- Location
- Newcastle, NSW, Australia
- Name
- Sue
Throughout the winter, I've been holed up in my loungeroom with the MBP, and downloading my photographs to that. Warmer weather came along and now I am holed up in the lougeroom with the a/c on, doing the same thing. In the meantime my hard drive has become overfull and I am wondering why on earth I am using the 13" MBP as my main computer when I have a perfectly good 20" iMac sitting in the study!
One solution, I think, has to be Photostream. Clearly I cannot keep *all* my photographs on the laptop. Neither do I want to have an external drive hanging off it as I did for a while, only to realise later that symlinks are just that and once the drive goes away, so do the shots. But I dont have space for an entire iPhoto library. especially once editing begins.
I'm wondering how others manage.
I've considered (and for the last week or so) just used lightroom without importing. That seemed to go OK but then I decided that since I actually do most of my processing in PS5, I really didnt need to have LR on board as well... not on the lappie anyway. So I shifted back to iPhoto, reinstalled, and started importing (but using symlinks to the photographs I now had stored in my documents folder)... and dammit if iPhoto didnt manage to generate an extra 20G (and more, I didnt let the import finish) of information, just to be pointing at those photographs.
I'm almost at my wits end. Here's what I am looking for...
1) A basic program to manage and view photographs in a grid like manner, like iphoto. It does not need to have anything but the most basic editing.
2) A program to which photographs can be exported for editing. I've decided that for me, its only going to be Photoshop, I'm leaving Lightroom out of the equation at this time.
So... the answer to #2 is easy. but the answer to #1 is not. Lightroom and iPhoto both create dupes of everything you edit (unless you are silly enough to edit originals - Though iphoto wont let you), increasing the number of shots and reducing hard drive space. All I want is a way of viewing the shots I have taken, in the same kind of format as iphoto does, and I just cannot find a prog I am really comfortable with.
I know I am ranting but I just crawled out of bed and am set for yet another day of frustration. What I have trialled so far for #1... obviously iPhoto and Lightroom... but also ACDSee Pro, which I just didnt take to so have not explored it properly. Picasa, which I havent taken to and havent explored properly but at least its free. JetPhoto Studio, also free... could not work it out so have dropped it....
Just as an example... I used to use a program called Shotwell in Ubuntu. It was like a really old version of iPhoto. managed photos, but only very basic editing. If you wanted to do more, you edited in The Gimp.
Is there something else available that I have missed? Help please
One solution, I think, has to be Photostream. Clearly I cannot keep *all* my photographs on the laptop. Neither do I want to have an external drive hanging off it as I did for a while, only to realise later that symlinks are just that and once the drive goes away, so do the shots. But I dont have space for an entire iPhoto library. especially once editing begins.
I'm wondering how others manage.
I've considered (and for the last week or so) just used lightroom without importing. That seemed to go OK but then I decided that since I actually do most of my processing in PS5, I really didnt need to have LR on board as well... not on the lappie anyway. So I shifted back to iPhoto, reinstalled, and started importing (but using symlinks to the photographs I now had stored in my documents folder)... and dammit if iPhoto didnt manage to generate an extra 20G (and more, I didnt let the import finish) of information, just to be pointing at those photographs.
I'm almost at my wits end. Here's what I am looking for...
1) A basic program to manage and view photographs in a grid like manner, like iphoto. It does not need to have anything but the most basic editing.
2) A program to which photographs can be exported for editing. I've decided that for me, its only going to be Photoshop, I'm leaving Lightroom out of the equation at this time.
So... the answer to #2 is easy. but the answer to #1 is not. Lightroom and iPhoto both create dupes of everything you edit (unless you are silly enough to edit originals - Though iphoto wont let you), increasing the number of shots and reducing hard drive space. All I want is a way of viewing the shots I have taken, in the same kind of format as iphoto does, and I just cannot find a prog I am really comfortable with.
I know I am ranting but I just crawled out of bed and am set for yet another day of frustration. What I have trialled so far for #1... obviously iPhoto and Lightroom... but also ACDSee Pro, which I just didnt take to so have not explored it properly. Picasa, which I havent taken to and havent explored properly but at least its free. JetPhoto Studio, also free... could not work it out so have dropped it....
Just as an example... I used to use a program called Shotwell in Ubuntu. It was like a really old version of iPhoto. managed photos, but only very basic editing. If you wanted to do more, you edited in The Gimp.
Is there something else available that I have missed? Help please