The Power of Preview in OS X
This entry was posted on Jun 12 2008
If you own a Mac, you’ve got to check out the Preview program. There’s more to it than I expected.
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Great tips.
BTW, Google is listening to you. While watching the video, there was an ad for MacBooks at the bottom…
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I love demos in all their forms. Alas I am a PC guy and although Macs rule this is basically a tease…thanks–tease.
I think I might have once known about it, but I never really use Preview for anything other than, well, previewing. And, then only because it launches itself on certain files. I suppose because I haven’t changed the default behavior. Of course, sometimes it’s just faster to look at a JPEG in Preview than to launch Photoshop.
But, even with the features you mention in Preview, I’ll still need Photoshop to manipulate my images. I stick my copyright line there in the bottom, which will be even more important if Congress passes that Orphan Works Act, but I digress… Anyway, I need to be able to add text and sometimes outline it or glow it or whatever so that it shows up.
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Do you know I have used Macs for about 10 years and never realised you could do that with Preview – it seems to be the same adjustment window that comes up in iPhoto but I have only ever used Preview for viewing images. You live and learn
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If you like that you’ll love Aperture. You can try a fully functional copy for 30 days. Yes, I knew that about Aperture. Congratulations to coming over to the Mac side as you know, I’m a Mac lover. I use a 17″ MacBook Pro.
I use Preview for “quick & dirty” projects like blog posts.
I’m on a 2 wk old imac and still figuring the new stuff out. (Different than my old G4!) Thanks for a great tip! Maybe I’ll just skip Photoshop…
Pete, the features you mention (or at least most of them) are in Preview in 10.4.x. Don’t know how far back they go, but they aren’t new to 10.5–but the interface is slightly different.
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