Advice for viewing pics.

hello,

What do you guys use to view pics or how do you view them? I use the default "preview" but I'd like to use something that allows me to click on a "next" or arrow to view the next pic inside a folder. For example say on windows you open "my pics" with windows fax viewer, if I open one pic within a folder I can just click on the next or the arrow to see the next pic within the folder. What can I use to do this on imac?

I personally use a program called Xee. Just drag a folder onto the program's icon and you can click left and right all you want.

You can also drag all of the photos into Preview by opening the side pane, which would then allow you to scroll between them.

Try looking up Xee.

http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/imageviewfreemac/Free_Image_Viewers_and_Browsers_for_Macintosh.htm

Edit - lol kash you beat me. Lol im on my sidekick hahah I should have refreshed sooner lol.

select + space bar (quicklook) is my favorite for everything!

justlooking ftw. open a picture in 1 folder & you can go left and right through all of the pics. it's awesome. :]

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Why not just use iPhoto? Organizing and viewing photos is what it is for. and it does it brilliantly!

I like CocoViewX - reminds me of ACDSee in Windows.

Hi, I like to browse through my image folders too, so I used Xee for awhile, but every day the default app changed back to Preview. So I tried JustLooking. After a few days Preview was again the default app. How can I stop this? I haven't found a way to set default apps in the OS. I'm running Leopard, and I usually love it but when it comes to setting my default image viewer, it doesn't love me back. For editing images, my old favorite was Irfanview, which can do everything I need, but there's no version for Mac, so I'm looking for a versatile (preferably free) image editor.

Try RCDefaultApp. It's a System Preference pane that allows you to forcibly set file associations. I've never had a problem with an association when set with this application. Very handy.

Great find. Thanks for the info.

cwa107 said:

Try RCDefaultApp. It's a System Preference pane that allows you to forcibly set file associations. I've never had a problem with an association when set with this application. Very handy.

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My Choice - Phoenix Slides. Lightweight and snappy ha ha

Thanks for trying to help but Preview continues to steal JPGs back.

I even moved Preview out of the Application Folder into a "holding" folder but the OS found it and keeps using it. This is extremely frustrating having an OS force me to do what I already told it I don't want to do.

cwa107 said:

Try RCDefaultApp. It's a System Preference pane that allows you to forcibly set file associations. I've never had a problem with an association when set with this application. Very handy.

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Im also all about Phoenix slides

i'm going to third or fourth Xee here. it's like windows picture viewer on steroids, gives you basically the same functionality, and light editing ability such as crop and rotate.

Kash said:

I personally use a program called Xee. Just drag a folder onto the program's icon and you can click left and right all you want.

You can also drag all of the photos into Preview by opening the side pane, which would then allow you to scroll between them.

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thanks for the recommendation, brotato. works like a charm and was the perfect answer to a problem i didnt realize i had. much better than preview for photos but without the hassle of firing up iphoto, especially for images that i dont care to import into it.