Newbees pretty often ask, "where does the OS stores all the pictures, which iPhoto just imported? Can i open them with photoshop?" And then the digging starts Because iPhoto is not that intuitive when it comes to to save/export/open with...
Or they could just drag the photo in iPhoto onto the Photoshop Icon...? I don't have Photoshop on my iBook to test but it works just fine from iPhoto to Preview.
Drag and drop works fine with Photoshop too from the iPhoto window. That's how I open all my pictures in Photoshop. Or of course you can choose it as your external editor in the iPhoto prefs. Then you can simply double-click a picture top have it open in Photoshop.
The whole point of iPhoto is that you don't have to go digging through the Finder, trying to find where the pictures are stored and recognizing them with names like Pict0001.jpg, Pict0002.jpg, etc. Your imported pictures are right in front of you, and you can back up or move/copy images right from there. There's no need to find where they're stored when they're stored in the iPhoto window. Drag and drop is the Mac thing! Let them do their "exploring" on Windows.
On the other hand, Apple could just make the iPhoto library a black box. Yes, it's messy when you enter it through the Finder, but isn't the point of an iPhoto library to access it through iPhoto?
Absolutely. But once the iPhoto library became a black box it could also became a invisible box. Perhaps you do mean the same.
So, I strongly recommend: put the iPhoto library into the ~/library, that would clearify all confusion, no?
Perhaps it is simply a personal - and aesthetical - thing. I just don't like to see a "iPhoto library" inside my devoted picture folder. Do you like that?
Drag and drop works fine with Photoshop too from the iPhoto window. That's how I open all my pictures in Photoshop. Or of course you can choose it as your external editor in the iPhoto prefs. Then you can simply double-click a picture top have it open in Photoshop.
Ok, i admit you are right on that subject,
IF a given user have PS (or something similar)
installed - and is a bit familiar with "drag and drop"
mac functionality. This is not meant as a joke!
Though, anyhow, I mentioned that particular example
of mine after i observed a longtime windows user
(a switcher), who was playing around with iPhoto.
She liked iPhoto because of its sheer simplicity. But
for a while she simply didn't understand iPhotos
database concept, which lies under the hood. She
gained a specific need to "explore" the single photo
files, just to see them, to touch them, to move them.
Where did she start her activity? In the ~/picture/iPhoto library.
Digging, digging, and digging. She said:
"what the hell, ... f***ing digging on a mac just to watch
my bloody photos, bad, bad, bad.
The next time she opened iphoto, the entire iphoto
library was a bloody mess.
I told her, don't you touch that iphoto library folder anymore!
Her reply: What?! I am not allowed to touch my picture folder???
Hell.
End of story
Quote:
Drag and drop is the Mac thing! Let them do their "exploring" on Windows.
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Originally posted by Vox Barbara
Newbees pretty often ask, "where does the OS stores all the pictures, which iPhoto just imported? Can i open them with photoshop?" And then the digging starts Because iPhoto is not that intuitive when it comes to to save/export/open with...
Or they could just drag the photo in iPhoto onto the Photoshop Icon...? I don't have Photoshop on my iBook to test but it works just fine from iPhoto to Preview.
The whole point of iPhoto is that you don't have to go digging through the Finder, trying to find where the pictures are stored and recognizing them with names like Pict0001.jpg, Pict0002.jpg, etc. Your imported pictures are right in front of you, and you can back up or move/copy images right from there. There's no need to find where they're stored when they're stored in the iPhoto window. Drag and drop is the Mac thing! Let them do their "exploring" on Windows.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
On the other hand, Apple could just make the iPhoto library a black box. Yes, it's messy when you enter it through the Finder, but isn't the point of an iPhoto library to access it through iPhoto?
Absolutely. But once the iPhoto library became a black box it could also became a invisible box. Perhaps you do mean the same.
So, I strongly recommend: put the iPhoto library into the ~/library, that would clearify all confusion, no?
Perhaps it is simply a personal - and aesthetical - thing. I just don't like to see a "iPhoto library" inside my devoted picture folder. Do you like that?
Originally posted by BuonRotto
Drag and drop works fine with Photoshop too from the iPhoto window. That's how I open all my pictures in Photoshop. Or of course you can choose it as your external editor in the iPhoto prefs. Then you can simply double-click a picture top have it open in Photoshop.
Ok, i admit you are right on that subject,
IF a given user have PS (or something similar)
installed - and is a bit familiar with "drag and drop"
mac functionality. This is not meant as a joke!
Though, anyhow, I mentioned that particular example
of mine after i observed a longtime windows user
(a switcher), who was playing around with iPhoto.
She liked iPhoto because of its sheer simplicity. But
for a while she simply didn't understand iPhotos
database concept, which lies under the hood. She
gained a specific need to "explore" the single photo
files, just to see them, to touch them, to move them.
Where did she start her activity? In the ~/picture/iPhoto library.
Digging, digging, and digging. She said:
"what the hell, ... f***ing digging on a mac just to watch
my bloody photos, bad, bad, bad.
The next time she opened iphoto, the entire iphoto
library was a bloody mess.
I told her, don't you touch that iphoto library folder anymore!
Her reply: What?! I am not allowed to touch my picture folder???
Hell.
End of story
Drag and drop is the Mac thing! Let them do their "exploring" on Windows.
Absolutely
I want UNDO/(search for) recently deleted files, *sigh*
And no, "cmd z" is not a bearable solution.
Not to mention spring loaded folders in the dock, perhaps
"spring loaded dock"?
And - more important - i do want a revamp of "diskutility.app".
At least the cron scripts should be included, no?
And no, don't come up with "open terminal, and type in
"sudo periodic daily weekly monthly". I want these basic lifesavers
included into basic apple software with sleek GUI access.
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