PixelViewer is a cross-platform image viewer supports reading raw Luminance/YUV/RGB/ARGB/Bayer pixels data from file and rendering it.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Rendering image from raw pixel file.
- Evaluate image dimensions according to file name, file size and format.
- Specify pixel-stride and row-stride for each plane.
- Specify data offset to image in file.
- Specify color space of image and screen.
- Import ICC profile as custom color space.
- Rotate and scale rendered image.
- Navigate to specific image frame in file.
- Adjust R/G/B gain for Bayer Pattern formats.
- Adjust brightness/contrast and color balance.
- Adjust highlight/shadow of image.
- Show histograms of R/G/B and luminance.
- Demosaicing for Bayer Pattern formats.
- Save rendered image as PNG/JPEG/BGRA file.
- Color spaces supported:
- sRGB.
- DCI-P3.
- Display-P3.
- Adobe RGB.
- ITU-R BT.601 525-lines.
- ITU-R BT.601 625-lines.
- ITU-R BT.2020.
- ITU-R BT.2100 (HLG).
- ITU-R BT.2100 (PQ).
- Cross-platform support – runs under Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: carinastudio.azurewebsites.net/PixelViewer
Support: GitHub Code Repository
Developer: Carina Studio
License: MIT License
![PixelViewer in action](/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/PixelViewer-image-viewer.png)
PixelViewer is written in C#. Learn C# with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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