What is a better program to replace Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7's iPhoto?
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From: isw on 18 Dec 2009 01:11 In article <1hskb9wnj9.fsf(a)ethel.the.log>, Doug Anderson <ethelthelogremovethis(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> writes: > > > On 12/17/2009 7:32 AM PT, Jolly Roger typed: > > > > >> He does basic stuff like importing/copying photographs/photos. from his > > >> digital cameras, keep them in his HDDs, view them, share/upload via > > >> e-mails and in person, organize, crop/resize, etc. Just basic stuff. > > > > > > iPhoto is really is quite good at doing those basic things, IMO. > > > > Yeah, I agree. He was all confused on how to organize, import, manual > > copy, etc. with iPhoto. Oh well. I was hoping there was something > > easier and better. I guess not. > > There might be things that would be easier for him, depending on how > he thinks these things ought to work. > > iPhoto does drag and drop - e.g. you drag a picture (or a folder full > of pictures) to the iPhoto icon (or to an open iPhoto application > window) and that copies them into iPhoto, right? Some people think > that is really easy and good. If your friend has a different idea > about how things work, something else might be better for him. > > But it is true that when copying pictures from a camera, one probably > wants to do the "import" thing (though dragging and dropping often > works there too). > > The thing I think is iPhoto's big strength though _is_ its organizing > ability. It is hard for me to think of a better way for Albums to > work, and with newer versions of iPhoto, being able to organize by > Face or Place seems invaluable. It would be very nice if, when you were looking at a particular image in a certain album, you could say "Show me all the albums this image in." Isaac
From: nospam on 18 Dec 2009 01:17 In article <isw-CD1D10.22043217122009@[216.168.3.50]>, isw <isw(a)witzend.com> wrote: > > give the photo a bunch of keywords and you can find all related photos, > > regardless of what folder they live in. for your family photos, use the > > names of the people for keywords (and/or the locations), or just let > > iphoto's faces (and places) handle it. > > > > folders are very restrictive and do not scale. that's why so many apps > > (not just iphoto) are breaking away from it. > > I do agree, but one of the things I'm doing is organizing a *bunch* of > old family photos, to pass on to my kids. As long as they have Macs > *that support iPhoto*, things will work fine, but *what do you do in a > Macless world* - say, towards the end of the kids' lifetimes? Me, I > can't think of anything better than giving the image files significant > names, and organizing them into folders. It'll be a long, long time > before there are no JPEG viewers... write the metadata into the file using standard tags and then anything can read it. i don't know if iphoto supports that but other apps certainly do.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 18 Dec 2009 05:02 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> writes: >> But letting it copy the photos is still much more comfortable. > So much more comfortable than drag and drop them into the folder I > WANT them in?? Yeah, because then you don't have to look for the right folder or create one and select all the photos from the camera and drag them over. You just plug the thing in and be done with it. >> I hated iPhoto from day one, too. But then I tried it nonetheless and >> started to like it. It just takes so much manual work out of the >> organizing that most of the time I don't even care about file names and >> where the actual photos are. Plug in camera, let iPhoto import the >> photos, rate and edit and crop them, drag them out to make a copy if you >> want to carry them or edit them elsewhere. Sometimes giving up a bit of >> control and let the computer care for all the boring things is exactly >> what computers are for, I think. > > That's all very well if the computer does the things you WANT it to do, > which iPhoto does NOT do for me. May be. On the other hand there is a bad habit called "micromanaging" or "being unable to delegate" which is the curse of all people who are too clever for their own good... Hand-holding every bit of data is as useless and time-wasting as micromanaging a good butler. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromanagement "In contrast to giving general instructions on smaller tasks while supervising larger concerns, the micromanager monitors and assesses every step and avoids delegation of decisions.[5] Micromanagement is often easily recognized by employees, but micromanagers rarely view themselves as such. Micromanagers will also refute such claims by citing their management style as structured or organizational; this is part of the denial process." Never mind, Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Clive Sinclair on 18 Dec 2009 06:11 On 17/12/2009 07:29, Ant wrote: > Hello! > > One of my clients does not like Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7's iPhoto which is > limited and confusing to him. He doesn't like how albums, layouts, etc. > work. We would like to know if there are better softwares (freeware if > possible) to handle digital pictures/photographs on a MacBook Pro. > > Thank you in advance. :) iPhoto is pretty simple to use. OK, it's not the greatest photo organiser in the world, but if you want better, then it generally means more features and likely to be more complicated. If iPhoto is confusing him, then he needs to take time to learn it. -- Clive We don't die, we just stop paying taxes.
From: Andrew Templeman on 18 Dec 2009 08:22
dorayme <doraymeRidThis(a)optusnet.com.au> wrote: > > Talking of cameras, I bought a G11 yesterday and notice it does not > present a disk on my machine like my cybershot compact. W ith the > latter, you just connect by USB and you are good to go to grab the pics > you want. With the Canon, nothing happened! I might have to install the > software that came with it... what a bother... iPhoto can d/l pictures from canon cameras as will Image Capture in Applications if you would rather just put files into folders. -- Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/> |