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all i ever wanted... dam software

mister z
for 6 months, starting with EM2, now MP1:

All I ever wanted to do was quickly just see hi quality thumbs of all my pictures when needed.
In other words, I only needed a photo index. Didn't even need all the sorting features and other wonderful things that actually I anticipated in MP1. But I'm still at stage one, meaning, I cannot even get thumbnails of my images with these softwares. Any other recommended software? I dont want to pay $$$$$ for super duper hyper over-featured colossal powerful globally integrated cutting edge hundred thousand users capacity. Just hi quality thumbnails with disk paths for one user would work. That's all I need.
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  • macsrock
    Do you have Photoshop...actually Bridge? Bridge will be exactly what you want. It is an image browser on steroids, but not great DAM software.


    I did a search for "free image browser for mac" and came up with....
    http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/imagev ... intosh.htm


    good luck!
    MM
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  • mister z
    [quote="macsrock" wrote:
    Do you have Photoshop...actually Bridge? Bridge will be exactly what you want. It is an image browser on steroids, but not great DAM software.


    The problem with bridge is you have to wait for it to render every folder you want to inspect.
    Then add to that bouncing around to different folders, very large ones, then come back and
    render allover again. That's why that doesn't work.

    I'll check out your link, thanks.
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  • rmoorlag
    The problem with bridge is you have to wait for it to render every folder you want to inspect.
    Then add to that bouncing around to different folders, very large ones, then come back and

    What you could do is to navigate 1 level up in your folder hierchy. Then choose in Bridge menu / Tools / Cache. Then choose 'Build and Export Cache'. Then take a cup of coffee and come back some later...
    Al the thumbnails are made and you can browse and jump to them as much you like!
    Trie it and you love it

    Roelof
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  • mister z
    Do we export it with a name?
    Does that mean bridge will find the cache
    it needs for a particular folder, or do we need to load it?

    Maybe I ought to do that with lightroom, except no matter
    how fresh the 1:1 thumbnails are in lightroom, they
    always require some loading pause.
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  • rmoorlag
    Do we export it with a name?
    Does that mean bridge will find the cache
    it needs for a particular folder, or do we need to load it?


    Just folow the instructions:

    - Open bridge
    - Navigate to the top level (so you don't proces a folder at a time but all folders in one run)
    - Then choose in Bridge menu / Tools / Cache.
    - Then choose 'Build and Export Cache'.
    - Then take a cup of coffee and come back some later...

    Al thumbnails in all folders are made for you and they are ready to browse.
    Roelof
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  • rmoorlag
    I did a search for "free image browser for mac" and came up with....
    http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/imagev ... intosh.htm


    Maybe give XnView a trie?


    Roelof
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