Mon, November 29th, 2004 by pixpop
Can anyone recommend software that allows you to experiment with a group of photos, e.g. a slide show, by trying them in different sequences? This is very easy to do with real prints.. you just lean them against a wall, or put them on a table, left to right, and swap them around until it looks the way you want.
Such software would need to allow the following:
1. Be able to see multiple images at once.
2. Be able to rapidly swap images in the sequence.
3. Be able to store multiple sequences and compare them quickly.
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November 29th, 2004 at 11:02 am
I have tons but most of it is for sequencing DNA
November 29th, 2004 at 11:31 am
cold try a trial of iview media pro to see if it does what you want...and then if you get it, you get a great image browser and cataloger(?) too
November 29th, 2004 at 2:08 pm
fotomagico on osx is *nice*.
November 29th, 2004 at 5:42 pm
ACDSee has sorting, sequencing, renumbering, rotating, and "light table" sort of layout. I use it all the time. Free trials work well.
http://www.download.com/ACDSee/3000-2204_4-10324094.html
November 29th, 2004 at 7:29 pm
Editing works so much better when you can lay it all out on the floor and let your mind find the connections subconciously. I'm telling ya.
November 29th, 2004 at 8:03 pm
Ross, I know what you mean. But these particular images don't exist as prints, only as TIFFs. I don't want to have to print them purely so I can sequence them.
I think some kind of slide show software is what I want. It would show all the images as thumbnails, and let you drag them into a different order very quickly.
Sxott, I forgot to mention.. OSX.
Ian, fotomagico doesn't look like it supports non-iPhoto operation very well, but I'll give it a try.
Ryan, thanks, I'll try out the iview media pro demo.
November 29th, 2004 at 8:06 pm
Editing is one of the most important parts of this whole photography thing. Printing them out for editing shouldn't be considered a waste...Even if the images will never be printed again.
Give your work the loving physical shuffling it deserves.
November 29th, 2004 at 10:11 pm
Ryan,
iview media pro does what I want, thanks for the recommendation.
November 30th, 2004 at 3:20 am
Try printing a contact sheet and cut them apart. 10-12 per sheet. Save some consumables by going small. Even b+w in economy mode. Instant light table. PhotoSlate does a nice job of this for Windows.
OSX, thanks pixpop. A Win user might find ACDSee fun anyway. For platform independence, try some Java PHP CMS thingy that you could run locally by webserver. Just a thought. I've seen such thingies searching SourceForge or Google.
December 2nd, 2004 at 11:26 pm
I've been using IView Media Pro for about a year now and it works great for me.
December 5th, 2004 at 4:22 pm
Hi
One cost effective (infact free) solution I have found is to convert the pix to jpegs and upload to online album srevices like yahoo photos.
There is option to sort/ re-aggange pix (as thumbnails) in the album plus you can always slide show the album.
BTW: yahoo accepts no larger than 1MB per image, but as you just want to sort, may be you can upload 640x480 versions (file size ~ 100k) by a quick batch resize in photoshop.
Hope it helps.
Awais
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December 6th, 2004 at 10:01 am
For the Mac, just aim the screen saver at them, they'll cycle randomly in the background while you do other things, letting them psychologically "cook."
On the PC, I do the same thing with XnView.