PhotoStickies 4+

I needed floating windows to show on top of my canvas while painting in Photoshop. This app works fine. However it lacks the ability to zoom in and pan the image. Zooming resizes the window. If that feature where added, this app would be invaluable to digital artists.

It used to be better, but it’s gotten really weird recently, despite no updates.

First, I would love to see a “fits inside” feature where a slideshow is restricted to fit inside a specific pixel dimmension. Instead, every photo is displayed at the same scale… so to view large photos, I have to scale them down, which means small photos are just postage stamps on the screen. I’d rather set image size to a particular pixel square and all photos are scaled individually to fit that space.

More recently, it seems like with each advance in the slideshow, the image moves slightly so where the photos are in the upper left corner of my screen in the morning, by evening they have drifted to the center of the screen. It’s quite annoying to have to continually move the slideshow back to it’s place in the corner.

This app hasn’t been updated since 2014, so I suspect there will be no changes, but for being the “best” photo frame app on the App store, it could be so much better.

When I moved back to iMac after a couple of years wandering the MS/Linux/BSD wilderness and was grief stricken with the removal of QuickTime picture viewer - after struggling with all the wannabes I stumbled over Photostices and suddenly the Mac be came my mancine of choice again- full size , fit the screen in their proper poposition move annd adjusted at will. Frameless to give you reel picture control— I love you Photostickies, keep it uo you. Have a winner - Keith