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reemas · Jun 8, 2004, 04:43 AM

does anyone else have all their thumbs blurred? and the photos are blurred as well. it takes a couple of second before either tunrs sharp.

i'm running on a 1.5ghz g4 pb.

any ideas why? i dont have that many photos yet either.
isnt it supposed to scroll 25,000 photos with ease? im only trying with 500 - 1000.

Chuckit · Jun 8, 2004, 05:06 AM

That is how it scrolls so many images with ease � it doesn't render high-quality versions until you stop on them.

The Placid Casual · Jun 8, 2004, 06:16 AM

iPhoto *is* slow per se, although iPhoto 4 is an improvement.

ryju · Jun 8, 2004, 10:15 AM

I have just over a thousand photos and it scrolls easily, like butter! And this is on a 400MHz iMac.

GORDYmac · Jun 8, 2004, 11:50 AM

Well, yeah, it scrolls just fine. It's the selecting, dragging and editing that take forever. I'd prefer to not use iPhoto, but I'm required to.

chris v · Jun 8, 2004, 11:53 AM

With 1 mb + images, iPhoto is utterly useless on my 450 mz Cube. It brings the whole machine to its knees. On my PB 1.25, it's almost acceptable. Other media-viewing programs don't suffer this problem to this extent, so I figure it's got to be hogging CPU unnecessarily.

ryju · Jun 8, 2004, 01:21 PM

Originally posted by GORDYmac:
Well, yeah, it scrolls just fine. It's the selecting, dragging and editing that take forever. I'd prefer to not use iPhoto, but I'm required to.

Yes, this is true. For me after scrolling nicely I double click and image to open it in a new window and it hogs it down bigtime, and the retouching options take awhile too. However I am pushing it a bit with my fairly outdated G3, 1GB ram.

mitchell_pgh · Jun 8, 2004, 02:46 PM

I have around 5K in photos and it's a dog at times. iPhoto 4 was a major improvement, but it's still sluggish as compared to the other iApps.

dampeoples · Jun 8, 2004, 08:31 PM

It's a bit slow, but it's not like it's not usable.

Boondoggle · Jun 8, 2004, 08:33 PM

still way faster than a shoebox full of negatives and prints... But it could be better.

d_oob · Jun 9, 2004, 02:34 PM

iPhoto is horrible. Slow and even more slow. Even with the upgrade to 4. Does anyone know of a more solid alternative to iPhoto 4?

talisker · Jun 9, 2004, 03:43 PM

Originally posted by d_oob:
iPhoto is horrible. Slow and even more slow. Even with the upgrade to 4. Does anyone know of a more solid alternative to iPhoto 4?

Yep. iView Media

I use it on an ibook 600 with around 1500 photos and it's fast, smooth and generally great to use. You can splurge on iView Media Pro which offers more functionality especially around editing, but to be honest I find the standard iview media more than adequate. You can download demos to try them out anyway.

bitjumper · Jun 10, 2004, 10:19 PM

With my 3 megapixel camera, iPhoto 4 was performing well. But now that I have a 6 megapixel camera, it's just terrible (1Gz G4). Scrolling has long pauses making it hard to use, pictures are blury for a long time, and using the resizing slider is torture.

Unfortunately, Nikon's software is worse.

Photoshop Elements performs much better.

I might give this iView Media a try.

Erik

reemas · Jun 11, 2004, 12:46 AM

im on 512 mb ram with a 1.5ghz g4.

im bumping it to 1.2gb soon and ill post back in a week if it makes a difference. ram vs cpu.

Slow and even more slow

you said it.

mitchell_pgh · Jun 11, 2004, 01:28 AM

I have a 4MP Canon and it's getting slower and slower as time goes on.

LeeG · Jun 11, 2004, 03:09 PM

I have a 500Mhz Sawtooth G4 (1Gb Ram) and my casio 4MP camera pics bring iPhoto4 to its knees.

I have a cpu monitor, and it maxes out the proc consistently. I am eyeing the 1.4Ghz upgrade card (don't quite have enough cash to get a new tower yet) - hopefully that will help as I do use iPhoto a bit.

I will check out iview also, and elements -

thanks,

Lee

Krypton · Jun 11, 2004, 03:32 PM

Originally posted by GORDYmac:
Well, yeah, it scrolls just fine. It's the selecting, dragging and editing that take forever. I'd prefer to not use iPhoto, but I'm required to.

You could always use Image Capture, and then use another proggy to view the pictures

itai195 · Jun 11, 2004, 03:45 PM

iPhoto speed is in the sluggish-to-acceptable range on my 1.8 GHz G5 with 1GB of memory. Kind of sad that it takes that much hardware to run it. I wonder where the inefficiency is.

mitchell_pgh · Jun 12, 2004, 02:08 AM

Originally posted by itai195:
iPhoto speed is in the sluggish-to-acceptable range on my 1.8 GHz G5 with 1GB of memory. Kind of sad that it takes that much hardware to run it. I wonder where the inefficiency is.

I've used alternatives and they are SO much faster. It can't be the eye candy... It's almost like it's doing 100X as much work then it needs to do.

Perhaps they will remove the debug code and call it Version 5

Grrr · Jun 12, 2004, 11:02 PM

iPhoto always ran great for me on a 1ghz PB. However, I only had a 2megapixel camera..
I just got a 6/12megapixel camera, and UGH! It slowed it right down as soon as I downloaded the 1st picture into it..
Definitely file size related.

itai195 · Jun 13, 2004, 03:52 PM

Originally posted by mitchell_pgh:
I've used alternatives and they are SO much faster. It can't be the eye candy... It's almost like it's doing 100X as much work then it needs to do.

Perhaps they will remove the debug code and call it Version 5

My guess has always been that it's the way the iPhoto library is organized on disk that slows things down. Every new version seems to need to reorganize the library somehow, so perhaps they are focused on that for performance improvements.

I'll have to try out some of the alternatives mentioned in this thread.