iphoto - I don't get it!
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- Atkinson
I've got ilife 08. I'm trying hard to like iphoto and to get to grips with it because it seems a nice app. However, I don't understand its purpose. It's just an organiser?
So what does it do that Finder / Bridge / Canon software doesn't and why do people fuss so much about it? And say you delete a folder of images from your disk, iphoto won't pick up on that, it'll just try to find them and get stuck!
Maybe I'm missing something, I hope so because, strangely, I'd like to use it...Any thoughts?!
- brenton0
It's just an organizer with some elementary editing tools. Nothing special. Nothing Bridge can't do.
- GreedoLives0
It's really just for the common folk so they can easily make websites, order prints and have the family memories disappear when the disk gets corrupted.
- Meeklo0
It's an photo organizer/ editing / viewing/ application.
It allows you to do basic edits (finder can't do them cause its for something else) and its integrated with the rest of the apple applications so there are things that it can't do than bridge or canon wont, example, 1 click batch resize all your selected images and place them on mail for you to send to your friend, for example.Who and where you heard people fuss about it? its just a basic photo app, what kind of people do you hang out with?
Its not picking it up cause you are probably dealing with 2 libraries, your disk library and the one from iphoto, think of it as an iTunes for your photos, for it to recognize that the files have been deleted, you need to make sure you are referencing the files (I dont use iphoto so I dont know how to do this, but it looks like an obvious mistake to check) if you right click on your photos from iphoto does it say "show original file on finder"? or something like that? again I don't use iphoto but most apple apps work that way.
Welcome to mac!
- Meeklo0
it won't hurt if you watch this to get familiar with iphoto:
http://www.apple.com/ilife/tutor…
- Atkinson0
bump
- Meeklo0
did you check the link atkinson?
- vrmbr0
what greedo said. it's basic consumer stuff.
- Atkinson0
yes Meeklo, I watched them all. I'm no big mac person although I do use it a lot. I just feel like I want to try and get to grips with all the mac progs because I feel like they'll work well together and make stuff easier in the long run. Maybe I'm wrong.
At the mo I tend to use finder / bridge for images - esp dragging images from bridge to dreamweaver. Do Adobe progs recognise iphoto in the same way they do bridge?
- DanaScully0
iphoto is consumer
aperture is wanna-be pro ( it's just like adobe light room)
- Meeklo0
its for people wearing pony tails, take photos of your dog watching the animal planet (make sure your flash over exposes the photo) then create a website for it and invite all your friends to see it.
- Atkinson0
I see.
- zaq0
- Jaline0
I don't use any of the basic Mac programs for some reason. Except iCal. I think I use iWork more.
- Atkinson0
is picassa any good on mac? I used that on pc
- welded0
Bridge and iPhoto are similar products, sure, but they aren't made for the same demographic. I happen to like iPhoto a lot, although I don't take very many pictures, and Bridge/Photoshop would just be total overkill. My wife would certainly never bother using them, that's for sure.
And if you've got photos in iPhoto, delete them from there. Same idea as deleting songs from iTunes.
- Atkinson0
I don't understand iphoto though, it seems to be a layer removed from the 'real' images. So if you edit an image in photoshop for example iphoto would pick that up?
- welded0
The thumbnail doesn't reflect the change, but when you double-click to view the full size, ya, it will.
- Ianbolton0
I don't get what you don't get!
I take a lot of photos. I have over 25gig stored in iPhoto. They are all neatly organised into events or just a particular time frame. If i wanna do simple editing I can do that in iPhoto which just makes the 'organisation' stage a little less hassle.
Welded is right.... it is like iTunes for photos. Surely you understand that right? I don't think there's any demographics involved in this, although I am a pretty common person. It's just something you can use if you have a mac... I have a mac and think it's useful.
If I want to edit a photo I can drag it into Photoshop, then reimport the edited version back into iPhoto. Now isn't that simple!