Photo Viewer for Mac

Preview IS the Apple version of Windows Viewer and its more powerful opening PDF, editing , JPEG, TIFF and other formats.it will even do audio !

Oh and clearly you don't get iPhoto it is a viewer light editor and photo image database. Again far more powerful than Windows Viewer.

Infact its data storage is based on industry standard Aperture.

Quick view is effectively a built in PDF/inline viewer tool within the finder than allows just about any document to be viewed irrespective of format.Probably nearest to what Windows Viewer actually does

It has no editing tools and that not its function.

To open it full screen you hold the ALT key whilst clicking the document in finder

You DO have the opton to open in a specific app at the top of a Quickview window by default it usually says Open Preview however just right click and a list of all potential applications are then listed. You then choose the one you want.

When you select an image from the finder to open in Preview that's exactly what it does- Opens that specific image. IT does NOT load the entire folder because its a separate application - NOT part of finder !

Again you need to work through iPhoto its really has more going for it than you think and no there really aren't better FREE apps out there.

Oh and why the need for full screen viewing - THAT really is a windows hang out. MAC OS is designed such that windows open to the maximum size to display content rather than a locked full screen model by default.

That said if you look in to top right of the window bars click those two divergent arrows you go full screen.

Sorry to say you really have to change your work flow else you may just have to go back to Windows .

As for alternative image viewer depends how much you want to spend and from the sounds of it nothing !

Options

Adobe Lightroom

Adobe Photoshop Elements

Adobe Photoshop (Full)

Pixelmater

Install the X11 OS UNIX environment and run GIMP

Try out Graphic Converter.

Anything else ?

I too am new to the mac and want something to emulate Windows PhotoViewer for a specific need. I've scanned an out of print book and now need to be able to just simply start at the beginning and use the arrows to scroll through each scan in numerical sequence as I read the book.

I may be missing something obvious but a basic tool to load and then sequentially view images at full screen size seems to be missing. Any tips gratefully welcome either on how to use a supplied tool or for a suitable app to download.

You can select all the images in the "Finder" and then press spacebar. Then you will enter into a slideshow window. Next to the "X" on the top left corner to close the slideshow app there is a small icon to enter full screen mode (from here you can play slideshow if you want). This works fine - but the big thing missing compared to the Windows counterpart (picture viewer) - there is no way to delete pictures from this slideshow. The Windows equivalent (which has the possibility to delete) is very useful for selecting pictures.

I am new to mac and to find a small simple program is hard, it seems like mac wants to throw everything into there program and the simple things are not there. I had my mac book air for 1 week and still frustrated at how many hoop I have to jump throw just to do something and Oh finding the right program for the right mac os verison ... Makes me question why it cost 900$.

I love my iMac put also I miss some of the windows futures especially Windows Picture Viewer. My household we have 3 mac's and 2 windows, when I want check my camera sd card I use my work windows pc, this is simple software Apple can add on their system, most graphic, photography and video editing prefer mac they should add similar software.