What is a better program to replace Apple Mac OS X 10.5.7's iPhoto?
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From: erilar on 17 Dec 2009 16:17 In article <copespaz-89AC75.03554817122009(a)nothing.attdns.com>, MC <copespaz(a)mapca.inter.net> wrote: > > Graphic Converter is a useful shareware program. It does what it does > really well. > > There's a stripped down version of Photoshop called Photoshop Elements. > Not sure what it costs but I think it's around $100. ColorIt! is cheaper and does far more than GC. Having used its earlier incarnations for years before encountering iPhoto, the latter's "editing capabilities" really struck me as pitiful. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
From: Jolly Roger on 17 Dec 2009 16:40 In article <drache-88E6B2.15143717122009(a)nothing.attdns.com>, erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> wrote: > In article <jollyroger-9E676F.09321417122009(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > > > iPhoto is really is quite good at doing those basic things, IMO. > > Just don't try to do any real editing with it! It's not an image editor. It's a photo organizer. Use the right tool for the job. -- Send responses to the relevant news group rather than email to me. E-mail sent to this address may be devoured by my very hungry SPAM filter. Due to Google's refusal to prevent spammers from posting messages through their servers, I often ignore posts from Google Groups. Use a real news client if you want me to see your posts. JR
From: Jochem Huhmann on 17 Dec 2009 17:25 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> writes: > In article <jollyroger-9E676F.09321417122009(a)news.individual.net>, > Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > >> iPhoto is really is quite good at doing those basic things, IMO. > > Just don't try to do any real editing with it! For an photo *organizer* its editing capabilities aren't all that bad, really. Recent versions do incremental editing, so you can change and undo your edits at any point later on and for the basic things (cropping, adjusting colors/brightness/contrast) it works just fine and comfortable. 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: Jochem Huhmann on 17 Dec 2009 17:46 erilar <drache(a)chibardun.net.invalid> writes: > In article <YoadnR8fuc5PQLTWnZ2dnUVZ_hpi4p2d(a)earthlink.com>, > Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> 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. :) > > I disliked it from day 1. However, I had been keeping my fotos in > nested folders previously and just went back to that, including moving > the ones iPhoto had mismanaged. No program as such, just labeled > folders nested within other labeled folders. You do know though that you can tell iPhoto to *not* copy photos into its own folders when importing? It's a simple checkbox in the preferences. It will then know about the photos and you can use it to do whatever you want, but it won't move them around at all. But letting it copy the photos is still much more comfortable. 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. 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: AES on 17 Dec 2009 19:11
In article <C74FD9C5.4813B8%bobhaar(a)me.com>, Robert Haar <bobhaar(a)me.com> wrote: > you head around the concepts, it is fairly powerful. The key part of this is > that all the organizing and cataloging is done within iPhoto. Don't create > file/folder structures outside of iPhoto and expect iPhoto to honor that > structure. That final sentence encapsulates exactly why iPhoto and, worse, iTunes are insanely great apps for some people -- indeed all too many people -- and are absolutely and unremittingly hated by other people like me -- although unfortunately there are just not enough of us. The key aspect of my use of a Mac laptop as the core of my personal and professional life is precisely a file/folder structure which organizes all the varying topics (professional projects, hobbies, interests) in which I'm interested -- a structure which I've created myself, so that I therefore know exactly how its organized. If one such topic is Churchill, say, then there's a Churchill folder (or set of nested folders) into which goes photos of Churchill, audio files of his speeches, texts of his speeches or writings, essays about him, audio or video files of seminars or documentaries about Churchill, URLs linking to web pages about him, bibliographies, maps of his travels, photos and drawings of Clerkwell, etc., etc., etc. I don't happen to have such a file on Churchill, but if I did, opening the topic level folder in the Finder, especially in column view, would give me a global overview of everything what I had about him and immediate access to any of it. Dragging that folder onto iView MediaPro would give me near instantaneously a superb catalog of every bit of graphic material I had about him (or update an existing catalog). And any time I encountered a bit of Churchilliana, anywhere, I could immediate capture it into the right place by just dragging it into the top level folder and doing the detailed sorting later. All of this, right in the Finder. Try that using tools like iPhoto or iTunes. |