Viewing photos side by side

mrcoons

Is there software that allows you to view two different photos side-by-side for comparision purposes?

My photo management software is ACDSee and it does not allow this but I figure that someone has to have a product like this.

Any suggestions?


Thanks.

ChrisJ

FastStone Image Viewer

http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDetail.htm

mrcoons

Thanks Chris! I will give this a try!!!!

ChrisJ

It's fast and free... the only thing I don't like about it is that when I rotate a pic 90 degrees, it asks me if I want to save changes. There might be a setting for that, but I haven't dug deep enough yet.

Roy Mathers

Surely Photoshop will do this. You just open both images and place them side by side, at whatever size you like. There is also a facility for automatically matching position and zoom settings for both pics.

mrcoons

I thought Photoshop Elements might do this but had not been able to find out how yet.

Looking at the website for FastStone Image Viewer I like the idea of being able to view 4 photos at the same time as I usually have 3 or 4 versions of the same photo to evaluate. I'll report back on my thoughts on it.

yowasuphomeboy

mrcoons wrote:

Is there software that allows you to view two different photos side-by-side for comparision purposes?

My photo management software is ACDSee and it does not allow this but I figure that someone has to have a product like this.

Any suggestions?


Thanks.

To compare images in ACDSee 9 Photo Manager :

1. In the Browser, select the images that you want to compare.
2. Click Tools | Compare Images. Up to four images display in the Compare Images Viewer.

Roy Mathers

mrcoons wrote:

I thought Photoshop Elements might do this but had not been able to find out how yet.

Looking at the website for FastStone Image Viewer I like the idea of being able to view 4 photos at the same time as I usually have 3 or 4 versions of the same photo to evaluate. I'll report back on my thoughts on it.

I don't use Elements myself (I use Photoshop CS2) but I'm fairly sure that it is able to do what I described, with the possible exception of the automatic zoom and position.

kini62

mrcoons wrote:

I thought Photoshop Elements might do this but had not been able to find out how yet.

Looking at the website for FastStone Image Viewer I like the idea of being able to view 4 photos at the same time as I usually have 3 or 4 versions of the same photo to evaluate. I'll report back on my thoughts on it.

PSE while in the browser, there is a command (can't remember under what drop down- view- I think) for compare photos. You can then compare 2 side by side, match zooms of view them one at a time for a larger image.

I find this a handy way to cull through a bunch of shots and get rid of the OOF ones.

Gene

Nikolai

mrcoons wrote:

Is there software that allows you to view two different photos side-by-side for comparision purposes?
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Any suggestions?
Thanks.

Adobe CS Bridge (CS2/CS3)

ChrisJ

Nikolai wrote:

Adobe CS Bridge (CS2/CS3)

To me, the key is SPEED. Bridge does not have it, the FastStone Viewer does... I can have both PS CS2 open and FS Viewer and it works well (especially with dual monitors).

mrcoons

ChrisJ wrote:

To me, the key is SPEED. Bridge does not have it, the FastStone Viewer does... I can have both PS CS2 open and FS Viewer and it works well (especially with dual monitors).

It certainly is fast opening both images. It doesn't appear to want to open more than 2 though. Is that right Chris? (ACDSee will apparently open 4.)

ChrisJ

mrcoons wrote:

It certainly is fast opening both images. It doesn't appear to want to open more than 2 though. Is that right Chris? (ACDSee will apparently open 4.)

Just tried it with 4 and it worked fine for me. 3 works okay, 5 is right out!

Make sure you highlight the four you want with Ctrl-Mouse clicks then hit "P" or scroll to the "Tools->Compare Selected Images"

mrcoons

ChrisJ wrote:

Just tried it with 4 and it worked fine for me. 3 works okay, 5 is right out!

Make sure you highlight the four you want with Ctrl-Mouse clicks then hit "P" or scroll to the "Tools->Compare Selected Images"

I was having a highlighting problem, I guess. Or a senior moment!

Both Faststone and ACDSee work pretty much the same way but ACDSee doesn't have 'compare' in it's right click menu like Faststone does. Faststone might be a hair faster too but it's real close.

Thanks Chris and everyone else that posted!

CatOne

mrcoons wrote:

Is there software that allows you to view two different photos side-by-side for comparision purposes?

My photo management software is ACDSee and it does not allow this but I figure that someone has to have a product like this.

Any suggestions?


Thanks.

Aperture and Lightroom both do a very good job of this. It's a key part of their workflow.

dogratty

compare images
ACD 9 Photomanager, and the previous editions of ACDSee (I had 5.0 thru 8) all had a 'Compare Images' under Tools or select the images and control alt R

pathfinder

Photoshop Elements will let you open as many images as your RAM will accomodate - certainly 4 or 5. Just go to File > Open for each image

greenpea

I've never used this particular plug in, but Beyond Compare ($30) has a free picture viewer plugin that will compare two images and visually tell you what is different between the two images.

mrcoons

greenpea wrote:

I've never used this particular plug in, but Beyond Compare ($30) has a free picture viewer plugin that will compare two images and visually tell you what is different between the two images.

That looks interesting, thanks!!!