Poll: How many Photos do you have in iPhoto?

[MacRumors]

Vote: Poll: How many Photos do you have in iPhoto? (http://www.macpolls.com/?poll_id=130&ref=forums.macrumors.com)

[springscansing]

Darn, no option for zero?

I wish I had a digital camera.

[moby1]

- and I toss the mediocre ones.

I've used a Nikon 880, Nikon 995, Canon S330, Canon G2, Nikon 4500 & Nikon 5000. I hope to get a Nikon 5700 this Summer.


moby1

Here are just a few. (http://homepage.mac.com/moby1) **

I haven't updated the site in a while - been too busy. I'll do a major update next month.

**The slide links don't seem to work too well in Safari. You may try Explorer (sorry).

[Bear]

I agree that there should be an option for none.

Why don't I use iPhoto? Among other things, the fact that it makes one big library. Also, I do need photoshop for what I'm doing as well as some Nikon utilities.

At some point, I might decide to use iPhoto to order a bound book. In that case, I would process images in Photoshop and the let iPhoto suck in the processed pictures.

[moby1]

You can browse your photos in iPhoto and set the prefernces to open the image in Photoshop when double-clicked.

moby1

[MacFan25]

I don't have any in iPhoto.

I need a digital camera. :D

[Nipsy]

3481

2000 of which are from a long freshly ended weekend in Vegas.

[Bear]

Originally posted by moby1
You can browse your photos in iPhoto and set the prefernces to open the image in Photoshop when double-clicked.

moby1
Photoshop 7 has a file browser in it, and it doesn't require loading the entire photolibrary when it starts.
Also, the Nikon utilities have an image browser as well, and it also doesn't try to suck in thumbnails of the whole photo library at once. And you can open the images up in Photoshop as well.

Both of these will work with whatever folder structure you put together, so you're not losing much by not using iPhoto.

For some people iPhoto is a wonderful tool. For others, it isn't. I have thousands of large images. I'm not sure I want to see iPhoto gyrate through my image library.

Also does iPhoto have a 32000 image limit like iTunes has a 32000 track limit? Yes, this is a concern for some people. And yes, this can be pictures they have taken themself.

[idkew]

583 photos, which accounts for 592mb of disc space... would have thought it was more space.

not too shabby for only 2 months of having a camera.

[senseibiz]

1778 and growing.

[Centris 650]

237

We just had our 2nd child and I put all the new picts in iPhoto so when people at the office, home, on the street, etc ask me for picts of the baby I can show them a neat little slideshow. :D

I don't usually use iPhoto other than for showing off our kids.

[sososowhat]

I recently hauled my old G4 400 (768 Meg RAM) from the closet, insatalled Jaguar, bought a firewire 114G drive w/ a CF reader builtin ($220!) * a 20" Cinema Display & copied my 7000 photos from my XP machine.

The iPhoto interface is nice. The photos look wonderful on my new monitor. But the performance is really bad. There doesn't seem to be a good way to split the library so that only maybe 1000 are loaded at a time. I know my machine's old, but hey it runs OS X & other apps just fine.

What I've done is open a shell & created several directories on the external drive, and a short shell script to change which one is actually a symbolic link to the Pictures directory. That way I've actually got multiple iPhoto libraries.

This is very kludgy, and I can't switch libraries from within iPhoto, but have to get out & run the shell script each time in between.

Any of you have a better solution?

[evilfunkgenius]

I too wish there was an option for 0.

I use PhotoGrid X for all my mass images browsing (the best I have found) and PhotoShop 7 for all image editing and minor image browsing.

The only reasons why I keep iPhoto around is 1) in case I want to order prints or 2) in case I want to order a book or 3) to possibly use as a final album of all the best shots.

[alex_ant]

Originally posted by sososowhat
I recently hauled my old G4 400 (768 Meg RAM) from the closet, insatalled Jaguar, bought a firewire 114G drive w/ a CF reader builtin ($220!) * a 20" Cinema Display & copied my 7000 photos from my XP machine.

The iPhoto interface is nice. The photos look wonderful on my new monitor. But the performance is really bad. There doesn't seem to be a good way to split the library so that only maybe 1000 are loaded at a time. I know my machine's old, but hey it runs OS X & other apps just fine.

What I've done is open a shell & created several directories on the external drive, and a short shell script to change which one is actually a symbolic link to the Pictures directory. That way I've actually got multiple iPhoto libraries.

This is very kludgy, and I can't switch libraries from within iPhoto, but have to get out & run the shell script each time in between.

Any of you have a better solution?
Try iPhoto Library Manager. This does the same thing, but from a GUI. The way it works is, you run it instead of iPhoto itself, specify which library you want iPhoto to launch with, and click Launch. Then iPhoto launches using that library.

[seamuskrat]

I have about 7000. Mostly microscope photos ( work as a scinentist).
I must say that I am not impressed with iPhoto 2. The load time on a dual 1 gig with max ram is over 7 minutes.
In all fairness, I think that iPhoto was never designed tohandle this number of images. I actually used to use it only for my digital camera and when I upgraded to iPhoto 2 I said it was 'ok to search for images' UGG. At least it was easy to delete most from iPhoto.
Anyhow, for smaller home based numbers its adecent enough and easy to use app. For pro photographers or anyone with many images I would imagine it would be slow.

[scem0]

my sister has 10 backgrounds. I have 0.