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Hi everyone,

I've never enjoyed using iPhoto, primarily for how it stores and manages the source files for my images. Before I switched to my beloved MBP a couple years ago, I filed and named all my images manually with Windows Exploder and used the excellent Irfanview to view and manage and manipulate all of my images. It worked great, because I had total control over everything.

Now that I'm fully on this Mac though, and it has been literally months since I've booted up my old PC, I really need a better app for managing my several thousand photos and images on my Mac. And iPhoto's not cutting it for me anymore. It's so bloated with its gazillion copies of originals and mods and God knows what else that it now takes about 20-30 seconds to launch and to shut down. In short, it sucks and I'm sick of using it.

So, could any of you photogs out there who have over a thousand images recommend their favourite media management apps for the Mac? Google searches have only revealed stuff like Lightroom (is that any good?) and Picasa, but the latter appears to be Google's clone of iPhoto, and that's not what I want. I want an app that doesn't create multiple copies of each image file every time I crop a photo or remove red-eye. Something that gives me some nice batch editing features like resizing a bunch of photos or renaming a slew of them to a certain convention. Plus something that gives me cropping, lossless rotation, and basic colour editing and enhancement settings.

Thanks in advance for your suggestions. Much appreciated.

(x-posted here to [livejournal.com profile] applecomputer and here to [livejournal.com profile] macaddicts)
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This is my first post on LJ using my new Mac laptop, which was waiting for me upon our arrival in Calgary a week and a half ago. I'm using the Xjournal client right now, but only because it was high on a Google search. Are there any Mac users reading this right now? Which clients do you use?

I'm also looking for a good text and HTML editor for the Mac; something that allows for some HTML shorthand (macros, I guess? and ideally, pre-programmed yet also customizable). And what's the most popular (and fastest) FTP client for Macs? I downloaded Fetch, and it seems fine. But I always dug using LeechFTP for the PC, since it supports multi-threaded downloading and uploading for faster transfer speeds.

Anyway, I've been using this machine for about a week now, and I can honestly say that I can't ever see myself going back to a PC anytime soon. In one week, I've made a comfortable switch for most of my most common computer uses and I'm more pleased with the results on this Mac by FAR. The major highlights so far:

-- Boots up in well under 30 seconds, shuts down in under 5, goes to sleep and wakes up instantly by closing and opening the display.
-- Applications are installed simply by dragging the program icon into your applications folder. There's no actual installation process, and you never have to reboot your machine after installing anything!
-- Light sensor automatically backlights the keyboard and adjusts screen brightness in low light situations
-- Garage Band: Are they serious? This is a very high-functioning music production app that came preinstalled on the machine. Supports multi-track recording, mixing, effects and mastering, with a wide range of onboard MIDI sounds. Amazing.

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