TIFF Visualizer for Visual Studio Code

A TIFF viewer for Visual Studio Code, to display uint and floating-point images while allowing brightness and gamma corrections. For floating-point images, this extension allows easier handling by allowing setting the ranges, the image is normalized to.

Features

• Advanced TIFF Support: Opens and displays complex TIFF files, including those with multiple channels and floating-point data types. Also supports compressed TIFF images using Deflate or LZW with predictors.
• Interactive Pixel Inspection: Hover over any pixel to see its exact value in the status bar. For multi-channel images, all channel values are displayed.
• Dynamic Normalization: Interactively adjust the normalization range for floating-point images to reveal hidden details.
• Gamma and Brightness Correction: Add or remove gamma correction for an image. To change brightness, the source gamma correction is removed, the brightness change (2**Change) is multiplied in linear space onto the image, and the target gamma correction is applied.
• Keep All Settings for Session: A single VS Code Window keeps the settings applied on one image for all images.
• Export as PNG: Export the image, with the chosen image visualization as PNG for easy sharing.

About

The extension is built on the built-in VS Code Media Preview extension. To add TIFF support, the geotiff library is used. All coding was performed using Cursor.

Known Issues and Missing Features

• Image jumps to top left, when starting to zoom in
• Adding a Histogram
• Allow to rotate the image
• Allow going fast through all images
• Compare two images on top of each other to spot differences easily
• Add option to use features of extension on other image formats, but it should be deactivated by default
• Add gamma correction for float images
• Add option to show int values as normalized floats
• Issue with lzw from tifffile. lzw images from oiiotool work ...
• Add automatic tests for many image formats

Feature Requests and Issues

If you have use cases that would be helpful for others or find problems, feel free to suggest them on the GitHub repository. If you know how to fix bugs or how to implement certain features, feel free to contribute.

Release Notes

1.0.0

Initial release of TIFF Visualizer.

Build notice Instead of downloading from the Marketplace, you can also build from source by cloning the repo and running:

bashnpm install -g vsce
vsce package

Then install the generated .vsix file via Extensions > Install from VSIX...