New Release of our software catalog, first batch of updates of 2025 !

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We are glad to announce minor updates for our software LRToolbox, TAPOPanel, PhotoLikr And Light Image Resizer.








Everyone can use Obviousidea Software !

List of Obviousidea software updated :

LRToolbox is a windows software to recover lost images from Adobe Lightroom catalog, by extracting the preview thumbnails of the .lrcat catalog, managing the orientation, and manage 1 to 5 stars ratings. RAW to Jpeg conversion and more. The program is totally free ! please let us know if you use it and it has been useful to recover lost pictures.

TapoPanel is a freeware to use your TP-Link Electricity Plugs. From your Windows display, Monitor the live electricity consumption of each of your Tapo Plugs. Using smartphone can be boring to just watch the change of your home energy use. The little windows is an alternative to home assistant ( even if we love Home Assistant project too ). A Electricity-meter plug cost around 12 euros / Usd but the software is free !

Photolikr is our under-estimated photo viewer. The best feature to consider is to use this software for your photo culling. Less is more ! the interface is clean and minimalist. Display your images in full screen, very fast, generate windows thumbnails, and support the more popular photo format. This new build is installing for you the jpeg xl thumbnails codec from this Github open source projet . PhotoLikr will replace PhotoOnweb and next version will add export and sharing to Google Photos albums.

Light Image Resizer 7 is also updated. Please let us know if you experience any problem with antivirus solution, as we still need to report for false positive detection. Unfortunately, It takes a few days at every release now and it’s a lot of wasted time.

Greencloud Printer doesn’t need any update ! as it continues to be a eco-friendly software solution to save on your daily print task.

Where to download ?

The minor update are available on our download page, you just need to install the new version over your existing one.

Thanks :),



Fabrice Meuwissen CEO and founder of Obviousidea ( this message has been written in my bad english, local version could be translated automatically , please apologize for the mistakes and weird translations )

Obviousidea wishes you a Happy New Year 2025!

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This year has been a remarkable one for Obviousidea: five years after the release of Light Image Resizer 6, we have finally launched version 7 of our software for Windows, Light Image Resizer 7.

However, we acknowledge some missteps. Specifically, some users felt it was unfair to pay again for this update. Similar to a new iPhone model or the latest version of a car, we opted to offer perpetual licenses rather than subscriptions. These licenses, referred to as “lifetime licenses,” remain valid: licenses for version 6 do not expire but are not valid for version 7 updates. The costs of maintenance, development, and storing previous versions are significant, preventing us from offering major updates for free. Nevertheless, we understand your frustration and have implemented discounts for existing customers.

Regarding Light Image Resizer 7, there is still room for improvement. Many new features lack sufficient documentation and will evolve in 2025 based on your feedback. Whether you are a personal or professional user, understanding how you use our software is crucial for us. This helps us deliver better tutorials and features tailored to your needs (e.g., for real estate agencies, photographers, bailiffs, or garage owners).

In 2025, we will continue improving PhotoLikr, our photo sorting software, which now supports new formats like JPEG XL and offers innovative features such as reading prompts from generative AI tools like Fooocus, Stable Diffusion, or ComfyUI. With the end of PhotoOnWeb, Photolikr will be updated to easily cull your best photos, and share them in online albums.

We are also delighted to see that GreenCloud Printer users are increasingly contributing to reducing their ecological footprint by saving paper and ink daily.

This year, we also plan to expand our services, particularly in the legaltech sector, by offering solutions for managing large volumes of documents, images, or audio files with OCR and voice-to-text transcription technologies. These tools are very useful in modern world legal investigation, when proof of evidence are deeply hidden in our large archives of Facebook Messenger or Instagram private messages.

We sincerely thank you for your support and encourage you to share your experiences with our products and your needs. Your feedback forms the foundation of our future development.

Fabrice Meuwissen
CEO and founder, Obviousidea

Fix wrong Photo rotation problems in Windows Explorer

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Fix wrong Photo rotation problems in Windows Explorer

Microsoft finally released a fix for a rotation issue. Indeed, you could have experienced with PhotoLikr and preview window of Light Image Resizer such problem, while the final output is correctly processed. The easiest way to check if you have the orientation problem is to check if a portrait photography has been wrongly rotated. CR2, CR3, RAF, or any raw digital camera format could be impacted.

landscape and portrait thumbnail in windows explorer problem
Canon CR3 Portrait not oriented

After the fix, you still need to run the disk cleanup tool. Use the last option of the files to remove : thumbnails. It will force the thumbnails in windows explorer to be cached again.

You can find information about the fixes in the Microsoft’s Blog

KB5046740 changelog 14 november 2024

2 mentions are interesting :

[RAW format images] Fixed: They show in the wrong orientation.
[JPG files] Fixed: You cannot use an API to find rotation information. 

So maybe the problem wasn’t the update of the RAW Camera update but the operating system files themselves who causes wrong rotation in windows explorer.

Run Windows Update or refer to the documentation. If you are experiencing the problem, it’s important to contact us, as there are so many file format, the sooner we know about it, the sooner Obviousidea software could find a workaround. Please contact Obviousidea support team with screenshot and a description of the problem.

Orientation such portrait and lanscape are available in the exif information provided by digital camera manufacturor. The information could be read by the system such windows extension, or some core files like by the windows operating system directly. Obviousidea can use his own library or 3rd party library, embedded jpeg preview, ImageMagick library. The wrong thumbnail rotation problem in windows explorer is complex as there are so many different Windows builds. Latest main Windows build is 24H2.

PhotoLikr and photo orientation

With all the settings available in Photolikr (re)viewer , you could control the behavior of your photo display.

Settings in PhotoLikr to control the cache and fast preview
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Light Image Resizer and portrait rotation

With Light Image Resizer, you can convert all your photos without losing quality. Instead of using Exif orientation when viewing the picture, you can completely reconvert the pixel using the portrait option . Go to the tab Misc -> Adjust Resolution for portrait

Adjust resolution for portrait Screenshot in Light Image Resizer
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If you have any tips, any experience to share about wrong orientation of images in Windows Explorer, contact us !

Light Image Resizer and PhotoLikr updated

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Light Image Resizer

New versions of Light Image Resizer 7.1.2 and PhotoLikr 1.4.1 are available in our download section.
Each software page contains the changelog and the updates are free. As a reminder, only a change of a major version could require an upgrade of the licence.

Light Image Resizer is a Windows software which can batch convert images. Convenient solution to change file format from JPEG to PDF, PDF to JPEG, JPEG to HEIC, HEIC to JPEG, JPEG to AVIF, AVIF to PDF, and more combinations. Change resolution of your photos, or convert the picture aspect ratio.

PhotoLikr is also a Microsoft Windows software to quickly (re)view a set of your pictures. PhotoLikr stands for photo liker. You can rate your pictures with stars and then sort them in your local hard drive. Once you have done your selection of your best images. Share photos on Dropbox.

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Obviousidea software and antivirus

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Since this morning, several users reported a virus issue with GreenCloud Printer. After investigations and the first reports, it is a false alarm from some antivirus solutions, and the main one seems to be BitDefender.

What is a antivirus False positive ?

Security software sometimes unintentionally identify a program or file as harmful if it has code or behavior that resembles known harmful programs. This is known as a False Positive. A False positive means the antivirus wrongly identify the app as a virus.

Action from Obviousidea about false positive

We reported the false alarm. In the meantime, please don’t deinstall / reinstall the GreenCloud Printer package, as it won’t solve the problem. The only solution is to turn off the antivirus or flag it as safe. You can also report the false alarm at : Bitdefender false positive report . The BitDefender form is weird and won’t confirm by email if the ticket is created. You can contact support of Bitdefender, this page contains the list of the phone numbers.

Another method is to “restore” the binary GCPrinter.exe, in notification, watch the history and find the entry about the software infected. Then Restore the program.

We are sorry for the inconvenience. Especially because the latest version of GreenCloud Printer hasn’t been updated since a few months. It may happen also with Light Image Resizer. To fight against virus, we are using VirusTotal, a well known service in the industry to check URLs and setup package available in our download page.

Here the link of the VirusTotal report for GreenCloud Printer :
november 11th, 2024 : 10/73 vendors are reporting a problem
november 12th, 2024 : 4/73 vendors are reporting a problem
november 13th, 2024 : 2/73 vendors are reporting a problem
november 14th, 2024 : 1/73 vendors are reporting a problem ( https://www.deepinstinct.com/ didn’t reply to our report )
november 19th, 2024 : webroot solution was not in the virustotal report but cause issues, it’s fixed now.

How to report a false positive ?

Don’t hesitate to contact Obviousidea, to report any issue with antivirus, it’s the best and safest way to let us know and report and investigate the problem.

there is no rule to report a false positive you need to fill a form ( when it works ) or contact by email one by one the antivirus vendor. This list from VirusTotal can save a lot of time.

Light Image Resizer 7.1 / .JXL native support

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Spoiler alert, the new Light Image Resizer version 7.1 has a native read and write support for JPEG XL / JXL, but also improvements for the AVIF format.
Both JPEG XL and AVIF are performant for compression and quality. In WordPress these formats are considered as modern. Apple is supporting JPEG XL in Mac OS, and you can create .DNG that LIR 7.1 supports.

Download Light Image Resizer 7.1, it’s a free update for users with a valid v7 license key.

You can see the full list of changes in the history page.

JPEG XL support

The collage feature (underestimated IMHO) has been fixed for High DPI screens.

We will do another YouTube video tutorial about how to make a collage of your photos but you can still look at this one.

About Light Image Resizer 7.1

The new version is a cumulative update of customers feedback and the support of modern formats has changed the internal engine with the introduction of the Imagemagick Plugin. LIR7 could support more formats in the future, as soon as a WIC codec extention is available.

Obviousidea Antivirus policy

Another topic, recently one of our users reported a false alarm with an antivirus. At Obviousidea we use VirusTotal to make sure our software is virus free.
See one of the samples for Light Image Resizer 7.1:
https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/346fa64e916b0f26f9efb971f87b0b993ccf421015ea4fa2f1d48d6ebd818ff9/detection
As you can see, it’s almost green but sometimes Antivirus products try to scare you doing their job with a zealous method. We need to report these cases one by one and check with the antivirus vendor. We understand customers can be reluctant, and the best you can do is to contact us to speed up the notification and validation process. Of course, security is important to us and we need your report.

In short, don’t hesitate to contact us, your voice is important to improve Light Image Resizer 7.1