Photography / Photo-Organizing on MAC

Prince69 · 19th July 2008, 19:32

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 · 19th July 2008, 20:57

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

Prince69 · 19th July 2008, 21:29

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

fangpyre · 19th July 2008, 21:41

No problem.

"One is glad to be of service"
-Andrew Martin

Magnus · 19th July 2008, 22:08

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 · 11th August 2008, 14:18

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 · 11th August 2008, 17:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yousef

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 · 11th August 2008, 18:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magnus

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 · 11th August 2008, 20:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yousef

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 · 11th August 2008, 21:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by Magnus

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!

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19th July 2008, 20:57	#2 (permalink)
fangpyre Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Dubai Posts: 1,053	The Mac comes with iPhoto for basic organization of photos. You can also buy Aperture for more advanced features.

19th July 2008, 21:29	#3 (permalink)
Prince69 Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Bur Dubai Posts: 2	OK, thanks so much : This will help (I am quite new, sorry..!) Still have to discover a lot!!

19th July 2008, 21:41	#4 (permalink)
fangpyre Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Dubai Posts: 1,053	No problem. "One is glad to be of service" -Andrew Martin

19th July 2008, 22:08	#5 (permalink)
Magnus Administrator Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Dubai Posts: 7,736	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.

11th August 2008, 14:18	#6 (permalink)
Yousef Junior Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Abu Dhabi Posts: 19	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