Can anyone suggest photo organising software for Mac that doesn't run quite so dog-slow as iPhoto? (I have about 1300 photos, & a 3-yr-old PowerBook G4 running Panther
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I believe you can try out Lightroom for 30 days for nothing. It's not the fastest thing on my iBook with 8Mpix raw photos, though, so might not be the answer you need. (If you import 1300 photos into it then it'll have to have quite a think before reaching full speed.)
It can organize by reference to the filesystem, by an internal folder-like structure ("collections"), by keywords, by metadata (date, lens, etc). It's got a couple of orthogonal rating mechanisms which are handy for triage.
It's also got a wide selection of whole-image manipulation tools - crop and rotate, various ways to mess with color and tone, clone+stamp, etc.
It religiously refuses to modify original image files, instead keeping all the changes in its own database, which is handy if you decide you didn't like it after all.
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I believe you can try out Lightroom for 30 days for nothing. It's not the fastest thing on my iBook with 8Mpix raw photos, though, so might not be the answer you need. (If you import 1300 photos into it then it'll have to have quite a think before reaching full speed.)
It can organize by reference to the filesystem, by an internal folder-like structure ("collections"), by keywords, by metadata (date, lens, etc). It's got a couple of orthogonal rating mechanisms which are handy for triage.
It's also got a wide selection of whole-image manipulation tools - crop and rotate, various ways to mess with color and tone, clone+stamp, etc.
It religiously refuses to modify original image files, instead keeping all the changes in its own database, which is handy if you decide you didn't like it after all.
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