.42065.
PdfSharp library was updated to version 1.3.1684.0.
Support for WIM files compressed using XPress compression method was added.
Support for PPMd files (variant H, I) was added.
Opportunity to import images from disk image files (ISO, FAT, NTFS) and virtual disk files (VMDK, VDI, VHD, XVA) was added using DiscUtils library. Currently this feature should be treated as experimental.
11/15/2009: Version 1.0.3606.24949.
Menu items were added to extract red, green and blue channels of the selected image.
11/30/2009: Version 1.0.3621.20792.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.13.0.
Loading support for the Macintosh PICT image format and for camera RAW formats was added.
Adjust Colors dialog was added to adjust brightness, contrast and correct gamma of the selected image and display adjusted image in a new tab page.
2/27/2009: Version 1.0.3710.20328.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.13.1.
Image editing capabilities were extended enabling to draw text strings, rectangles, ellipses, filled rectangles and ellipses using solid, hatched, texture and gradient brushes to create composite image.
5/7/2010: Version 1.0.3779.16981.
DiscUtils library was updated to version 0.8.
Opportunity to import images from Shockwave Flash files was added.
To extract frames from the image in the specified range Save Frames dialog was added enabling to select the folder to save extracted frames.
6/14/2010: Version 1.0.3817.24659.
Opportunity to import images from video files was added.
09/30/2010: Version 1.0.3925.22580.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.14.1.
DiscUtils library was updated to version 0.9.
SharpZipLib library was updated to version 0.86.0.518.
Support for UDF ISO files was added.
Additional options to create animated GIF files were added.
To merge images to the multipage image Merge Images dialog form was added enabling to order selected images.
12/14/2010: Version 1.0.4000.16994.
To simplify navigation between frames shortcut keys were associated with menu items.
Extracting frames from the selected image/video file an option was added to specify a type of images to save.
02/28/2011: Version 1.0.4076.21242.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.15.0.
Setup options were added installing the Sharp IMG Viewer 2008 to associate image file types with the application. Users of Windows Vista and Windows 7 are enabled to use Default Programs to open image files with the Sharp IMG Viewer 2008.
Application was optimized for Windows 7 enabling to use enhanced Taskbar as well as Jumplist features.
Extracting frames from the selected image/video file an option was added to specify a type of images to save.
Menu items were added to export and merge the selected image/video files to multimedia files.
To select video and audio streams of the multimedia file Select Streams dialog form was added enabling to view and extract frames from the selected video stream.
05/10/2011: Version 1.0.4147.20846.
Resource import from assemblies developed for .NET Framework 4.0 was enabled (requires .NET Framework 4.0 to be installed).
LZMA2 compression method was implemented.
Support for XZ files was added.
Support for RAR files was started.
12/10/2011: Version 1.0.4302.20230.
FreeImage library was updated to version 3.15.1.
Support for XAR files was added.
Multivolume RAR and MS-CAB files were supported.
Opportunity to open and preview PDF files was added.
11/28/2011: Version 1.0.4349.24922.
If .NET Framework 4.0 was preinstalled installation of .NET Framework 2.0 is not needed to setup.
Setup bootstrapper was added to simplify application update.
12/20/2011: Version 1.0.4371.17092.
Per-user installation scope selection was enabled in setup in addition to per-machine installation.
DiscUtils library was updated to version 0.10.
Support for the squashfs and ext family of file-systems was added.
VMDK chains parented by a VHD were supported.
Support for DMG files (including read-only HFS+ support) was added.