I am ready to give up on iPhoto. Since I got a digital camera, and it started filling up with photos, it has been an increasing pain. The more pictures you get in the library, the more slower it gets (surprise, surprise!).
So now I am ready to give up on iPhoto and switch to some other, alternative image catalog program. Can you make a suggestion?
I need to:
- View my photos
- Rotate them 90 degrees
- Print them
- Export them to a smaller size
Anything else that iPhoto offers, I don't need. Alright, I also wouldn't mind a camera import option, but I can live without it, since there's Image Capture.app.
So, what is a good, fast replacement?
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iView MediaPro! http://www.iview-multimedia.com/ - wonderful, extremely fast, and has camera import now too.
Posted by: Nicholas Riley on April 16, 2003 12:05 PMimage capture.app? who needs it, just dig into the mounted filesystem and get your pictures....
Posted by: on April 16, 2003 12:13 PMYou can also use iPhoto Library Manager (freeware app) to manage library size and keep iPhoto relatively zippy.
If you're willing to spend a little, though, iView Media Pro is what you're looking for.
Posted by: lookmark on April 16, 2003 12:46 PMGraphicConverter
http://www.lemkesoft.com/us_index.html
Posted by: Simon Steiner on April 16, 2003 1:21 PMSlava: I'll second the vote for iView MP. It's a little pricey, but it's really outstanding.
Posted by: Rob W on April 16, 2003 1:23 PMThirds for iView MP - it does almost everything, and it does it well.
Posted by: Neil on April 16, 2003 1:25 PMHands down, iView Media Pro. I deal with a ton of images being a designer -- and it handles them all perfectly. You can also view Fonts, EPS/AI files, QT Movies and the such...amazing. Also, you can create custom templates for exporting to the web (very powerful -- I can make a web gallery of 1000's of images in seconds).
And it's super fast.
iPhoto or Extensis Portfolio don't cut it. iView is for the pros...
Posted by: Palmer on April 16, 2003 1:30 PMWhy not Preview.app? Looks like it does everything you need, aside from cataloging...
Posted by: Foo on April 16, 2003 2:30 PMIn my opinion, iView Media Pro is the best choice... I'm also sick of iPhoto, too slow and not powerful enough.
iView can also catalog fonts, sounds, movies, almost everything...
Posted by: Jerome on April 16, 2003 4:59 PMI guess Josh isn't doing a very good job of promoting his software, so I will again:
http://lightboxsoftware.com/
Go there and be merry, I guess. :-)
Posted by: Erik J. Barzeski on April 16, 2003 5:11 PMTurn off the drop shadows/borders in iPhoto preferences and it gets much faster. Still slowish, though.
Posted by: Ben Hines on April 16, 2003 10:37 PMCan iView handle inDesign/Quark files as well? are there any common designer-file types it doesn't manage? I'm looking to manage more than just photos, and I guess I thought iView was mostly geared for photos...am I wrong?
Posted by: scottdye on April 16, 2003 11:35 PMPhotoshop 7.
Use the file browser. It will let you rotate, rename, add tags, edit tags, rank photos, and apply actions (created and ready-made stuff) to selected photos, which would allow you to do anything you want, basically. Oh yeah, its Photoshop so you can edit them too.
Posted by: Alex on April 17, 2003 1:38 AMAnnoyed with iPhoto, I scoured the web for the perfect image cataloguing application. One after the other, I found that each seemed to do something or lack something the others didn't. (To a great software designer, this is a hint!) I finally realised that with my modest needs, the Finder was best! To rotate images before downloading I use Image Capture, to (batch) rename them, ExifRenamer, to catalogue CDs of images, AutoCat, to view them in a slide show, SimpleView, and there's the neat contextual menu plugin called PicturePop that allows you to view selected images full-size staight from the Finder. Complicated? Perhaps - I'm basically cobbling together a solution from disparate bits and pieces. But it's simple in the sense that there's just one place I need to look for and arrange things - the Finder. No additional database maintenance, synchronization, and such. For more advanced stuff, like everyone says, iView seems to be the best (though from a non-professional's standpoint, I found it a bit awkward to use).
Posted by: alkan on April 17, 2003 3:02 AMAnother way to DRASTICALLY improve iPhoto's speed:
View your photos "as rolls," and then collapse the rolls so they are just listed by their title. (You can do them all at once by simply option-clicking one of them.)
This way, iPhoto doesn't need to draw a preview of each and every photo as you scroll. It make it positively Zippy?!
Posted by: Fofer on April 17, 2003 9:45 AMBTW, with regards to this post:
"image capture.app? who needs it, just dig into the mounted filesystem and get your pictures...."
That doesn't work for all cameras. Some cameras don't mount visibly in OS X, all it does is launch iPhoto or Image Capture. Of course you can workaround this by using a USB media reader, but that involves taking your flash card out of your camera, and some people don't like bothering with that.
Posted by: Fofer on April 17, 2003 10:01 AMiView Media Pro is a steal for the price. Faster than Extensis Portfolio and a lot cheaper (half the price_. It's the hands down winner IMHO. Especially if you have a lot of pictures.
Both of the apps I mentioned can do exporting to CD's which is really handy. After you write keywords and such it will keep an index of your library and let you burn them to CD. Let's say you have 10 CD's full... Number the CD's 1-10. When you search for an image it will say, "it's XXX.jpg on disc 5" and it's as easy as that. Really works well for people with a lot of images.
Posted by: Jon on April 17, 2003 1:39 PMTry Curator from Caffeinesoft.com.
I like it a lot more than iView. It's inexpensive shareware, about $15., I think.
Posted by: Morgaine on April 18, 2003 3:09 AMMorgaine wrote: 'Try Curator from Caffeinesoft.com'.
Not anymore. Caffeine is OOB (Out of Business) and Curator is gone with the wind. Get iView Media Pro if you want all bells & whistles. Or Josh's wonderful Lightbox: no b&w, but with enough features to do all the things you need to do and more. A fine piece of software...
I've tried them all, and PhotoGridX blows them all away as a quick 'n' easy photo browser. It generates thumbnails on the fly very quickly.
There are a few things that iView does better, but PhotoGridX is more useful on a daily basis.
Posted by: petey on April 18, 2003 7:49 AMiView and GraphicConverter are *both* essential apps for a Mac user with a digital still camera.
iView is the perfect replacement for iPhoto. I have played with iPhoto 2 for about 30 minutes and never touched it again. Apple did not make this app for pro users.
Used to work with Portfolio for a few years... iView is so much better - Portfolios Mac OS X GUI is terrible!
Portfolio can only be useful if you work in an office with a huge imagebank and both Macs and PCs I guess...
Posted by: emiel on April 19, 2003 5:29 AMIt looks like Lightbox is the best bet. Because it would pretend to be iPhoto if that would be needed. So if you use iDVD and iMovie any and you need what iPhoto intigrates, you need Lightbox.
If you don't intigrate any, then just get some other simple solution. Image Capture should word great! Then have the folder show a preview of the pics.
iView is a Microsoft product. No thanks.
After using Image Capture to import the images from your camera, DateTree will sort them into date oriented folders. Setting the folders' preview to a large icon mode then gives you an iPhoto like experience in Finder. EXIFRenamer will rename the photos based on EXIF data. Most of this can be automated to happen as part of the importing in Image Capture.
Smittie
Posted by: Smittie on August 8, 2007 9:28 PM