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From: isw on 17 May 2010 12:32 In article <hspkbt$r5a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, Zar Zifodow <zarzifodow(a)mailinator.com> 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? What's wrong with Preview? Isaac
From: nospam on 17 May 2010 12:40 In article <siegman-90E3F9.09273417052010(a)bmedcfsc-srv02.tufts.ad.tufts.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > 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*. iphoto can do that, as can aperture and lightroom. > 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. because clicking one checkbox in preferences is a huge struggle, and the fact that there is such a checkbox means it was designed to do it. > 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. like aperture, and especially final cut studio, you mean? > [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.] that is true.
From: John Varela on 17 May 2010 15:04 On Mon, 17 May 2010 16:32:35 UTC, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > In article <hspkbt$r5a$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Zar Zifodow <zarzifodow(a)mailinator.com> 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? > > What's wrong with Preview? Open a folder, click on an image. Decide you want to look at the next image in the folder. Can't be done from within Preview (or if it can be done and I missed it, please tell me how). You must go back to the mouse and click on the next image. Very annoying. Any reasonable viewer lets you move within a folder using the arrow keys (or page up/down, or the space bar) without having to select all the pictures you might want to see before you open the viewer. -- John Varela
From: Calum on 17 May 2010 15:05 On 17/05/10 02:04, Zar Zifodow wrote: > Does this have to be done for every single folder? No. Once you've created the Automator action, you can apply it to other folders by right-clicking them in Finder, and selecting "Folder Actions Setup". --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net ---
From: Calum on 17 May 2010 15:11
On 17/05/10 20:05, Calum wrote: > On 17/05/10 02:04, Zar Zifodow wrote: > >> Does this have to be done for every single folder? > > No. Once you've created the Automator action, you can apply it to other > folders by right-clicking them in Finder, and selecting "Folder Actions > Setup". (Unless, that is, you want every different folder to add photos to a different album in iPhoto... in which case, yes, you do.) --- news://freenews.netfront.net/ - complaints: news(a)netfront.net --- |