New in SimpleImage 5
Completely rewritten from scratch as a modern Cocoa application, SimpleImage 5 is loaded with new and improved features.
Browsers
- Live search field lets you filter browser contents quickly
- Autosaving, extensive undo and revert to saved
- Password protection
- Spotlight indexing
- New keywords panel and menu
- New Find panel allows boolean 'or' searches and shows search results in place by filtering browser contents
- New search criterion: portrait or landscape orientation
- You can now keep brower items arranged automatically by 8 different criteria
- Thumbnails are now generated in the background for better responsiveness
- More flexible view options and a new 'Make Settings Default' command make it easy to customize your browsers
Images
- Print preview and fixed ratio selections for popular paper sizes make it easy to get just the right results when printing
- Save for Web lets you preview compression and scaling options before you save
- New autohiding full screen controls
- 'New Image from Clipboard' command
- More supported image types
- Ability to save images as GIFs and progressive JPEGs
Movies
- You can now create contact sheets from movies
- New autohiding full screen playback controls
- More powerful movie editing options and undo support
- "Sticky" movie aspect ratio stays in effect until you change it
Quick Peek
- See thumbnails of all the media files in a folder at a glance
Slideshows
- Quick Peek panel lets you jump directly to specific slideshow images by clicking their thumbnails
- New Core Image transition effects
- New autohiding slideshow controls
- Apple Remote support for controlling slideshow playback
- New control lets you toggle quickly between maximized and regular-sized images
- Slideshow soundtracks now run in the background for better performance
Recent items
- See thumbnails of up to the last 250 items you've viewed in SimpleImage
- Recent items now remember and restore all their view settings when re-opened
- Live search field lets you find recent items quickly
- Recent items can now be arranged by a number of criteria
Inspector panel
- Single-pane collapsible panel lets you see more at once
- Translucent design is less intrusive
- Displays browser item EXIF data
And more
- You can now assign ratings to files and filter items by minimum rating
- You can now edit speech recognition commands
- Dynamic open types sheet recognizes new types as they are added to the system
- Options in the Slideshow and Open Folders panels can now be quickly enabled or disabled
- New button in Lightbox makes it easy to display contextual menus for items
- SimpleImage now uses system window cycling shortcuts
- The document count badge on the Dock icon is now optional
- SimpleImage now supports thumbnails up to 512 x 512 pixels
- You can now specify precise pixel dimensions in the Set Size sheet
- Quick Look browser previews (Leopard only)
- Tips panel