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Any replacement recommendation for the default image preview within Finder? (kbin.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/apple_enthusiast

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What I want to be able to do is open any folder and double click the image and navigate to the next image with arrows. Without having to view that folder through a separate gallery program.

But instead what happens is I double click and arrows do nothing and stays on the opened Pic. So what I have to do instead is select the Pic and press space. Then I can navigate from left to right. But, then it doesn't automatically move to the next row, so I have to press down to go down to the next row then move from right to left then down then left to right. Or change from my preferred grid view to list view so I can just rely on a single key press or change to multicolumn view which I'm not a fan of . Having to do those extra steps feels so clunky.

Is there a way to change the behavior of the default preview so double clicking to open a picture in a folder leads to being able to just use arrows to move to the next image in the folder? I'll even accept hitting space and the image preview automatically moving to the next row. Or another program to replace it that is a better image preview?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If I have understood your question correctly: First, in the Finder, if you view by list instead of icon, you can then use the up/down arrow keys in the Quick Look to navigate backwards/forwards through the images. Second, you can also use the Preview or Gallery mode (I forget what it is exactly called) in the Finder on image directories to quickly create fast scrolling gallery views of image directories.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Pixea ended up being the solution. Let's me not have to do any of those additional steps. Simple open and navigate to next image with arrows.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spacebar

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep. Hit space bar and use quick look.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So what I have to do instead is select the Pic and press space. Then I can navigate from left to right. But, then it doesn't automatically move to the next row, so I have to press down to go down to the next row then move from right to left then down then left to right. Or change from my preferred grid view to list view so I can just rely on a single key press or change to multicolumn view which I'm not a fan of . Having to do those extra steps feels so clunky.

Edit: got Pixea from recs and it works perfectly. Have replaced that to open jpg and pngs.

[–] ultratiem 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/pixea/id1507782672?mt=12

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is perfect. Simple and does exactly what I wanted.

[–] antsomnia 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Try Pixea! It does exactly what you ask. Pixea link

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you. Simple and just works. I wonder why it doesn't work that way natively.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sadly, there’s an excellent image viewer, that’s free, does exactly what you’re looking for, has been around since the 90’s, has a great support community, but it’s Windows only.

If you wanna try it in WINE, the name of the prog is IrfanView (after the coder’s name).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I ended up getting pixea from the recommendations which has been perfect.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Awesome! I’ll have to look into it, nothing’s come close to IrfanView on the Mac side previously.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Decided to check it out on Windows. Built resize function is really useful. It's on ninite too which is perfect for easy updates. Went and replaced the default viewer on Windows with it. Will save me time when I do want to do a light edit that doesn't require me to go into something like photoshop.

Edit: wasn't a functionality I expected but it handles videos too and in the correct ratio compared to pixea where some videos showed up stretched. Impressive little program.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That’s exactly how I use it. The batch functions are killer and don’t neglect installing the full panoply of plugins, those make it the Swiss Army knife of viewers.

Also, the dev is a true prince, personally answered a question I had a decade ago and it was an awesome interchange.

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