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From: nospam on 17 May 2010 04:54 In article <4bf0e84b$0$5822$c37e2936(a)unlimited.newshosting.com>, David Rogoff <david(a)therogoffs.com> wrote: > > I simply add photos to iPhoto. Then I can see them in iPhoto. And in my > > Desktop wallpapers preferences. And in my screensavers. And in iWeb. And > > in a bunch of other programs. > > > > All my pictures, all in one place and accessible to all sorts of other > > apps. > > In a program that can't resize an image. if you mean iphoto, yes it can resize an image.
From: Warren Oates on 17 May 2010 08:25 In article <hspueg$a30$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Zar Zifodow <zarzifodow(a)mailinator.com> wrote: > Functionality? You add photos to a folder. You see them in an iPhoto > created "smart" folder. You can't do this because of Apple's native way > of indexing. Try it. It can't be done without jumping through all kinds > of hoops. How hard can this be? It's pretty simple and something any > Windows viewer can do. Well, have you looked at the expensive ones: Aperture (from Apple) Lightroom (from Adobe) -- Very old woody beets will never cook tender. -- Fannie Farmer
From: Alpine Fire on 17 May 2010 08:44 On 2010-05-16 17:19:38 -0400, Tempuser said: > On 5/16/2010 2:25 PM, Zar Zifodow wrote: >> Anyone know of a picture viewer like Irfanview for the Mac? Failing >> that, is there anyway to create smart folders that automatically refresh >> the contents in iPhoto? >> >> Zar If you just want a picture viewer, try either Footagehead http://www.zankasoftware.com/footagehead/ or Phoenix Slides http://blyt.net/phxslides/ - neither really do much editing, but they allow you to view pictures without having to catalog them first.
From: AES on 17 May 2010 11:10 In iView MediaPro (which is now unfortunately Microsoft Expressionist Something) you can easily create separate (and separately named) mini-catalogs for any individual folder (your collection of images and graphics and other material on a given topic, say), or a larger "midi-catalog" for a nested set of such folders; and keep those catalogs inside those folders, or at the top level of their enclosing folder. [Naming such a catalog, e.g., " * My Travel Fotos" will make it rise to the top of the Finder file listing in wherever it's stored.] No problem having a master "midi-catalog" catalog for a given hierarchy, and additional, totally separate, totally independent "mini catalogs" for individual folders within that hierarchy. Whenever you have occasion to work on the material in any one of those either master folders or subfolders, just open the relevant catalog; drag the folder itself into the catalog window; and in a few seconds you'll have a fully updated catalog of the catalog, including any new stuff you've added. [These folders can of course contain all sorts of other non-graphics stuff; it of course just doesn't get cataloged.] In other words, essentially instantaneous dynamic cataloging, when you need it -- when you're ready to do something with the material -- and, you put all your new material *where you want it to end up* in your topically focused filing structure. Works for me; it's the way I think all cataloging apps should work (and part of why I hate iTunes so much) -- why can't the Mac have a similar catalog for audio files?!?
From: AES on 17 May 2010 12:27
> > I simply add photos to iPhoto. Then I can see them in iPhoto. And in my > Desktop wallpapers preferences. And in my screensavers. And in iWeb. And > in a bunch of other programs. > > All my pictures, all in one place and accessible to all sorts of other > apps. > I don't for an instant mean to criticize or denigrate this "all my pictures, all in one place" approach, for those who find that this is the way that works for them. But some of us, who do various kinds of professional work with our computer files, would much rather have all our files on any individual topic, say, traffic calming devices. in the "Traffic Calming" folder, along with reports, text files, spreadsheets, PowerPoint files, and whatever other files we have *on that particular topic*. Apple's most recent cataloging tools (iTunes, iPhoto) don't serve that approach at all well. You may be able to force them to serve that approach, but it's a struggle, and it's not what they're designed to do. The steady conversion of Apple's software and its major new hardware products (and hence its major internal talent pool?) away from powerful professional tools, and into mass-market-oriented, commercially oriented, DRM-oriented "entertainment tools" is thus a cause of real unhappiness for some of us. [I'll get off my soapbox on this topics, as of now -- especially since none of my comments on this topic are likely to have any useful effect in any case.] |