digital photot storage for Macs
April 26, 2006 8:51 AM Subscribe
Where would I put digital photos on a Mac to store them?
My next computer will be a Mac--going back to them--and at present I use Picassa for digital photo storage. Picassa does not work on Mac. What would be the equivalent?
My next computer will be a Mac--going back to them--and at present I use Picassa for digital photo storage. Picassa does not work on Mac. What would be the equivalent?
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posted by Robot Johnny at 8:55 AM on April 26, 2006
posted by Robot Johnny at 8:55 AM on April 26, 2006
Technically, iPhoto is the application you use to upload/tweak photos and share them. They are actually stored on the drive (usually) in the directory Finder/Pictures/iPhoto Library...etc.
posted by chococat at 9:34 AM on April 26, 2006
posted by chococat at 9:34 AM on April 26, 2006
If your are really serious about photography you might want to consider iPhoto's big brother, Aperture.
posted by TedW at 9:47 AM on April 26, 2006
posted by TedW at 9:47 AM on April 26, 2006
There are subtle differences between iPhoto and Picasa, but they both offer a similiar, non-destructive workflow. Picasa is free, and iPhoto is part of iLife, which comes with a new Mac.
If you're comfortable with one, the other will suit your needs just as well.
posted by voidcontext at 10:08 AM on April 26, 2006
If you're comfortable with one, the other will suit your needs just as well.
posted by voidcontext at 10:08 AM on April 26, 2006
iPhoto, especially the latest version, is pretty great (especially as a bundled item). I still end up exporting to Photoshop for much of my tweaking, but with every release of iPhoto this becomes less common.
Chococal was slightly off in their directory statement; a user's iPhoto library is actually stored in Macintosh HD/Users/Username/Pictures/iPhoto Library. Not that it matters much; iPhoto takes care of all the file management hizzy for you.
posted by jtron at 10:28 AM on April 26, 2006
Chococal was slightly off in their directory statement; a user's iPhoto library is actually stored in Macintosh HD/Users/Username/Pictures/iPhoto Library. Not that it matters much; iPhoto takes care of all the file management hizzy for you.
posted by jtron at 10:28 AM on April 26, 2006
Chococal was slightly off in their directory statement; a user's iPhoto library is actually stored in Macintosh HD/Users/Username/Pictures/iPhoto Library. Not that it matters much; iPhoto takes care of all the file management hizzy for you.
Oops, you are right. But if you open a new Finder window, the "Pictures" directory is right there, you don't have to click user/username, etc.
And it does matter, because as I understood it, his question was about STORAGE, not so much about which application to use for post-processing. Maybe I'm wrong.
posted by chococat at 10:36 AM on April 26, 2006
Oops, you are right. But if you open a new Finder window, the "Pictures" directory is right there, you don't have to click user/username, etc.
And it does matter, because as I understood it, his question was about STORAGE, not so much about which application to use for post-processing. Maybe I'm wrong.
posted by chococat at 10:36 AM on April 26, 2006
I use iView Media Pro, which is really good as well. iPhoto is probably more like Picassa though.
posted by chunking express at 12:06 PM on April 26, 2006
posted by chunking express at 12:06 PM on April 26, 2006
just for the record, with iPhoto 6, you can choose to make your own library structure, but why you would want to do that given the great metadata search features of both iPhoto and Spotlight I don't know. (I cannot help laughing when I read about the similar features coming in Vista sometime :-) )
posted by KimG at 1:38 PM on April 26, 2006
posted by KimG at 1:38 PM on April 26, 2006
Tedw, if postroad is asking this, then Aperture is completely out of the question.
posted by dmd at 2:35 PM on April 26, 2006
posted by dmd at 2:35 PM on April 26, 2006
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posted by majick at 8:55 AM on April 26, 2006