ShootingStar

ShootingStar is the default pictures viewer and editor of NightOS. Edition is limited to simple manipulations such as cropping and resizing.

Library usage

ShootingStar exposes the sys::shootingstar library to manipulate, perform basic manipulations and most of all render different image formats.

It can also be used by file managers to generate thumbnails and video previews.

Supported formats

• Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg, .jpeg)
• Joint Photographic Experts Group 2000 (.jp2, .jpx)
• Tagged Image File Format (.tiff, .tif)
• Graphics Interchange Format (.gif)
• Graphics Interchange Format Video (.gifv)
• AV1 Image File Format (.avif)
• Windows Bitmap (.bmp)
• NightOS Bitmap Image (.nbi)
• NightOS Bitmap Video (.nbv)
• Portable Networks Graphics (.png)
• Portable Pixmap Format (.ppm)
• Portable Graymap Format (.pgm)
• Portable Bitmap Format (.pbm)
• Windows Icon (.ico)

Viewer features

• View pictures
• Zoom in/out
• Fullscreen
• Fit image to width / height / both
• Put images side by side
• View a set of pictures as a gallery
• View a set of pictures as a slideshow (multiple possible transitions)
• Display EXIF metadata

Edition features

• Resize (keep or ignore ratio)
• Crop
• Edit/remove EXIF metadata
• Convert to black and white