Good picture quality

[Jimmypoo]

I like the dating and event function that iPhoto pulls from both the date of the import as
well as the dates on the photos themselves, and separates them. Makes sorting through
a few hundred digital shots taken over a month or two, on multiple days, very easy.

[davester]

mrlynn wrote: I don't like iPhoto (or iTunes, either) because it hides the actual photo files and creates some kind of virtual organization.

That's called a database. The Finder is also a database that uses a "file" metaphor. I find it amusing that people think of the Finder as showing the "actual" files. The "actual" Finder files you mention are no more real than the photos in iPhoto or the songs in iTunes. They are simply bits and pieces of "1s" and "0s" that are scattered all over the disk that the Finder translates as "files".

As with any database, it is a bad thing for the user to be able to manipulate (and muck up) the database files using a different database system (i.e. the Finder). The Finder metaphor is close to useless for (and was never designed for) organizing photos or songs since it is purely a flat file system.

Oh, and by the way, you can dig into the iPhoto library using the Finder system if you really want to. Just use the Finder's "Show Package Contents" menu item.

[RAMd®d]

Flash drives and CDs are temporary storage.

You really should back them up (if you haven't already, then disregard) onto another, different media.

That is, if they're important.

[kap]

RAMd®d wrote:
Flash drives and CDs are temporary storage.

You really should back them up (if you haven't already, then disregard) onto another, different media.

That is, if they're important.

I have two 2.5" USB drives. That is suffice as a backup, no?

[Rolando 2go]

I don't think that flash drives and CDs are any more or less "permanent" that a Hard Drive.

[OWC Jamie]

Jimmypoo wrote:
I like the dating and event function that iPhoto pulls from both the date of the import as
well as the dates on the photos themselves, and separates them. Makes sorting through
a few hundred digital shots taken over a month or two, on multiple days, very easy.

heh,
that's my #1 gripe with iphoto
can't stand the limitations on the importsorting capabilities.


course, I preferred the original 'roll of film' meme .......

[Lew Zealand]

davester wrote:
I'm curious as to how you access and organize your photos if you don't use iPhoto.

I've had to organize photos since the pre-iPhoto days so in the Finder I use a Year/Month-Day Eventname nomenclature. I suppose I have to do more organization to keep it handy as I have ~40K pics over 11 years but with OS X's large icons, I can preview all the pics there and open the ones I want in Preview.

I've used iPhoto to organize pictures for small events and projects and it was the right tool for the job. I've been thinking of trying iPhoto '11 to see if the features and speed increases make it worth the transition to it but my system does work well. For me.

I'm doing the same for music as I'm also pre-iTunes so I'd already set up my preferred Finder folder structure and still haven't found iTunes to be more efficient.