Comments on: Photo App Overload

By: Walter

Walter — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 14:19:44 +0000

“If you want to preview your images before importing them in iPhoto 06 simply plug in your camera and click the “full screen” editor mode icon in the bottom left of iPhoto.”

How does this help the issues mentioned here? The problem is not “previewing” images just prior to importing them. The problem is having to import them in the first place.

By: cpawl

cpawl — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 04:58:52 +0000

If you want to preview your images before importing them in iPhoto 06 simply plug in your camera and click the “full screen” editor mode icon in the bottom left of iPhoto. You can now see all your images on your camera before importing anything.

By: Itai

Itai — Tue, 07 Mar 2006 17:11:36 +0000

I’m with you that this is a silly thing to complain about. Since when do people complain that there are too many options, too many cameras, too many cars, etc to choose from? Choice is good. The more choice the better. Whenever there are no choices or very few choices, then its time to complain. The cool thing about choice is that you are also free to change your mind, so even if you make one choice today, you can make another choice tomorrow. So Have fun and enjoy your choices!

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theappleblog: Photo App Overload » I Like Cameras — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 15:52:36 +0000

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By: Nick Santilli

Nick Santilli — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 06:42:05 +0000

superg – you’re right. I saw that option and didn’t put 2 and 2 together. I’ll have to run that through and see how it goes.

on the plus side for the new iphoto – it’s finally moved to a filing hierarchy that’s logical – by year, then by roll. No more of that 2005415… crap.

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:03:50 +0000

Sorry, one more thing…

iPhoto will import your image folders and create a roll for each folder, bearing the same name as the original source folder. Now why aren’t rolls displayed in the Source pane???

If you want to browse through rolls, you can only do so in the main window. All you have in the Source pane is a list of yearly calendar views. Inconsistent, inefficient, and unintuitive.

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:56:20 +0000

Hmm, just read superG’s comments… I hadn’t realized that iPhoto 6 lets you opt out of copying files to the iPhoto Library. This is a huge and underreported improvement. Finally we can use iPhoto with images stored where and how WE want to store them.

The central flaw still exists though. iPhoto doesn’t have a true Finder/browser, and you still have to import images before you can view and work on them. And while this unnecessary process takes place, you are forced to wait for long periods of time because the program remains inoperative and import is not done as a background process. So much for multithreaded applications…

What is so hard about adding a browse mode? They don’t need to give up their way of doing things – just add a little flexibility for all of us who prefer to work otherwise.

By: Walter

Walter — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 04:36:10 +0000

“I unfortunately had just recently archived my 14 months’ worth of photos – around 6k – to an external drive, so I’ve only got around 200 in the Library at the moment. So testing any new speed will require me to do some major re-copying over…”

And with this paragraph you highlight the fatal flaw in iPhoto – its requirement that photos be imported before they can be viewed or used with the application – an unacceptably slow, tedious, and pointless process.

Until iPhoto (and for that matter also Aperture) adds a BROWSE mode allowing viewing and manipulation of images in their existing locations and folder hierarchies, these applications will remain useless for anyone who wants to retain control, flexibility, and platform independence over their image collections.

By: peter

peter — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 16:11:44 +0000

And we’re still awaiting Picasa for the mac.

By: superg

superg — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 08:22:36 +0000

Go to Advanced in the Prefences and turn off Copy Files to iPhoto Library, then you can keep those photos on your external drive.