Photon is new digital image viewing/sorting app for Mac OS X
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Nov 2, 2007 at 10:33am
Green Volcano Software has released Photon 1.0, a digital image viewing and sorting application for Mac OS X. It lets you scan and organize large sets of photos. And it’s compatible with Mac OS X 10.5 (“Leopard”).
Photon’s imaging engine can scan and sort through large sets of high resolution photos, and can load images directly from a memory card, or from a hard disk. Its Instant Import feature then “intelligently” pre-fetches and caches images and continues processing in the background so full resolution image previews load instantly. Photon will also automatically recognize and start displaying images from any attached card reader, loading images directly from the memory card and avoiding the need to first download images to your hard drive.
Photon has a customizable keyboard shortcut system. It supports RAW formats from many camera manufacturers and can batch convert images to JPEG, PNG, PSD and many other formats. Photon supports multi-processor systems and has drag and drop support.
It’s Universal Binary so runs natively on both PowerPC and Intel Macs. Photon requires Mac OS X 10.4 or higher.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 4,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
