iPhoto suckage

[joshbuckler]

So I recently bought a MacBook Pro.  I must have had pretty high expectations, because I didn't expect there to be so many UI flaws.  Not to mention the outright bugs.

There is a long list, but I've most recently been messing with iPhoto.  How many ways do we need to organize photos?

• rolls
• albums
• smart albums (saved searches)
• folders
• keywords

Comments

[cyt]

i don't really know much about iPhoto. i stopped using it very early on when it mismanaged some of my photos when i got my computer in 2003. i know that iPhoto has a limit of how many images in the database it can support and i never liked rolls... i don't know why there are so many different ways of managing photos, but i think it's to allow for people to arrange it the way they would want to - there are a lot of people who want to do it their own way. there are different "buckets" to manage photographs in aperture than iPhoto - projects, folders, albums, keywords (this isn't a way to organize it as a way to tag them), smart albums, specialty albums (light table, web journal/gallery, book)... aperture is an early app so i would imagine that some UI might feel less tight than other apple applications, though the management of your photographs is top priority so that's the best thing going for it. you could try aperture for free with the trial and when the trial is done, if you don't like it, you can always just export your images with the metadata you tagged it with to another app...

i'm sorry you are having such a difficult time with your new machine... i don't think mac/apple can solve all the computing problems there are - though i hope they continue to try.