What is Prowler?

Prowler is an image browsing and management tool with an intuitive and stylish interface. The stand-out features include:

  • a full screen browser
  • advanced slideshow and slideshow manager
  • powerful image organisational tools (image rotation, copying, renaming)
  • print preview.


the slideshow manager

Prowler's aim is to present your image collection in an attractive way, either for personal browsing, showing off to friends, or presentations.

Prowler supports all file image formats supported by the your installed version of QuickTime. These include PICT, JPEG, GIF, TIFF, Photoshop, etc. Prowler is only US$15 shareware and registration (payment) details are provided with Prowler.
What's so special about Prowler?
select a QuickTime wipe

There are many features that set Prowler apart from the rest of the pack:

  • Prowler's has a unique and elegant interface; perfect for presentations. No more of those drab grey buttons, lists and popup menus.
  • Slideshow manager; setup slideshows exactly how you want them.
  • Powerful image manipulation tools make it a perfect assistant to any aspiring digital photographer.
  • Prowler features a slideshow including all common features as well as several unique features such as alpha fades and scribbling.
  • The ability to create HTML image catalogs.
  • Prowler isn't expensive.
System Requirements

Prowler likes as much RAM as possible, basically the bigger you image archive, the more RAM Prowler needs. A G3 processor is recommended for Prowler to run at it's best. The minimum system requirements are:

  • PPC, G3 or higher recommended
  • At least 16 MB of free ram
  • MacOS 8.5 or later
  • Quicktime 2.5 or later
Download

Name Date OS Description Size
Prowler 2.3 07/08/2002 MacOS 8.5 and above Version 2.3 International English release of Prowler. Shareware. 1.7 MBytes
Prowler X 2.3 BETA 07/08/2002 MacOS X 10.1 N/A due to incompatibilities with MacOS 10.3 and higher 2.1 MBytes

The files presented here have been compressed using Aladdin System's StuffIt. This compresses the file so that it may be downloaded quicker. StuffIt Expander is required to decompress these files. It is freely available at Aladdin Systems.

Version History

Tuesday 6th August, 2002

Version 2.3 released

  • Added a Print Preview, which allows the user to print image contact sheets (catalogs).
  • Advanced control over what is visible on a contact sheet, such as page numbers and image information.
  • Added a slideshow manager. This allows you to set the exact order the images appear in the slideshow (via draw and drop), remove images, and set specific fades or wipes before individual images.
  • Basic second monitor support added, as requested by Rick Montgomery. Second monitor support is done through the Slideshow Manager.
  • The slideshow can now resample pictures to remove jagged edges when zoomed in.
  • Holding down "i" while presenting a slideshow shows image comments.
  • Thumbnail loading is now a lot quicker.
  • You can now specify the size of the thumbnails created by Prowler, as requested by Justin Miyamoto Weiner.
  • Cleaned up some of the dialogs.
  • Added an "Open with" contextual menu option, as requested by Andrew Robulack.
  • Crash when pushing up before the first file, or down after the last file fixed. As noticed by Andrew Robulack.
  • Image rotation not working, now fixed. As noticed by Andrew Robulack and Bob Ramerson.
  • Copy to and move to recent folders contextual menu now displaying and working correctly.
  • Thumbnails can now be created for files on locked volumes.
  • You can now choose whether to save the thumbnails to the file or not.
  • Window width is now remembered correctly
  • Thumbnail creation for images without thumbnails is a lot smoother now.
  • Changed the term Preview to Thumbnail to be consistent.
  • Image catalogs now look a little neater.
  • Carbon. Items can now be revealed in the finder.
  • Carbon. Thumbnails creation is now supported.
  • Carbon. File comments can now be read and set.
  • Carbon. Text shadows are now soft.
  • Carbon. Image rotation works.
  • Carbon. Favorite locations are now displayed correctly.
  • Carbon. Lots of other fixes.

Last Update: 7th August 2002