[iStudent 2003]

I have been using iPhoto ever since it came out, even before I my first digital camera. I liked organizing my photo in to albums, retouching them and then exporting them to the web. But yesterday when my first digital camera got delivered my view of iPhoto changed. I didn’t realize just how slow the over all program is. Starting up takes forever, downloading my photos takes just as long, and I have no idea where the photo are on my disk once their off my camera.

I want to see my photos on my computer ASAP, also want to know what folder their in on my hard drive. Since I already had Image Capture installed on my hard drive, I decided to give it a try, and I fell in love with it!

Image Capture starts up 10x faster then iPhoto, lets me download only the pictures that I want to download, and I can tell it where I want the photos to be downloaded to. Plus, I can delete the photos that I don’t wait via the Image Capture instead of going though the Finder.

I scaled up the icons to 128x128 in the folder that the photos get downloaded to, so that I get kind of a thumbnail preview of the photo.

I’ll still be using iPhoto for retouching my photos and when I want to export them to the web, but for downloading and for organizing on my hard drive, I am using Image Capture hands down!

I am using OS 10.2.6 on an iMac DV with 512MB of RAM, 80GB HD and a new Sony P92 digital camera.

[wataru]

Yeah, I never liked iPhoto for transferring images. Image Capture all the way!

[brutal]

I had the exact same experience when I made the switch and got an iBook. iPhoto looked fast and crisp at first, but when I brought over my photo collection, iPhoto just wantede to display all 2000 photos at the same time, making my iBook really sluggish. Even when I organized the photos in albums, iPhoto always started up in the library-tab where ALL photos are.

After discovering Image Capture I´ve deleted iPhoto, and never want that crap back on my HD.

Image Capture is the ish!

[NYCFarmboy]

iPhoto is a lousy image capture program, but a nice program is modified for manipulating images for non-pros.

I use a Canon S230 powershot which shoots the broadcast quality avi files which work so nice in iMovie.

I use the Canon Image Browser software for downloading all my images and avi movie files into the same folder. iPhoto will not download avi files which is a real pain.

Also image capture I use sometimes, but prefer Canon's Image Browser program.

[lavar78]

iPhoto just wantede to display all 2000 photos at the same time, making my iBook really sluggish. Even when I organized the photos in albums, iPhoto always started up in the library-tab where ALL photos are.

iPhoto is much faster if you close all of the rolls (using the arrow) and just open the ones you want.

[DavideMac]

Yes, lavar78 has a point. If you keep your film rolls closed AND in the iPhoto preferences you select "no border" in the "Appearance" seciton you will find that iPhoto runs much faster. Heck, you might even like the program again.

p.s. I keep my no border pics on a black background...looks almost professional.

[SeSawaya]

what "arrows" are you talking about? I see nothing like this.

I have 3800 phtos in my photo "box" and its darn near unuseable on my 1 ghz G4 super computer!

I cant even remove photos cause the ball of death comes up for so long.

Help!

[Toyin]

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
what "arrows" are you talking about? I see nothing like this.

I have 3800 phtos in my photo "box" and its darn near unuseable on my 1 ghz G4 super computer!

I cant even remove photos cause the ball of death comes up for so long.

Help!

Each film roll has an arrow on the side like list view in the finder


If you're importing your pictures for the first time, put them in separate folders and drag the folders onto iPhoto. They should be imported as separate film rolls.

I used to use image capture to important pictures so I could rename them and file them away for backup. I don't find that necessary for 2 reasons 1)iPhoto's built in back up function 2) You can export selected albums (if you want PCs to read your backups) and iPhoto will automatically rename them to the album name.

As for speed, iPhoto is great if you keep your film rolls closed when you're not using them (Dual 500 and 12"PB)

[bergy]

Some of you might want to try this ...

iPhoto Buddy
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/12175

iPhoto Buddy is a small utility that allows you to use more than one photo Library with Apple's iPhoto 2.0. There are several advantages to splitting your One Huge Photo Library into multiple, smaller ones--not the least of which is speed. Everyone (but Apple, it seems) realizes that iPhoto slows considerably as your photo Library grows larger and larger. Using multiple Libraries also allows you some additional flexibility in organizing your photo files.

iPhoto Buddy uses a simple, streamlined interface that was inspired by iPhoto itself. Anyone that has used iPhoto will immediately feel right at home using iPhoto Buddy. It truly is a companion application--a real buddy!

Also ....

iPhoto Diet
http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/11668

iPhoto Diet is a utility for slimming down iPhoto libraries. It removes the original copies of modified photos based on several selectable criteria. For example, criteria include removing unrotated originals or redundant duplicates. As well, iPhoto Diet can remove the icon thumbnails from photo files, saving additional space. Useful utility prior to burning your iPhoto libraries onto CDs or for freeing up hard drive space. iPhoto Diet can be run manually or set to run automatically at desired times.

[SeSawaya]

thanks Toyin, I'll try it now!
Bergy: Thanks for the iphoto buddy, I'll try it too.

I've used the other one and its great too.


thanks guys!

kent