Re: Mac users - image software

**"c*@netzero.net" <c*@netzero.net>**

Doug,

I've got a MAC, have dealt some with iPhoto, and have had issues with it (paricularly when I upgraded to Leopard). 

I've started using Photoshop CS3 and its Camera Raw and Bridge components for master file creation and post-production. Cataloguing, etc. will eventually be done in what used to be iView Media Pro and is now Media Expression (since being bought out by, ironically, Microsoft).

I'll be watching responses to this thread to learn more myself!

Carlo

Carlo A. Balistrieri  
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-- "Doug Green" <deegeeguy@gmail.com> wrote:
I ran into an interesting problem with my Mac this week that I'd appreciate
a few notes from more experienced Mac users.

LIke all of us, I have a fair number of images and collect more regularly.
I "assumed" that iphoto would work on the underlying collection/library and
when I deleted an image from iphoto, it would delete it from the disc.  Or
if I labelled something, it would label the image in the main library.   Not
so apparently.  Iphoto works on copies of your pictures it puts into its own
library.  (I note you can upload to the original libraries but that
deleting  I had a ton of garbage (over 130,000 files) that I hadn't deleted
from the garbage  (again, Linux not only deletes files you say "delete", it
actually takes them off the computer for you.  Apparently when you tell a
Mac to delete, it really means store it until I empty the garbage)  When you
tell iphoto to label, it only labels the picture (a duplicate) in iphoto but
leaves the original untouched.

So the query is for an image editor/manager that not only sorts/catalogs but
actually works on the underlying image files.  When I delete that file, I
want it gone from the main library file  as well as the file manager. (OK, I
want it put into the garbage bin and I'll empty the garbage now) ;-)  But
not clogging up the main library with unusable images and hogging memory.
When I label an image, I want the underlying image labelled, not the copy in
the software leaving the original unlabelled.  (changing away from iphoto
means I have to relabel every image in the main files).

Having just ordered my first terraflop server for images and video, I want
to make sure I have the labelling done once now cause when I fill this baby,
I surely don't want to change again.

Any help would be appreciated.

Doug
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