iPhoto-style photo management
EDTECH Editor-Jones
I was hoping someone could address a question that was asked by one of my
colleagues.
"I went to a yearbook workshop yesterday (one of my 8th grade
exploratories) and was introduced to iPhoto as a photo gallery management
tool. It was very easy to use and I do anticipate having 15,000 or more
photos next year for yearbook.
I am planning to purchase copies of Adobe Creative Suite 3 Standard for
yearbook and broadcasting. I don't have enough $ to purchase copies for all
of the computers (grant writing looks ahead). By chance, do you know if
Photoshop has a photo gallery management system similar to iPhoto? I went
to the Adobe website and couldn't find out. Do you recommend a software
that does this? I would like to store all of the photos on one computer
(with back up) and then allow the files to be "shared" when the students are
working on a particular layout. I watched a demo of iPhoto and was
impressed. I can only guess that there must be something out there in PC
land that is similar and I am hoping it is Photoshop!"
Thanks so much,
Chris Clementi
Mountain Ridge Middle
Computer Teacher
http://www.kidsnetsoft.com/html/home2.html
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SIGNOFF EDTECH
EDTECH Editor-Jones
Even Photoshop Elements has a photo organizer that would likely help with
tagging! We also use flickr with a private group so we can upload and share
possible picture for yearbook. It works well for our students - you just
have to teach them to only download the "large" image for yearbook use.
There are places to post comments & discussion so kids could note who used
which images. Good luck!
Sue Maiers
mai...@mcleod.k12.mn.us
EDTECH Editor-Jones
As with many of the applications in the Apple portfolio, they started
off with open source and iPhoto is no exception. They started with
F-Spot - http://f-spot.org/Main_Page It's only available for Gnome,
but you could get a machine or two, load a Linux distro that includes
Gnome, use GIMP for photo editing, and if you need really wild
typesetting capabilities, use OpenOffice Latex extensions. That way you
could probably buy a nice PC with all the software for every two copies
of Creative Studio 3 you were going to buy!
Matt Burkhardt, MSTM
President
Impari Systems, Inc.
401 Rosemont Avenue
Frederick, MD 21701
m...@imparisystems.com
www.imparisystems.com
(301) 644-3911