WebImage is Group 42's commercial release of the popular GraphX
Viewer client. WebImage builds on GraphX Viewer's features and ease of use and also adds many excellent new features. Perhaps its best feature, WebImage allows you to quickly and efficiently create and edit clickable image maps in either NCSA or CERN compliant formats. WebImage nearly rivals Map This! when it comes to developing quality image maps.
WebImage, however, offers much more than just image mapping; additional features include image optimization (automatic detection of an image's color content for saving the image in variable bit depths in order to reduce the graphic's file size), interlaced GIF and PNG images, one-click simplicity in creating transparent gifs, a smart decoder for automatic encoding and decoding of files (single or multi-part files and in UU or XX encoding formats), printing capabilities, and the same excellent thumbnail catalog management system as found in GraphX Viewer.
While available in both Windows 3.x and Windows 95/98/NT releases, it's the 32-bit version that really excels. This version includes an animation wizard that is on par with WebImage's image mapping tools in terms of features and ease of use. Creating great-looking, small, multi-frame (animated) graphics is almost as simple as creating a normal, single-frame graphic. To date, GIF Construction Set and Ulead GIF Animator is the only other app that comes close to WebImage in terms of creating, editing, and previewing animated graphics. The Windows 95/98 release also includes a partner app called I Spy.
