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CuriousMike

CuriousMike

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I was raging about how slow Lightroom is at rendering photos ( even after import ).
I love love love LR for actually editing photos and the results I get.
I loathe loathe loathe LR for browsing photos.

A couple suggestions were made ( Paintshop Pro x7, Photo Mechanic and Perfect Browse).

I did a "Photo Mechanic vs Pefect Browse" google, and lo-and-behold you can get Perfect Browse for free ( http://www.on1.com/fstoppers/ )

I've just installed it and am playing with it, and for a photo browser ( that will directly send to LR or PS ), it's pretty good so far.

So, if anyone of you need something like this, you might check it out.
 
CuriousMike said:
I was raging about how slow Lightroom is at rendering photos ( even after import ).
I love love love LR for actually editing photos and the results I get.
I loathe loathe loathe LR for browsing photos.

A couple suggestions were made ( Paintshop Pro x7, Photo Mechanic and Perfect Browse).

I did a "Photo Mechanic vs Pefect Browse" google, and lo-and-behold you can get Perfect Browse for free ( http://www.on1.com/fstoppers/ )

I've just installed it and am playing with it, and for a photo browser ( that will directly send to LR or PS ), it's pretty good so far.

So, if anyone of you need something like this, you might check it out.
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Are you on LR5? LR6? I hear LR6 has GPU-acceleration (finally).
 
I've done the upgrade dance from 4->5->6.

The GPU acceleration is for edits, not browsing.

I'm just tiring of the long import process and chunky browse of LR.
 
AnitaPeterson said:
Does Faststone use the mouse wheel to scroll through pictures?

That, in my mind, makes it all worthwhile.
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It does use the mouse wheel to switch pictures.

I think of it as what ACDsee used to be, minimal and very good at what it does, before they bloated the crap out of it trying to make it do everything.
 
Thank you!

Exactly. To this day, I used ACDsee version 2.4 (!), because I just need a simple program to look at (and scroll through) lots of pictures. Later ACDsee versions became bloated and insufferable, kinda like Nero post version 6.6. No need for editing, I have Photoshop for that....
 
Another cool feature with Faststone is when you mouse over to the right edge of the screen it shows your EXIF data. I use that a lot when I am looking through my recently transferred photos.
 
Another vote for FastStone - also has a really nice 2nd screen feature (thumbnails on primary screen, full size preview on the secondary) that makes quick culling of bad photos very easy.
 
For those with FastStone Image Viewer & CCleaner - make sure to uncheck FFIV clean option in the cleaner.

FSIV stores local DB for previews.
 
For those using Faststone - I like it, but I find the fact that it insists to show me the picture information (file name/path, whether I want to see it or not) terribly distracting.

Is there any way to prevent the program from showing this data? All I want is the picture, nothing else...
 
AnitaPeterson said:
For those using Faststone - I like it, but I find the fact that it insists to show me the picture information (file name/path, whether I want to see it or not) terribly distracting.

Is there any way to prevent the program from showing this data? All I want is the picture, nothing else...
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You can do that in XnView 🙂
 
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