lightgallery For Mac

lightgallery is an image viewer that comes with a minimalist user interface and offers you the possibility to quickly navigate through extensive picture collections.

The lightgallery utility has been developed using the Electron framework and integrates various technologies, such as CSS, HTML, JavaScript, or Node.js.

To start using the lightgallery app, you must start by importing the images you want to visualize: either drop them on top of the lightgallery main window or choose to employ the Finder menu.

Worth mentioning is the fact that if you use the Open option from the File menu, you get to import a single file while the drag and drop action can handle multiple images. In fact, via drag and drop lightgallery was able to load more than 120 images almost instantly.

However, if you want to load all the image files from a particular directory, going through the lightgallery File menu is the only option. The viewer seems to be able to work with most frequently used image file formats, even though the developers do not provide an exhaustive list.

lightgallery automatically generates thumbnails for all the imported images in order to facilitate the navigation process, but also allows you to view the pictures in slideshow mode. Even more, you get to activate the autoplay mode and switch to fullscreen for the best experience.

Keep in mind that lightgallery comes with more than 20 different transition animations and you get to switch between them via the appropriate menu selections. At the same time you can adjust the shift speed, the hide bars delay, choose to hide the progress bar, and so on.

To sum up, lightgallery is a beautiful image viewer that can handle large photo collections enables you to navigate through them with ease: you can either set up the built-in slideshow function or use your mouse or keyboard hotkeys.