With the version 7.0.0.125 of the virus signatures RIOT 0.4 is detected as trojan (Trojan.Win32.Swisyn.aeca). As this program does not contain malware and was tested with other antivirus engines, I contacted the Kaspersky Team to find out more. Kirill Kruglov,…

I made some performance comparition tests using three programs: RIOT, IrfanView and XNView. The versions used are the latest available: RIOT 0.4 beta IrfanView 4.25 XNView  1.97.2 Here are the results: Test #1 Batch mode: add all supported images from…

The long expected new version of RIOT – 0.4 is finally available. This version contains very interesting new features and improvements: (* NEW *) Batch Optimizer Optimize mulitiple images at once with great simplicity (* NEW *) Basic image adjustments…

RIOT became quite popular in its young existence with thousands of downloads monthly. I noticed a spectacular adoption growth since the first release. I must say I was very impressed that this program has now more than occasional users –…

I was very impressed and honored to see that a well known french IT magazine – Clubic – included RIOT among the best 50 freeware applications of the year 2009.
My surprise was even bigger to find RIOT was the first in the category “Les meilleurs outils graphiques gratuits de l’année 2009” (The best free graphic utilities of year 2009).

Changelog: v.0.3.5 – 27.10.2009 – bugfix: Save image fails in some cases. It occurs only when the image is opened by command line or drag & drop and “Show dialog on Save” is disabled (default) – the original image is…

Riot for GIMP was released. It can be downloaded from the GIMP Plugin Registry http://registry.gimp.org/node/20778 This plug-in calls RIOT for the selected area/layer. ******* The RIOT DLL package is required. ********* It still has incomplete support for all color types,…

After months of preparing the next version of branch 0.3, I want to announce the availability of the latest stable version – 0.3.4.
This version aims to provide the most stable version of RIOT since the beginning of this project.
The most important fix addresses the infamous Vista SP2 access violation after displaying the save dialog. This error occurs only in the DLL version (IrfanView plugin). Users of the standalone application never experienced that.

This new version offers some nice speed improvements when working with JPEG and PNG, it corrects a series of bugs and provides some features like the full screen view, improved save functions, extended support for Photoshop PSD files.

For GIMP users this may be a good news: I am working on a GIMP plugin that offers the same functionality as the IrfanView plugin. GIMP users will have a new option in File->Save for web with RIOT which opens…

The official IrfanView plugins package contains now version 0.3.3 Lite of RIOT. It is a good thing becase many problems have been fixed since 0.1.7 (last version bundled) and new features have been introduced. Among the most important changes are…