Anyone using iView Media Pro 2

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I know that the subject of album or cataloging programs has been discussed
but I am interested in comments specific to iView Media Pro or iView Media.
Does anyone use these programs for organizing their photo files?
And, while the programs come in both Mac and Windows versions, if I am lucky
enough to find a Mac user - how do these programs compare to iPhoto? I know
that the Pro version can read some raw files (a big plus) but other than
that is there a lot to recommend the program(s) over iPhoto?
Chuck

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Richard Kaszeta <rich@kaszeta.org> wrote:
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: In other words, I find iView Media Pro to be much, much more capable
: and faster than iPhoto, but still not ideal.

Without repeating everything Richard just said, I'd have to say that I
agree.

But I only use it as a reference for "where things are". I use it for
indexing only.

When I need to edit photos, I'm still using Finder to go to the right
directory, and dropping images straight into Photoshop. Then I save the
edited stuff somewhere outside of the original directory structure that
my camera downloads are in.

iPhoto, when teamed with iPhoto Buddy, is still good for managing small
groups of photos when you need to weed through them for an album/web page
or something. Using iPhoto Buddy lets you have a small library for each
cluster of photos, rather than bogging it down with gigs and gigs of data
containing thumbnails of years worth of photos.

Still looking for the ideal manager, but I expect that will only happen
when I change my work process to match what's out there, rather than
waiting for something that "fits my way of working". Oh well!

-Charles

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Charles Robinson
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