BreezeBrowser v1.5 Released

BreezeBrowser v1.5 is a powerful browser for viewing and manipulating JPEG images and Canon raw image files quickly and efficiently. It can be thought of as a sort of digital light box - use it to sort through your shots and convert raw files ready for further processing. The powerful HTML generator creates pages for your website or to add indexes to your CD-R archives. The thumbnail browser makes it simple to view you images and makes batch operations such as rotating and renaming images quick and easy. Version 1.5 has just been released with the following new features:

  1. Directory tree display in thumbnail view with drag and drop capability and folder creation, deletion and renaming.
  2. IPTC editing added for JPEG, TIFF, Canon raw files and AVI files. All IPTC data fields are available to the HTML generator for inserting in HTML pages.
  3. New "combined" raw conversion method added for improved highlight detail in over-exposed shots.
  4. Support added for AVI movie files.
  5. 16-bit JPEG2000 support added - both lossless and lossy compression.
  6. Added EXIF thumbnail regeneration in JPEG files.
  7. Auto levels option added to HTML generator
  8. Higher quality interpolation used for image preview and thumbnails
  9. Improved integration with Downloader (requires Downloader v1.4 or later)
Note: BreezeBrowser v1.5 is fully compatible with D60 JPEGs but it does not support D60 raw file conversion yet. This will have to wait until Canon updates their SDK (as will EOS 1D raw file conversion).

Also released is Downloader v1.4 a free utility for downloading images from Canon digital camera via the USB cable or from any DCF compliant camera via a cardreader. Unlike ZoomBrowser this utility downloads all the images, including the .thm files which accompany raw files, and preserves their names. Downloader has been tested with the Canon Powershot G1, Powershot G2, Powershot Pro90IS, Powershot S30, Powershot S40 and EOS D30 cameras and it should work with other Canon digital cameras provided you have v3.4.x or later of Canon's USB TWAIN driver loaded.