Comments on: CyberNotes: iPhoto vs. Windows Photo Gallery

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 04:31:25 +0000

So we have a “mixed” household: a Mac, where all photos are managed and a couple of PCs. Any ideas how all computers could access all pictures (stored on a large central Harddrive – a NAS, actually)? Is there a program like iPhoto that works on both Mac and PC so there is the same storage logic? Thanks!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 00:03:51 +0000

You can’t… unless you’re running Windows on your Mac. Although you should be able to open an image with one of several apps on your Mac.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 20:01:29 +0000

Talk about Windows bias…
There are a lot of stupid comments about having to get used to the “Mac way.” If you’re using iPhoto obviously you’re already using a Mac. Also, one of the worst things you can do to your photos is modify the original – renaming, editing, etc. This is why we use photo management software. If you really need a higher level of control, then you should be using a professional management package like Aperture.

By: Iphoto

Iphoto — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:44:43 +0000

Who cares about folders when you can organize with smart albums. so you can group by favorites, events dates keywords and different peoples with face recognition (which works very well after you tell it who is in a a few different pictures). As for the non destructive editing comment. If you do it the way windows does it and keeps a copy of the original your files will be twice as big. With the way Iphoto does it you can remove your changes to get back to your original if you want. If you want you can always make a copy of the original if you really want to. Iphoto can upload directly to facebook and flickr with one click, The books are amazing. My friends thought it was a book I bought from my trip until I was in a picture. The slide shows you can make are fantastic and you can create a DVD that plays on any DVD player.

As for the copy of the photos into iphoto that is true. Once that is done delete the file they came from so they don’t consume HD space.

The orginal review was on iphoto 08 iphoto 09 has even better editing options. Nice to know that windows has something that even comes close. I have been asked by so many people is iphoto made for windows. Now I can tell them that windows has built a close second

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:58:28 +0000

Interesting article. I would say that as the article says this is written by a biased party. The main issue I have with these types of reviews is when they are written by someone who lives on windows and then decides to review a mac.
Windows OS in general is outdated, so why then is it still so popular (even over the recent update). People are used to it, and against getting used to another one.

I live on windows at work, and my degree focused on teaching me how to use windows. The other couple hours I have at home are on a mac. There are no college courses on how to use a mac, because it’s really simple. At first I was irritated when things were different, but being in a position of logging hundreds of hours on each system a year for multiple years gives me a better perspective then the people who did wrote this.

iphoto is simpler to use, and offers the same amount of control.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:07:48 +0000

I received an image in email on my Mac with instructions to open with Window Photo Gallery. How do I do that?

By: Jorge Arturo

Jorge Arturo — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:09:37 +0000

Pamela use Picasa, it is easy to do that, there are plenty of choices to manage albums in PC

By: Pamela

Pamela — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 16:51:43 +0000

I am a novice. I have Vista and my daughter (who is scanning and tagging 7,000 photos) has MAC. Can someone tell me which one (Photo Gallery or IPhoto 09 is best for SORTING all of these photos after they are tagged? I am not going to do sharing on the web. Will make various DVD/CD’s for the family (like family resemblences between generations) or daughters ice skating and granddaughters ice skating), etc. Thanks.

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By: Endless nameless

Endless nameless — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 01:33:24 +0000

Yeah I’ve recently ditched my mac to get this Windows box and I gave Windows Live Photo Gallery a whirl.

Not that impressed.

iPhoto is much more intuitive and user friendly. So what if it ‘takes control’ of my photos. It’s supposed to. It’s an effing photo management program! Personally only being able to go two sub directories deep is not a big problem for me.

Also although the photo editing tools on Microsoft effort leave much to be desired (hello no where’s the eetouching brush). Though I must admit I like the auto fix feature.

For casual users who just want to edit and/or funkify their photos then iPhoto wins HANDS DOWN..