In a world filled with different formats, we all want the freedom to go back and forth, right? From JPG to BMP, there are more image formats out there than I have fingers and toes. FirmTools ShellExtension does what no other program has been able to do for me before. It gives me a free and simple way of converting my graphics from one format to the next.

Here is what the author of the program has to say about it:

As far as we develop our products for digital camera users, we know that you can have tons of images scattered on your computer. ShellExtension is our FREE program that we grant you as the BONUS to help you with images manipulation.

This is a very handy application that extends Windows Explorer’s User Interface with three useful commands for graphic files. ShellExtension adds an option to context menu that allows you to view a thumbnail of an image, convert it to any of supported formats, and print them.

FirmTools ShellExtension currently supports: GIF - Graphic Interchange Format; JPG, JPEG - Joint Photographic Expert Group format; BMP - Windows bit-mapped graphics format; PNG - Portable Network Graphics format; TGA - developed by Truevision; PSD - Adobe Photoshop; TIF, TIFF - Universal Graphic Format for PC and Mac platforms; SGI - Silicon Graphics file format, also known as RGB file format; RGB, RGBA - Silicon Graphics RGB formats; BW - Silicon Graphics file format; PGM - Portable graymap file format; PBM - Portable bitmap file format; PPM - Portable pixmap file format; PCX - PC Paintbrush MS-DOS; and PCD - Kodak PhotoCD format.

Now why would you want to change file formats? Well, some places on the Web only accept one or two kinds of graphics. Other graphic formats are larger than others. There are really a million-and-one reasons why you might need to change. What FirmTools ShellExtension does is give you an easy right-click option of moving from one format to the next.

[520K] [Win98/ME/2k/XP] [FREE]

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