I'm transitioning from Windoze to a Mac. Currently I have my old
Windoze laptop, and 99% of my new image processing is done on the Mac
g5 tower.
The one piece of software that I don't have on the mac - and need -
is a fast image viewer with a simple slideshow function.
Preview (the Mac's default image viewer) doesn't do this. I tried
Cocoview, but A) it crashes and B) it's not fast - it takes way too
long to open, and way too long to start a slideshow. Irfanview on my
PC launches very fast (even when I have dozens of other applications
open) by double-clicking on a single image in Explorer, and shift+a
will start the slideshow - no need to select which images in the
folder I need in the slideshow, etc.
I'm using Lightroom for my DAM management but I don't want to import
these images into Lightroom to use LR's slideshow. First, LR is SLOW
and second, these images are already IN LR - my reason to need a quick
slideshow of these are images is that I've bulk exported them from LR,
used a series of Photoshop actions to resize and sign them, and I want
to quickly view them to make sure they are all correct before I upload
them to the server for printing.
(Last night I uploaded ~30 images. When I scanned them *after*
uploading I found one that wasn't correct. I realized that I need a
fast and easy way to preview them before I upload them.)
Freeware (like Irfanview) would be great but I would also consider
registering something if it had a free trial and it worked as good as
Irfanview does.
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:25:50 -0700, JC Dill <jcdill@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm transitioning from Windoze to a Mac. Currently I have my old
> Windoze laptop, and 99% of my new image processing is done on the Mac
> g5 tower.
>
> The one piece of software that I don't have on the mac - and need -
> is a fast image viewer with a simple slideshow function.
>
> Preview (the Mac's default image viewer) doesn't do this. I tried
> Cocoview, but A) it crashes and B) it's not fast - it takes way too
> long to open, and way too long to start a slideshow. Irfanview on my
> PC launches very fast (even when I have dozens of other applications
> open) by double-clicking on a single image in Explorer, and shift+a
> will start the slideshow - no need to select which images in the
> folder I need in the slideshow, etc.
>
> I'm using Lightroom for my DAM management but I don't want to import
> these images into Lightroom to use LR's slideshow. First, LR is SLOW
> and second, these images are already IN LR - my reason to need a quick
> slideshow of these are images is that I've bulk exported them from LR,
> used a series of Photoshop actions to resize and sign them, and I want
> to quickly view them to make sure they are all correct before I upload
> them to the server for printing.
>
> (Last night I uploaded ~30 images. When I scanned them *after*
> uploading I found one that wasn't correct. I realized that I need a
> fast and easy way to preview them before I upload them.)
>
> Freeware (like Irfanview) would be great but I would also consider
> registering something if it had a free trial and it worked as good as
> Irfanview does.
Two options, both of which are likely already on your Mac:
1) GraphicConverter, which is probably the closest equivalent to
Irfanview on the Mac. It's shareware (free trial, $35 to register), and
it can do slideshows among many other things. For a while, a trial
version came with new Macs. I don't know if that's still the case, but
if not, see http://www.lemkesoft.com/
2) iPhoto. Can do slideshows, but is probably not really optimal for
your needs.
> what's wrong with the built-in slideshow capability in finder?
> select the images and then right-click (or control-click) and pick
> slideshow.
I'm not the original asker but I'll tell you why it won't cut it for me.
I still consider the old, ageing ACDSee 3.11 as the best image viewer
ever. Irfanview is second and nothing else comes even close. Why?
- I do no want to "select images to view", most of the time I have a
directory full of images straight from the camera or scanner. Using
these programs, all I need to do is double-click on the first, or any,
image in Explorer. The image is then opened straight away.
- The image is opened, no questions asked, quickly, into full screen mode.
I usually don't want to see billions of status bars, menus and buttons when
I am viewing my images. Also, the image is automatically scaled Right, that is,
to fit the monitor without messing up the aspect ratio.
- When I press SPACE (or some other button, doesn't matter which, as long as it's
a key on my keyboard) the next image in that same directory is displayed
immediately. The order is lexical; that is, sorted by filename.
- There are no visible thingamajigs floating and appearing around my
images while I view them. No visual effects, slow fade-ins or whatever.
- When I want to prune a bad, unwanted shot I press the DEL key and Enter.
The file is deleted right away and the next image is immediately loaded (see above).
- Everything is done FAST.
- I can zoom and pan around in the image very quickly. This is the place where
the old ACDsee still beats Irfanview - panning is faster and smoother.
- If I want to bother with menus and whatever I can press a key at any time and
return to windowed mode.
- I can have 1, 1000 or 10000 images and the software just won't mind. Selecting
hundreds or thousands of images in the Mac finder, then ctrl-clicking and
choosing Slideshow takes ages of beach balling. It probably would be trouble
in Windows too, except I don't have to do it at all due to these two wonderful programs.
There's also some other small details I can't remember right
now. However the point is no image viewer for the Mac comes even close
enough to these specs. I've considered making my own for years, but I
know it would be a big undertaking and I would rather have the
software appear out of somewhere without having to do it myself
Executive summary: Give me my images RIGHT NOW, RIGHT and nothing but
the images, thank you
Toni Nikkanen wrote:
> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
>
>> what's wrong with the built-in slideshow capability in finder?
>> select the images and then right-click (or control-click) and pick
>> slideshow.
>
> I'm not the original asker but I'll tell you why it won't cut it for me.
>
> I still consider the old, ageing ACDSee 3.11 as the best image viewer
> ever. Irfanview is second and nothing else comes even close. Why?
>
> - I do no want to "select images to view", most of the time I have a
> directory full of images straight from the camera or scanner. Using
> these programs, all I need to do is double-click on the first, or any,
> image in Explorer. The image is then opened straight away.
>
> - The image is opened, no questions asked, quickly, into full screen mode.
> I usually don't want to see billions of status bars, menus and buttons when
> I am viewing my images. Also, the image is automatically scaled Right, that is,
> to fit the monitor without messing up the aspect ratio.
>
> - When I press SPACE (or some other button, doesn't matter which, as long as it's
> a key on my keyboard) the next image in that same directory is displayed
> immediately. The order is lexical; that is, sorted by filename.
>
> - There are no visible thingamajigs floating and appearing around my
> images while I view them. No visual effects, slow fade-ins or whatever.
>
> - When I want to prune a bad, unwanted shot I press the DEL key and Enter.
> The file is deleted right away and the next image is immediately loaded (see above).
>
> - Everything is done FAST.
>
> - I can zoom and pan around in the image very quickly. This is the place where
> the old ACDsee still beats Irfanview - panning is faster and smoother.
>
> - If I want to bother with menus and whatever I can press a key at any time and
> return to windowed mode.
>
> - I can have 1, 1000 or 10000 images and the software just won't mind. Selecting
> hundreds or thousands of images in the Mac finder, then ctrl-clicking and
> choosing Slideshow takes ages of beach balling. It probably would be trouble
> in Windows too, except I don't have to do it at all due to these two wonderful programs.
>
> There's also some other small details I can't remember right
> now. However the point is no image viewer for the Mac comes even close
> enough to these specs. I've considered making my own for years, but I
> know it would be a big undertaking and I would rather have the
> software appear out of somewhere without having to do it myself
>
>
> Executive summary: Give me my images RIGHT NOW, RIGHT and nothing but
> the images, thank you
If you like Irfanview for that, you will LOVE MaxView from FastStone.
Great image viewer.
Toni Nikkanen wrote:
> nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> writes:
>
>> what's wrong with the built-in slideshow capability in finder?
>> select the images and then right-click (or control-click) and pick
>> slideshow.
>
> I'm not the original asker but I'll tell you why it won't cut it for me.
>
> I still consider the old, ageing ACDSee 3.11 as the best image viewer
> ever. Irfanview is second and nothing else comes even close. Why?
>
> - I do no want to "select images to view", most of the time I have a
> directory full of images straight from the camera or scanner. Using
> these programs, all I need to do is double-click on the first, or any,
> image in Explorer. The image is then opened straight away.
>
> - The image is opened, no questions asked, quickly, into full screen mode.
> I usually don't want to see billions of status bars, menus and buttons when
> I am viewing my images. Also, the image is automatically scaled Right, that is,
> to fit the monitor without messing up the aspect ratio.
>
> - When I press SPACE (or some other button, doesn't matter which, as long as it's
> a key on my keyboard) the next image in that same directory is displayed
> immediately. The order is lexical; that is, sorted by filename.
>
> - There are no visible thingamajigs floating and appearing around my
> images while I view them. No visual effects, slow fade-ins or whatever.
>
> - When I want to prune a bad, unwanted shot I press the DEL key and Enter.
> The file is deleted right away and the next image is immediately loaded (see above).
>
> - Everything is done FAST.
>
> - I can zoom and pan around in the image very quickly. This is the place where
> the old ACDsee still beats Irfanview - panning is faster and smoother.
>
> - If I want to bother with menus and whatever I can press a key at any time and
> return to windowed mode.
>
> - I can have 1, 1000 or 10000 images and the software just won't mind. Selecting
> hundreds or thousands of images in the Mac finder, then ctrl-clicking and
> choosing Slideshow takes ages of beach balling. It probably would be trouble
> in Windows too, except I don't have to do it at all due to these two wonderful programs.
>
> There's also some other small details I can't remember right
> now. However the point is no image viewer for the Mac comes even close
> enough to these specs. I've considered making my own for years, but I
> know it would be a big undertaking and I would rather have the
> software appear out of somewhere without having to do it myself
>
>
> Executive summary: Give me my images RIGHT NOW, RIGHT and nothing but
> the images, thank you
Phoenix Slides might be useful. As recent Windows to MAC convert, I miss
Irfanview too. GL Image Pro is another one, if you can download it - the
host website seems down right now.
> Phoenix Slides might be useful. As recent Windows to MAC convert, I
> miss Irfanview too. GL Image Pro is another one, if you can download
> it - the host website seems down right now.
Thank you - I haven't tried these ones yet, it's been a while since I
last checked what was available. Believe it or not but I'm limping
along using a self-compiled version of xzgv, though it makes ACDSee
3.11 look futuristic in comparison.
On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:41:58 GMT, Clem Dye <bite@me.com> wrote:
>Phoenix Slides might be useful.
Thank you for this suggestion! It's not perfect (I can't find a way
to delete while in slideshow mode) but it IS much faster than anything
else I've tried.
irfanview equivelant for the mac 
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