[X4U] Mysterious iPhoto 6 help please [2] - Reply OK

[Christopher Collins]

As I understand it firom a demonstration I saw of Aperture at the  
Photo Show here in Melbourne, Aperture has a lot of the cataloging  
and library management tools that are present in iPhoto.

Perhaps using these tools might be the way to go, as it seems  
Aperture is happy to handle almost any file format.

Just my AUS$0.02 worth!

cjc


On 19/07/2007, at 2:55 PM, germain_m at videotron.ca wrote:

> Hello Stroller,
>
> First, let me thank you for all this precious information that I  
> have, of course, printed for future reference. So if
> I understand well what you say, iPhoto imports in the original  
> folder RAW files with no problem but cannot
> display these files. In order to display them so I can see them on  
> the monitor, iPhoto immediately converts
> these RAW files into JPEG files and place them in the Modified  
> folder. Doing so, I can see them and edit
> them. If iPhoto works like this, that's fine with me. I see no  
> problems here. iPhoto's native format is JPEG.
> OK again.
>
> Then there's Aperture (which I have 1.5). RAW is it native format.  
> OK again. In understand the magic behind
> "losless". I already work on my RAW files in Aperture.
>
> But I do love iPhoto's managing system. I use it to manage all of  
> my digital photos. So what should I do?
> Manage the RAW files in Aperture and manage the JPEG in iPhoto? I  
> still prefer to use only one program to
> manage all of my photos and I'm very familiar and have developped  
> some experience with iPhoto. What I
> don't want is to have duplicates of files, RAW or JPEG on the HD.  
> As you can see, I shoot in both RAW and
> JPEG. There are times when I don't need the all goodness of RAW.
>
> Some say I should do all my managing and editing in Aperture since  
> I don't edit at all in iPhoto (did it
> ocasionnaly and features are quite good actually). Oh la la, what's  
> a man with two superb programs to do?
>
>
> Thanks again
>
> Germain
> iMac Intel 17 inches, 2.0ghz
> 1 gig Ram, 160 GB HD
> 10.4.8 français
>
>
>
> Le 17 juil. 07 à 09:06, Stroller a écrit :
>
>
> On 17 Jul 2007, at 06:56, Germain M. wrote:
> ...
> Yesterday, I added 28 RAW photos to iPhoto 6. Happy me, I like th  
> app very much. A minute later, the
> program added 28 JPEGs without my consentment in the "Modified"  
> folders. I didn't do anything to the 28
> photos but look at them in full view mode. Oh yes I did work one  
> one single file. Still I find that iPhoto adds
> copies to the "Modified" folders like whenever it feels to do so.  
> Do someone knows what's happening here?
>
> ...
> (continued)
>
> I think in your case the reason for these copies being made is that  
> you imported the files in RAW format. You
> stated that iPhoto created the "modified" files as jpegs, which are  
> a format iPhoto can view and modify. You
> can't crop a RAW photo as such - only create a bitmap copy of a RAW  
> file and then crop that - so I think
> iPhoto is importing the images into its "native" format of jpegs so  
> that you can view them within iPhoto and (in
> the future) edit them (if you wish).
>
> Aperture may be better for managing RAW files, I think, as Aperture  
> considers RAW files to be its native
> format. Aperture also stores jpeg copies of the RAW files it has  
> imported, however, it consider these
> "previews" rather than its modified copies. When you crop in  
> Aperture - or change the colour tone - you don't
> actually modify the image you just store a set of crop dimensions  
> or colour corrections _to be applied to_ that
> image. Changes are applied to the jpeg preview that you're viewing  
> in the editing window but it's only when
> you go to print or export the picture that they're applied to a  
> fresh copy of the RAW file (the RAW file itself
> being retained unchanged) at full-pixel resultion. In this way  
> Aperture is considered "lossless" photo editing for
> the sorts of photographic enthusiasts who are keen on using RAW files.
>
> Stroller.
>
>
>
>
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