you aint the only one. that's for sure.I've had it with iPhoto,
I don't need anything professional like aperture but just a really good image vierwer/organizer that actually allows me to work with the actual file on my computer easily. What does everyone else use?
Nab - I don't believe there is anyway to do what you are asking.
You know, many people have ripped on those of us in this thread that continue to "defend" iPhoto, when the original question was to seek alternatives. But with so many people continuing to post questions about how to get it to work well, while still managing and have access directly to the files, I think it is important to understand a key point of iPhoto's design ----> Apple intentionally designed it so that the user would not have to deal with managing the files. If working directly with the files is super important to you for some reason, you are probably going to be frustrated at the work-arounds and patches you have to implement to get iPhoto to work how you want. You are probably going to be much better off with the finder or a 3rd party app.
For those who can let go of the old way of managing photos manually at the file/folder level, and can think of iPhoto as an amazingly advanced finder just for photos (and get over opening "another program" - doesn't a 3rd party app or the finder require that you launch them too?), you may find iPhoto works amazingly well. I too was apprehensive of letting iPhoto take control of everything 5 years ago when I started using it, and came from a PC with folders that I manually organized. I was worried that there would be something that I would want to do, that iPhoto would make either impossible or a PITA. While there are some rare things that iPhoto makes take 1 extra step (those are the ones that have been put under the spotlight in this thread), but for everyone one of those, I have found 10 things that iPhoto makes a world easier.
iPhoto is not going to meet everyone's needs, but for most people, it will make quick work of organizing a complicated library of photos, and make your life easier. If your needs don't fit into Apple's box of photo management, no need to spread FUD (that's fear, uncertainty and doubt, for the Elmer-Fud who didn't know that term), just move on to another solution. There are many of them out there. Few, if any, are like iPhoto, or as good as iPhoto is at what it was designed to do, of removing the drudgery of managing your photo library. I for one, would not want Apple to change it to make it just like everything else out there. I appreciate not having to ever micro-manage my 16,000 photo library.
Ok maybe there is something im missing.
Lets say you found a nice picture on the net and you want to save it. How would you go about doing it. Do you haveto first save to desktop, then put it in your pics folder, then import into iphoto, then put it in a certain album?
Right-click -> save to iphoto library ...
Hmm...when i right click it doesnt have that listed![]()
That seems weird, are you running .4 or .5? Have you set up a iphoto library yet?
.4 and iphoto version 7.1.1. and i do have an iphoto library.![]()
Hmmmm... I don't know what it could be for sure, I'm on iphoto 6.0.6 and 10.5. Maybe that has something to do with it, or maybe it's because I'm using Safari 3
Oh....lol i see what i was doing. Im in firefox, not safari. I just opened safari and sure enough its there
thanks for your help!
Ok maybe there is something im missing.
Lets say you found a nice picture on the net and you want to save it. How would you go about doing it. Do you haveto first save to desktop, then put it in your pics folder, then import into iphoto, then put it in a certain album?
Or, drag the image to the icon for iPhoto in the dock, or if iPhoto is open, drag onto the right pane. Puts it right into iPhoto!
Or, drag the image to the icon for iPhoto in the dock, or if iPhoto is open, drag onto the right pane. Puts it right into iPhoto!
What if that photo is one among hundreds? Not only that, but you haven't named the files so they're all IMG_xxxx? All you know is the event that your picture was taken at. Imagine browsing a folder full of pictures; what a time waster. iPhoto sure would've helped.
i guess i don't see the reason i need to open another application just to do that. i appreciate the tip on HOW to do it because i didn't know. but i'd rather not have to open iphoto just to get at a photo. hope that makes sense.
wow. you people have a hard time with others not liking your way of doing something? i expect to have to open mail to read mail, duh! but opening iphoto to get at a single photo do use in another application isn't effective. for starters, if i want to use a photo in mail, mail will pull open a finder like window so i can choose the file i want to attach (most applications do this as well). iphoto's way of handling photos makes picking the photo with these finder windows all but impossible. i guess by your reasoning, if i want to attach a document in an email, it makes more sense to open word/pages and drag it into mail? personally, it doesn't make sense with either documents or photos. that is why it doesn't make sense to me to have to open another application to get at a file (no matter the file type) when the application i'm already in is giving me access to the folders/files.
the point is well taken about a file with a lot of photos in it, but i usually name my photos and keep them well organized so this isn't an issue for me.
Thread Starter, did the camera you use come with any software.
I use a crappy older Cannon Powershot A520.
It came with a pretty good batch of software, and the recent free updates from the cannon website make it all universal binary, so it now is very fast on my mid 2007 iMac.
Their latest version of "ImageBrowser" is quite nice, I personally like it better than iPhoto. It does not take your photos hostage. (a loaded statement, here come the fanboy attacks).
This line of cannon software cannot be purchased by itself, but if you go out and buy their cheapest camera, you get it all for free. Or, do you know anybody with a cannon digital camera (I think we all do)?
ImageBrowser even now comes with basic .avi manipulation abilities, for those little movies one can make with their point and shoot digital cameras.
I really do not get the itunes/iphoto comparisons. I am under the belief that people tend to want to "do" far more things with their photos than with their music: I only listen to songs, I can think of about a dozen things i want to do with a photo. Maybe that is just me, coming form a graphic artist background.
Also, I have used Mac's exclusively my entire life, since 1987. I do not even know how to use Window OS, seriously. so the whole "window's-habits" thing does not apply to me.
I am not an iphoto hater, I am just not a lover of it. Cannon's ImageBrowser does all i need it to.
Try this for an example:
Open a terminal window and type "ls " (note the space)
Go to iPhoto and drag the photo into your terminal window.
You'll see it get replaced with the full path to the file.
Open a terminal window and type "ls " (note the space)
Go to iPhoto and drag the photo into your terminal window.
You'll see it get replaced with the full path to the file.
You never have to look for a file -- if you want it, there is a reference you can grab.