DDS Viewer

IdeaMK · IdeaMK.DDSViewer

A free tool to open, view and convert DirectDraw Surface (DDS) image files.

DDS Viewer is a free for use software tool. DDS Viewer can be used to open Microsoft DirectDraw Surface files, display image preview and provide options to convert, resize and save them in other most known image file formats as .jpg, .gif, .png and others. DDS format was created by Microsoft and introduced with DirectX 7.0. It is used for storing textures and environments, compressed and uncompressed pixel formats and can be used for storing Windows desktop backgrounds and wallpapers. DDS or DirectDraw Surface today is a standard for storing data, compressed with S3 Texture Compression (S3TC) algorithm. This makes the format useful for storing graphical textures and cubic environment maps as a data file.