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<blockquote data-quote="chas_m" data-source="post: 1213032"><p>This is a good question, and the answer is no, you do not have to use iPhoto (though iPhoto actually organizes your pictures very similarly!).</p><p></p><p>This is what I was referring to as "micro-management." Why should you have to do all that organizing yourself? You have a computer! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>iPhoto INTERNALLY organizes photos by EXIF date information, but who cares -- it can PRESENT those photos to you in absolutely ANY sort of organization you like (by date, by event, by album name, by who's in them, by where they were taken, etc), including a pure manual sort if you want. It makes no difference because internally they're still sorted by EXIF date information -- the program just "presents" them in whatever way makes you happy.</p><p></p><p>Aperture and Lightroom do this as well, this "layer of abstraction," but can be told not to. ACDSee Pro for Mac is the only program at that level that I know of that totally does not do this at all, just builds a database of pictures based on where you put them without re-organizing them at all. I think maybe Adobe Bridge does this too, but I can't stand Adobe Bridge (for anything, and I'm otherwise quite the Adobe fan*).</p><p></p><p>*except Flash and Air. Junk.</p><p></p><p>Anyway, my long-winded point is that everything one does on a computer is done through a layer of abstraction anyway (unless you write binary or are a command-line whiz), so the fact that iPhoto organizes the photos for you and then gives you the option of presenting them however you like shouldn't make a difference to anyone but the very anal-retentive (not meant to be insulting, that's the terminology!).</p><p></p><p>It's part of the zen of Mac/iOS that sometimes takes people a while to get used to, but honestly it's not important. What's important is that the program gives you the option to present the information to you in the ways you want easily and quickly. IMHO, iPhoto does that.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="chas_m, post: 1213032"] This is a good question, and the answer is no, you do not have to use iPhoto (though iPhoto actually organizes your pictures very similarly!). This is what I was referring to as "micro-management." Why should you have to do all that organizing yourself? You have a computer! :) iPhoto INTERNALLY organizes photos by EXIF date information, but who cares -- it can PRESENT those photos to you in absolutely ANY sort of organization you like (by date, by event, by album name, by who's in them, by where they were taken, etc), including a pure manual sort if you want. It makes no difference because internally they're still sorted by EXIF date information -- the program just "presents" them in whatever way makes you happy. Aperture and Lightroom do this as well, this "layer of abstraction," but can be told not to. ACDSee Pro for Mac is the only program at that level that I know of that totally does not do this at all, just builds a database of pictures based on where you put them without re-organizing them at all. I think maybe Adobe Bridge does this too, but I can't stand Adobe Bridge (for anything, and I'm otherwise quite the Adobe fan*). *except Flash and Air. Junk. Anyway, my long-winded point is that everything one does on a computer is done through a layer of abstraction anyway (unless you write binary or are a command-line whiz), so the fact that iPhoto organizes the photos for you and then gives you the option of presenting them however you like shouldn't make a difference to anyone but the very anal-retentive (not meant to be insulting, that's the terminology!). It's part of the zen of Mac/iOS that sometimes takes people a while to get used to, but honestly it's not important. What's important is that the program gives you the option to present the information to you in the ways you want easily and quickly. IMHO, iPhoto does that. [/QUOTE]
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