Phoenix Slides for Mac

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Key Details of Phoenix Slides

Full-screen slideshow program/image browser.
Last updated on January 17, 2018
There have been 3 updates
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Editors’ Review

Download.com staffJanuary 17, 2018

Phoenix Slides for Mac helps you easily navigate through directories and subdirectories containing images and then play slideshows in full screen. The program is easy to use, performs fast, and, above all, is free.

Phoenix Slides for Mac offers a clean and easy-to-navigate interface. There is a separate window for image info., which you can close or move anywhere you like on the screen. It's fairly easy to get started, but there is comprehensive documentation available on the developer's Web site to guide users through all available features and shortcuts. Browsing through directories containing images is a smooth process with the well-organized tree file viewer and the slideshows played without issue. The interface offers a great amount of customization options for displaying the selected images. It features a basic slider at the bottom, which is used to set the size of thumbnails. In the program's preferences the user can set up some basic options such as thumbnail background color, maximum thumbnail width, etc. as well as some default options for the slideshows such as customization of the advanced behavior of slides, background color or transparency, display options for images, etc. During the slideshow the user can access controls by hitting the 'h' or '?' keys. The list of available shortcuts and controls then appears with the options such as pause and continue, auto-advance, assign to group, show and hide image info., rotate, flip, zoom in and out, etc. You can perform all of these operations without interrupting the slideshow. Apart from being able to perform lossless transformations on JPEG files, the program doesn't offer any additional options for image editing, which would've been a nice addition.

Phoenix Slides for Mac seems suitable for users who are looking for a free, smooth, and fast full-screen image browser without any additional image editing options.

What’s new in version 1.2.8

info bar during slideshow is now hidden by default; showing/hiding of the info bar is now retained when quitting
universal binary again! the last version inadvertently dropped support for powerpc machines. (although, this will probably be the last version to support anything before 10.6)

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Full Specifications

GENERAL

Release: October 15, 2012

Latest update: January 17, 2018

Version: 1.2.8

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Mac

Operating System

OS X 10.8
Mac OS X 10.7
Mac OS X 10.3
Mac OS X 10.6
Mac OS X 10.4
Mac OS X
Mac OS X 10.3.9
Mac OS X 10.5

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 15,243

Downloads Last Week: 2

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User Reviews

4.8/5

19 User Votes

Wonderful!
alanw58February 7, 2013
Pros
Fast, simple, no fuss!
Cons
Not found any yet!
Summary
My all-time favorite slideshow program
pkeelerJuly 16, 2010
Pros
Simplicity of use
Cons
No cons--serves my needs perfectly.
Summary
It crashes from time to time and not as good as Xee
skananJanuary 24, 2010
Pros
Not so sure.
Cons
It's not as fast as Xee. The EXIF info is not detailed enough.
Summary
Simple yet very fast slideshow viewer.
bobleggJanuary 13, 2010
Pros
Just find the folder of pics and double click
Cons
Easier to see and work with images than quick look.
Summary
Simply a must-have image browser and slideshow app.
adevadehApril 26, 2009
Pros
Fast, full screen image viewing. Really the only way to quickly go through large amounts of photos. The best implementation I have seen.
Cons
The new Quicklook feature is good enough for a few photos, so unless you really have large amounts of images, this app may not be necessary.
Summary
If you need to go through 100s of images, MacOS X has built in software that seems like a good way to handle it. For many reasons, iPhoto, Preview, or Quicklook all assume certain usage scenarios that are not always appropriate. Phoenix slides is made to show a lot of images quickly, and it excels at this task. Imagine you are handed a DVD of images from a client and she tells you to choose 10 for the website. Well, you could awkwardly try to highlight them and press space bar, but the moment you switch to your IM client they all go away. You could drag them into iPhoto, but then you have to wait for them to import... and you didn't really want to import them anyway. Preview seems like a good choice, but there is no easy full screen slideshow presentation, and its hard to load images from multiple directories. Pheonix Slides is the answer. Just drop the DVD onto the app, it quickly loads all the images, even in subfolders. Double-click for full screen slideshows, or quickly browse in thumbnail mode. I'm really glad I found this program, its made my life easier and I really thank the author for giving it away for free.
\"You had me at SUB-Folders!\"
noominalFebruary 22, 2008
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Thank you! Your product is fast and simple and gave me the "peek inside, inside, inside" I needed! Sweet JezzusMarynJosef!!! ...Apparently it's too much to ask other media browsers to <b>just "SHOW ME the PICTURES!"</b> (Hmmm, another Jerry McGuire reference.) But not this one! Phoenix Slides does exactly what it says it does, point it to the picture folders and it chews through every stinking sub-folder to layout a preview of your image. The scale up works faster than Bridge or iPhoto, and the Reveal in Finder sealed the deal. Not fancy, but fast and easy. The only thing I might suggest is a right-click option on an image to "Open with..." but don't do it if it slows the app down.
Perfect!
zs_July 16, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Does what it does and this very good ;-)
Fast, simple, exellent
VersionTrackerUserOpinionMay 1, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Need only one more option Ã¢?? ability to delete pic while browsing
so good...
blaseApril 22, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br /> talk about ease of use! I was viewing and manipulating skides right from the get go. It took me a few seconds to realize this was an app that found my pics and allowed me to view them. this will definitely help organize and create shows and delete the bad pics. kudos to developer.
couldn't be simpler or more effective
thomas.leonardApril 21, 2007
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This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />I came on this following the link from a recommendation to another Mac user in the Mac Tiger forums. Brilliant application, makes the handling of the umpteen photos I have in sundry folders on my hard disk, very easy indeed. Feel completely in control of them now. Thanks!

Developer’s Description

By Gold Mountain Software

Full-screen slideshow program/image browser.

Phoenix Slides is a fast full-screen slideshow program/image browser, for flipping through folders or disks full of images. Phoenix Slides also does lossless JPEG transformations and can display EXIF data. Features:

fast (pre-cached) full-screen slideshows
rotate/zoom in slideshow
fast JPEG thumbnails (uses Epeg)
lossless JPEG rotation
view EXIF data, JPEG comments
search subfolders (recursively) for images
move files to trash, set image as desktop
supports drag and drop, Finder aliases
Localizations: Chinese (Traditional), German, French