Why would I want to use iPhoto?
I ask you all politely, as I have not, as of yet, found any use for it. I admit that I have not used it longer than ten minutes (ever).
However, I have a digital camera now ( ), and I wondered if it wouldn't be better to go iPhoto.
For now, I have enough with ImageViewer, Preview and Photoshop, for slide-showing, viewing and manipulating my pics.
The reason I dumped iPhoto the first time I used it is that it began, without my asking, to copy the pics I was looking at in some dated folders (which was crazy, as it were some jpg'd cartoons I got off the internet).
So, what can I do more with iPhoto than I can now. Or maybe, for you might not all be interested in converting ME, of all people, to something, why do YOU use iPhoto?
However, I have a digital camera now ( ), and I wondered if it wouldn't be better to go iPhoto.
For now, I have enough with ImageViewer, Preview and Photoshop, for slide-showing, viewing and manipulating my pics.
The reason I dumped iPhoto the first time I used it is that it began, without my asking, to copy the pics I was looking at in some dated folders (which was crazy, as it were some jpg'd cartoons I got off the internet).
So, what can I do more with iPhoto than I can now. Or maybe, for you might not all be interested in converting ME, of all people, to something, why do YOU use iPhoto?
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iPhoto's not super special. You don't need to use it if you have no use for it.
Not spectacular, but still nice.
Like Jobs said when he introduced it, it's more akin to that box of loose photos you have stuffed away in a drawer (but easier to find and organize stuff) than to a darkroom. When I do occasionally use iPhoto for personal stuff, I use PixelNhance to fix up the images. Using it in this scenario is very natural and convenient. Again, my only warning is that if you do anything more complicated, iPhoto will only get in the way.
Sorry to shout.
<strong>WHERE THE HELL IS IPHOTO 2.0?
Sorry to shout.</strong><hr></blockquote>
WHAT THE HELL DO YOU EXPECT FROM THAT?
Sorry to reply.
Well it is when you have several Gb's of snaps! I do use it though as a kind of contact sheet, lets me quickly delete crap and rotate snaps. I'd like to see a quicker Pro version, but then again I'm happy using Photoshop for manipulation/corection etc... Oooooh! and better batch printing would be bloody welcome!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
<strong>Well it is when you have several Gb's of snaps! I do use it though as a kind of contact sheet, lets me quickly delete crap and rotate snaps. I'd like to see a quicker Pro version, but then again I'm happy using Photoshop for manipulation/corection etc... Oooooh! and better batch printing would be bloody welcome!! <img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
have a look at my link above
Hey Defiant, where's the link?? Have you a website? What camera do you use? How is Switzerland at this time of the year, have always wanted to go :cool:
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Hey Defiant, where's the link?? Have you a website? What camera do you use? How is Switzerland at this time of the year, have always wanted to go :cool: </strong><hr></blockquote>
the link is still above, but for christ's sake, here he is again: <a href="http://www.iview-multimedia.com/" target="_blank">iView MediaPro</a>
no, I don't have a website.
Switzerland is cold right now. a lot of fog and mist. dark. freezing. but now snow where I live.
I don't have extraordinary needs - just a place to "keep" all the photos, scan through them easily. It's just a huge scrapbook for me. If I import a dozen photos of a birthday, I drag them to create a new album so I can look at just those later, or order prints of them from Kodak, etc.
Personally, I'd hate to have to go through the finder to find photos, and I know a LOT of people who just do that. Must be the years of Windows use or something.
I'm making up a book right now too of our new house construction. It'll be a coffee table book, photos from the ground breaking to our first day staying in it.
It's a cool tool if you have uses for it. It could stand to use a performance upgrade, that's for sure. It's not really an issue for me now with the new Power Mac, but it was a dog on the iBook. I'm sure the next rev will be much better.
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There's lots to like about iPhoto. I don't know how you people can't like it, maybe you just need to feel like you're too good for something, just so you feel good in general... elitism for no good reason. Hey, your loss.
Some people will never be happy no matter what, spoiled brats. <img src="graemlins/oyvey.gif" border="0" alt="[No]" />
<strong>iPhoto is so slow it's unusable on a G4 400.
iPhoto is also not suitable for a large database of images.
That's how.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I run it on several G3 233s and 266s, as well as a lab of G3 400s... with thousands (probably quite a number of gigabytes, altogether) of high-res digital photos, and it is just fine, you must just have high standards that are going to take a few more versions and some faster processor speeds to realize.
Yeah, MagicFingers, you're right. I don't know why I said anything... as if it's going to change someone's mind any.