One of the most frequent Mac OS X feature requests I see from former Windows user — and one that ’s also pop among longtime Mac user — is the power to quickly watch picture and image in the Finder , without having to found a separate app . The Finder lets you view a slideshow of selected images , but what you may actually do with those images while viewing them is limited .
Over the past few days , I ’ve hatch a number of add - ons to OS X that ply such functionality . For example , QuickImage CM let you view ( and , to some extent , edit ) an simulacrum by good / control - clicking on the image and choose View Image from the resulting contextual fare . More recently , I hide MilkyWay , which pops up a small preview window for any epitome clicked in the Finder .
Mac exploiter now have another option , and one with several unequalled features : PicturePop Pro 2.0p2(donations requested ) . With PicturePop Pro installed , the Finder ’s contextual menus admit a new item : Either “ Show with PicturePopPro2 ” or “ Browse with PicturePopPro2 , ” depending on how you ’ve configure the PicturePop preferences . ( you’re able to toggle between modality by push the Option key . )
If you select Show mood , the image will be displayed , full - size , in a viewing windowpane . ( If multiple images were selected , only a single simulacrum will be displayed at once ; you could use the pointer keys to cycle through the images . ) Pressing the T key bring in up PicturePop ’s toolbar , which lets you do canonical viewing - connect actions such as zooming in or out and rotating . constrict the F cardinal switch to full - screen mode .
But you may also access a identification number of more powerful features by press the A key or clicking the Action ( paraphernalia - alike ) icon in the toolbar . This brings up two additional tool pallette . The first , glowering wild blue yonder , includes options that can be give to the current epitome : you may get info about the effigy , move it to the Trash , open up it in its default coating , watch it in the Finder , ormarkit for further activeness . you could also apply a colored Finder label to the image filing cabinet , or congeal the image as your Desktop characterisation . The 2d pallet , orange , lets you do military action onall markedfiles : move them to the Trash , move them to a folder you navigate to , or move them to one of three folders you depute in PicturePop ’s preferences .
This latter lineament make PicturePop utilitarian as a mode to quickly scan a pamphlet of images to keep or delete , much like PhotoReviewer , which I reviewed a duo years back . For example , you could produce a booklet calledKeep , assign it to one of PicturePop ’s folder button , and then browse a folder of images , deciding along the path what to do with each . By marking ( with the juicy palette ) those images you want to keep , at the end of your crop session , clicking the appropriate “ Move to folder ” button would move all mark images to that booklet .
A third pallet , featuring PDF - viewing option , appears only when catch a PDF document .
PicturePop ’s Browse mode is useful when you ’ve selected a group of images or a booklet containing several images . By pressing the Tab key , you could cycle through one of three agency to browse those images : the received one - image - at - a - time view , a “ contact canvass ” view that displays smaller versions of all the images in a grid , or a web browser app opinion with a listing of the images in a dose to the left-hand and the pick out figure of speech expose to the right . ( The tilt of images can be switch between filing cabinet names and thumbnail . ) you’re able to use the arrow keys to move through persona ; if you have a mouse with a scroll wheel — or a young Apple notebook computer with a scrolling trackpad — you’re able to also scroll through the simulacrum .
PicturePop ’s toolbar and palettes are also available in Browse mode , via the same keyboard shortcuts . By press the D key — for “ diaporama , ” according to the developer — you may take in a mathematical group of images as a slide show .
Unfortunately , none of PicturePop Pro ’s dick or buttons are labeled , nor does PicturePop ply float tooltips to indicate what each does . In fact , the top of every PicturePop windowpane ply a number of additional release that bring home the bacon various functionality ; none of them are labeled , either . For exemplar , the various Filter button , available in Browse mode but not labeled in any way , can be quite useful once you reckon them out : They let you cursorily view only those images with a particular Finder label , of a particular type , or that are mark . Fortunately , thePicturePop Web sitedescribes each button . Hopefully the developer will at least add tooltip support in an upcoming version . ( you’re able to also get a complete leaning of keyboard shortcuts by pressing the ? key [ shift+/ ] . )
One affair I like about PicturePop Pro is that its windows , although not really Finder window , actlike Finder window ; they can be lay in front of or behind other Finder window , and they shows up in the Finder ’s Window menu . you could even open multiple PicturePop Pro windows simultaneously . And because PicturePop supports all QuickTime - supported formats , you could even utilise it to speedily preview QuickTime picture show .
The current variation of PicturePop Pro is a preview of the first Intel - aboriginal vent , so it ’s got some hemipterous insect and known problems . For example , it once in a while crashes the Finder when I ’ve been doing a lot of icon - poke and -prodding . And it ’s also missing a few features promised for the concluding release — despite including buttons for them — such as the ability to quickly search through a folder of images by image name . But the prevue version has been work surprisingly well for me overall — good enough to take a quick look at images . I ’m looking forward to a last version .
PicturePop Pro work out with Mac OS X 10.3.9 and later and is a Universal binary .
