Well I am not trying to impress anybody, just thought mentioning the issue here might work better than bug tracking system, esp. since they are doing a redesign anyhow. Just got a bit excited with "As Seen On TV"'s knowledge & strong assumption of him/her/it being somebody high up in Apple food chain.
Is there any hope that RAW file mess will be fixed in iPhoto. Let me get this straight, when you are talking about RAW file format obviously your average person who takes pictures with point & shoot and some with even DSLR's is out. Now when I shoot in RAW I know the benefits of that format and would obviously like to use it and there is a good probability I might be having Photoshop or some other specialized app too. Enter latest version of iPhoto, I have iPhoto convert my RAW photos to jpegs for my convenience and put the original RAW files in the deep down original folder.
I hope by now we are clear if I wanted to use jpegs for manipulation I would have shot jpeg. So hoping that somehow automagically when I click a jpeg from an original RAW file it will launch my external editor (Photoshop with RAW plugin) but no. I can't ditch iPhoto because every other app I use has iPhoto integration and I think its not a bad app.
I can understand the new found special focus on image editing abilities of iPhoto but iPhoto was an image organizer and is primarily an image organizer just like iTunes for music. I hope that feature was a result of some over excitement of the new cool editing abilities of iPhoto and was taken a bit too far.
One thing I can tell is as people realize the power of format (as I did recently) more and more them will be shooting all RAW. I am a pretty casual photographer and my workflow is a mess.
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Well I am not trying to impress anybody, just thought mentioning the issue here might work better than bug tracking system, esp. since they are doing a redesign anyhow. Just got a bit excited with "As Seen On TV"'s knowledge & strong assumption of him/her/it being somebody high up in Apple food chain.
Is there any hope that RAW file mess will be fixed in iPhoto. Let me get this straight, when you are talking about RAW file format obviously your average person who takes pictures with point & shoot and some with even DSLR's is out. Now when I shoot in RAW I know the benefits of that format and would obviously like to use it and there is a good probability I might be having Photoshop or some other specialized app too. Enter latest version of iPhoto, I have iPhoto convert my RAW photos to jpegs for my convenience and put the original RAW files in the deep down original folder.
I hope by now we are clear if I wanted to use jpegs for manipulation I would have shot jpeg. So hoping that somehow automagically when I click a jpeg from an original RAW file it will launch my external editor (Photoshop with RAW plugin) but no. I can't ditch iPhoto because every other app I use has iPhoto integration and I think its not a bad app.
I can understand the new found special focus on image editing abilities of iPhoto but iPhoto was an image organizer and is primarily an image organizer just like iTunes for music. I hope that feature was a result of some over excitement of the new cool editing abilities of iPhoto and was taken a bit too far.
One thing I can tell is as people realize the power of format (as I did recently) more and more them will be shooting all RAW. I am a pretty casual photographer and my workflow is a mess.
This so much looks like the movie Avalon.
iLife'05 http://www.apple.com/ilife/
iWork'05 http://www.apple.com/iwork/
Mac Mini http://www.apple.com/macmini/
iPod Shuffle http://www.apple.com/ipodshuffle/
Way to go - Apple Rocks