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Just upgraded Mac OS to the latest and its changed IPhoto to Photos and its crap!
Hence the other thread - thinking either Lightroom or the free DarkTable management software.
The bit I don't get is I have 25,000 photos, indexed in over 250 albums on IPhoto's, if I change to Lightroom am I just going to be left with 250000 un-indexed photos and have to start from scratch?
Also do you get de-haze with Lightroom 6 or do you only get it with the CC version ?
You can import from iphoto library to lightroom:
https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom/help/import-iphoto.html
One thing that I didn't like about lightroom though - there appears to be no way (suggestions welcome!) to view photos ordered by date. E.g. just all of them, in the date order (and file date if no exif).
There's also a 30 day lightroom trial, so why not just give it a go?
Good call on the free trial.
Just found out the haze feature is just for CC but you can get a free download of presets which does the same thing.
Ooooo.....Lightroom does HDR aswell
One thing that I didn't like about lightroom though - there appears to be no way (suggestions welcome!) to view photos ordered by date. E.g. just all of them, in the date order (and file date if no exif).
Don't have LR in front of me right now but from memory press G to go to Grid view, make sure the toolbar is turned on (pressing T toggles it on and off) and there should be a dropdown for sort order plus an A-Z button to invert the order...
dropdown for sort order plus an A-Z button to invert the order...
Yup, but you can't sort the photos by date they were taken. Maddening.
So maddening I can't believe it's not possible, but i tried really hard and couldn't. If you can work out how, pics please!
And don't be lured in by "capture time". It's time, not date!
Oh, and the typical LR answer is "you shouldn't be organising your photos like that". Rage.
Yup, but you can't sort the photos by date they were taken. Maddening
That sounds like the craziest thing I've heard in ages!
I know, right? I'm convinced I'm somehow wrong, but I couldn't work it out in the 30 day trial, and I'm *good* at computers.
My current plan when I'm forced to migrate (as Aperture is discontinued) is to export the aperture library masters in some sort of sensible structure that will work with a "lightroom way" of doing things.
Basically my conclusion was Lightroom is better for processing photos, and Aperture better for organisation.
Similar conclusions to here FWIW:
http://thesweetsetup.com/apps/best-photo-editing-app-mac/