ToyViewer is a lot more than just a simple image viewer for Mac. With its assistance, you can convert pictures between various image formats, preview the photos from a directory within your Mac as a slideshow presentation, edit snapshots with minimum effort, and so much more.
You can use this program whenever you need to resize images, enhance the color tone of a picture or apply dozens of visual effects to your favorite photographs. Its settings are very simple to configure, so you can easily handle this application, even if you're a beginning computer user.
Furthermore, the built-in slideshow tool enables you to preview your photo collection in fullscreen mode, on top of other running programs. You can add transition effects, set the preferred interval of time for changing images, etc.
I also like the fact that this application can also be used for converting pictures to various formats. In addition, with just one click, you can set the loaded picture as an icon for a directory within your Mac.
In conclusion, ToyViewer proves to be a smart alternative to Preview (Mac's default image viewer) for opening and editing pictures on your computer. It's feature-rich, provides you with quality output files, and is free.
v5.3 [May 30, 2013]
- ToyViewer 5.3 can display and save images in WBMP (Wireless Bitmap) format.
- The new function "Extension Edge" that enlarges the dimension of an image is added. Extension is done by filling with a solid (or transparent) color, by padding with the most outer pixels, or by stretching out the edge.
- The new function is added to make monotone (white or black) images with alpha channel. The transparency is added according to their brightness.
- Clip operation without the selected area makes the copy of the image, as if the whole of the pixels is selected. This action is the same as version 5.1.2, but it was prohibited in 5.2.4.
- When an image with multi-page (or multi-frame) is displayed, a button appears at the bottom right of the window to activate Multi-Page Inspector.
- Bug Fix: When a monochrome image was saved as a PNG image file, its format became PNG with palette. Currently, ToyViewer can correctly save a monochrome image as a monochrome PNG.
- Bug Fix: The sub-panel of the preferences that makes ToyViewer the default application of each image format didn't work as expected.
- Bug Fix: In the English version, "Height" button of the resizing panel couldn't work.
