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Any Mac programs that are similar to IrfanView?

post #1 of 14
3/4/06 at 10:58am
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Anyone have any suggestions for Mac programs similar to IrfanView? I'm basically looking for a fast image viewer that can do some minor editing, including resizing that maintains good image quality. I can still do all of this with my Windows machine, but it'll be far more convinient if I could just do this on my Mac.
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post #2 of 14
3/4/06 at 11:00am
http://www.lemkesoft.com/en/index.htm
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post #3 of 14
3/4/06 at 1:13pm
iPhoto??
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post #4 of 14
3/4/06 at 2:18pm
iPhoto is a whole different program from IrfanView. GraphicConverter is about the closest thing to IrfanView on a Mac, having some capabilities that IrfanView lacks even, but isn't quite as easy to use for some tasks. IrfanView is one of the Windows programs I miss most on my Mac.
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post #5 of 14
3/4/06 at 2:19pm
Thread Starter 
Thanks for the link bangraman. I'll give it a try.

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Originally Posted by xUKHCx
iPhoto??
iPhoto works well enough as a viewer, but doesn't work well as an editor, even for very minor editing.
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post #6 of 14
6/3/10 at 4:40pm

have you ever used iPhoto and irfanview?  They are so totally different that it's not worth the comparison.  You can't just view photos in iPhoto.  You can create a library copy of photos and then the copy is visible inside the application.  That's not "viewing a photo".  You can view photos in preview, but that's slow and has very limited editing ability.

 

I have always been surprised that there are no apps for simply viewing photos on a mac.  The best program I've found is shoebox, which is expensive, a little buggy, and invasive (it makes a bunch of hidden files that are a total headache if you actually try to use shoebox in a meaningful way).  Also, shoebox can't rotate photos, it just displays photos as being rotated when you use their "rotate" command.  (I found this out after spending hours organizing my photos, only to discover that the rotated photos are not rotated when I look at copies on other computers, or when copied into other apps.)

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post #7 of 14
6/3/10 at 4:48pm

Of course right after I posted this I found a good set of links with some apps worth checking out:

http://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/showthread.php?5925-Irfanview-equivolent-for-the-Mac

 

The one app that I did think looked like a good photo viewer / organizer: Adobe Darkroom.  However, it was too expensive for me to try out, also looked like overkill for what I wanted. 

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post #8 of 14
9/29/10 at 1:03pm

Try XN View or Irfanview. Both have Mac versions.

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post #9 of 14
9/29/10 at 3:21pm

@pointsman, gunste:

 

Please check thread dates before you post. OP posed the question in 2006; I'm pretty sure he's found a solution by now.

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post #10 of 14
9/29/10 at 11:49pm
Originally Posted by gunste View Post

Try XN View or Irfanview. Both have Mac versions.

 

Care sharing a link to Irfanview for Mac OS X? The links on their webpage seem to point to MS Windows version only...

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post #11 of 14
9/30/10 at 12:28am

Taken from the IrfanView FAQs

http://www.irfanview.com/faq.htm#Q50

 

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Q: Can I use IrfanView on Mac?
A: Yes, probably. There is no native-Mac version of IrfanView. However, you can use IrfanView in conjunction with Mac program like WineBottler/DARWINE. Take the ZIP version of IrfanView and unzip it or copy your existing Windows IrfanView folder to Mac. This is easier because the installer may need additional Windows DLLs to run.
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post #12 of 14
10/1/10 at 9:07am

Darkroom?  I'm familiar with Adobe's Lightroom, and it is an excellent program...very powerful for managing a photographic workflow.  As a simple, fast, easy photo viewer?  It would be slow and frustrating.  Probably not the program you are looking for.
 

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Originally Posted by pointsman View Post

Of course right after I posted this I found a good set of links with some apps worth checking out:

http://en.irfanview-forum.de/vb/showthread.php?5925-Irfanview-equivolent-for-the-Mac

 

The one app that I did think looked like a good photo viewer / organizer: Adobe Darkroom.  However, it was too expensive for me to try out, also looked like overkill for what I wanted. 

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post #13 of 14
10/1/10 at 9:36am

X2 Lightroom I use it for editing.My only letdown using Linux

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post #14 of 14
10/1/10 at 10:30am

How about Preview that comes as part of Mac OS X?
I find it to do a great job as a fast image viewer, and it also got some built in editing features (resize, rotate, crop, exposure, saturation, temperature, contrast, add text, ..).

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