JPEG Saver 4.15
Published
To the casual observer, it might not look like much has changed in version 4.15 of JPEG Saver. The casual observer is probably right this time. The main difference in this version is that it has been compiled using Visual Studio 2015, which hopefully should not make much difference at all. Let me know if you find anything broken.
There are some real changes in this version though - there are two new background modes for a start, “Image Pile - Tiled” and “Image Pile - Fit to screen”, which do the same piling as the other pile modes, but do it on top of a background image of your choice, either tiled or scaled to fill the screen.
There is a new interactive option as well. Pressing the “a” key will switch into and out of “folder lock mode”, where the sequence of images will be locked to the folder containing the current image. The folder lock mode and the sequential mode (“Tab” key) can both be used at the same time, if you like (I don't mean press both buttons at once though - it should work, but you'll only see one of the mode change messages).
Apart from those changes there are a few new transitions. “Circle” is a circular wipe from one image to the next, “Cross flop” is a 90° turn from one image through the middle of the other, and “Rings” is a series of concentric rings being filled with the new image. This last one was supported by JPEG Saver 3.x, but I've only just got around to redoing it. I'm planning to improve this one in a future version.
There are a couple of small bugs fixed in this version too. The block-based transitions (“Block fade”, “Blocks” and several others) were ignoring the speed options. The transition preview window was changing image too soon when the transitions were slowed down, which was surprisingly tricky to fix.
The new installer file is available from the downloads page.