I continue to be impressed with the Mac’s functionality and ease of use. I was anxious to see how iPhoto’s functionality compared to Photoshop on my PC. iPhoto did not disappoint. I took the photo below with my digital camera, and when I plugged the camera into the Mac using a USB connection, iPhoto immediately kicked in and presented a completely intuitive interface for downloading the images and organizing them in various ways.
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Cardinal
iPhoto has all the basic functions that you need to accomplish basic photo editing in an easy to use package. I was able to quickly find and use the enhancement tools and cropping options to get the photo into a format suitable for publishing to my blog. Exporting the image to a jpg was also a snap. Once I was done though the image was still too large to post as it was so I decided to upload it to Flickr and serve it up from there rather than from my server. I found a Flickr uploader for Mac OS X on the Flickr site, downloaded and installed it, and used it to upload my image. Again, everything went smoothly and easily.
2 Comments To "iPhoto First Test"
#1 Comment By Dawn On March 22, 2008 @ 9:27 pm
Great! I don’t have a Mac, so not sure of your setup, but the photo looks nice to me. Love the cardinal!
#2 Comment By Carol On March 23, 2008 @ 9:55 am
Dawn – thanks. I have been pleased with my results so far. I’m pretty new to photography, and digital photography, as well as photo editing, so I need alot more practice to become truly proficient. I liked the cardinal too. I was surprised that the shot came out as well as it did because it was late in the afternoon and there was limited light.
Thanks for commenting. I love encouragement!