Best image viewer ?

[aphoebic]

Hi guys,

anyone knows about an efficient, easy to use and fast picture viewer for the NXs ?
I'm getting really tired of the clié viewer, especially waiting for it to load thumbs when i use it to review pics taken with my digicam...
thanks

[meir87]

Acid image is the best for me. http://www.palmgear.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=software.showsoftware&sid=865C253A-638F-4BA7-AE87834348A15913&prodID=44502

[rob_squared]

AcidImage, and don't listen to anyone who tells you different.

[n2ifp]

Now wait a minute, what's wrong with Acid Image??

:D

[PvV]

I agree. Acid Image is superb.

[n0ppw]

Yep, add me to the AcidImage convertees. AI reminds me alot of Paint Shop Pro's browse function. It actually scans RAM and expansion cards for graphics and lets you choose which directory you want to look at.

[Shogmaster]

If you have an OS4 device, AcidImage (http://www.red-mercury.com/acidimage.html) is the fastest viewer, and the best.

If you have an OS5 device and have plenty of RAM space, Resco Photo Viewer (http://www.resco-net.com/palm/PalmViewer.asp) is the most powerful, and the best choice.

If you want the best way to manage your photos between your desktop and your Palm OS device and don't have or want to use a complicated image editing app on the desktop, then SplashPhoto (http://www.splashdata.com/splashphoto/index.htm) is the best choice.

Try all three out in your device. They all have at least 14 days trial period.

[Dropzone]

I still think AI is still the best, think Resco no goal....

[Shogmaster]

Originally posted by Dropzone
I still think AI is still the best, think Resco no goal....

Keep in mind, this guy, unlike us, does not own AcidImage.

So the question is NOT whether Resco is good enough for him to abandon AI and purchase it for additional $20.

The question is, for $20, which app is best for him. He really should try all three out before just blindly listening to you or me on which he should get.

BTW, you should post with more reasoning and thoughts in your posts than just "no goal.....". :rolleyes:

[Defiant79]

I don't know if someone mentioned Acid Image. It's even fast (if you can call it fast) on a 770C.




:D

[hherbzilla]

Another vote for AcidImage... though I agree you should check out the big 3 for yourself (AcidImage, Resco and SplashPhoto).

[Rosenkrantz]

Chiming in from the OSX side, Splash Photo has excellent (think Mr. Burns) integration. AcidImage is truly superb on the handheld but it doesn't give you a good way to resize, crop, rotate, etc.. images to get there. It assumes you can do that yourself. Which really isn't hard. But Splash Photo does a great job by giving you a superb desktop app to resize photos for syncing. But of course, try them all and decide yourself.

[kp*]

AcidImage is awesome, but I'm one of those people who bought it a while ago and have no reason to switch to Resco unless it offered something highly superior to AI. So you should try both for yourself, but AI is a great and constantly upgraded product which will definitely offer you a lot more options than ClieViewer.

[rpayne]

Recently I decided to finally abandon clie viewer and buy a real viewer. I tried out AI, Splash and Resco. Splash didn't do it for me, narrowing it down to two.

For my purposes two things are the most important:
1. Speed of loading images
2. Zooming

AI - my choice. the best all around viewer. Plenty fast, and easy one handed zoom feature with the jog dial is priceless. I like the interface a lot.

Resco - speed fine but push and hold zoom is difficult and always ends up advancing the the next photo. In general I just found it a little more difficult to move around the app. Hue and contrast adjustments are nice but I'll never use it (I'd retake the picture instead).

BTW, all programs ran fine via powerrun, but resco did take considerably longer to load/inload.

I'll be buying AI shortly....another satified customer no doubt.

[hodson]

Warning! Cross Thread Post! I posted this same response on another thread with the same type of discussion in the NX forum.
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I've also used both pretty extensively.

The faster speed of AcidImage (much less than 1 sec. faster) is not the only thing to look into. I think that AcidImage is a little bit more advanced in speed and controls BUT SplashPhoto is MUCH more advanced when it comes to usefulness organizing your photos.

Let's say that you have 4 or 5 Digital Camera photos that you want to be able to view on your new NX. Just drag the photos into the SplashPhoto Desktop (something that AcidImage does NOT have anything like). From this program, you can optimize (crop, resize, contrast, brightness) the photos for your 320X480 screen with a couple of clicks of the button. The next time you sync, the photos are on your device (very easily your choice of internal or external RAM) at a resonable size.

Most of us are just wanting to have a bunch of pictures from home to view on our PDA's. We don't need to waste 1000's kb's of RAM on our MS's with photos that are too large anyways. The SplashPhoto desktop makes this easily possible.

The SplashPhoto program on your PDA also sees/reads the pics that are taken by the NX camera. If you view them on your PDA with SplashPhoto, the next time you sync, those photo's also end up in your SplashPhoto desktop so that they are easily seen on your main PC.

You can also drag and drop pics from websites into the SplashPhoto desktop and they are automatically added too.

Though I like the "professional" feel of AcidImage the best, I find the usefulness of SplashPhoto is more useful in the long run. I REALLY wish AcidImage would create a PC program/conduit that really blows the socks off of SplashPhoto, but for now I've bought the SplashPhoto program . I'll wait until AcidImage comes up with a more complete system (PC to PDA to PC conduit) that is easy to use by my whole family, not just me.

Oh...about the cost, for 50% less than AcidImage ($30 when it is not on sale) which works for only 1 user, you can get SplashData ($20) that works with every user on your computer (ie: you, your spouse, your children) that has a PDA. AcidImage is overpriced.

[n2ifp]

Acid Image can read more file types, plus it scans the WHOLE Clie and memory stick. Not only that, you don't need any conversion applications on the desktop if you use jpeg as most image editors worth their salt will accomodate jpeg photos. Another item, the zoom feature on Acid Image blows away Splash Photo by miles and faster too, noticibly faster!!!

I am registered for both, certain apps stand out above the rest. There is also fierce loyalty in application launchers too.

Acid Image continues to be the most popular for now.

[aphoebic]

Thanks guys, i went with AI !
In fact i do all corrections/manipulations with photoshop so what i needed was a way to review the pics taken with my digicam while i'm on the go... AI is amazingly fast, and after two days of use, it's worth every cent !
thanks again guys !

[Unregistered]

Hi guys

What do you say to the following comparative analysis that was copied from the newest SplashPhoto manual? They mixed up even the product name: Resco Picture Viewer refers to the PocketPC version - the clear leader in the Pocket PC world.

Acid Image
Acid Image allows users to view images on a Palm OS handheld, but provides no desktop support; therefore, images must be manually cropped on the desktop using an image editor like PhotoShop and installed on the device with a card reader. In addition, Acid Image does not support categories and former users complained of its very confusing user interface. Acid Image also takes much longer to launch than SplashPhoto.

Resco Picture Viewer
Resco Picture Viewer is a new entrant in the Palm OS market. Resco does provide a desktop application for cropping and installing images on the handheld, but does not provide a desktop catalog that offers two-way synchronization with the handheld. And, like Acid Image, it does not support categories. Feedback from Resco users indicates its user interface is very cluttered and confusing.

Differentiation
What makes SplashPhoto unique is its speed, simplicity, handheld optimization, and two-way synchronization with the desktop. There are many general-purpose handheld image viewers on the market, but most of them only enable users to view images that are manually installed (via a card reader) on the handheld. None of these applications is as easy to use as SplashPhoto, nor do they provide a complete handheld and desktop solution with two-way synchronization.

[hodson]

I disagree about the speed. I do not think that SplashPhoto is faster (MAYBE faster on startup but not faster for viewing LARGE pictures).

SplashPhoto is designed to easily install/organize/display lots of pictures optimized for your PDA. AI appears to be optimized to display/zoom large pics from anywhere on your expansion card. This is why I use both.

The two-way synchronization is a BIG key that grabbed me. It's easy for my to install files directly to the MS, but I also have to teach my wife and kids. With SplashPhoto I don't get called as often to fix their errors. SplashPhoto was MUCH cheaper for all of us. It would have cost me $90 to have AI installed on 3 PDA's compared to $20 to have SP installed on them. With so many capable photo viewing programs out there now, AI appears way over-priced (though I have both of them).

[XGlow]

I'm in the process of evaluating a photo viewer. I'm using an OS 4.1 Clie. I've found AcidImage reloaded the thumbs a bit slower between picture views.

The only thing that I REALLY didn't like about the AcidImage was the fact that it completely expanded the picture directory branches when launched. Resco View at least gives me the explorer style directory view. From there I could expand only the branch I was after.

I still have 7 days left on the RescoView. So far I think it might be the winner....:D

('jus my opinion...)