I don't use Iphoto at all. Anything I need to do (which is 100% rotation and cropping), I do in Preview.
Do you have an iphone or ipad? The Photosync app is cheap and a marvel.
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le nubian - May 31, 2011 12:46:20 pm PDT #16832 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
Steph L. - May 31, 2011 1:26:49 pm PDT #16833 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
When you import photos, do you just import them into folders, in a hierarchy/structure that works for you? (Versus when I import into iPhoto, it creates folders by date, but in iPhoto '11, they're arcane and EXTREMELY difficult to navigate. There's a whole structure thing going on there that I can't even comprehend. Someone actually wrote the software to do what it does. That boggles.)
I edit my stuff in Photoshop, but I really liked the old iPhoto (as it turns out, it's iPhoto '05) for organizing them visually.
Kind of the way iTunes has gotten more and more complex (some would say needlessly so), apparently so has iPhoto. Big ol' dislike here.
I have an iPod Touch, which I'm assuming I can use the Photosync app on. I'll go check it out.
le nubian - May 31, 2011 1:43:15 pm PDT #16834 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
You have much more complicated needs for photos than I do because I barely use the photo function except for wallpapers and screenshots. So I import them to the mac, manipulate them as I need to and them send them off somewhere. I am not keeping most of the photos. So I don't need an organizing scheme of any note.
I do put them in folders for small projects, but I don't need more than that.
But yes, my photos are organized the way photosync does it, by name of ios device in the photosync folder in Photos. If you want, you can have photosync use Iphoto or something else, but I'm find with the Finder.
§ ita § - May 31, 2011 1:51:25 pm PDT #16835 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I use Picasa for my photo management needs, and have it call up Gimp if I need to go very flashy. It's handling thousands and thousands of pictures very easily--categorisation is a flash with the facial recognition.
Steph L. - May 31, 2011 2:20:12 pm PDT #16836 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Picasa on Mac, ita? My searches of the interwebs using phrases like "replacement for iPhoto '11" keep turning up Picasa. I might give it a shot.
§ ita § - May 31, 2011 2:23:53 pm PDT #16837 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Yep, Steph. It's pretty sweet.
Steph L. - May 31, 2011 2:29:25 pm PDT #16838 of 25501
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Cool. Im'a try it out.
le nubian - May 31, 2011 3:00:57 pm PDT #16839 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
ita, doesn't Picasa install some additional software that people didn't like?
§ ita § - May 31, 2011 3:16:39 pm PDT #16840 of 25501
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I haven't noticed any additional software on my Mac. What sort of stuff?
le nubian - May 31, 2011 3:32:21 pm PDT #16841 of 25501
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
I don't recall. I thought I had read about this a couple of years ago, but if you haven't noticed anything, this issue might be moot.