A decent alternative to preview?
I just got my first mac two weeks ago, and I'm loving it. However, there's one thing that's annoying me.
I take a lot of pictures with my digital camera and I like to view them quickly. In windows, I did this the standard picture viewer. Now, in preview I can do this too, but when I load up 500 pictures all at 6megapixels, it takes almost forever. What my windows machine did was, it only loaded the one I was looking at, and when I pressed right, it loaded the next one, instead of loading them all at once.
Is there a way to make preview do that? Or is there an alternative program that will do it?
Thanks a lot.
I take a lot of pictures with my digital camera and I like to view them quickly. In windows, I did this the standard picture viewer. Now, in preview I can do this too, but when I load up 500 pictures all at 6megapixels, it takes almost forever. What my windows machine did was, it only loaded the one I was looking at, and when I pressed right, it loaded the next one, instead of loading them all at once.
Is there a way to make preview do that? Or is there an alternative program that will do it?
Thanks a lot.
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Originally posted by PCJ
I just got my first mac two weeks ago, and I'm loving it. However, there's one thing that's annoying me.
I take a lot of pictures with my digital camera and I like to view them quickly. In windows, I did this the standard picture viewer. Now, in preview I can do this too, but when I load up 500 pictures all at 6megapixels, it takes almost forever. What my windows machine did was, it only loaded the one I was looking at, and when I pressed right, it loaded the next one, instead of loading them all at once.
Is there a way to make preview do that? Or is there an alternative program that will do it?
Thanks a lot.
Apple bundles another little app with MacOS X called iPhoto. If you allow iPhoto to download your pictures, it will file them in folders based on the dates that they were taken. This will simplify the use of an alternative picture browser. I am very high on GraphicConverter. It is shareware, but it works without paying the shareware fee. Adobe's Photoshop Elements 3.0 is a 99 USD commercial application with superior editing capabilities compared to those of GraphicConverter. Its picture-browsing abilities are roughly the same.
You can also e-mail, print and burn to CD.
iPhoto
Oh... and for what it was designed for, Preview.app in 10.3 is a good program. But I am really looking forward to the improved version.
edit: This might only be a problem because I'm using a 12" ibook with 1.2ghz and 256mb RAM, not the fastest mac out there.
Originally posted by PCJ
thanks for the replies. iPhoto still needs a lot of time to import the 3000+ photos I already have on the hard drive (sometimes I wish I hadn't bought a Nikon D70), but the way I understand it, I won't have to wait for them to load from them on.
edit: This might only be a problem because I'm using a 12" ibook with 1.2ghz and 256mb RAM, not the fastest mac out there.
Add 256 ram whenever you're able to. It'll make things much smoother on the OS in general.
Originally posted by PCJ
I just got my first mac two weeks ago, and I'm loving it. However, there's one thing that's annoying me.
I take a lot of pictures with my digital camera and I like to view them quickly. In windows, I did this the standard picture viewer. Now, in preview I can do this too, but when I load up 500 pictures all at 6megapixels, it takes almost forever. What my windows machine did was, it only loaded the one I was looking at, and when I pressed right, it loaded the next one, instead of loading them all at once.
Is there a way to make preview do that? Or is there an alternative program that will do it?
Thanks a lot.
you could use iPhoto as someone suggested or you could use column view in finder to get small previews, make the column wider for larger images. Hope this helps.