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XnView MP ( http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ ) Does what you need and more.
- Much, much faster than Lr & PMechanic.
- Much better keywords engine compared with Lr (shortcuts, Category (=keywords) Managers, unlimited Sets etc.)
- Various editing/creation/comparison tools
- Nice editor (double-click on the image) for common editing tasks.
- good file management engine (Favorites on Copy / Move To..., Visual comparison on Filename conflict, drag & drop file management, different ways to select and/or tag files, file filtering & searching, sorting, show files in recursive folders etc.)
- EXIF + IPTC + XMP (and histogram) can be shown in a separate (auto-collapsible or not) pane which fits in GUI (you can have it always on if you want)
- two monitor support
- Cross-platform
- The fastest Batch-Conversion engine around (AFAIK - yes, I tested)
- The fastest thumbnail generation engine around (AFAIK, - yep, I tested (again)) (note: on par with Corel's ASP)
- The most scalable DB around (AFAIK - you can use WebP compression for Thumbs in order to reduce the size, very lightweight structure, LR DB is a pig)
- Configurable GUI (Drag & Drop panes, Save Layouts, Save Keyboard shortcuts, Themes etc.)
- Supports a ton of formats
- Free
Bonus: Actively developed
If I forgot something, just ask.
Disclaimer: I am not the developer, just a happy user. :)
IrfanView works perfect in wine. So I would just settle for that. Because there is no good alternative to IrfanView.
Here is some alternatives. Just in case you don't want wine.
http://alternativeto.net/software/irfanview/?platform=linux
XnView MP is on the top of the list. http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ Closest your going to get, without using wine for IrfanView.
If your work flow is jpeg>adjustment>jpeg no software made will preserve image quality.
If it is RAW>adjustment>lossless format, virtually every app is pretty good.
The reality is that every adjustment you make compromises image quality. Every adjustment comes down to mapping a range down to a subset of that range and/or mapping a subset to the full range, both lose information.
For free and simple I like this one best: http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/
Like NLWoody suggested, two Explorer windows side by side with one set to large icons would work.
XnView is a good general purpose image viewer + browser if you're not happy with Explorer (Can drag drop, or just alt+m and pick from a favorite folder)
FWIW shortcuts (ctrl+1-5) work in the XnView MP viewer too, even the full screen slideshow.
edit: just had a look and it doesn't seem to actually write the rating to the file, it seems to show within xnview only.
Best tool for managing photos where you want to maintain some separation of different libraries is to use the free open source XNViewMP It's a fairly robust image organizer and viewer and it will not move photos, merely load the relevant folders and offer up simple editing tools. You can sort your client's image folders manually and build a system that is customized to your workflow. Any sort of photo/image processing program that builds libraries means that you're not in control of the management of them, hence /u/Deathbyspaetzle's warning. As much of a trudge as it is on the setup, manually building your own filesystem for your various clients is about the best, safest way to go.
You can use iPhoto if you have it, to load the app, just launch the program then drag-and-drop your photo folder onto the main window and let it build the library for you. If you don't have it, you can use Picasa (from google) or the ever awesome open-source XNViewMP.
If you want to use Preview, which is the Apple image viewer (that does not build/use Libraries per se. so much as it just opens pictures out of folders you choose) you select many pictures at once out of the folder and double-click on them.
Maybe give this a try out http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ I realize it is outside the repository ecosphere, but they do offer .deb or .tar.gz packaging, plus there is quite an active forum in which the developers get involved.
I found it to be highly configurable.
For me the easiest way to compare textures is to look at them in an image viewer. I use XnVewMP, which has DDS support out of the box. You should be able to look at the texture and see what object it belongs to.
Which texture names are ambiguous? Most of them are pretty obvious to me, but then again I've been playing and modding Bethesda games for years. All textures go into ../Skyrim/Data/Textures, unless you use Mod Organizer. So armor textures are in the "armor" folder, building textures are in the "architecture" folder, and so on. The "clutter" folder is Bethesda's dumping ground for textures that don't fall into other categories.
As far as installing/uninstalling texture replacers and running the game to compare them, well, that seems time consuming and I don't recommend it...unless you are really, really bored.
The textures are connected to 3D models, contained in ../Skyrim/Data/Meshes. If you want to see which mesh is connected to which texture(s) you could use NifScope to see the texture paths or look at the model in the Creation Kit, and find out which texture it uses and where it is in the game. That's an awful lot of work though...I guess MFG Console could help you get more info in game if you plan to go that route.
Go into your Pictures folder (in your Home Folder) and inside that is an iPhoto Library.
Click ONCE on the iPhoto Library icon (it is actually a folder) and then in the Finder window, go up to the options button and to where it says 'Show Package Contents' and inside that, is all the iPhoto folders, preferences, cache files, etc. that it's built which house various albums or slideshows - basically any of the manipulations you've done.
Now also, depending on the version of iPhoto, there will be a folder named either 'Masters' or 'Originals'.
These are the images straight from the camera, untouched and unsullied. (any modifications end up in duplicated into different folders).
Inside they will be sorted by import date into folders and you can grab the entire contents and either duplicate them or just move them out to say, your Desktop, and start from scratch.
As far as alternative options, I have had awesome luck with the open-source XNViewMP 0.72 and unlike Picasa it doesn't do ANY 'social networking' stuff. Just a robust, vanilla, image organizer.
I use XNViewMP. It's FREE and works much the same way Photo Mechanic does. You can rate your photos with stars and colors before importing into Lightroom. XNViewMP can even batch process and convert.
After finding out about it, I just couldn't justify the cost of PM.
Google photos is a great option if you don't mind using a cloud service. If you prefer to keep the files offline where they are then I'd recommend xnview mp. It's free for personal use.
Ah, that looks exactly like the sort of thing I am looking for, although Photo Mechanic is paid software. However, your suggestion led me to this post, which suggests XnView MP and Adobe Bridge. I'll give those a try to see if that solves my problem.
Thanks for your help!
XnView MP (http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/) - very fast, cross platform (Win, Mac, Linux). A bunch of options for watermarking and other bulk actions in its Batch Convert engine. Supports over 500 formats. Freeware.
I have used quite a few but my picks would be XnViewMP, viewer which has some basic (but good) editing capabilities, opens many image types and HoneyView, which also has support for compressed image files like CBR, CBZ o plain ZIPs and RARs. Both can also be used as portable apps (no need to install them)
Totally safe. I use it as well.
Also, if you need a not-iPhoto image browser program, there's XNViewMP - I have found it more stable than Adobe Bridge and less privacy-invading and intrusive then iPhoto or Picasa.
Yeah. You prompted me to do some searches, and I'm going to try a few free options out there. XnView looks like a good option, though the interface is a bit ugly. Does have tagging though.
You can use XnView MP - free, multiplatform, a lot of features and amazingly fast.
No problem culling even with Hasselblad MF backs.
Yep, I tried with D800/810 files (even if I work usually with Canon 5D3 ones)
XNViewMP - here is an open source viewer and it can build albums and do what she wants. I've had great luck with it.
If you scroll down a bit, the OSX version is freeware for personal use.
Enjoy!
It's more for category tagging. I like separate folders for each series as opposed to your method of series in file name, so I would need another way to filter out what I want when I need it rather than having to do a search.
Ex. I'm looking for the right reaction gif (which are stored in their respective series folders), but an explorer search to filter out all gifs takes too long even when indexed.
And of course, it seems near impossible to search for just "wallpapers" cause ratios and res are never constant.
FastStone is my primary image viewer right now because I like the convenient resize and crop features. I tried this one viewer called XnView before which does do what I want (albeit with manual tagging), but I didn't really like the interface that much. I'll take a look at Picasa when I have time though, thanks!
http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ may be an option for tagging photos ... XNview (the "regular version) is my Windows go-to app for photos and XnviewMP (Multi Platform) has really come a LONG way since the last time I tried it. Again I hate to throw too many options out there, but I just want to give this App a mention,
Try XnView. They launched the MP (multi-platform) version that work on Mac and Linux too (used to be Windows only).
You can colour label pictures based on their relation (work, personal etc.), and also have a 5 star rating system, so you can filter the "favourites", "ok but keepers", "maybe delete" or the "delete definitely" out. You an also customize categories.
Hmmm. So it's not an issue with data tags left everywhere. Can you run a folder by folder comparison and manually sort through each? If you set your PC to share folders and connect them to each other, you can run the volume windows side-by-side. Your PC's folders on one side and the Mac's on the other. I imagine that the missing 3,000 photos will show themselves (or not, as it were) relatively quickly.
Shortside of the manual hunt is to just grab every photo out of the PC onto a large flash memory stick and drag-and-drop copy them to the Mac. For whatever reason, iPhoto may not be seeing all of the images, if they are corrupted in any way, it can tend to just make them 'disappear'. May be the case.
(I actually loathe iPhoto for just this reason, and use a different image organizer called XnViewMP 0.72.)
> I just want my pictures all in one place. Not a million divided sections that makes finding pictures miserable. Any suggestions?
Quit using iPhoto and find a third-party viewer like XnViewMP http://www.xnview.com/en/xnviewmp/ or Picasa.
When you import your photos off the phone, use Image Capture instead of the iTunes. You can tell Image Capture to ignore or use whichever app you want to grab the pictures and where to send them. It doesn't do ANY folder and photo indexing nonsense - it just grabs the pictures and puts them where you tell it. Cool thing is, if you have a single destination folder, and don't delete the pictures after you import, it sees the photos already imported (puts a little green check mark in the corner of the thumbnail) and you merely select the new pictures and download them.
Works like a charm.