When using IPhoto for basic editing, it runs really slow.
My wife and I have a photography business and we use Apple IPhoto 09 for basic editing. It takes forever to edit. In between each photo the spinning wheel spins and spins and spins, probably for around 1 to 2 minutes or more. We only have aprox 11,000 photos in 43 event folders. They are jpeg files and are around 3 to 5kb per photo. We are using an IMac w/ 2 gigs of ram and 300gigs of storage, we have over a 100 gigs of free storage space. Ever other program we run seems to be fine. No problems w/ CS5 or Lightroom just IPhoto. Anyone have any ideas would be appreciated.
Thanks, Paul
As a Test:
Hold down the option (or alt) key and launch iPhoto. From the resulting menu select 'Create Library'
Import a few pics into this new, blank library. Is the Problem repeated there?
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To add on to Corky02 answer:
The recent Aperture release AP 3.3.x is very efficient, both on Lion and Mountain Lion. But you need a decent hardware to support it. The older Macs will have problems with the storage and CPU requirements. For good performance on large raw images plenty of RAM is important, at least 4GB, but 8GB would be much better, and your library should be on a fast disk, preferably on an internal drive. And don't let the system drive get too full.
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Using iPhoto for a specific PP task - will it cause any issues?
Since I've started shooting in RAW, I haven't really used iPhoto that much.
My current process is to import using Bridge, open images in Adobe Camera Raw to edit and crop, and then open in PS Elements 6 to do final editing.
However I don't like the crop feature in ACR... And I'm thinking of using iPhoto for cropping.
Here is how I envision the process -
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Thanks!1. Import via bridge
2. Open and edit in ACR but do not crop
3. Open and edit in PSE6 and save as PSD
4. Run batch process in PSE6 to convert PSDs to JPGs
I’m not sure you’ll need this step as iPhoto will work with almost all PSDs. A little trial and error will confirm.
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A general comment:
It’s a lot of effort to get a crop. Can’t you crop in Elements? Or - if not in Elements - there are lots of little editors out there with no database element that will crop. Even Preview will do this.
Regards
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