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Panther: Faster, iPhoto: SLOWER

no reason to get insulting!!!

besides there is no difference at all!
both progs are made to organize data!
its useless to write a library if it is incabable of dealing with an ordinary amount of pics! and as digicams get more and more pixels a single holiday produces 512 MB of date. the problem is that its organization is crap.
there is no need to "play" all pics at once!!!
itunes doesn't do it, so why does iphoto do it?!? because its not organized well!!!
its useless to mount the whole archive!!!
there are several other progz especially in the wintel world that are organized better.

so please, stop insulting me!!!
 
no insults needed...

regardless, iTunes and iPhoto are very similar in the intended purpose but their operational styles can't really be compared... basically, you were made fun of (to put it mildly) because you were suggesting making iPhoto to work as fast as iTunes by representing all the pictures by their filenames - a very unglamorous presentation, if you ask me.

either iPhoto caches all the pictures upon launch (slow start up then instant accessibility once loaded) or not (fast start up then having to wait for each picture to load into memory for the first access for each photo). i guess apple went for the former solution.

i think iPhoto can only be improved in terms of usability by incorporating the multiple library function. (by the way brutus, i know it's a different feel, but the gain in usability is 100% worth the trouble. do try iPLM again...) it's a great program in its concept - but the popularity of digital photography kinda caught up to not so easily fixable hardware limitations...
 
I guess a lot of the speed hit comes from the way iPhoto handles the 'automatic' scaling of images...it would be faster just to have fixed sizes (thumb and original) but then it would lose its 'neat' charm.

I really hope to be able to switch libraries from within iPhoto in a future version...it kind of works when you put albums on external media, so I am not sure why they don't let you do it on a single harddrive.

Is anybody using the finder to organize pictures ? I can't figure out why some images have a preview as the actual icon and others just a standard 'jpg' (for example) icon. I have also had images with preview that suddenly show up as standard icons. Is there a way to create preview icons for a bunch of images in a folder ?
 
iPhoto clone for Windows...is it fast?

I think everyone agrees that iPhoto is too slow today. I was wondering if someone with a PC could try Picasa, which is an iPhoto clone for the PC. Maybe someone can see how it handles large libraries. Does it load all the images at startup? Or a folder of images at a time? How is the performance overall?

http://www.lifescapeinc.com/picasa/

I know it will be very hard to compare totally different apps on different architectures but maybe this will give us an idea (and some benchmarks) on how close or far iPhoto performance is...
 
If you haven't heard of iPhotoBuddy, it's something you should check out.

Check it out on Version Tracker.

It uses the multiple library idea, and it's interface is real intuitive. iPhoto is automatically lauched upon choosing specific libraries which is quite handy. I find a decent fix until Apple upgrades iPhoto.

Chad4Mac
 
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