{"id":1002103,"date":"2009-02-06T22:17:02","date_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/?p=1002103"},"modified":"2009-02-06T22:32:06","modified_gmt":"2009-02-07T03:32:06","slug":"looking-for-a-photo-organizereditor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/mac\/2009\/02\/06\/looking-for-a-photo-organizereditor\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking for a Photo Organizer\/Editor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking for a program to organize and edit my photos on the Mac. The editing duties are light. Photoshop Elements fully meets my needs there, and I really don&#8217;t want something more complex. In particular I live by Auto Smart Fix and Auto Sharpen. However I&#8217;d like to not come out of one program just to edit a photo. <\/p>\n<p>I like iPhoto&#8217;s organization, but it&#8217;s too buggy and has atrocious editing and previewing tools. Lightroom 1.4 doesn&#8217;t organize quite as nicely as iPhoto, but is a little more stable. Maybe 2.0 is better? What&#8217;s my best choice? Here are my desiderata:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Must run on a Mac.<\/li>\n<li>Must support large RAW files.<\/li>\n<li>Must be able to handle tens of thousands, preferably hundreds of thousands of photos.<\/li>\n<li>Must have multiple levels of Undo<\/li>\n<li>Must have excellent user interface on a 20-inch widescreen monitor. <\/li>\n<li>Should have usable user interface on a 13-inch laptop screen. <\/li>\n<li>Should not have to store anything on my primary hard drive, which is already cramped. <\/li>\n<li>Should make this cycle very fast:\n<ul>\n<li>      Preview<\/li>\n<li>      Zoom<\/li>\n<li>      Crop<\/li>\n<li>      Smart Fix<\/li>\n<li>      Sharpen<\/li>\n<li>Export and resize<\/li>\n<p>.\n<\/ul>\n<p>(I really want one-button photo-optimization. I don&#8217;t want to spend a lot of time tweaking levels and hues and saturation and the like. On the rare occasion I need to do that, I can go to Photoshop. However this does mean the Smart Fix needs to be good. Photoshop Elements&#8217; smart fix is. iPhoto&#8217;s isn&#8217;t. ) <\/p>\n<p>The one other editing task I sometimes do is split a photo into several: either zooming into to different parts of the image or showing the same image at different zoom levels.\n<\/li>\n<li>Reasonably fast on a 2.2 GHz Core 2 Duo MacBook with 4GB of RAM.<\/li>\n<li>Should edit non-destructively.<\/li>\n<li>Should use minimal disk space beyond the photos&#8217; themselves.<\/li>\n<li>Should be able to import a complete iPhoto library. Even better if it can integrate with one without copying everything.<\/li>\n<li>Should be able to backup library to DVD.<\/li>\n<li>Should have a fast and accurate &#8220;Actual Pixels&#8221; View. <\/li>\n<li>Nice if it  integrates with Picasa, Flickr, and other web services. Great if it integrate swith WordPress.<\/li>\n<li>Nice to have a really nice slideshow capability, as good as Graphic Converters or better. Even better if I can tag, organize, and delete from within a running show.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Usability, stability, and performance are far more important to me than power user features. With a camera, I am a scientist and an explorer, not an artist. What do you think? What&#8217;s my best option here? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m looking for a program to organize and edit my photos on the Mac. The editing duties are light. Photoshop Elements fully meets my needs there, and I really don&#8217;t want something more complex. In particular I live by Auto Smart Fix and Auto Sharpen. However I&#8217;d like to not come out of one program [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1002103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mac"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1002103"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1002107,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1002103\/revisions\/1002107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1002103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1002103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elharo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1002103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}