Macbook Pro. Viewing photographs?

[Redspider]

In Windows I click on a photo in a set & just press left or right arrows to view each one. Easy. On Mac it only shows the one photo & I have to go out of that photo & into the next, very inconvenient. I have read of ways like push the space bar & so on but none are satisfactory. Any hints or tips to just quickly view photo's I have taken without putting them into a programme.

 

[sphexx]

Take your pick:
1 view as icons and maximise the size
2 view as carousel and step through them
3 Select the ones you want to view (click drag etc) and choose quick look then you can play as slide show or step through them
4 select them and open in preview (the default open usually) and they will open as a multi page document that you cann page through

There may be other ways that I cannot think of right now.

 

[MH88]

Well the Mac uses the "Photos" programe, as soon as I insert my SD card it gives an option to import new photos, it imports them into "photos" and once they're in there they are easy to view. I simply open "Photos" and view an image and can navigate through them with the arrow keys on the Mac keyboard. That works pretty well for me as I can view all the photos I took on that day without having to click each one.

 

[sphexx]

Well the Mac uses the "Photos" programe, as soon as I insert my SD card it gives an option to import new photos, it imports them into "photos" and once they're in there they are easy to view. I simply open "Photos" and view an image and can navigate through them with the arrow keys on the Mac keyboard. That works pretty well for me as I can view all the photos I took on that day without having to click each one.

Yes, I thought the OP was looking at photos in the finder before importing them to Aperture or whatever. His question doesn't make much sense and he hasn't come back to clarify!

 

[dejongj]

In Windows I click on a photo in a set & just press left or right arrows to view each one. Easy. On Mac it only shows the one photo & I have to go out of that photo & into the next, very inconvenient. I have read of ways like push the space bar & so on but none are satisfactory. Any hints or tips to just quickly view photo's I have taken without putting them into a programme.

So you press spacebar to enter quick look and use arrow left/right to see next and previous. And if you like up and down to move to another folder.

I don't understand what is unsatisfactory about that? Very quick easy to do. Actually I still haven't figured out in windows how to do it. Maybe we can help each other.

 

[Andy Taylor]

So you press spacebar to enter quick look and use arrow left/right to see next and previous. And if you like up and down to move to another folder.

I don't understand what is unsatisfactory about that? Very quick easy to do. Actually I still haven't figured out in windows how to do it. Maybe we can help each other.

Also, if you select multiple photos in the folder (Command A will select all), you can then press space, click to enter Full Screen and then use the arrow keys or on screen buttons to move between them. There's also a Play/Pause button and a thumbnails view.

If you insist on a proper program, then there are several - Preview is built in to OS X and there's LilyView http://lilyviewapp.com on the Mac App Store for a couple of quid (other apps are available).

 

[sphexx]

I'm surprised the OP, who has 1300 posts to his name, has not come back here!

 

[Redspider]

Thanks for the replies. I have been busy but I am back now. In Windows I can click on a photo in a hard drive, in the SD card in fact anywhere once only. Then the left & right arrows take you from photo to photo without importing. Once I see the ones I am interested in I can import them. On the MacBook Pro I can't click on one photo (say the first) & then go from photo to photo with arrow keys or mouse.

 

[dejongj]

Thanks for the replies. I have been busy but I am back now. In Windows I can click on a photo in a hard drive, in the SD card in fact anywhere once only. Then the left & right arrows take you from photo to photo without importing. Once I see the ones I am interested in I can import them. On the MacBook Pro I can't click on one photo (say the first) & then go from photo to photo with arrow keys or mouse.

Yes you can We've explained that above several times....

 

[Redspider]

OK I have tried again. If I click once on a photo & then press the spacebar the picture gets bigger, I can then press the UP & DOWN keys & the photos change. Left & Right don't do anything. If I try to make the screen full size the photo won't change whatever arrow I press. I am happy to use it with the spacebar & up/ down arrows, but in Windows I just double click (or single, if it is set that way) & I have a FULL screen that I can press the left & right arrows, no spacebar & full screen very easy.

 

[dejongj]

Up/down reflect going up and down the folder. Left will go to the previous folder and right step in another folder. Exactly how you see it in front of you. If you change the look of your folder like the carousel the keys will follow left/right.

 

[Deleted member 49549]

OK I have tried again. If I click once on a photo & then press the spacebar the picture gets bigger, I can then press the UP & DOWN keys & the photos change. Left & Right don't do anything. If I try to make the screen full size the photo won't change whatever arrow I press. I am happy to use it with the spacebar & up/ down arrows, but in Windows I just double click (or single, if it is set that way) & I have a FULL screen that I can press the left & right arrows, no spacebar & full screen very easy.

You need to select all the files you wish to preview first (cmd a), then when you open quick view by pressing spacebar, go into full screen by pressing the icon in the top left, you can use the cursor keys to change the pictures. But this has already been said in post 6!