Power User Monday Tip of the Week

Preview Pictures in the Finder

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By: Jon Gales

In today's PowerUser Monday, I'd like to introduce to you your new best friend--PicturePop [MacUpdate info page]. Never heard of it? Probably because it's tucked away on a French developers site with no PR budget. Hopefully, this column will give him the credit he deserves. PicturePop is a free contextual menu plug-in for previewing images in OS X. It works on everything from GIF's to PDF's, but doesn't do movies and such (just images, but I hope movies come soon...even though it's called PicturePop :P)


When used in tandem with my MetaData in the Finder tip last week, images will never be the same.

When you right click (or control-click for those without a 2 button mouse) on an image, select "Show With PicturePop" and let go. Once you do, the file shows up in a window that goes away once you click on it.


Everything is done in the Finder. Preview doesn't open, it's just the Finder. It uses the Quartz rendering engine (I'm assuming) and is quite speedy.

If you thought that was cool, select 3 or 4 images and choose "Show With Picture Pop". Now they come up in rapid fire! Once you click to close one, the next one shows up until there are no more.

Go download it, it's only 50K and give it a try. Make sure to read the directions, there isn't a fancy installer (you have to drag it to a folder by yourself). If you like it
  


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