Hei Geoff

Hm, iPhot might be a solution, but I don't like the way it behaves. - 
Hereto comes that I store the pictures along with other information such 
as the music catalogs, historical information, biography etc. in a 
folder, which I call 'Info'...

The structure is so - with one you know...
Main folder: The Seekers
      Subfolder: _Info
		The Seekers Collection.rtf (or .doc) (NWP)
                 The Seekers Collection.pdf (NWP)
                 The Seekers Biography.pdf (NWP)
                 The Seekers Album List.pdf (NWP
                 Subfolder: The Seekers Pictures, (JPEG, GIF etx.)
                            (pictures in original sizes)
      Subfolder: The Seekers, Collection
                 Subfolder: Audio albums (mp3, aac, flac etc.)
                 Subfolder: Video files (avi, mov, mpeg, WMV etc.)

Doing it this way I have all files collected in a single folder and I 
can easily drag the whole folder onto either an USB stick, a portable 
HD, or to another computer via my network (e.g. my PowerBook G4) and 
take it with me... - Or I can even burn it all to a MP3 disk (DVD or 
DVD-DL) to keep each artist more safe - and of course also to save space 
on my harddisks...

Cheers, Erik Richard

Geoffrey Heard wrote:
> Not all-knowing, but I just tried an experiment and it works the same in 
> Canvas and PhotoLine as you experienced with Photoshop.
> 
> It seems that the logic of the Mac is that if you make changes in a file 
> then save it, it is not the same file although it is the same name, so 
> it reverts to the default which you have left set, in this case, as 
> Preview.
> 
> My I suggest two alternative work flows?
> 
> 1)  Change he default for opening all JPEGs to Photoshop. When you want 
> a quick look at a picture rather than launching Photoshop, click on the 
> icon in the finder with the right button and go to "Quick Look" in the 
> right button contextual menu. If you want to keep a number of pictures 
> open at the same time, just select all the icons and drag them to the 
> Preview icon.
> 
> 2)  Store all your pictures in iPhoto. Use iPhoto Buddy to allow you to 
> have a number of different iPhoto libraries. In your case, you would set 
> up one library named "The Seekers" and keep all your Seekers pictures in 
> it. Always use iBuddy to allow you to select the library you want to 
> open and thus to launch iPhoto. in the iPhoto preferences, select 
> Photoshop as the external editor. Then do your quick reviewing of 
> pictures in iPhoto and your editing in Photoshop, saving back into 
> iPhoto or saving out to another place if you like. You can also zoom 
> photos for editing in iPhoto using the right button menu. (It is 
> desirable to avoid editing in iPhoto as it applies rather savage lossy 
> compression each time you edit and save and you have no control over it, 
> so it is best to edit in an external program and save without loss back 
> into iPhoto.)
> 
> In fact, I use the workflow described in 2) (but substituting PhotoLine 
> for Photoshop) for 80% of my pix editing nowadays and it works very 
> well. In iPhoto, I have several viewing choices; I can look at the 
> minimum sized thumbnails or mak them all bigger with the size slider. I 
> can look t each one zoomed to the max or I can look t a whole series as 
> a slide show. Very handy. For the other 20%, I leave Preview set as the 
> default viewer but when desired, drag photos on to the Canvas or 
> PhotoLine icons to launch and open the pix for work, or I open pix from 
> within the programs. I slso drag photos from iPhoto on to the  anvas 
> icon if I want to use them in that program.
> 
>> Hello All-knowing.:-)
>>
>> I have just finished editing more than 200 JPEG files for use with my 
>> music catalogs. They are located in 3 folders - each folder belonging 
>> to a single artist... - Later these pictures will be inserted into NWP 
>> documents along with album titles and album content, track lists, 
>> informaton etc.etc..
>>
>> As default these JPEG files are all associated to be opened by 
>> Preview. So to avoid to drag each file at a time onto the Photoshop 
>> CS2 icon, I just select all, use 'Get Info' and change the opener to 
>> Photoshop CS2. - I donot click the 'Change All' button, because I 
>> still want Preview to be able to open other JPEG files for just a 
>> faster view...
>>
>> All files in a folder now show correct Adobe icon.
>>
>> I now just double-click each file and it opens fine in PhS CS2, - I 
>> make my changes like resizing, changing contrast/brightness, maybe 
>> change the color balances etc.etc.... Now save each file and they all 
>> get the correct thumb icon...
>>
>> If I now double-click the finished JPEG file it's again Preview that 
>> opens the file - the association to Photoshop is complete gone - 
>> except on GIF and BMP files.
>>
>> I've tried it on both my MacPro with CS2 and my PowerBook G4/1,67ghz 
>> with CS1 - same behavior. Both are running 10.5.8.
>>
>> If I don't edit anything but just close folders and fx. also make a 
>> reboot, they still have the associated Photoshop icon when I open the 
>> folders again.
>>
>> what's going on?

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