I’ve started looking at a bunch of image browsing/processing tools on OS X after watching Eric work with his Windows toolset. Does anyone have any recommendations of apps they really like?
Some desired features:
- Quick rendering in the browser
- Batch creation of copies of the images
- Watermarking
- Sharpening
- A nice simple, clean, elegant UI
Comments are open…
How much post-processing do you want to do on the images? If you’re shooting RAW, there’s always Capture One, but that’s expensive at $499 – might as well buy Aperture.
I don’t know if iView 3.0 does watermarking or sharpening, but it’s been my main tool for several years. It does the other things that you want to do. At $199, the price keeps going up, with $99 the upgrade fee for 2.x users.
-adam
I’m talking more about the $20 shareware utils – small tools for small jobs.
My tools for every job:
Photoshop
GraphicConverter
…and for quick resize by right-clicking on a file or convert to JPG, etc. the most excellent FREE QuickImageCM
http://www.pixture.com/macosx.php
Alex, it looks like all you need is GraphicConverter, but you already know of it’s capabilities. =)
Mac OS X Image Browsers/Batch Processors Mini Reviews – Part 1
As previously mentioned, I decided to explore the Mac OS X options for budget ($100 or less) image browsers/batch processors. I basically wanted something to make it easy for me to generate the watermarked full size/thumbnail pairs I post here in my b…
Been through many image browsers for the Mac. All I want to do is browse for images and view them. This program does the best job I’ve seen, and it’s free. I don’t think I could ask for anything more than this! Highly recommended if you’re looking for something simple but does its job very well.
Brett — I’ve used both Photoshop and Graphic Converter since for *years*, but the simple tools I saw Eric using for his batch processing were a better mousetrap.
Ste_Rose – um, what is the name of the image browser you like?