Photo software for Mac

[juliet]

Can anyone suggest photo organising software for Mac that doesn't run quite so dog-slow as iPhoto? (I have about 1300 photos, & a 3-yr-old PowerBook G4 running Panther).

All I want it do to is organise them (so some form of tagging, & folders - subfolder would be great, iPhoto doesn't seem to do these), & be able to rotate them. I'm happy to do any editing (I rarely edit photos, tbh) in Photoshop.

iPhoto is becoming Very Annoying.

Comments

[abi]

The Macheads around here swear by Shoebox, though obv I have never used it myself - apparently it is really good for categorising hundreds of photos. It does cost money though.

[ewx.livejournal.com]

I believe you can try out Lightroom for 30 days for nothing. It's not the fastest thing on my iBook with 8Mpix raw photos, though, so might not be the answer you need. (If you import 1300 photos into it then it'll have to have quite a think before reaching full speed.)

It can organize by reference to the filesystem, by an internal folder-like structure ("collections"), by keywords, by metadata (date, lens, etc). It's got a couple of orthogonal rating mechanisms which are handy for triage.

It's also got a wide selection of whole-image manipulation tools - crop and rotate, various ways to mess with color and tone, clone+stamp, etc.

It religiously refuses to modify original image files, instead keeping all the changes in its own database, which is handy if you decide you didn't like it after all.

[juliet]

Unfortunately, if I like it, $299 is a bit beyond my budget! But I shall bear it in mind in case I ever get rich :-)

[juliet]

$30 for the cheap edition, which might be worth it. They have free download-&-try, so I'll give it a go. Thanks!