So mad.

[rootofnewt]

Without my machine, I don't have photoshop. Tom's old laptop doesn't have any photo editing software (not even iPhoto). So I've been using his new laptop to store and upload pics to flickr, then I edit them with picnic. I just need to resize and do some basic levels, some cropping. No big deal.

So, when you use iPhoto 09 to upload directly to flickr, it creates these annoying little sets in a drop down bar on the side. I wanted to neaten up the view, so I deleted them.

And it deleted them from my flickr account with no clear warning. Said something about "do you want to stop publishing these sets" which made no sense, because I'd already deleted the sets it generated in flickr--I don't need date/event sets unless I want them. Besides, flickr already has date sorting if I want to view by date.

Anyhow, I'm pissed. I lost almost two months' worth of pictures because iPhoto freakin' deleted them off my flickr account. Picnic isn't exactly a picnic, either. It's a pain in the ass to wait for it to load for each pic. I could batch edit in photoshop, which was nice, then I'd just upload en masse. Looks like I'll just be using preview on here to figure out which pics I want, then pulling them directly into flickr from here and still editing them with picnic.

What the hell was Apple thinking?

Off to see if there's a way to deauthorize iPhoto from my flickr account so that it doesn't do any more damage the next time Tom opens the damn program. Maybe I'll just change my password. That might work.

Also, need to remember to install freakin' editing software on this machine.

Comments

[lachupacabra.livejournal.com]

theres some way iphoto does that on your machine too!
one of my girlfriends lost ages worth of pix right on her imac using iphoto!
i dont remember exactly how but i can ask her if you want...
i just remember she was PISSED & it really sucked.
;(

[sheilamarie.livejournal.com]

I like Picasa for editing on machines that do not have Photoshop. It can resize, crop, straighten, do red-eye, sharpen, and a few other things. It's what I used at work when they wanted me to scan pictures and fix them up.

[lightning-rose.livejournal.com]

Gimp is free and runs on OS/X.

http://www.gimp.org/macintosh/

[krasota.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I used to use Gimp once upon a time. Maybe I can figure it out again.

I'm really irritated. I spent time on those photos--it required sending Tom & Ronan out of the house so that I could sit down long enough to pull the photos off the computer, pick the ones I want, edit individually, etc. I can't do them when Ronan's home--too much cable pulling and key pressing.

Photos

[scottiemom.livejournal.com]

I usually save all your pictures of Ronan on my machine, so I might have some. I didn't save the six you just uploaded, but I have quite a few.

Love, Mom