IrfanView 4.28

- New multipage images option: Change pages using Page keys (Properties->Browsing)

- Set input ICC profile file for images without embedded ICC profile (default: sRGB)

- New edit menu: Show selection grid (None, Golden Ratio, Thirds)

- New edit menu: Redo (one step, hotkey: CTRL + J)

- Video Playbar showed if DirectShow option used (Fullscreen: B = toggle playbar)

- (see Hotkeys help page; Thanks to Henner Helmers for testing)

- Option to show an image color channel, menu: "Image->Show channel" and

- Option show the channel as color or grayscale (Properties->Browsing/Editing)

- Selection: hold CTRL key pressed during drawing to make a proportional selection

- with the ratio from "Create Custom selection" dialog

- New selection hotkeys:

- ALT + arrows: change width/height of the selection rectangle

- CTRL + arrows: proportional resize of the selection rectangle

- Arrows: If no scrollbars visible: Move selection rectangle

- New placeholder options for: $D, $d, $F and $N => allow partial text, example:

- $N[0-5] => get first 5 characters from the file name

- New window display options: Fit to window width/height

- New Email PlugIn option: Resize large images

- (Advanced options work on the first page only)

- New Batch resize option: Resize based only on new/old DPI value

- Vertical and horizontal flip can be applied on selections

- New print dialog option: Collate (for multiple copies of multipage images)

- New Insert-Text dialog options: Antialiased text and Centered (batch mode)

- New Sort dialog option: Insert before selected file (for Batch/Slideshow)

- New JPG-Transform PlugIn option: Write/remove JFIF JPG header

- New Capture dialog feature: Set timer value as decimal number

- New hotkey: click into image + SHIFT = copy hex color value to clipboard

- New thumbnail sizes for 3:2, 4:3 and 16:9 ratios (Thumbnail window options)

- New selection color/method for items in Thumbnails window

- Improved extraction of video frames (more formats supported if Codecs installed)

- New feature for advanced users: define an external editor for every extension

- => see FAQs for an example, [CustomEditors]

- New PNG save option: Save transparency as Alpha channel (Thanks to Thomas Henlich)

- Command line: /advancedbatch and /convert can process all pages from multipage TIF

- Command line: /extract works now for GIF/ANI animations too

- New command line option: /export_pal=palfile (export palette to a PAL file)

- New hotkey: SHIFT + F5 = Refresh (force resample, if set in display options)

- New hotkey: SHIFT + Home/End = Load first/last page in a multipage image

- New hotkey: CTRL + D = Image->Add border/frame

- New hotkey: CTRL + SHIFT + X = Set as wallpaper: Proportional

- Menu change: Create max. custom selection moved to "Create maximized selection"

- At request of Luratech: removed support of LWF/LDF formats

- (projects/formats stopped, buffer overflows reported)

- Several PlugIns are changed/updated

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