#Xnviewmp vs xee3 zip
#Xnviewmp vs xee3 mac

I would have expected a more intitive layout with directories on the left and picture content on the right (more like finder).

It puts the icon in the dock and once you click on the icon the menu bar is parked at the top and one has to physically click on it, select file and open a file or directory. When the application starts it does not open a typical application window. With a little extra effort this application could be on the top of the heap. This application does in fact display various graphic formats however, the user interface is crude and hardly intuitive and the application itself shows its age.

#Xnviewmp vs xee3 mac

But for $4 it sure filled a big hole in the Mac image handling for me! I do have a few quibbles and I’ve given some feedback to MacPaw so I’m hoping we’ll continue to see improvements.

#Xnviewmp vs xee3 zip

For example, I assigned the keys 1 through 5 to move the current image to one of 5 different destinations, so it is easy to zip through and sort a bunch of images into good/better/best/reject, for example, or into “bride”/“groom”/“other”, etc., with a single keystroke. So I’ve got my whole keyboard mapped out for quick scanning, zooming, sorting, and even some rudimentary editing (just rotating, flipping, and cropping). I love the fact that almost all of the many commands in the system are assignable to keyboard keys via a very easy to use Preferences->Keyboard screen. It has a pretty sophisticated copy/move system where you can dynamically specify up to 10 destination folders and then move or copy each image into one of those destinations with a keystroke. I shoot and sort a lot of images and Xee has some key features that really help me. I’ve used several other image viewing programs, both paid and unpaid, but this is my favorite. I’m using the latest version, which at the moment is 3.5.3, and many of the complaints I’ve read in these reviews apparently apply to previous versions because they don’t apply to the version I have. I rarely write reviews but I feel compelled to because I love this program and I don’t think the ratings here reflect how good it is.