I used Aperture for a while then decided to try lightroom, I love the presets on lightroom but for some reason it lags a lot on my macbook. Aperture works great with all other mac software, you should try aperture and decide what you like better. Aperture is a lot faster on my macbook.
I noticed that in iPhoto, I could not name the picture. So used to doing this in the other world. iPhoto I noticed stores them by date it appears, I learned how to make albums, but naming the pic would be a nice thing. I think I could find them a little easier. Thoughts?
One of the reasons I bought the mac was because I had heard it was the best for image processing. Well I was wrong although I have found a nice work flow that seems to get the job done.
1. I import all photos into iPhoto 09
2. I then open LightRoom 2 and have it one the dock.
3. In file manager I browse to the iphoto folder (right-click and choose the ability to browse all content). I then make my way to the originals folder in iphoto, grab the folder or file I want to edit in Lightroom and simply drag it onto the lightroom icon on the dock.
4. A context box pops uo for the import and I always choose to leave the files in it original spot (I do not want space wasting duplicates). I then edit the images in lightroom.
5. I will then either export edited images back to iphoto or print them off using Lightroom.
Not a user friendly method at all but it gets the job done without making multiple copies of images on the disk (which over time takes up a LOT of space).
Mac Specs: 15.4" uMBP: 4GB Ram: DGPU: 7200rpm WDB: iPhone 3GS White
^^^Hmm, I think my way would be easier if you used PS CS4^^^
In iPhoto prefs select PS as your editor.
When you click 'edit' it will launch PS
You do your editing and click 'save'.
It will then save the edited image in the 'modded' folder but display it in iPhoto.
The only drawback is that it will duplicate your image and store in the modded folder.
Although i think you can 'save the image as' in the original folder.
BTW - I dont know if I posted this already in this thread but here is a 'how to' I recorded on how to export all your events and photos into a Windows File Structure. Something you cannot do without running a script.
When you say you want to edit your photos, do you mean doing actual colour work such as levels, curves, sharpening etc, on each photo, or simply naming and filing them so that they are easy to find. I use Adobe Bridge and Photoshop. Bridge brings the images up as thumbnails in their folder, I can then choose visually what to work on rather opening each image, I then open it in Photoshop as a raw file before doing any colour/light work. Very simple
Mac Specs: Mac Pro 2x Quad-Xeons, 10Gb, 8800GT. 30" ACD. iPhone 3G 16Gb
I use Photoshop CS4, there really isn't a substitue out there for real photo manipulation...
However, GIMP could be a good replacement. I personally found it weird to use coming from Ps, mainly just a different way of working, different shortcuts etc...
If I never used Ps and learned GIMP myself I'd probably use it very happily, however since I have Ps I have no real reason to learn GIMP.
