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Pictures on the
Macintosh computers
First and foremost,
there are no significant picture formats that cannot be viewed on an
Apple Macintosh computer or older clone. The Macintosh is a
very significant computer in the graphic arts industry. JPEG (JPG),
TIFF, GIF, BMP, PIC, EPS, PDF (Acrobat), etc all easily viewable on
the Macintosh. George Goumas usually uses a JPG format for the
MQS show pictures and these can be viewed with programs as expensive
as Adobe Photoshop to as ordinary as Microsoft Word. While
many programs can view/display these photos, there are some better
programs that can display these photos in a slide show format with
manual advance, automatic advance with transitions, and auto advance
with transitions and music. Looking at MQS quilts by opening
one at a time would take a great deal of patience, so I’m going to
give you some recommendations for software that can use to view them
by slide show.
Second, you need to know if you are
using OS 9 or OS X. If you are using a system older than
system 9, e.g. 8.6, you’ll need to read the fine print at the
software web sites. I can’t remember what works with system
8 anymore. If you are still working in OS 9, think about
upgrading to OS X if your computer will handle it.)
OS
X (slide show viewers)
IPHOTO.
You can import the MQS pictures into IPhoto. This is a free
photo program from Apple and either came preloaded with OS X or you
can download it from the Apple site. With this program, you
can view pictures in a slide show format, add transitions, and music…..best
of all it’s free.
http://www.apple.com/iphoto/
CURATOR. This is a free
program from Caffeine Software. This is simply great software
that you can use to display thumbnails of pictures in any file on
your hard disk or ZIP, etc. You can easily change the size of
the thumbnails for quick or more detailed screening and you can
easily start a slide show. This is wonderful software to quickly
find that exact picture you were looking for amongst the 100’s of
quilt pictures. Did I mention that it’s free.
http://www.caffeinesoft.com/
I-View Media Pro. This is a
low cost program that also comes free with many digital cameras
(Nikon & Canon for two). With it you can view pictures a
variety of ways, and have slide shows with varying times of display
and various transitions. You can find it at:
http://www.iview-multimedia.com/
I’ve been
using this since OS 9 and it really has a lot of capabilities. You
can download a trial version at the site above.
OS 9 (slide show viewers)
I-VIEW
MEDIA PRO. You still can use I-View Media Pro (see above). I
believe you can still download a version capable with system 8.6
GRAPHIC CONVERTER. I have not
used this software in a while but it converts images to different
formats and does have a slide show capability. Low-cost
Shareware. http://www.lemkesoft.com/us_gcabout.html
It will import photos in over 160 different formats (I didn’t know
there were even that many different types)
Q-PIC. I have not used this
software but it is available for system 8.6 through OS-X according
to it’ s web site http://www.qpict.net/.
It states it does have slide show capability.
This is just a cursory list of some
of the software that is out there. For the most part, it’s
software I’ve used and know will do the job for you. There are
many other programs out there that will do the job for you. I hope
this helps.
Peter Masley
Woodchuck Run Quilting |