[Discuss] Photo Manager

Greg Rundlett (freephile) greg at freephile.com
Wed Sep 7 22:20:21 EDT 2011


>
>
> iPhoto is great except for one very annoying problem.  When you import your
> photos it puts the photos under your ~/Pictures/iPhoto Library/ folder.
>  But
> when you open up finder you cannot browse that folder because it's just an
> icon.  To get to the original files you need to open iPhoto, look at the
> photo, then click File -> Reveal In Finder -> Original File.  This will let
> you now browse under the "iPhoto Library" folder, but iPhoto has it's own
> organization structure, so finding your files (other than the one you
> highlighted above) is a pain.
>
> iPhoto *would be* perfect if I could define my own folder structure.  So
> I'm
> still looking for the perfect photo manager too, only for OSX.
>
>
> Which is exactly why I don't use F-Spot.  It organizes your photos into
numbered directories.

DigiKam http://www.digikam.org/ has been my favorite although problems
migrating from one computer to another has me using Picasa at the moment.

In the past I used web-based managers like Gallery, but felt I needed more
responsive "desktop" power.

Greg Rundlett
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