iPhoto '05: I Need a Replacement

[Vita Rara]

First: If this is in the wrong place, please move it.

I have been a happy user of iPhoto up until the '05 version. It's terrible, and unfortunately all but unremovable from the system. To "uninstall" basically means reformat and start from scratch with a clean machine, which is not an option for me.

So, for my fellow Mac users out there, what alternatives are there to iPhoto? I have really liked iPhoto and I regularly used to use the following features:

1. Keywords.
2. Smart albums based on keywords.
3. Ratings
4. Slide shows
5. Regular albums to organize things like photos from a trip, dance event, or the like.
6. Export to Quicktime movie with music track.
7. Export to a web page.
8. One click email sending. (Very convenient.)
9. Export w/ or w/o resize. (I use this to burn CD's of photos for non-iPhoto users.)

I have really enjoyed iPhoto's ease of use up until now, but the new version is unbearable. I have tried all the tricks listed on various websites to no avail. My main complaints about the new version are:

1. Slow, dog slow.
2. Uses all of my memory and then some. I have 1.5GB RAM.
3. Crashes frequently.
4. Now in order to run it I need to rebuild my library every time.
5. Drags my machine to a crawl. (DP 1GHz G4)

If another application could bring over my ratings and keywords from iPhoto that would be an amazing bonus and would clinch the deal for me. I have about 5000 photos rated and categorized. Re-doing all of that work would not be fun, but if I need to I will, iPhoto '05 sucks.

Thanks,

Mark

[kb244]

Probally the only alternative is probally going to be Adobe Elements 3.0, considering that adobe themselves wrote a few features of iphoto5 for apple. Far as being a drag on your machine I dunno if Elements3 would be like that.

[Vita Rara]

Probally the only alternative is probally going to be Adobe Elements 3.0, considering that adobe themselves wrote a few features of iphoto5 for apple. Far as being a drag on your machine I dunno if Elements3 would be like that.

Are you refering to PS Elements? If yes, I don't need an image editing program. I have the full version of PS. I don't use iPhoto to edit images. I use it to organize and use them, ie. export to web page, quicktime movie, categorize, and rate images.

Thanks,

Mark

[Webarcher]

Give iView Media a go. It's a very useful program.

http://www.iview-multimedia.com/

Jeroen

[SnJPhoto]

Not sure if it will meet all your needs but look into iView Media Pro. I started using it when I got frustrated with iPhoto awhile back and love it.

Good luck.

Scott

[DavidEB]

Cumulus for the mac. bar none, the best image database out there. powerful, easy, pleasure to use, fast. also it's one of the few scaleable solutions (runs on single machine, runs on servers, etc...) about $100 from www.canto.com

I don't know about importing your iPhoto keywords & ratings.

[J Rabin]

Vita:
Another vote for iView Media Pro 2.6.x. I got rid of iPhoto 2 years+ ago because I never liked how it messed with file structure, violating Apple's own interface program guidelines by creating bizarre folder structures, saving edited files in odd places, and operated like a slug when image numbers got high. iView is very fast with large image base sizes, good at handling IPTC metadata exchange with PSCS, etc.

[DavoMrMac]

I tried iPhoto and it is a bit too underpowered.

iView is good and also Extensis Portfolio.

Vita... uninstalling iPhoto, two ways, just trash the iPhoto application, or do a find, using iPhoto as a search and then trash all that it finds... good luck