[DM-MUG] iPhoto 08 export dialog problem (continued)

[Darcy Baston]

Besides the iPhoto export issue and iWeb still being Archivally  
challenged, my biggest complaint is the Events interface they've  
added to iPhoto. Since it replaces rolls, and rolls is what plugging  
in your camera and importing creates, along with dragging and  
dropping from the hard drive, or right clicking on images in Safari  
and choosing 'add to iPhoto', or doing similarly with email  
attachments, single photo imports break the concept. Any time I add  
one photo, like an attachment from an e-mail, I HAVE to merge it with  
another event (like "Miscellaneous") MANUALLY if I want to avoid  
getting stuck with dozens to hundreds of events containing one photo,  
with event names being dates. If I get 3 emails with single picture  
attachments, unrelated to each other, I then have 3 merge operations  
to do. It's a real pain in the.....

Since I have my events date sorted, new events go at the top, and the  
Miscellaneous event I've created goes as far down as the earliest  
date in its list of photos. If I happen to add an image that has an  
older date on it from a hard drive drag n drop let's say, the Misc  
folder's location can jump from where it was for weeks before, to  
somewhere new, causing me to then go scrolling and scrolling looking  
for the darn thing. I could add the step of visiting the view menu  
and sort by event title, but even then, I'm still scrolling looking  
for letter M starting events.

So, I'm giving up on Events/Rolls and just using keywords. This also  
alleviates my dependency on albums. When I import photos, I'll endure  
the overhead of adding keywords at the beginning, so that there's  
nothing to sort/scroll/merge/event'ize/album'ize later.

Events are great if you're using a camera that's always going to  
import a bunch of photos, and you don't add images from hard disk,  
Safari or Mail. I think to get the best use out of Events, you have  
to resist the urge to import photos off your camera too quickly. You  
should fill it up a little, import a bunch, and then use the much  
easier Split function which is quick and painless compared to doing  
merge-event management.

Darcy


On Aug 12, 2007, at 4:43 PM, Holly Welch wrote:

So glad to have you all  telling us about these issues! I just bought  
'08, and now I think I'll wait before I install it! Keep us posted on  
what is happening!! Thanks Darcy for your commentary, too!
Holly