Hei Geoff

Hm, it could be done that way, but then I run into a problem that I 
forgot to mention - the 'PC problem'. I use both Mac and Windows and 
sometimes I take my external 2,5" FW disk along with me, when I'm away 
for some days - filled with music. - And a good deal of those I visit 
are only using Windows computers... OK, the music can be played, the 
documents read, but no PC yet is able to read and understand iPhoto libs 
and I'm not aware of any Win-based app that will do either...

You're right about harddisks. - They are now very cheap. I've just 
bought 2x 2tb external WD Essentials SE for apprx. $260USd incl. 
shippping - only for archiving purposes - one for data only and the 
other one as backup of my music....

Cheers, Erik Richard

Geoffrey Heard wrote:
> I actually work in quite a similar way except that I have the subfolder 
> of original pictures as an iPhoto library which I create and access as 
> described through the donation-ware iPhoto Buddy. Using iPhoto Buddy I 
> can have as many different libraries as I like, put them where I like 
> (with relevant other materials) and very importantly, never be in a 
> position where if one database becomes faulty, I lose everything (which 
> is what can occur with a big, single dtabase like iPhoto).
> 
> When I edit pix for a project, I then save them off into another 
> subfolder in the same folder.
> 
> I have to say I don't worry about space on the hard disks any longer 
> since HDs are so cheap -- but then I have curtailed my activities a bit 
> so perhaps I don't have as much to store.
> 
> But each to his own!  :)
> 
>> 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...
>>
>> 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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