I’ve added nine new photos today to the Dailies, Felicita and Digital Rebel albums.
I’ve also decided to change my Image Capture preferences so that I import photos to iView Media Pro (v1.5.7) rather than iPhoto. iPhoto is very appealing and I used it all last year. It’s great software and suits many of my clients perfectly. Its limitations though have meant that I’ve maintained an awkward system of manually adding pictures to an iView catalogue as well. Now it’s time to reverse that procedure and automatically pull pictures in to iView and manually add them to iPhoto.
I’d been using iView long before iPhoto appeared and it’s a lot more flexible. A catalogue has three views: content (just a listing), thumbnail, and media (full size). There are simple controls for rotating the view. You can easily show or hide a customisable information display, edit layouts for viewing thumbnails, choose display sizes. It doesn’t have the zoomable views of iPhoto, but it also doesn’t have the delay before displaying the picture at full resolution. Now I have a 6 megapixel camera my 1Ghz G4 Powerbook seems to be having trouble coping in iPhoto.
In iView I can sort and select with ease, create custom catalogues, show the image file in the Finder (where it’s not locked into an annoying hierarchy of folders inside folders). I can choose which software I want to use to edit the photo — ImageReady for this one, Photoshop for that one. It does slideshows and movies, makes it easy to move and copy photos. So: 2003 and iPhoto — a useful learning experience; 2004 and iView — ease and flexibility of use.
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i’m noticing the same thing with iphoto choking w/my new camera’s photos.
i had 3000+ photos using the 4MP elph, and now that i’m adding my 6MP digital rebel on top of all that, it’s just horrid.
not to mention several near catastrophic iphoto “blunders” (to put it lightly)…
in any case, would you know the fastest/best way to migrate iphoto to iview?
I don’t know the best or fastest way and it probably depends on how many photos You have an how you want to handle them and if you still want to use iPhoto. You could just make an iView catalogue from the iPhoto folder.
I’ve ended up keeping two copies of my photos: I import them into a single folder by year and catalogue them via iView. Then I drag those photos onto iPhoto which copies them to its own folder structure. I choose to keep iPhoto around because of its integration with iLife and because I do Mac support and training. If not for that I’d probably ditch it altogether and just use iView.
yeah, thanks
i just copied the iphoto library, used iphoto diet (chopped a gig off of it) and then deleted all the thumbs, and what using the finder’s search, then imported into iview.
i think i’m going to keep the folder structure from iphoto [ year » month » day ] organized by photo capture date (rather than import date, like iphoto does it) and use iphoto purely for myphoto sharing….
myphoto -> http://agent0068.dyndns.org/~mike/projects/myPhoto/index.php
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