I don’t know what fucked up brain thought of this piece of shit called iPhoto? And why the hell does Apple take it upon itself to try to complete with the likes of Adobe at every turn is beyond me. They’ve done it before by dumping Adobe’s Postscript font technology for TrueType only for the pros to continue to use Postscript, and dunces like us just shifting to Truetype without any thought.. that’s a different subject however…
So far, after several months of switching to Macs (at home) the ONLY application I dearly miss is Adobe Photoshop Elements. I even bought it specifically for the Mac thinking that it’s going to be the same as the PC. Not a bloomin’ chance. It does have the photo editor, but it doesn’t have the album functionality. Hence my dependence on the stupid, brain dead, slow as a snail fucked up program called iPhoto. I Photo WHAT for duck’s sake if it crawls – no, it SLITHERS in a geriatric way with just 20,000 photographs?
And when it comes to backing up the piece of shit library AFTER IT BLOODY WELL HIJACKS YOUR PHOTOGRAPHS AND PUTS THEM INTO IT’S OWN APPLE-GOD-LIKE-FOLDERS which are completely useless, it just doesn’t do it!
I bought an external Sony DVD drive with EVERYTHING, plus, minus, whatever, and when I came to back up the piece of shit, it won’t do it beyond a single DVD! huh? That means that I have to become the computer and calculate how many pictures or libraries I can store on a single DVD because the piece of crap can’t span disks!
Even when I have given in to this fact, the bloody thing takes about 30 minutes to “calculate” or whatever the fuck it’s bloody well doing to get any response ONLY to crash the bloody program!
Ok, fine, calm down Mahmood. There must be a way. I look. I search. I google. And finally I find a library manager called “iPhoto Library Manager” yes, I know, Apple people are QUITE creative aren’t they? Only to find that as my library is about 20,000 pictures, it just gets iPhoto to crash more frequently!
I’m fed up of this shit. I’m a hair-breadth away of planting the fucking miniMac into the garden under a huge pot and get my Dell back up and running.
Okay okay, I’ll try something else. But my blood pressure is going to go through the roof in a few minutes…
AAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH
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iPhoto SUCKS!
I feel the same way about my iBook sometimes…..
iPhoto SUCKS!
As a big Mac fan I absolutely agree with you Mahmood. I even bought iPhoto 5 and it isn’t much of an improvement. As a matter of fact, it’s worse. The red-eye reduction is completely crap in this version. Picasa is much better…
[Modified by: Hani AlYousif (hani) on June 24, 2005 07:44 PM]
iPhoto SUCKS!
I don’t care for iPhoto either. Tried it once to organize my image archives, but found it too tedious and slow a task. So what is it really meant for? Well, probably to create albums and order books and prints from Apple, of course 🙂
Laura
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PICASA on a Mac? what’s the link? quick! gimme gimme!
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I wish… on Windows unfortunately. The problem with iPhoto is speed. On an iMac G5 it’s fast. On a dual G5 it’s very fast. The problem is using it on the mini or any G4 or G3.
Shoebox
Shoebox appears to be much better than iPhoto. I’ll give that a go and report back.
There are various howtos to speed up iPhoto. One of which is to reduce the size of the libraries which is the thing to do. My problem that even with soemthing like iPhoto Library Manager which I have bought and a lot of people swear by, my 1GB miniMac still crashes the application. After investing so much time putting all the keywords and other details on most of my 20,000 pictures, I would hate to lose that metadata which just slightly less important than the pictures themselves. I hope that Shoebox import script sucks all that metadata with the pictures, or at least extract the embeded IPCT and EXIF data.
The best media management tool I have used is the Adobe Album which was later amalgamated within Elements 3. I’ll keep looking, because without a proper media management tool, all those pictures might as well be stored into a shoebox and forgotten.
iPhoto SUCKS!
Sounds like McArthurs famous quote. I’ll be back! PC’s rule.
billT
iPhoto SUCKS!
Your best option is to spend $170 for iView.. If you’re willing to spend the money, it’s worth it.
Otherwise Picasa makes a great argument to switch back to a PC (God forbid!).
e.
iPhoto SUCKS!
Mahmood,
I’d like to commend you on your use of profanity. I can think of no better way to describe Apple and its OS/software.
I really enjoy your blog. It gives me some insight into a place/places that I am not able to visit, and would otherwise know nothing about.
Cheers,
Aaron
aaron@ajiva.net
iPhoto SUCKS!
iagree i have downloaded and testet iview during a eval period and i am gonna by it. it does all the thing i want to. I went from windows to mac earlier this year and find it sad that its not perfect =)
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I finally downloaded iView Pro as well, and it has been importing my iPhoto library since LAST NIGHT! It’s been more than 24 hours and it imported about 75% of the lib and it’s got some 5,000 more photographs to get. I hope in the end it is going to be worth it.
Obviously I won’t be able to evaluate it until it finishes the import.
iPhoto SUCKS!
So, Mahmoud? Any insights yet? I am at the same point you started this and I have to decide which way to go…
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I didn’t try iPhoto 6 yet, they say it’s faster. My experience with iView MediaPro though is quite solid as far as media management is concerned, and is quite fast. I must confess that was enough for me though, but I need to spend some time to learn how to properly use it. Overall, it’s ok, but I still prefer the Adobe Photoshop Album on Windows as it is so intuitive to use. It’s a shame that functionality is not available on the Mac version.
iPhoto SUCKS!
Thank you very much, Mahmoud, for the time you took to share your experience. It is really valuable for me, since I am at the same crossroads you were months ago.
Also thanks for the bitching on apple. It did wonders to my outraged self. I just bought an imac to switch over from PC, only to find out that Apple released the new model of the very same machine next week (twice as fast, same price) Of course, out of the blue; with no previous schedule and no upgrade program for the suckers who just got the old crap. Good grief, the only thing I found missing at Steve Job’s press brieffing was my photo with a “sucker of the year” tab under it! I had to provide one to activate my imac account, it was very sloppy of them not to use it. Totally dissapointing.
And by the way, they also released the new iLife version, with a fabulous upgrade program: the poor souls who bought their shite after they announced that from now on they would ship machines with iLife 6 in them but only got iLife 5 can get the new version… paying some 10 USD! I guess that means bollocks to people like me. “Why, you bought it ages ago! It was like… January 6th!”
They sure have a much better rounded software than them, but they are evil as M$ and even more.
Happy trails!
lol
I searched for “iPhoto sucks” and found your site.
Do people still use the word “kluge”? It was a great techy slang when I was in college. iPhoto is absolutely kluge.
It takes absolutely forever to scan through a library, select an image and throw the image in the trash. Woe on your a$$ if you actually want to blow up an image to check if its sharp and scroll through the library with full size images. I am going nucking futz.
Thanks for the Shoebox tip. I will check it out.
Curt
Anyone checked out iPhoto 6 yet? Especially on the new Dual-Core Intel-based platforms?
anything that begins wiht “i” sucks frankly.
iTunes treats you like a 5 year old, iMovie is lame, iWeb is a joke, iPhoto is shit beyond all else… its the only program i have seen get worse as it progresses.
I deleted the f….ng piece of shit software iphoto from my computer…..it just ate up space on my 120 GB IntelPC Macbook Pro – after deleting it I opened up some 50 GB of space without deleting any photos (I have aperture and photoshop cs3 installed)…
When I think of all the time it took to figure out that this shit software was the problem, and the days it took to painfully shit it out of my computer, I feel like suing the bastards at Apple….. I had similar luck with IDVD which I also deleted, and forked out the $90 for Toast Titanium instead…
I dread using iMovie – I haven’t had a chance yet because I don’t have a videocam yet…. I bet it’s just as shitty as iphoto and idvd…… I guess I’ll have to spend the $300 to get the final cut express ‘pro’ software…..when I go video..
Mahmood, Mahmood, finally someone who totally expresses everything I feel about the “i” products that apple produces.
Yes I know from experience iPhoto truly sucks, all the “i” shit sucks.
The main reason I bought a Mac was , I wanted a computer with a solid basic OS.
I have no use for all this other usless “i” crap. Why does Apple think we are all a bunch of fucking retards?
Apple,,,,fire those “i” software designers,,,now!!!
I am on my 2nd apple, I now have a Macbook 2007
I usually do not use such foul language , but iPhoto really pi$$e8 me off!!!!!
Sorry Mom.
Googled ‘iPhoto sucks’ in outraged frenzy as I work with my iPhoto library and found your entry. You have a way with words 😆 All I want to do is to create a copy of a picture and add some special effects to it. A copy, so that I still have the original in the library. Should that mean I should be punished? I click “Create Duplicate” and i-$%&$-photo created a duplicate as ordered, just thought it unimportant to tell me where or provide some pointer for me to get to the duplicate. Is wading endlessly through 50 thousand photos manually to look for that godforsaken duplicate the only way to do it? I thought since the copy is new, I’d find it right away by sorting timewise. No luck. Googling around makes it seem like the Mac has absolutely no photo-editing- and -organizing software that’s remotely usable. Incredible!