LetsSee is the perfect solution for people who regularly work with pictures or movie files. If you are a photographer, a webdesigner, a journalist, a graphic artist, a multimedia programmer or you simply want a fast way to see and change your digital camera pictures, LetsSee can help you.
Here's a list of what you can do with LetsSee:
- Instantly see which picture or media file you want to use in your project. LetsSee does not build catalogs, you no longer need to. Browse your harddisk or network with the listbox or use the recently viewed folders menu. Use the direct acces buttons or drop a folder on the main window to explore its content.
- Change the filename, file comment or creator or change all the files in a folder with the batch change dialog
- Make files you want to keep private invisible
- Move forgotten files in the temporary items folder to the trash
- Present your media files as a continuous slideshow
- Apply filters on the filebrowser listbox so that you'll only see the files you need
- Use the slideshow as a MP3 player
- Scale and rotate your pictures.
- and more
LetsSee opens picts, photoshop files, jpegs, gifs, tiff, targa, png, macpaint, silicon graphic, quicktime images and bmp files. LetsSee opens quicktime movies, flash (swf) files and mp3 sounds. You can modify and batch change file poperties like name, file-comment, creator and visibilty. It has a slideshow option you could even use as an mp3 player.
System Requirements
LetsSee will run on all powermacs with system 8.1 or later and quicktime 2.5 or later installed. You need a color monitor that can display 800 * 600 pixels or more and have 12 mb of free memory, Quicktime 4 (without it you will not be able to play mp3 files) and 16 MB is recommended.
How to use it
When you roll the mouse over the buttons an online helptext will be displayed at the bottom of the window, you can switch off this feature in the preference panel.
Filebrowser
How to open a folder? Drop a file on the application icon. Drop a folder on the main window. Use the open button or the open menuitem. Click on the root or desktop button to display the highest level of your harddisk resp. your dekstop.
The filebrowser listbox acts like any normal listbox, select a row to view the image or movie, you can use arrow keys to step one row belowe or above. Use type selection to jump directly to the file you want to see. Doubleclick a folder to display its content. Click in the header to sort the listbox columns
File properties panel
Select menu window -> show fileproperties to the display the panel. When you select a file in the filebrowser listbox you can change and investigate some properties of the file. Click on the namefield, filecommentfield or creatorcode field to make it editable. To change for example the filename; type in the new name and confirm the change with the return key. Without this confimation nothing will be changed. Click on the visible button to toggle the files visiblity. Likewise a press on the comment button will quickly change the file-comment. To use this button you will have to set a commentstamp in the preference panel first.
Menu
The menu options are self explanatory. Some options work for the filebrowser listbox, others work on selected pictures and media files. The selected scale menu is remembered and can be set in advance, while the rotate menu works only if you have a picture selected. See 'toolbar'.
Toolbar
On the toolbar the most frequently used features are presented with a button.
- Use 'open' to open a folder with the standard select folder dialog.
- The 'slideshow' button starts the slideshow.
- The 'scale' button presents a popup menu in wich you can select the way a picture is scaled; 'fit if larger' will scale the picture when it is larger than the window but will display the picture in it's actual size if it smaller. 'Always fit' will always scale the picture to fit within the window olso when the picture is actualy smaller. Futhermore you can select a percentage to scale the picture.
- With the two arrows you can rotate a picture 90 degrees clockwise or counter clockwise. See the menu for more rotating options.
- With the 'visibility' popup menu button, the filebrowser listbox will display only those files of selected type. Visible and/or invisible files.
- Select a media filter with the media popup menu button to only display pictures or media of selected type. Filter out the folders, aplications or other files you don't want to see in the listbox.
- The recent button will present a popupmenu with the 15 recently viewed folders, the folders that are currently not visible for the application, for example because the folder is on a removeble disk or on a non mounted network disk are greyed out.
Batch change
Select menu Window->Batch change to display the batch change dialog. Type in the new filename, filecomment or creatorcode. A number will be added to the filename. Remember that you can't undo the batch change feature.
Slideshow
The slideshow starts with the picture you selected in the filebrowser listbox. The icons at the bottom of the window show online help. When letsSee is bussy opening a large image, file these icons will possibly not react to mouseclicks, therefore keyboard shortcuts can be used. With the spacebar you can start and stop the slideshow. Use the escape key to close the slideshow window. The arrow keys to see the previous or next media file. With the other buttons you can change the way pictures are scaled and the time before the next picture is displayed.
Registering
We allow LetsSee to be downloaded and used in it's fully functional entity - however if you decide you want to keep it we ask that you register your copies with us. For each and every Macintosh you wish to leave LetsSee installed on you are required to pay a registration fee of 12 US dollars. The annoying splash screen will no longer appear.
Our online registration form can be found at:
http://order.kagi.com/?42S&&
Tips
- Memory: If you frequently want to view very large images you could get and out of memory message. You should consider increasing the amount of memory. Remember that some files, like jpeg, are compressed. To open these files they will have to be decompressed. That means that a 700 k jpeg file can take up to 7 MB of application memory. With virtual memory on it should be easy to open a 35 Mb photoshop file.
- Creatorcode: With the creatorcode you can change the default application that opens when you doubleclick a file in the finder. For example if you downloaded a bunch of files from the internet and would like to see them in photoshop, rather than apple's imageviewer, than you could change the creator code to 8BIM. This code is case sensitive. If you don't know wich code to use, locate a file on your harddisk that 'belonges' to the application you would like to be the default application. Copy the creatorcode in the fileproperties panel. Go back to the file you wanted to change, paste the code in the creatorcode field and hit return to confirm the change.
Comments and future versions
LetsSee is work in progress. If you have any remarks, if you did find a bug or have wishes about future versions please inform us at LetsSee@kagi.com
Fine Print
You may distribute this program in any way you wish as long as you do not break LetsSee up into it's component files and distibute parts of it individually. Please inform us when you make these files downloadable from a website or distribute them by cd-rom or any other kind of media.
LetsSee does currently not have an undo feature. Although you can undo every action manually, be carefull.
100Ron Media hereby disclaims all warranties relating to this software, whether express or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. 100Ron Media will not be liable for any special, incidental, consequential, indirect or similar damages due to loss of data or any other reason, even if 100Ron Media or an agent of theirs has been advised of the possibility of such damages. In no event shall 100Ron Media be liable for any damages, regardless of the form of the claim. The person using the software bears all risk as to the quality and performance of the software.
