iPod Photo Sync?
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djb_rh
Joined: 2003-01-28
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Posted: Wed, 2004-10-27 01:33
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My family makes pretty extensive use of Gallery. I also constantly get evil stares from folks when they ask me in person if I have pictures in my wallet of my kids (because I don't). I do have my iPod with me most of the time, though. So the new iPod Photo looks like a pretty useful item to me. Only catch is we don't have a single repository of our photos *other* than the Gallery server. So in my ideal world I'd really like some slick way to do that. I don't actually have an iPod Photo yet, but I was wondering if anyone knows a good way to make that sync happen. The documentation says on the PC side (the only side I care about) that you use Adobe Album for the sync. I'm not familiar with Adobe Album, but somehow I'm doubting it'll do much to automatically talk to Gallery, either. I did already do a forum search on "iPod" and didn't find any discussion of this yet, so hopefully I'm in the right place. --Donnie |
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The more I think about it, the more I think we need a metaphor that splits the image container from the interface a little more. If you look at Adobe Elements and Adobe Albums, both advertise "forget keeping track of silly image file names or having to rename everything...just view all your pictures by date" and they give you a calendar view that actually throws a thumbnail up of a pic taken that day (presumably the first pic you took) and you click that and you then likely have some sort of view of all of the pics taken that day (perhaps broken down further by hour or something depending on how many there are).
I didn't pay much attention to that at first, but the more I think about it, the more I like it as an interface to *all* my pictures. No, I'm not saying Gallery's presentation should be changed to this, but I do think it would be nice to have an *alternate* interface to your pictures like this. If nothing else for administration purposes.
To get back to the original topic, though, it would be nice to start thinking of Gallery as a means to archive *all* my pictures rather than just hosting software for the pictures I want people to see. It's already most of the way there due to the permissions functionality. I haven't looked at it, but I recall you can also "mirror" a Gallery to another server fairly easily, which is great to have a mechanism for backups. Past that all we need is a slightly more generic interface so other programs can access the repository via the network. This is what I don't think really exists, though I'd welcome a correction on it.
I guess basically what I want is a way to put all my raw images on the Gallery server. Then I'd be able to use the Gallery interface to tag them as public or not (which we can do now, I know). Past that I'd like to be able to just "point" iTunes at it to "sync" photos to the iPod. I'd like to be able to point Adobe Elements at it to edit images (yeah, I know I can download, edit, and upload, but I'm talking something easier and more seamless than that).
--Donnie