PNG Gallery

    I am sorry if you are unable to view the image with your old browser.  It is time to update, don't you think?  It is likely that a lot of those GIF images (and all of the TIFF ones) on the web will be becoming PNG.

Visit the PNG home page at:   www.libpng.org/pub/png

    I decided to add this to my web page because my normal image viewer when in Windows 95 does not yet support PNG format.  It is a very nice program (VuePrint (aka PhotoVue Plus)) by Hamrick Software, and I have suggested to Ed Hamrick that he add PNG support.  He told me that no one was using PNG yet, so here's at least one page that does!  If youare a licensed VuePrint user and want PNG, you can write him a polite letter at support@hamrick.com.

    The image viewer I use in os/2 has supported PNG for over three years.  It is called Galleria and is available at Bitware Australia.   To save space on my disk, I used Galleria to convert all my GIF files to PNG. Of course, I could pay someone else another shareware fee and be able to view or modify my PNG files under Windows 95 too, but I like VuePrint!

    For (many of) those looking for a free way to look at PNG images now, I discovered a really nice freeware utility called IrfanView.  It is available from Irfan Skiljan.  It is a win-32 (95/98/NT) application which supports a wide variety of graphic formats. Conversion between the formats is easy, and it has a large selection of image filters and other effects.

   Wow, someone is reading these pages!  I was contacted by Bud Hornsby of Photodex, Inc., who sent me e-mail with the subject "We support PNG!".  So I had to check out their product, called CompuPic.   It is simply exceptional, and the price is $40, with a 15-day free trial period (same as VuePrint).  CompuPic is superior to VuePrint in almost all areas.  (VuePrint would be the better choice if you use digital photography, need a pkzip utility, or English is not your native language.)  CompuPic is available for Win95, Win3.1, and the Macintosh. It supports over 23 graphics formats, many multimedia formats, has a great slideshow capability, and can generate image catalogs.  It has several extra-cost add-ons, such as file encryption and an "advanced batch conversion" utility.  I'm keeping VuePrint, but CompuPic has become my main image utility.