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<body> <h2><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Features</font></h2> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><p>Retriever is a quick and handy image viewer for Windows95 / 98 / NT4.0,</font> <br> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">with an industry standard no fuss user interface. But you can do much more</font> <br> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">with Retriever:</font> <ul> <a HREF="index.html#thumbnails"> <li><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more..." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"> </a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">create <b>thumbnails</b> fast & easily</font> <br> <a HREF="index.html#contact_sheets"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"></a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> create impressive <b>contact sheets</b> from thumbnails</font> <br> <a HREF="index.html#contact_sheets"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"></a> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">save contact sheets as <b>index images</b>, or print them to get an image catalog</font> <br> <a HREF="index.html#contact_sheets"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"> </a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">create a <b>website</b> with thumbnails automatically</font> <br> <a HREF="index.html#dupe_detective"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"> </a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">"<b>Dupe Detective</b>" finds dupes and similar images </font><br> <a HREF="index.html#database"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"></a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> manage your images in a unique <b>database</b></font> <br> <a HREF="index.html#image_processing"><img SRC="../mecenasmenu/preview.gif" ALT="more.." BORDER="0" HEIGHT="15" WIDTH="16" ALIGN="TEXTTOP"></a><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> basic, yet powerful<b> image processing</b>, like</font> <br>   <ul> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> realtime color correction</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> high quality filtered resample</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> superior color quantization</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> one click image enhancement</font></li> <li><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> automatic cropping</font></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><p>Retriever has a fully operative <a HREF="index.html#full_screen">full screen mode</a>, drag & drop support,  <a HREF="index.html#shell_integration">shell integration</a>, comprehensive online help and context sensitive help.</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">The Retriever database and thumbnail functions support any kind of file,</font> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">not only image files.</font> </p> <h2><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Requirements</font></h2> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><p> Windows 95+ or Windows NT 4.0+</font> <br> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> HiColor or TrueColor graphics recommended.</font> <br> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> </font> <br>   </p> <h2><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Comprehensive features list</font></h2> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><p>In case you are looking for a specific feature and are sick and tired of downloading software that doesn't have it :o) Otherwise just <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/download.html">download the program</a> and see for yourself.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="image_viewer"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Image viewer:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Retriever reads and writes JPG (jpg, jpe, jpeg, jif), Windows BMP (bmp, dib), PNG, GIF, TIF and WMF files. You can convert from any of these formats to any other. It is no graphics editor, but has the kind of features you need to maintain and view a collection of images:</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">File management: copy, move, rename and delete image files while you view them. It takes advantage of the Windows shell for file management, so that you get the standard animations, can use the waste paper basket and your preselected security level (ask back when deleting / overwriting files)</font> </p> <p><a NAME="thumbnails"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Thumbnails:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">You can open selected files or all files in a directory or from several folders as thumbnails (small preview images) in a contact sheet. The size of the thumbnails can be 4x4 up to 512x512 pixels. A larger preview of a thumbnail pops up if you move the mouse over it. You can save and load these contact sheets. You can use any file management function on a set of thumbnails at once. Thumbnails are resampled to give you the best thumbnail possible. Creation of thumbnails is lightning fast (well, at least if the original images are jpgs :o)</font> <br> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">You can also save all the individual thumbnails as images, even using the edge effects available for contact sheets.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="contact_sheets"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Contact Sheets:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">You can print contact sheets and save them as an image (eg. jpg). You can also save them as a website (html pages) just as easily. They can be automatically split into multiple pages, so that each page contains a selected number of images. Contact sheets can have a colored background, a background with a multidirectional gradient, a background image, even all of these at once. Thumbnails can be printed with various effects like borders, shadows etc. You can use multiline title and footer text that can contain dynamic fields like a page number.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="dupe_detective"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Dupe Detective:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Retriever's Dupe Detective can find duplicate images in a directory, or images similar to a given image or set of images. It doesn't matter if the dupes are a different size, have a frame or are a entirely different scan of the same photo, Dupe Detective will find them. You can change his "pickiness" to also find images that belong to a series.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="database"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Database:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">You can create a hierarchical structure of free-text categories or properties for your pictures, that allows you to categorize new images or find images with specific attributes with just a mouseclick. You can maintain an unlimited number of databases.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="image_processing"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Image processing:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Color processing - You can change things like brightness, contrast, color contrast and gamma correction in realtime (image changes while you move the sliders)</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Resample - You can resize an image using high quality resampling. There is less "blockiness" when you enlarge a picture, and no "snow" if you size it down. Retriever does both things at once.</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Image enhancement - With one mouseclick you can do  things like despeckle, sharpen, histogram stretching - all at once. Retriever chooses the best things to do for the given image without ruining it.</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Color reduction - Reduce the number of colors used by an image, using palette optimization and dithering. Retriever has the best color quantization around and most important: it lets you tweak the process. You can have a full colored image using 5 colors or less (whatever that's good for).</font> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Image cropping - In addition to selecting part of an image with the mouse to get a new image, Retriever can cut images that contain multiple pictures, or pictures spoiled by a fancy frame automagically<b>.</b></font> </p> <p><a NAME="full_screen"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Full screen:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">You can switch to full screen mode while you view images - no borders, toolbars or menus. Unlike other viewer's full screen modes you keep having full control of the program, so with Retriever you can actually <i>work</i> in full screen mode.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="shell_integration"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Shell integration:</font></b> </p> <p><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">This allows you to view images from the file explorer or an icon by just doubleclicking them (what? you did somehow expect this?:o) You can also drag & drop pictures on Retriever to view them or drop them on a contact sheet to add them. Even works for multiple files at once.  You also get a "print" menu item in file explorer for all the images that Retriever can read, and you can drag & drop images on a printer to print them.</font> </p> <p><a NAME="slide_show"></a><b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Slide Show:</font></b> </p> <p align="center"><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica">Retriever's user interface makes it easy to browse through full screen images using the keyboard. But you can also get an automatic slide show with transition effects and password protection.  These features are where they belong: in a screen saver.The <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/retsaver.zip">Retriever Screen Saver</a> is free for download by registered users of Retriever.</font> <br>   <b><font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"><a HREF="../mecenasmenu/home.html">Home</a>  <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/information.html">Information</a>  <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/download.html">Download</a>  <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/register.html">Register !</a>  <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/news.html">News</a>  <a HREF="../mecenasmenu/contact.html">Contact</a></font></b> <font FACE="Arial,Helvetica"> e-mail: <a HREF="mailto:retriever@gmx.net">retriever@gmx.net</a></font> </p> </body>