JustLooking Image Viewer for OS X

Like the majority of digital camera owners, I have a huge collection of digital photos.  Since 1998, I had been using ACDSee to view my collection because of its speedy interface.  Somewhere along the way, ACDSee became another one of the many shops to incorporate a Photo Manager into their application.  Some may find this useful for tagging or labeling photos for quickly locating photos of a particular subject, but I have found that I mainly deal with photos in a date manner.  Since date is my primary classification, I have created directories such as 2001-11 and 2006-11 to hold photos taken within those months.  I haven’t had any issues with this as ACDSee did not force me into using their Photo Management features.  However, when I made the switch to Mac, I was without a good viewer of photos and directories of photos.  iPhoto is included, but it is completely wrapped around Photo Management requiring each photo be imported so it may append additional meta data with each one.  I don’t really care for this much overhead, so I just did without and continued the search for a application that better suited my needs.  QPict seemed to have a lot of following so I gave it a try and it seems to do a good job of giving my everything I need, but only one caveat is with the sorting of directories listed on the left.  There is seems to be no rhyme or reason to the sorting being used.  QPict costs $35 for their Standard license.  Today I found a FREE program that does a great job viewing photos and integrating with OS X as the primary photo viewer.  JustLooking offers the speed and ease-of-use I’ve been looking for, but it lacks a tree view for quickly navigating through my photo directories.  This is a tough call, but free always has a ring to it.  I’ll probably continue to use both and see which completes the package first.

JustLooking screenshot

11/21/2006 | Free Software, Mac | Comments

2 Responses to “JustLooking Image Viewer for OS X”

  1. Posted by: Jason - 11/22/2006

    Nice screenshot!

  2. Posted by: kris - 12/03/2006

    Hey Trey,

    Just got the comment about the Isight, sure, i wouldn’t mind sending you the photobooth program at all. Though I have an Imac and not the mac book, I’m not sure if it matters though.

    Send me you’re email address and I’ll forward it as soon as i get home from work.

    Take it easy,

    K.
    krismallory@gmail.com

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