Hei Erick
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! :)
Cheers, geoff
>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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