Well, don't get me started on the bloody 'brushed metal' look... OK, on the whole I've been impressed with most of Apple's UX work. The iApps however are just plain shit and this little gem just about sums it up for
me.
A screen is a fixed-width grid. A photograph is a fixed width grid. If you want to decide how large or small an image should be in a window it's really very simple. Depending on the resolution you're running,
you want 1-up, 2-up, 3-up or more. What you don't want is the ability to resize in infinite increments. What this 'feature' actually achieves is that you can never get the image to the size you want -- the largest size which allows the display of x images in a given window.
In the pre-Nextstep, Apple design team, the slider you can see above would have been a drop-down, or a slider that snapped to the 1-up, 2-up etc sizes.
Grrrrr...
Comments (2)
Robbie Robbie Robbie Rab :-)
I agree. I never suggested iPhoto should be good to edit pictures with (and the external editor integration is great). I guess my point was that iPhoto purports to be the best tool for managing large sets of digital photographs. Part of that managing is know what you're looking at to know what you're going to edit, what you're going to delete.
A typical situation for me involves scanning ten, near-identical pictures of Clementine. I'm looking for the one with the right facial expression to send to mom and the two where she looks possessed so I can delete them.
My problem is that with subtle diffences between pictures, I want to get as many pics of a given size on screen at the same time. Or, in other words, I want iPhoto to work out the best way to show me four photos on the page at the same time and as large as possible.
The fiddly slider makes this simple task almost impossible.
Posted by Bozo
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September 23, 2005 11:19 PM
Posted on September 23, 2005 23:19
Dug, dug, dug... duggie... deary me!
I actually like the slider and find it very useful. If I want to see the image properly and double click and it opens in photoshop, play with it and save it back in iPhoto. It is a tool to contain and organise, not to edit really.
well that is my view anyway!!
hope you are going to punk karaoke
robbie x
Posted by robbie
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September 22, 2005 5:04 PM
Posted on September 22, 2005 17:04