Preferences>Image Editor for MAC
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Not sure iphoto will meet your needs. There is a Shareware program, GraphicConverter, that will work. However, I found it to have a steep learning curve. The program can be downloaded from Apple's website or lemkesoftDOT.com.
For info on Gimp> wwwDOT.gimp.org/downloads/
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Have you asked students using a Mac what graphics program they use?
Larry
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Sorry,again, the question is not what they use. The question is what comes native with MAC. We won't really be doing anything much. Painting over something and that's it. It is just a demo. 2 seconds no more. So I just need the path. I'll ask some MAC friends somewhere.
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@sorgesu said:
Sorry,again, the question is not what they use. The question is what comes native with MAC. We won't really be doing anything much. Painting over something and that's it. It is just a demo. 2 seconds no more. So I just need the path. I'll ask some MAC friends somewhere.
Are you talking about exporting a 2D into something like PhotoShop? Mac's don't come with a built in Image Editor and I can't imagine iPhoto being of any benefit. Graphic Converter is not a freebie.
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There is now a direct function from within SketchUp that allows you to select an applied texture on a face and that snippet gets transferred to the assigned image editor. ( its a right click for the textures context menu and it is a sub menu item under that. When you finish with it in your image editor it gets returned to the same spot in SketchUp and you can actually merge it with the rest of the texture.
So MAC people don't get the equivalent of "paint" you say? Really?
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Hi,
Not sure about Iphoto will do the task. If you want to see if there's any Mac freewares that can do image editings, you can try looking up the Pure Mac web site ( http://www.pure-mac.com/ ) and go to Graphics under Multimedia. Mac version's GIMP is listed there. Also, you can try the free version of ArtRage at http://www.ambientdesign.com/artrage.html.
Hope this will help.
vince
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Poor Susan, no one quite understands. To confirm.
Nope, iPhoto is not an image editor of the sort one would use.
Nope, Apple does not ship a default pixel editing tool with the OS.
(From what I hear, Paint is not that useful either? I know you just need it for an example.)
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Thank you. That is a direct answer. Everyone, you were all so very kind to answer and I really do apperciate it that you all tried so hard to help me. But yes, you weren't quite understanding.
No paint doesn't do anything much and we'll problably do no more than some silly scribble on the image.
I suppose even iphoto would do even if it does nothing just to show that we can exit and re-enter.If you could just confirm the path????? Thanks much.
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/Applications/iPhoto
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Susan, the path to iphoto is:
Macintosh HD/Applications/iphoto
As was mentioned before, though, iphoto is basically useless and you may be doing your students a disservice in steering them that direction. Perhaps better to suggest GraphicConverter, Photoshop, Gimp, etc.
The path to those would be identical to the one I have above, though with some (photoshop, for sure) has an additional folder you need to bore through to get to the actual program.
Macintosh HD/Applications/Adobe Photoshop CS3/Adobe Photoshop CS3 for example
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This really is a remarkably painful thread Susan..... Good luck,
Chris
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iphoto is more of a picture organizer. macs do not ship with any app for photo editing.
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Funny, you guys are so good at reading and understanding very complicated instructions on using software applications.
If I could ask just one more thing, and please if you don't mind, no more kind suggestions of any other program to use, Iphoto will do for the demonstration: wouldn't the correct path end with iphoto.app as in the visual example from sketchUP way above with gimp which is gimp.app?
Thanks much. Thanks Chris.
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yes.
/applications/iphoto.app
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Thank you!!
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Susan:
Preview is built-in to the Mac OS and has basic editing abilities. Check it out and see if it does what you need. I discovered this when I was needing to resize and touch up some images.
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@sorgesu said:
Thank you!!
If I can just add my two bob's worth hopefully answering your question about mac image editors - if you set your Sketchup preferences (Applications - applications for editing image files - /Applications/iPhoto.app), as mentioned; and then set your iPhoto preferences (General - edit photo - full screen) you end up in the iPhoto editor.
This is an image editor for photos more than anything else (and not a bad one) but at least it will show the functioning of the in-Sketchup edit texture image process.Cheers
Nick
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