What's Change in New PixelViewer

2026.0 Preview

New Features

  • Added support for pinch gesture on touchscreen and touchpad to zoom image.
  • Added support for flipping image horizontally and vertically.
  • Added ARGB Color Format setting to display the selected pixel color as Source Image Bit Depth (up to 16 bits per channel), 8-Bit (0-255), or Normalized [0.0, 1.0].
  • Added support for applying the system text size to selected parts of user interface on Windows and macOS.
  • Added support for importing application data from an existing PixelViewer instance.

Improvement

  • Improved the user experience of image viewer.
  • Improved metadata reading to correctly handle all EXIF/TIFF orientation values, including those that encode flip.
  • Improved selected pixel color readout to show RGB(...) instead of ARGB(...) when the source image has no alpha channel.

Behavior Changes

  • Double-tapping image now toggles between Fit to Viewport and Zoom to 100%.
  • On Windows, the application will restart automatically after a system reboot without being closed first.
  • The Use compact layout option is no longer supported.
  • The application needs to be restarted if the Chinese environment changes after modifying the Language option.

Bug Fixing

  • Minor bug fixing.

3.1

New Features

  • Add Bayer Pattern (14-bit, MIPI), YUYV (YUV422) and YVYU (YUV422) formats.

Improvement

  • Better way to convert from Bayer Pattern (10-bit, MIPI), Bayer Pattern (12-bit, MIPI) to 16-bit color.

Behavior Changes

  • Remove P012, P212, P412, Y010 and Y016 formats because they are not standardized by Microsoft.

Bug Fixing

  • Fix conversion from Bayer Pattern (10-bit, MIPI), Bayer Pattern (12-bit, MIPI) to 16-bit color.
  • Fix rendering images with P010, P016, P210, P216, P410 and P416 formats.
  • Fix artifact of demosaicing on edge of Bayer Pattern images.
  • Minor bug fixing.