The direct comparison of up to 4 images is one of the key points for the
use of FastStone. AFAIK, directly copied from BreezeBrowser which is
the only other software that I know of that implements such a useful
feature. I can remember the first time I used it in BreezeBrowser. I
was helping to shoot family groups for a church directory and it's very
helpful to get moms to pick out which shot is "best". Bring up 4 shots,
force a choice of one of the four, eliminate all but that one and bring
up another group with that one included. Force the next choice, etc.
Works great.
I'm very surprised that Bridge doesn't have that feature. If it did I'd
probably use Bridge rather than BreezeBrowser. But I guess I should
check again if Bridge does do it. I just bought an hour long training
video on Bridge. I need to sit down and watch it.
Chuck Norcutt
On 1/22/2012 9:56 AM, Candace wrote:
> Joel, those are exactly the purposes I used it for.
>
> After downloading the images from the Cf card via Bridge, I would use
> FastStone to quickly organize the "keeper" folder by pulling up 4 images
> of the same pose at a time, comparing them at 100% for focus, etc,
> immediately deleting all but the best one, and flying quickly through
> the folder culling images. Could open the keeper image in CS3 directly
> from Faststone, edit, close, see my edited file immediately in
> FastStone, and move on. Worked great for quickly cropping, and
> fabulously for batch resizing and watermarking. Or batch file
> conversions. Would then copy files to a subfolder "prints" and that
> housed only the cropped and ready to go to the lab images. I could do
> all of this very quickly. And, like you, I *never* used fastStone to
> "edit". Tried to make some quick enhancements once, and didn't care at
> all for what it did to the images. But it was a workhorse for all the
> other necessary workflow steps. Indispensable is a good word.
>
> If only I could find something like it for the MAC.
>
> Candace
>
> On 1/21/12 7:02 PM, Joel Wilcox wrote:
>> Sorry to hear this Candace.
>>
>> Dependent as I am on FS for viewing and organizing, nothing tempts me to
>> use it for editing images. The reason is that the images don't quite
>> look as good natively in FS as they do in Studio or Photoshop
>> ultimately. As all judgments are based on this, I just use it to flip
>> images to programs that produce a better visual rendering for my taste.
>> But for this it is just great, and for cleaning up folders later, it is,
>> for me, indispensable.
>>
>> Joel W.
>>
>> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012, at 07:24 AM, Candace wrote:
>>> Hi Brian,
>>>
>>> I wanted to reply to this when I first read it and couldn't at the time.
>>>
>>> You have *no* idea...I would gladly pay good money to have FastStone for
>>> my new iMac. That program played a very crucial role for me in my
>>> workflow, and now I do not have it. I knew that program pretty
>>> thoroughly, and could do many necessary functions with it.
>>>
>>> When I was contemplating switching from PC to MAC, one of the first
>>> things I did was Google "Faststone Image Viewer for MAC". It came up
>>> immediately, in several places, so I thought (silly me) that I would be
>>> good to go. After getting the iMac, I went to download FastStone,
>>> and....nothing. I don't know why it comes up in searches, but there is
>>> not a MAC version of FastStone. I am seriously disappointed. And my
>>> workflow is a bit crippled. I know there are other ways to go about what
>>> I need to do, it's just a matter of sorting that out. I was hoping not
>>> to have to do that, since I knew FasStone well.
>>>
>>> Funny thing, I can find complaints all over the internet, people
>>> lamenting the same fact as I...they switched from PC to MAC, and have
>>> lost their beloved FastStone, and can find nothing comparable.
>>
>
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