On Jul 26, 2005, at 15:44, Tom Baker wrote:
On Jul 26, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Richard Starr wrote:
I'm trying to come up with a good method of organizing my massive
collection of
photos. I don't like iPhoto because it moves files around and has a
bunch of
features I don't need.
I've been looking at Shoebox and I like its features, though I
haven't fully
figured it out using the demo. The full version is expensive and the
pro
version is even more.
So, are there other possibilites out there... something that will
leave my files
in their directories, but will sort and display them according to
certain
categories (particularly date) pass them on to Photoshop when I ask
it to, etc?
I looked at iPhoto awhile back too, and what I didn't like about it
was that, if I understood correctly how it works, it makes a copy of
each photo when it organizes it. That would double the amount of
storage required, which could use up massive amounts of hard drive
space for a large photo collection.
Or was I wrong about that?
iPhoto stores your photos in its iPhoto Library, so if you just drop a
photo onto iPhoto and don't remove the original, then yes there will be
two copies. If you instead use iPhoto to download pictures from your
camera, there will be only one initial copy on your hard drive.
But it gets worse. Or better, depending on your perspective.
If you make changes to a photo in iPhoto (or in an editor launched by
iPhoto) it saves the original as well as the updated image, so that you
can revert if you don't like the changes.
Further, iPhoto doesn't work with RAW images, so if you import RAW
images the first thing it does is convert them to JPEG, but it doesn't
remove the RAW original.
There is software, such as iPhoto Diet, to combat at least some of this.
Daniel
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