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Lyn is a lightweight and fast image browser and viewer designed for Photographers, Graphic Artists and Web Designers.
Featuring an extremely versatile and aesthetically pleasing interface, Lyn delivers an easy to use geotagging technology and a complete solution for sharing your photographs.
Lyn natively supports all popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, PPM, TGA, RAW, HDR, OpenEXR animated GIF and any other image format supported by Mac OS X.
Features:
Featuring an extremely versatile and aesthetically pleasing interface, Lyn delivers an easy to use geotagging technology and a complete solution for sharing your photographs.
Lyn natively supports all popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, PPM, TGA, RAW, HDR, OpenEXR animated GIF and any other image format supported by Mac OS X.
Features:
- Progressive display, on single or multiple monitor configurations, of
What's New
Version 1.2:
- New! New layout dedicated to geotagging
- New! Lyn is now a full 64-bit application
- New! Dropbox gallery sharing!
- New! SmugMug gallery sharing!
- New! Support for Mac OS X 10.7 fullscreen mode and new preference for enabling both browser/viewer Mac OS X 10.7 fullscreen mode
- New! Added support for Lightroom 4 libraries and updated iPhoto/Aperture loaders
- New! Ability to browse network shares
- New! Amazing fast thumbnail cache and full metadata filtering
- New! Support for Finder's smart folders
- New! Faster JPEG loading and thumbnails' cache
- New sorting methods: kind and exif date
- New preference switch to control the Recent Items menu's update
- Smooth thumbnails view scrolling with many miniatures
- New optimizations for large image collections
- Compute exif date fields with sub seconds
- New preference to set the grid size of the browser view
- Added editable comment and keywords fields in the inspector
- Added view and sort by menus to the browser's context menu
- Preview window now remember user window size when preference 'Resize window to image size' is disabled
- Lyn pre-releases are not proposed by default, added a new switch in Software Update preferences to enable the feature
- Move and copy file operations can now rename the files you're moving
- Updated raw converter with support for Nikon 1, Fujifilm X10 and others
- Fixed keywords propagation while using the Batch change function
- Fixed an issue when dropping an image from Finder to thumbnails' area
- Fixed custom image name when uploading to Flickr
- Fixed refresh of the inspector's data and keyboard navigation
- Fixed an issue with selection in thumbnails view
- Fixed an issue in the batch change feature
- Fixed an issue when setting rating via context menu
- Fixed a sorting issue in list view after selecting user mode
- Fixed crashes when reading CS2 tiff on a PPC system
- Fixed crashes in the PPM loader
- Fixed an issue in the GeoTIFF parser
- Fixed a crash while browsing camera devices
- Fixed an issue while sorting images with non-standard exif date format
- Fixed an issue when saving images with more than 8 bpp
- Fixed a finalizing issue when saving images to disk
- Fixed updating of the exporters' image size field
- Fixed Picasa authentication on Leopard and Snow Leopard machines
- Fixed an crash after disallowing the handling of a Picasa account
- Fixed an issue when listing Volumes with partitions without access permission
- Fixed an issue with rotation and multiple crop
- Fixed field editor's background color of metadata panels on Leopard (10.5)
- Fixed refresh of external library folders
- Fixed memory leaks and some weird crashes
Version 1.2:
- New! New layout dedicated to geotagging
- New! Lyn is now a full 64-bit application
- New! Dropbox gallery sharing!
- New! SmugMug gallery sharing!
- New! Support for Mac OS X 10.7 fullscreen mode and new preference for enabling both browser/viewer Mac OS X 10.7 fullscreen mode
- New! Added support for Lightroom 4 libraries and updated iPhoto/Aperture more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.5.7 or later
Lyn User Discussion (Write a Review)
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| Downloads:23,957 |
| Version Downloads:694 |
| Type:Multimedia & Design : Image Editing |
| License:Shareware |
| Date:29 Apr 2012 |
| Platform:PPC / Intel |
| Price: $20.00 |
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Lyn is a lightweight and fast image browser and viewer designed for Photographers, Graphic Artists and Web Designers.
Featuring an extremely versatile and aesthetically pleasing interface, Lyn delivers an easy to use geotagging technology and a complete solution for sharing your photographs.
Lyn natively supports all popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, PPM, TGA, RAW, HDR, OpenEXR animated GIF and any other image format supported by Mac OS X.
Features:
Featuring an extremely versatile and aesthetically pleasing interface, Lyn delivers an easy to use geotagging technology and a complete solution for sharing your photographs.
Lyn natively supports all popular image formats like JPEG, TIFF, JPEG 2000, PNG, PPM, TGA, RAW, HDR, OpenEXR animated GIF and any other image format supported by Mac OS X.
Features:
- Progressive display, on single or multiple monitor configurations, of images of virtually any size
- Multi-threading to take advantage of multicore CPUs
- Display color corrected images and soft-proofing function
- Compatible with High Dynamic-Range images like TIFF float as well as Radiance and OpenEXR
- Common metadata parser: Exif, Camera's makernote, GPS, GeoTIFF, IPCT
- Image navigation with Apple Remote Control or Magic Trackpad
- User switchable thumbnails' cache
- Filtering by tags and metadata
- Fullscreen and slideshow with music
- Full IPTC editing with user-defined presets
- Batch operations: convert and rename
- User defined places
- Non-destructive editing for image transformations
- Easily browse your iPhoto, Aperture and Lightroom libraries!
- Facebook, Flickr, Dropbox, SmugMug, 500px and Picasa Web Albums sharing!
- Maps layout: geotag your photographs and edit locations with a simple drag and drop
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Greedyfranky reviewed on 30 Apr 2012
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Zo219 reviewed on 24 Feb 2012
What are you going to view your photos with? iPhoto? Please.
Picasa? Sure—if you're running an old enough OS. Picasa doesn't even bother to launch in Lion-and you know how helpful Google is.
Although both will wrap your photos in packages because—we're too dumb to deal with our own folders?
Download the demo. This app, not those monster of bloat, is what Apple should supply.
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Musi reviewed on 30 Jan 2012
• Great developer. I've gotten help and resolution quickly and courteously.
• Lyn is very fast.
• It does not require its own database. This means you don't have to import the images nor link to them, or spend time indexing anything.
As I mentioned, I used to use MediaBoard One (apparently abandoned). My hard drive that contained my images crashed so now MediaBoard only shows the aliases of those linked images. It would have to be rebuilt using that exact structure / names, to be functional without having to reindex everything. Even as links, that app took a while to index. Lyn is always ready to go and when you make a quick structure change, add a folder or whatever, it is reflected in Lyn without fuss.
• Lyn utilizes the Finder and does so very well. Some other apps using the Finder can be a little dangerous where a person could inadvertently alter or delete an image or file structure without realizing it. There was one app that was so sensitive with mouse movement that merely clicking on a folder grabbed it and moved it somewhere before you could let go of it. I find Lyn to be very safe in that regard.
• Clean interface. It also allows you to change the background color so if you want to make a PDF or image of those image thumbnails, you can do so with a background of your choice.
It also has a button to email a selected image or images —handy for client proofing, for example.
• Tagging.
• Is efficient and includes PPC. Nice that he makes the effort to support a total Mac user base.
I hope this helps anyone comparing apps.
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Jazzyguy reviewed on 01 Sep 2011
Helangen reviewed on 06 Aug 2011
Now if Lyn would be able to sort away the images to different folders from within the app (ctrl-click or whatever) it would just perfect. Tagging of course would be nice, too but I'm confident that this is going to happen soon.
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Not sure what you want to achieve with the other feature, please send me details! :)
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Neploleppard reviewed on 17 Jul 2011
Price: $20
First of all, is iPhoto "too much" for everyone that this light weight version is necessary? Lastly, let's not lie about the "Free" app, okay? This is clearly, VERY clearly, not free.
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Nevertheless, for $20 Lyn is both expensive and underpowered compared to free offerings that exist in other platforms (IrfanView anyone ?).
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Dlwhite reviewed on 11 May 2011
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PeterCa rated on 15 Jan 2012
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Steadysignal rated on 22 Sep 2011
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Tomeko rated on 09 May 2011
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Vandulus rated on 12 Apr 2011
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Mirkov rated on 19 Dec 2010