I’m looking for suggestions for an Image/Photo Catalog Viewer.
The original suggestion I was given by some long term users was a product called iView, which looked great. It merely displayed photos, textures, whatever, in an easy to understand manner, from a variety of formats, from their original locations on the hardrive. No messing about with importing and sorting and such like iPhoto. You can see them in the finder as well as the .app.
Unfortunately for new users, this is now a MS product, and part of their expression media suite. Not much of a fan of either the company, the price nor the packaging.
Is anyone else using anything simple to view and manage images, ignoring iPhoto?
I’d like to leave my library where it is, as it is - like the assets in Unity - and just view and organize them in very straight forward .app.
Well - maybe I need to ask:
What do you use to manage and catalog your images, photos and textures?
I have a huge photo library and a substantial texture library that I’d like to manage more carefully.
ok I’ve looked for years for a good one. And unfortunately for me the cream off the top was iView (now Expression Media)… which is what I use now.
Cumulus is another good one, so is Extensis Portfolio.
It’s really weird how there seems to be no good open source image / asset managers and viewers.
However if you just want to view a directory of images real quick (but not as thumbnails) and have some basic management abilities (like delete) and good keyboard control then I heartily recommend Xee
Also if you have any Adobe CS apps then the Bridge is fairly good as well.
Cheers.
GraphicConverter also has a good image browser/editor including mass renaming tools and stuff. And its for free…
http://www.lemkesoft.com/
well strictly speaking it’s shareware. Costs $35 USD. They just have a very generous shareware enforcement. 
Cheers.
okokok…
But it can be used for free for an unlimited time without doing something fancy.
Thanks for the Graphics Converter tip and the link. I’d always thought of GC as simply another limited .app that comes with the apple system (and has for some time now…), but the version on the system is 4.x and this one on the web is 6.x and does much more.
It’s slow compared with iView/eMedia, but that’s because it seems to be a live view on the HDD rather than a Thumbnail dB.
Xee is next. I’d run across it before, but it didn’t stick. I’ll peek again and I’ll keep playing and let you know…