IPhoto 6 and Kodak EasyShare 5.2.2

Is anyone using the excellent software from Kodak called "EasyShare"? Latest version for Mac is 5.2.2 although version 6 is out for windoze and "soon" for Mac.
I like EasyShare because since Feb 2004 when I got my first Kodak Camera, I could import videos from the camera and stills and show both in the same slide show. iPhoto could not do that-- not sure if it can in version 6.
What I'd like to hear is the pros and cons of both if anyone out there has used both. I'm not sure I want to switch 9700 photos at 25 gb of size (including videos) from EasyShare to iPhoto-- but it may be an advantage to do this.
Thanks and regards,
Steve Saturday 10 June 2006 @ 09:35

Stephen:
I don't know if easy share can use keywords or manage the photos in subsets like albums, etc., but if you already have your photos in a pre-defined folder system and would like to keep them that way you can use iPhoto in it's alias mode (see iPhoto's Advanced preference section) and keep your original files right where they are. Any edits done on a photo will create an edited version, leaving the original untouched. One downside is that if you delete a photo from iPhoto's library it does not delete the original source file. That must be done by you via the Finder. Here are some Tutorials on using iPhoto's alias mode that may give you an idea about it. With iPhoto's alias system you can use both EasyShare and iPhoto on the same set of source files. But if you edit a file from EasyShare or the Finder it will not update the thumbnail in iPhoto.
Also check out the iLife/iPhoto page at Apple's site to get a good idea of the many organizational virtues of iPhoto. As I said I'm totally unfamilar with the Kodak application so can't compare the two. Good luck.

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