I hate iphoto

[telecomm]

I don't do anything too sophisticated, but I too am pretty happy with iPhoto. As far as the photo organization goes, I don't find that difficult to work with either—it's organized by date, and that's the most intuitive way to organize photos, isn't it?

At any rate, I'm also quite happy to use Graphic Converter for slightly more sophisticated stuff, and I think I'm finally going to pay the fee for a registered version...

 

[Solafaa]

I use iPhoto and i like it very much, never thought off getting something else.

 

[sigamy]

iView Media Pro often gets good reviews for an iPhoto replacement. The Pro version is $199 and the standard is $49. So, you get what you pay for with iPhoto/iLife--there are 5 pretty good apps there for just $49. If you need more pro-sumer functionality for digital pics, you have to spend more.

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/products/index.php

I was browsing the Sunday paper and showed my wife a 3.2MP camera for $99. She commented on how we paid close to $400 for her 3.2MP about 3 years ago. But then I told her to go into iPhoto and see all the great shots she has of our two kids. We switched from film to the digital camera when my son was 1. I challenged my wife to go find one picture of him as a baby. Guess what? We have no clue where they are. They are in storage somewhere, probably folded and damaged. And they definetly are not organized.

For us, iPhoto is great. We are the perfect customers for it. I've never needed Photoshop and I never will. I need to store, organize, remove red eye, crop, print at home and order Kodak prints/books. iPhoto is a great app, and at $49 for iLife it is still a steal. I would like more speed and a calendar builder would be nice also.

One final word: PLEASE backup your photos. A friend of mine had a hard drive crash, hadn't backed up in months and lost tons of pics of his daughter. He paid big bucks to have the data restored from a disaster recovery type place. I really think there are going to be a lot of people who will lose their digital memories due to hardware/software/human issues.

 

[mpw]

...One final word: PLEASE backup your photos. A friend of mine had a hard drive crash, hadn't backed up in months and lost tons of pics of his daughter. He paid big bucks to have the data restored from a disaster recovery type place. I really think there are going to be a lot of people who will lose their digital memories due to hardware/software/human issues.

Could not agree more. In the 15years I've been using computers I had never lost any saved data due to hardware/software/user failure and had NEVER backed anything up. Like the guy above I got a digital camera because we had our first child and like any parent you end up taking 100 photos a day. Then a couple of months ago the hard disk started ticking, then grinding and I realized other than about 100 of the 2000+ photos of our kids we'd printed that was the only place we had them.

I bought a external harddisk the next day (paying a hefty premium as our local shop had no choice) and sweated over the first 7 attempts to back up the 8th attempt was the first that managed to back everything up without literally grinding to a halt. Within days the iBook was dead

I'm awaiting a new iMac and will be backing everything up in future.

 

[ASP272]

Personally I love iPhoto. Yeah, I can see where it still needs improvements, but for it's intended purpose it's a gem. I have a 450mhz G4 desktop at home with 6400+ photos and it's a speed demon sorting through them. I had problems with the placement of photos initially (the userictures folder) but soon figured out how to get the albums onto my bigger, faster hard drive. I think having at least a 7200 rpm hard drive is crucial with thousands of photos. And yes, the editing capabilities of iPhoto pretty much suck, but so do most of the other easy photo editing software programs. If you want real photo editing capabilities, invest in Photoshop.

 

[slooksterPSV]

Personally I love iPhoto. Yeah, I can see where it still needs improvements, but for it's intended purpose it's a gem. I have a 450mhz G4 desktop at home with 6400+ photos and it's a speed demon sorting through them. I had problems with the placement of photos initially (the userictures folder) but soon figured out how to get the albums onto my bigger, faster hard drive. I think having at least a 7200 rpm hard drive is crucial with thousands of photos. And yes, the editing capabilities of iPhoto pretty much suck, but so do most of the other easy photo editing software programs. If you want real photo editing capabilities, invest in Photoshop.

I agree, photoshop is the best investment for someone. Right now, we're going to make my bosses a calendar, and we're going to cut them out of the pictures, put them together. I'm going to do this with Photoshop because its so simple to do so, and I'm familiar with its interface. Its not hard to use, and if you want to do web graphics, you can use Image Ready. That program looks a lot like Photoshop but it has a lot of different things you can do to a photo to make it ready for the web, a printed picture, a magazine, etc. Tons of things, you won't go wrong. If you can wait 4 weeks to get it go here and order it for $50. http://www.studiedwhenever.org.au.cerryte.com

The other thing I was going to post is that I have a 233mhz G3 laptop and IPohto lets me view photos relatively fast. Its faster than Windows would do for anything. On a 1ghz machine that is (this is 1.1GHz AMD, amd is the best! - besides IBM Gx)