Photography / Photo-Organizing on MAC

[Prince69]

Professionally I am having about 14.000 pictures in a PICASA-Folder on my Windows PC.
How to do this on a MAC...??? Is there any interesting Software available allowing to organize pictures per topic, or so.. to enable finding them easily, when needed.

It takes me HOURS to find certain shots, needed for a presentation

Thanks,

Johan

[fangpyre]

The Mac comes with iPhoto for basic organization of photos.
You can also buy Aperture for more advanced features.

[Prince69]

OK, thanks so much : This will help (I am quite new, sorry..!) Still have to discover a lot!!

[fangpyre]

No problem.

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-Andrew Martin

[Magnus]

Also check out iView Media, now Microsoft Expression Media. It comes as a part of Office 2008. I've used some earlier versions of it and it's a pretty powerful catalog-store-retrieve solution. As most solutions it requires some heavy lifting in the input of the media in order to reap any benefits at the back end.

[Yousef]

I use Adobe Lightroom 2
much better than Aperture < my opinion
Aperture uses its own database, if you have 200GB of photographes it will copy it to a 200GB Aperture database, total 400GB... which I dont like..
while Lightroom has the option to use your originals.. plus it has more features which i do not use! i use photoshop... download Lightroom v2 trail, I'm sure you will like it

[Magnus]

Aperture uses its own database, if you have 200GB of photographes it will copy it to a 200GB Aperture database, total 400GB... which I dont like..

Well with any program you should always keep originals backed up and not work with them. So you would have the same issue in Lightroom or anything else. You may dislike that Aperture puts them into it's own library file, but it's not an issue of doubling space.

[Yousef]

Well with any program you should always keep originals backed up and not work with them. So you would have the same issue in Lightroom or anything else. You may dislike that Aperture puts them into it's own library file, but it's not an issue of doubling space.

backup is a must.. thats what time machine does
I shoot RAW not JPEG so 1 copy + backup is enough...

if u keep the originals then import to Aperture and then take a backup for Aperture library! u would have 3 copies...

i dont like a software taking full control of my work...

[Magnus]

if u keep the originals then import to Aperture and then take a backup for Aperture library! u would have 3 copies...

If you keep the originals, make a copy of them to work with in Lightroom, then backup those copies, you have 3 as well... no difference there

[Yousef]

If you keep the originals, make a copy of them to work with in Lightroom, then backup those copies, you have 3 as well... no difference there

lool... no
originals organized by Lightroom 2
backup taken with time machine
i have thousands of photographs, each more than 12MB + photoshop version @ 600dpi for printing, also thousands of graphics and websites.... i have about 2TB of storage and i need more loool...

its up to the user many pro photographers use Aperture

PS, it is very important to take regular backups, once i lost 2 internal HDDs with all my work couldn't recover and did not have backup.. lool and once i lost a backup drive < bad luck!