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Fast at what cost?
Authored by: puggsly on May 14, '04 01:35:07AM

Yes, it can take some time to import a large database into iPhoto on a system with a slow drive (a laptop) as it is actually making copies of the files into it's own storage structure (which by the way, unless you don't trust it, who really cares?). But once there this version is actually very fast for what it does.

There is one thing that has always amazed me about iPhoto. The quality and flexibility of it's organize mode. Many people will say it is slower than others, well what a shock! it actually previews photos and not thumb nails. Most other applications limit how large of a preview they will give you because they simply stretch the thumbnail which is virtually useless at anything over 2X.

You can checkout what I mean at this address.
http://homepage.mac.com/puggsly/PhotoAlbum17.html

It is also important to understand this is no a "Mac" application. The interface is really bad! When editing you can't use cmd-z to undo (you can't even use the edit menu). The print option is only available from a single location and I could not for the life of me figure out where I had to be to enable the "send message" command in the file menu.

It also has a lame email interface instead of using your preferred mail client. It's weak attempt at address book integration just sucks (just try to email to a alternate email address for someone).

This may be a good option for some people with slower hardware but it is no iPhoto killer. BTW, one other option is good old graphic converter. If you really like to keep your photos in your own folder system. The browse feature of graphic converter is not bad. And it does very good slide shows and has some killer editing tools.

But for me, it is iPhoto.



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Fast at what cost?
Authored by: rlapka on May 14, '04 12:22:38PM

The thing I like best about EasyShare is its organization. It organized the photos by year and by date of import before that feature got into iPhoto4. I still use EasyShare instead of iPhoto because of ease of use. The only issue is when you use iMovie or iDVD, they only look at the iPhoto directory, so sometimes I have to import.



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