iPhoto changes your photo management
I love taking photos. If you haven’t checked out my flickr stream, you will see I take lots of photos. One of my major weakness has always been losing my photos! I would always take hundreds of photos, like a couple, clean them up, resize them, put them online or something, then forget about the originals and at some point inadvertently delete them. Drag!
I had tried Picasa, and it’s a great app, but it didn’t have quite the same ease I have found with iPhoto on my Macbook Pro. Anytime I plug in my camera, it asks, it downloads, I do 99% of my editing in iPhoto, and I am set, my photos are saved, organized and kept safely. I back them up to my external, and I don’t lose anything.
With tagging I never have problems finding them and I can quickly create sets by ranking to put on any of my iPods.
For those of you using a PC, Picasa is an admirable replacement. It’s not quite iPhoto in my opinion, but I would say it’s the best photo management application on PC.
The bottom line here is don’t try to organize your photos in an arcane file system yourself. Find a program that allows you to organize by events or tags and let the application do the work for you. You will be glad you did.
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Hi again, Jason.
I’m… speechless when I read this post. In the earlier comment to another post of yours I already say the greeting. But here I found we have so much in common. The taking photos part I do too. I take few hundreds photo each time I do. I end up having nearly 10 thousand photos now… UNORGANIZED!
My photos are kept on the hard-disk in its original format, not categorized, not tagged, not uploaded. Unfortunately I don’t use Apple, so iPhoto isn’t available for me.
About Piscasa, I do use, but … I hate it when I save the photos (MB each) and it keep the original files as back up. Is it possible to disable this annoying function, or is there any button to clear the backup?
Regarding the online photo hosting. I found flickr, made an account but haven’t used. I also see people are using imageshack, photobucket, etc… Have you tried them all? Which one do you think is best, fast, optimized file size?
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BTW, I seem to have problem loading flickr photos on my browser… some sort of IP blocking or something :(
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Thank you in advance.