HEADS UP: This extension is in very early development and depends heavily on Magick.WASM which is also in very early development. While this extension is functional, it shouldn't be considered stable.

About

Magick Image Reader is an extension for Visual Studio Code which adds support for reading over 100 image formats without leaving the application. It's primary use is for quickly accessing images when managing image repositories without the need to leave Visual Studio Code or open another program.

This project would've been a massive pain without free and open-source software like ImageMagick and Magick.WASM around. If this is useful for your workflow, please also consider checking them out or sponsoring their work.

Features

This extension was made with one feature in mind, which is to read additional document formats, however as we're integrating with ImageMagick, we'll be additional features in future to make the most out of it.

The first time you interact with the extension there will be a initializaton which will last a few seconds, from there all images should load relatively fast.

Reading Additional Document Formats

The primary goal is to view additional file formats in Visual Studio Code, the following have been verified to work well with this extension, excluding formats that Visual Studio Code already supported natively:

• XCF (GIMP)
• PSD (Photoshop)
• DCM
• DDS
• HDR
• HEIC
• MNG
• PBM
• PCX
• PFM
• PGM
• PNM
• PPM
• SGI
• XBM

Open-Source

This project is open-source under the Apache 2.0 license! While not legal advice, you can find a TL;DR that sums up what you're allowed and not allowed to do along with any requirements if you want to use or derive work from this repository!