I use photoshop and imageready every day and they're the best. I've never used ps elements, but had a brief run in with photodeluxe and I assure you it was a HUGE piece of crap.
reasons I would love iPhoto ... there's many a time when I'm using my digital camera that I'm just taking snapshots. I don't want to wait for classic to load up and then for ps to load up. Just gimme a couple of quick fixes right in iPhoto so I can grab my photos, quick color correct, print and run.
second, it's just an obvious gap in the iApp line. If apple really wants the mac to be a digital hub, you've GOT to put some image editing, even really dumbed down. I don't know the stats, but I will bet that more people own digital cameras than they do own mp3 players.
future potential - I've said this before, but it's my personal soapbox... give the iPod an additional menu for photos and a cable that allows me to hook up my iPod to the TV. Now, sync up iPhoto with the iPod and whammo, you've got about 800 songs in your pocket PLUS over 500 jpg'd images! If I wan't to go over to my parents' house and show them picture I took on my vacation, just hook up iPod to their TV and I'm good to go!
Oh, and while you're at it, why not add an iPod sync for iMovie? now if I happened to make any digital movies on vacation I can show those too!
This has to be SO easy to do and yet SO helpful!! This is digital hub! This is leveraging existing hardware to create the appearance of 'future hardware'! Am I the only one who would LOVE to see this happen!?
image capture does pretty well. only thing it could offer more is maybe cropping and exporting of different formats</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, but it's not really an editor. You know, for low-level, consumer type things: cropping, removing red-eye, retouching, adding type (for making Christmas cards or invitations or whatever), etc.
Stuff like that.
The same way that iTunes and iMovie put digital movie-editing and easy mp3 playing/organizing into the hands of consumers with a pre-installed, Apple-written app with a snazzy, intuitive interface, this iPix or whatever would do the same for people with digital cameras.
Actually, kinda shocked that this iApp wasn't first because I'm betting WAY more people own digital still cameras than digital video cameras.
That, to me anyway, has ALWAYS been the big, glaring ommission from Apple's stable of iApps: a basic, friendly and easy-to-use photo-editing iApp.
Hopefully one will be unveiled Monday. THEN Apple can truly say they've got the digital hub thing down: music, movies, photos, etc. with built-in, cool application to work with each one.
Maybe somehow the importing features of Image Capture can be rolled into this new iApp? You wouldn't even need a standalone thing like Image Capture if part of iPix's function was to do what Image Capture does and sense when your digital camera is plugged in and it goes and loads them all up, ready for you to choose, edit, print, view, etc.
Part of me thinks that Image Capture is like a temporary "placeholder", simply to get photos easily into the Mac, until a more full-featured solution from Apple comes along, AND incorporates the importing thing as well as all the other functions I spoke of above.
Comments
reasons I would love iPhoto ... there's many a time when I'm using my digital camera that I'm just taking snapshots. I don't want to wait for classic to load up and then for ps to load up. Just gimme a couple of quick fixes right in iPhoto so I can grab my photos, quick color correct, print and run.
second, it's just an obvious gap in the iApp line. If apple really wants the mac to be a digital hub, you've GOT to put some image editing, even really dumbed down. I don't know the stats, but I will bet that more people own digital cameras than they do own mp3 players.
future potential - I've said this before, but it's my personal soapbox... give the iPod an additional menu for photos and a cable that allows me to hook up my iPod to the TV. Now, sync up iPhoto with the iPod and whammo, you've got about 800 songs in your pocket PLUS over 500 jpg'd images! If I wan't to go over to my parents' house and show them picture I took on my vacation, just hook up iPod to their TV and I'm good to go!
Oh, and while you're at it, why not add an iPod sync for iMovie? now if I happened to make any digital movies on vacation I can show those too!
This has to be SO easy to do and yet SO helpful!! This is digital hub! This is leveraging existing hardware to create the appearance of 'future hardware'! Am I the only one who would LOVE to see this happen!?
rr.
<strong>
image capture does pretty well. only thing it could offer more is maybe cropping and exporting of different formats</strong><hr></blockquote>
Yeah, but it's not really an editor. You know, for low-level, consumer type things: cropping, removing red-eye, retouching, adding type (for making Christmas cards or invitations or whatever), etc.
Stuff like that.
The same way that iTunes and iMovie put digital movie-editing and easy mp3 playing/organizing into the hands of consumers with a pre-installed, Apple-written app with a snazzy, intuitive interface, this iPix or whatever would do the same for people with digital cameras.
Actually, kinda shocked that this iApp wasn't first because I'm betting WAY more people own digital still cameras than digital video cameras.
That, to me anyway, has ALWAYS been the big, glaring ommission from Apple's stable of iApps: a basic, friendly and easy-to-use photo-editing iApp.
Hopefully one will be unveiled Monday. THEN Apple can truly say they've got the digital hub thing down: music, movies, photos, etc. with built-in, cool application to work with each one.
Maybe somehow the importing features of Image Capture can be rolled into this new iApp? You wouldn't even need a standalone thing like Image Capture if part of iPix's function was to do what Image Capture does and sense when your digital camera is plugged in and it goes and loads them all up, ready for you to choose, edit, print, view, etc.
Part of me thinks that Image Capture is like a temporary "placeholder", simply to get photos easily into the Mac, until a more full-featured solution from Apple comes along, AND incorporates the importing thing as well as all the other functions I spoke of above.