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From: Paul Magnussen on 17 Dec 2009 11:37
Jolly Roger wrote:

> iPhoto is really is quite good at doing those basic things, IMO.

But (as I understand) it won't do a lossless rotate of a JPEG, which
GraphicConverter will.

From: Ian Gregory on 17 Dec 2009 11:50
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On 2009-12-17, Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote:

> Layouts as in GUI usabilities. Sorry. He got confused on how to copy
> selected photographs/photos. files to his MacBook Pro. But he needed to
> do an import, not copy like in Windows! And then he got confused on how
> to copy/move imported ones to other places (organizing).

Why would you need to copy/move to other places to organize? The whole
point of iPhoto is that it provides a method of organising/managing your
photo library without copying or moving anything. If you do want a copy
of an image file to do something else wiith then you can simply drag the
photo out of iPhoto onto your desktop or wherever you want it, but the
originals just stay in iPhoto where you can use various built in
functionality to organise them.

By the way, Aperture is not just a professional version of iPhoto, in
many ways it is more like an alternative to Photoshop. iPhoto is for
organising photos, not editing them.

Ian

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Ian Gregory
http://www.zenatode.org.uk/ian/
From: Doug Anderson on 17 Dec 2009 11:52
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.

So yeah, he might be better served by just sticking with it a bit
longer and learning how it works. Any new piece of software requires
some effort to learn.
From: Steve Hix on 17 Dec 2009 13:23

Aperture. Not freeware, though.
From: TaliesinSoft on 17 Dec 2009 13:27
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:37:51 -0600, Paul Magnussen wrote (in article
<0LOdnYCwWLvAw7fWnZ2dnUVZ_oJi4p2d(a)earthlink.com>):

> Jolly Roger wrote:
>
>> iPhoto is really is quite good at doing those basic things, IMO.
>
> But (as I understand) it won't do a lossless rotate of a JPEG, which
> GraphicConverter will.

Just now I exported from iPhoto a horizontal and vertical version of the same
jpg image. The pixel dimensions were the same and the file sizes were within
a single percentage point of being the same. How would I know if the rotated
image was or not a lossless version of the original?


--
James Leo Ryan --- Austin, Texas --- taliesinsoft(a)me.com

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