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

[alexandre]

salut germain

why don't you use just one program, say aperture, which can do want  
iphoto does (and not the other way round). aperture manages jpegs  
very well.

in other words, what is is that iphoto has and that aperture doesn't?

alexandre
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On 19 juil. 07, at 06:55, 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?
>