PUPP

This is a very simple free image program, designed for game developers.

download installer for v0.6 (248KB)

Features

Load/Save BMP, DDS, JPG, PNG, and TGA files.
Load directly from file explorer, for a quick view of the files.
Zoom in/out.
Crop, resize, flip, rotate.
Unlimited undo/redo.
View independent channels, including alpha channel.
View the image with transparency.
View image in tiled mode.
Paste image from clipboard for saving.

Planned features

Support RLE for BMP.
Better support for paletted images.
Support cube maps and mip maps for DDS files.
More image manipulations, e.g. copy & paste, convert between formats.
Paint functionality.
Plugins for other file formats.
Plugins for applying image filters.
Plugin with AngelScript support for generating procedural textures.
Command line options for batch processing images.
Improved user interface, e.g. drag crop rect with mouse.
Improved resize with bilinear and bicubic filter for upscaling.

Changes

0.6 - 2008/11/01
- Fixed a bug when trying to crop an image to a larger rectangle.
- Added resize feature with 'nearest point' and 'average' filters.
- Undo/redo menu items now show the name of the action that will be undone/redone.
- Removed dependency on the Microsoft DLLs.
- Upgraded third party libraries.
- Edit menu options are no longer enabled when no image is open.
- Fixed a bug with rotating paletted images where the palette would be lost.

0.5 - 2008/02/16
- Added crop feature.
- Added flip and rotate image feature.
- Added unlimited undo/redo queue.

0.4a - 2007/12/02
- Fixed a limitation in the DDS loading code that prohibited loading when linear size wasn't specified.

0.4 - 2007/08/12
- Improved Open/Save dialog default settings for repeated actions.
- Added image properties dialog.
- An image can now be created from the clipboard and then saved to disk.
- Support for loading colormapped images.
- Added palette dialog for viewing the palette.

0.3 - 2006/11/25
- Loading/saving BMP and JPG images.
- Fixed bug with DDS images that had non-power-of-4 line width in bytes.
- Loading/saving DDS with DXT1, DXT3, or DXT5 compression.
- When saving files it is now possible to choose format and compression.
- Added registry key to installer so that application appears in Open With list.
- Fixed crash with Windows that use Input Method Editors, e.g. Japanese and Chinese Windows.

0.2 - 2006/11/15
- Individual color channels can now be visualized.
- The image with transparency can be visualized against a checkered background.
- TGA files are now saved with RLE encoding.
- Loading/saving of 8bit and 24bit images.
- Supports opening image from command line, so that images can be opened directly from Explorer.

0.1 - 2006/11/12
- Loading/saving of 32bit TGA, PNG, and DDS (no compression).
- Viewing color channels, or alpha channel.
- Viewing texture in tiled mode.
- Zoom in and out.