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 19:46 In article <jollyroger-302D52.15400617122009(a)news.individual.net>, Jolly Roger <jollyroger(a)pobox.com> wrote: > 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. In my case, iPhoto is also a poor organizer. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
From: Steve Hix on 17 Dec 2009 19:50 In article <siegman-430E3C.16112817122009(a)news.stanford.edu>, AES <siegman(a)stanford.edu> wrote: > 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. iPhoto '06 -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Importing: Uncheck "Copy items to the iPhoto Library" See if that makes any difference.
From: erilar on 17 Dec 2009 19:50 In article <m2ljh1qkvj.fsf(a)revier.com>, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > You do know though that you can tell iPhoto to *not* copy photos into > its own folders when importing? Yes, someone in this group pointed that out to me long ago and I did just that. 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?? > > 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. -- Erilar, biblioholic medievalist http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo
From: Wes Groleau on 17 Dec 2009 20:26 MC wrote: > Ant <ant(a)zimage.comANT> wrote: >> 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. > > Graphic Converter is a useful shareware program. It does what it does > really well. GC is a much better editor than I need. However, it's no better than iPhoto for organizing. -- Wes Groleau The Interconnectedness of Things http://Ideas.Lang-Learn.us/russell?itemid=1499
From: nospam on 17 Dec 2009 20:27
In article <doraymeRidThis-68E637.11463118122009(a)news.albasani.net>, 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... canon's generally don't do disk mode and nikon has dropped it from at least their slrs, duno bout their compacts. plenty of software will be able to extract the images, or just buy a card reader. |