

HAs anyone had a positive experience migrating their iPhoto library to 3rd party software? - retaining titles, description, AND GPS location, camera and lense data, keywords, etc? (i.e. Outside of iPhone/iPad/laptop synchronicity it's a limited use tool. Note: I use Photos at times, not against it, but accept its limitations. I'D be interested to hear of anyone's experience of Lightroom and Capture One for workflows. the iLife Suite of apps, which includes iPhoto, iMovie, and GarageBand. BUT iPhoto will die - the imminent introduction of AFPS almost guarantees that. Buy APPLE iMac Core i5 (7th Gen) (8 GB DDR4/1 TB/Mac OS X Sierra/8 GB/27 Inch.
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Both carry plenty of metadata but, as an earlier poster pointed out, it's difficult to get it all out when you export.įurthermore, until this update Photos converted and RAW images to jpgs! Photos has come on a fair bit but as a metadata storage and management medium it comes a long way 2nd to iphoto. The first time you start up Photos after upgrading, your Mac will copy over your photo library into the new software (if you explicitly set up more than one old iPhoto library, you’ll have to copy them over yourself). Also, both seem to bury original images deep in their library and reference edited images from them, making them difficult to manage. A Mac that was upgraded to a new version of OS X that added the Photos app, however, can end up with what look like duplicates of their photo libraries. you need to create a duplicate to edit as I understand - even then you have to export RAW and edited images separately rather than in bulk to keep the versions you'll probably want - all meaning unnecessarily large gig-age(!) for libraries.

I'm weighing up the pros n cons of Lightroom & Capture One Pro.Īs neither iPhoto & Photos offer non-destructive editing (i.e.
