What is a better program to replace Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7's iPhoto?
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From: nospam on 18 Dec 2009 11:45 In article <hgg943$uqe$1(a)news.albasani.net>, AV3 <arvimide(a)earthlink.net> wrote: > No, I'm saying that opening iPhoto to search for the individual photo is > one step more than I would like to have to take. leave it running. > I wish the photo was > filed under the title I gave it, so I could just find it on the hard > disk by that title. your photos can be any title you want it to be and in any folder you want. iphoto doesn't care. > I could have given each photo a keyword identical to > its name at the time I named it, but by now I have more than a thousand > photos to go back and assign each its keyword/name. true, adding keywords to existing files is a pain, but going forward it's trivial, especially since it can be done when you import. > Note that I originally said that my objection concerned searching on the > hard disk and that iTunes made such a search easier by naming its files > according to artist and album name. only if itunes is configured to rename them. that is also not a requirement.
From: nospam on 18 Dec 2009 11:45 In article <siegman-6E43D3.08111618122009(a)news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > Can one have multiple, independent (differently named) iPhoto catalogs > -- for example smaller catalogs of the graphics files in certain folders > or nested folder trees, and a master catalog of all the graphics files > on your HD? yes > P.S. -- The string "catalog" does not appear _anywhere_ in the 30-page > Getting Starting document for iPhoto; and yields zero hits in iPhoto > Help -- and ditto for iTunes. Seems to me this can't be just > accidental; it has to be a sternly enforced Apple policy. what difference does that make? > So, why is Apple determined to, not just muddy, but apparently destroy > the long-standing distinction between a "library" and a "library > catalog"? Our language, our public discourse, and our ability to use > meaningful words deteriorates fast enough, pushed by the journalistic > (and political) standards of the day. Why is Apple aggressively pushing > this particular example of this deterioration? does the term 'grasping at straws' mean anything?
From: Richard Wakeford on 18 Dec 2009 11:55 On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 11:45:23 -0500, nospam wrote: >> So you set the external app to Lightroom or Aperture. > > that won't work. Why ont? I have my external app set to Photoshop Elemnets 8 and it works a treat.
From: nospam on 18 Dec 2009 12:04 In article <1d8v7rbwwvv3$.nv30na3w1xb6.dlg(a)40tude.net>, Richard Wakeford <rwakefordfortynine(a)gmail.com> wrote: > >> So you set the external app to Lightroom or Aperture. > > > > that won't work. > > Why ont? I have my external app set to Photoshop Elemnets 8 and it works a > treat. you do realize that photoshop elements 8 is not the same as lightroom or aperture, right?
From: Andy Hewitt on 18 Dec 2009 12:04
nospam <nospam(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > In article <michelle-751E3B.08231018122009(a)news.eternal-september.org>, > Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > > > But how does iPhoto not support raw? > > because iphoto makes a default conversion to jpeg and all the > adjustments are then done on the jpeg, not on the raw. That's not actually correct. It applies adjustments to the Raw image, and creates a JPG preview based on that. Each time you re-edit, it will make a new JPG preview image. -- Andy Hewitt <http://web.me.com/andrewhewitt1/> |