Toyviewer for OSX
If you use OSX and you currently use Photoshop or the Gimp for heavy duty graphics work, you’ve probably gotten the feeling that sometimes you’re using a sledgehammer to drive in a nail. These tools are just more than you need sometimes. For those quick and dirty jobs, this is a program you definitely need in your toolkit.
Enter Toyviewer. Totally free, Takeshi OGIHARA’s small and fast image editor can quickly resize, rotate, crop (he calls it “clip”), and save in virtually all useful formats (if it works on the web, I think its useful). It does a whole lot more, including a unique kind of slide show (he calls it “scan folder”) as well as a bunch of effects (though I rarely bother with these).
One unique thing about Toyviewer is the way it handles image modifications. When you apply a “clip” (crop the image), it doesn’t change the original image, instead it automatically produces a clipped copy of the image in a new window. Since each modification appears as a new image, you’re never in danger of destroying your original image.
You won’t find layers or text tools in Toyviewer, but that’s not what this program is for. When you just need something done quick, Toyviewer gets it done quickly and elegantly. Nice work!
Comment posted on 3-14-2005
I’m going to go check this out NOW! I use GIMP now, but it’s complicated and I am not skilled. Why there is no Windows Paint like app that ships with OSX I have no idea.
Thanks!