Using Apple iView to publish digital images

[Clive Long]

Hi,

FeelingPink helped me to organise my photos from Japan using the Apple software "iView".

This software allows you organise your images into folders. The software then generates all the HTML to navigate between the images and reduces the image resolution to make them much smaller but still viewable through a screen. The way the HTML is built you "just" (it's never that simple) need to upload the folders and their contents to any Web space. The great thing from my point of view is you do not need to subscribe to a site with any special image management software and your viewers just enter the URL of the home/index page to be able to see your images.

If you need to amend the content of the folders you need to perform that "locally" on the Mac using iView as there are no editing tools on the Web Space - that just holds the files. For example, I have noiced that my "Osaka" folder contains some "Kyoto" images - but I won't stress over that now.

I need to create a simple index page to navigate to all the folders but you can link to two sets of images from here .

Clive

[killingtime]

iView isn't an Apple product. I can see why you might assume it is since it takes the i* format. Apple have iPhoto and now iWeb for uploading that. I use a variety of editing tools for my photos and upload to flickr

I did like many of your photos though. That red leaf tree is lovely.

[ducasi]

I've found iView to be quite a good program, but a bit "random" when I've used it, so I stick with iPhoto for managing my photos and building web pages from them.

Good photos though Clive!

[Feelingpink]

I've found iView to be quite a good program, but a bit "random" when I've used it, so I stick with iPhoto for managing my photos and building web pages from them.

Good photos though Clive!

They are fab photos - Clive is fabulously talented!

Ducasi, what have you found "random" about iView? I love it to bits (and was a bit surprised to find out they're based in south London, rather than somewhere in Silicon Valley).

[ducasi]

Ducasi, what have you found "random" about iView? I love it to bits (and was a bit surprised to find out they're based in south London, rather than somewhere in Silicon Valley).

It's things like when you drag a picture (or photo) from the catalogue to the desktop, instead of getting a copy or an alias, it moves the actual file.

Too easy to lose pictures that way.

I haven't used it much, but my Dad uses it to organise his clip-art collection, so I get to do the tech-support. Perhaps it's really because I only ever see it when it's not doing what my Dad wants it to (for whatever reason...)

[Feelingpink]

It's things like when you drag a picture (or photo) from the catalogue to the desktop, instead of getting a copy or an alias, it moves the actual file.

Too easy to lose pictures that way.
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Funny thing, but that's the thing that I love about it - you know exactly where the files are and there aren't random extra copies etc running around the place. It renames like a dream, will sort with labels/capture date/whatever, the thumbnails are big enough to edit with (even for 1000+ images), will read pretty much any kind of file including movies & raw, will add annotations to the files (such as author & copyright details), convert raw files to jpegs/tiffs and it's fast. The only issues I've had are with folder permissions (needs to be read & write, obviously) and trying to rename over the top of similar renaming.

I guess we're going to have to disagree on this one!

[ducasi]

I guess we're going to have to disagree on this one!

Different users with different needs.

[killingtime]

Different users with different needs.

Though an application dragging behaviour on a Mac would be expected to make a copy (moves are performed in Finder and only automatically when using the same drive). At least I think that is the expected behaviour.

[Andreas]

Great photos, Clive. Are you by any chance using Fuji Velvia films?

As for iView, I use iPhoto and may be considering forking out for Aperture at a (very) later point. iView was too expensive for as little as it could do more than Photo.

[azande]

I have no direct experience but have you tried looking at Shutterbug?

Great photos Clive!