Image Browser

[neo1004]

Would you recommend image browser like ACDSee?
I want cocoa app not carbonized.
I fount ImagePlus in VersionTracker.
I think it is better than iPhoto but it is a shareware.
Freeware would be great.


Thanks in advance.

 

[stridey]

Would you recommend image browser like ACDSee?
I want cocoa app not carbonized.
I fount ImagePlus in VersionTracker.
I think it is better than iPhoto but it is a shareware.
Freeware would be great.


Thanks in advance.

Any particular reason you don't want to use Preview?

 

[alex_ant]

Any particular reason you don't want to use Preview?

Probably the same reason we don't rub sticks together to make fire anymore...

 

[alex_ant]

Would you recommend image browser like ACDSee?
I want cocoa app not carbonized.
I fount ImagePlus in VersionTracker.
I think it is better than iPhoto but it is a shareware.
Freeware would be great.

Thanks in advance.

I don't know why you'd want only a Cocoa app. Cocoa image browsers are generally very slow compared to their much faster Carbon counterparts. Anyway...

For me, there is no image browser that meets my needs. iPhoto is too slow, the rest don't do what I want.

iPhoto: Great cataloging principles, buggy and RAM-hogging and slow as hell
iView Media Pro: Great and very fast (Carbon) but expensive.
QPict: Very good, pretty fast, reasonably priced. My personal favorite image browser even though its cataloging is not on iPhoto's level.
gBrowser: Pretty good, quite buggy, RAM hog, development has stalled.
Shoebox: Bizarre, confusing interface, expensive if you want to catalog large numbers of photos.
Lightbox: Simplistic version of iPhoto, haven't tried it.
PhotoGridX: Thumbnail browser similar to ACDsee.
PhotoMesa: Somewhat innovative app, written in Java
Cumulus: Expensive professional app
Extensis Portfolio: Expensive professional app

 

[neo1004]

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Any particular reason you don't want to use Preview?

I want UI like ACDSee.
ImagePlus offers it and faster than iPhoto.
But Preview does not provide browser UI.

But ImagePlus is shareware and I don't have any way to pay $12 for it.(It's a long story.)
That's the reason what I want another image browser.

I don't know why you'd want only a Cocoa app. Cocoa image browsers are generally very slow compared to their much faster Carbon counterparts. Anyway...

Most carbon apps are not stable and natural in OS X, I think.

iPhoto: Great cataloging principles, buggy and RAM-hogging and slow as hell
iView Media Pro: Great and very fast (Carbon) but expensive.
QPict: Very good, pretty fast, reasonably priced. My personal favorite image browser even though its cataloging is not on iPhoto's level.
gBrowser: Pretty good, quite buggy, RAM hog, development has stalled.
Shoebox: Bizarre, confusing interface, expensive if you want to catalog large numbers of photos.
Lightbox: Simplistic version of iPhoto, haven't tried it.
PhotoGridX: Thumbnail browser similar to ACDsee.
PhotoMesa: Somewhat innovative app, written in Java
Cumulus: Expensive professional app
Extensis Portfolio: Expensive professional app

Thanks for your information. It will be lots of help to me.