My digital photo library recently hit the 30,000 mark, and as it has grown, I’ve been on a continuous quest to find a tool that can handle the volume.<\/p>\n
I started with home-grown tools, then switched to the Organizer tool in PhotoShop Elements. As my library grew, Elements got flaky (hangs, frequent resets of the thumbnail cache).<\/p>\n
Then, I tried Adobe Lightroom<\/a> (30-day free trial, for Mac and Windows).\u00a0 It’s not cheap ($300), but it’s awesome.<\/p>\n It’s designed for the professional workflow:\u00a0 sorting through a large batch of photos, marking candidates, doing basic fixup, then burn\/print\/publish.\u00a0\u00a0 The editing functions are not as powerful as PhotoShop’s, but they’re more intuitively presented and cover 95% of my cases.\u00a0\u00a0 You can correct exposures, crop, straighten, and fix spots\/blemishes\/redeye.<\/p>\n The UI is a bit non-standard, and I’d strongly recommend watching the tutorial videos<\/a>.\u00a0 Keyboard shortcuts are the key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My digital photo library recently hit the 30,000 mark, and as it has grown, I’ve been on a continuous quest to find a tool that can handle the volume. I started with home-grown tools, then switched to the Organizer tool … Continue reading