On Jul 13, 2010, at 5:20 PM, Godfrey DiGiorgi wrote: > iPhoto has completely automated file management ... it's not designed > for the USER to ever touch the files themselves at all once you've > brought them into iPhoto.
Thanks for describing so succinctly what it is I only sensed, and what I don't like, about IPhoto. > Lightroom file management allows you to track and work with image > files by reference. They're available to you in the file system where > you put them, and you can screw things up any way you want by moving > them in ways that don't allow Lightroom to track them. I've been persuaded today about Lightroom. Just need to wait till I can afford to splurge on it. And thanks for alerting me to a way I could screw things up. Otherwise I could easily have screwed them up. What others are saying about the way them manage their files is starting to make sense. > In the end, you want to manage your PHOTOGRAPHS, not your files. > That's what LR, Aperture and iPhoto allow you to do to a great degree, > abstracting away the need to track and manipulate the files > themselves. Hmm. Photos vs. files. What I do with the original [image] files vs. the original files themselves? The image is not the photo? The photo is what I do with the image? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric Weir Decatur, GA USA [email protected] -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
