At 12:32 PM -0700 7/28/06, Ken Schneider wrote:
I just got a Rebel XT and now I'm not sure what to do with my iPhoto
library. I had been using a small 2 megapixel Canon PowerShot for
years and would just import directly into iPhoto on my G5. Before
version 6, the library was simply stored in nested numbered folders
corresponding to the date the images were shot. Now with version 6,
the library is organized completely differently. Plus, If I use the
Canon ImageBrowser software to import the SLR pictures, they are
organized differently. In addition, I want to keep all my images on
a drive that is on a different Mac on my home network.
What do I do? What did you do?
Import using iPhoto vs Canon ImageBrowser?
Let iPhoto organize the library vs Canon ImageBrowser vs manually
making folders?
Reorganize my current iPhoto library to manual organization or
ImageBrowser organization?
Archive current iPhoto library and start over with SLR images?
Manually name files vs keeping camera file naming?
Purchase Portfolio or iView MediaPro or Aperture or Lightroom (when
available)?
Anything else I forgot to consider?
As soon as you start taking greater numbers of pictures (say, more a
couple of gigbytes a month) iPhoto shows its limitations. It works
very nicely within its limits, but is not good when you want to do
more, and especially, when you start to have more than one drive's
worth of images.
Aperture and Lightroom are not really organizational tools, they are
workflow processing tools. Portfolio and iView MediaPro are what you
want.
I used Portfolio when it came out and for a number of versions, but
switched to iView about 5 years ago. If you google for 'digital asset
management iview' you'll get a lot of hits of useful links.
So.... Forget about iPhoto, use a card reader, organize your pictures
into folders (I use year/month/day subsets) and rename, or at least
tag with metadata categories and keywords, and you're good for
multi-hard drive, searchable catalogs of images.
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