All you do is move a slider to change the size. Thumbnails can be tiny or as large as your main iPhoto window. (During editing, the thumbnails appear in a strip across the top.) This means you have a consistent interface and can always see many of your images at a glance. You always view thumbnails, even while editing a single picture. Thumbnails aren't an option with iPhoto they're the way it works. iPhoto scales images better than any other software I've tried, whether on Apple's computers or on Windows. Effective scaling is part science and part art. When images are shown smaller than a one-to-one pixel-to-pixel size, the image-management software has to scale everything down. IPhoto is unequalled at displaying pictures at varying sizes. I'll update this article as soon as I have tried the new version of iPhoto.) (Apple introduced a newer version just after this column was written. The current release, iPhoto 5, does a superb job of the three big image-management functions - displaying, sorting and editing pictures. I've encountered savvy Mac users who have never run iPhoto, apparently because they mistakenly assumed it was "entry-level" photo management software that couldn't handle heavy-duty tasks.īut that's not the case. In fact, the ease with which iPhoto can do all sorts of photo-related operations sometimes causes a problem. You can use it to view, catalog, edit and print your digital pictures the first time you turn your computer on. Like many other Macintosh OS X programs, iPhoto requires no familiarization period. Probably the best example of this sort of synergy is iPhoto, the image-management software that comes free with every Macintosh.
So it's no wonder things work well together on Apple's Macintosh OS X computers.
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Why iPhoto, the Mac OS X image manager, is so coolĪpple makes all three elements of a modern computer system - the hardware (the computer itself), the operating system and the software used for common tasks. IPhoto is unequalled, on Macs or Windows, at displaying pictures at varying sizes.Īl Fasoldt's reviews and commentaries, continuously available online since 1983 Why the Mac OS X image manager, iPhoto, is so cool
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