Find your rhythm.
Browse from the keyboard. Rate the keepers, label another pass, and filter the current sequence down to your selects.
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Lightbox Pro for Mac
A better home for
your photography.
Browse. Compare. Select.
Keep your rhythm.
The cataloging spirit of iView MediaPro, reimagined for the modern Mac. Browse a shoot, compare the contenders, and keep your decisions in one local library.
Meet your working libraryAnd becomes a collection.Actual Mac application
Actual application capture. Photographs remain in their source locations.
Light Table
The keeper is
in the details.
The almost-identical frames. The one expression. The detail that makes the decision.
Compare up to six photographs. Link zoom and pan, or inspect each frame independently.
Inside Light Table
Actual application capture. Light Table supports one to six selected photographs. Original-detail inspection requires access to the originals; offline previews have reduced detail.
Explore linked zoom and pan
A website illustration using the supplied artwork. The actual Lightbox Pro application is shown above.
Interactive website illustrationLight Table / linked inspection
01 / MOUNTAIN STUDY 100%
02 / COAST STUDY 100%
Zoom, then drag or use arrow keys in a frame. The link shares zoom and pan. This illustration uses the supplied artwork; it is not an app screenshot or a test of original-image sharpness.
The professional workflow
A full shoot.
A considered
collection.
A wedding, an event, an assignment. Keep the first pass moving, then give the contenders the attention they deserve.
Follow the whole workflowMake the call.
Open a selection in Light Table. Compare the expression, framing and focus with linked or independent views.
Keep the decisions.
Use nested catalog sets, ratings and your own color labels. Prepare a separate working selection with Copy while your source photographs stay in place.
Preview and refinement
A closer look.
A clearer choice.
Refine the crop. Rotate. Explore Black & White or Sepia. Keep editable adjustments in the catalog and the original photograph unchanged.
See the preview workflowThe demonstrated tools are preview edits. Full RAW development is planned. Broad camera compatibility has not yet been verified.
Actual application capture. Editable crop settings are saved in the catalog; the original photograph stays unchanged.
Your original
.ivc catalog
A new chapter for your archive
Your photographic
history deserves
a future.
Years of photographs. Ratings. Sets. The order only you understand. Open supported iView MediaPro catalogs again, in a separate native Lightbox Pro catalog.
Bring your library forwardOriginal catalog unchanged. Compatibility depends on format and contents.
Original .ivcReviewed importNew .lightbox catalog
Generated .ivc catalog, imported and reopened in the Mac app. This demonstration does not establish compatibility with every historical catalog.
24 and 133 photographs.
Two documented historical restoration cases.
Source-folder mapping, viewing, organization and reopening were checked within the supported profile. These cases are not a promise of universal compatibility.
Read the compatibility notesOn the horizon.
Planned: full RAW development and private client galleries, with print and album choices returning to your catalog.
These capabilities are not available in the current application.
Explore the client approval plansCrafted for the MacA Mac application.
A Mac application.
A photographer’s
point of view.
Native windows. Familiar shortcuts. Local catalogs and an offline core. Inspired by iView MediaPro’s focused cataloging philosophy, independently built by Zippi Technologies. A working home for the photographs you make today—and return to years from now.
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