I'm a huge fan of lightroom - and you can play with Beta 3 for free until April, 2010! I've used it on both windows and OS X, and have heard rumor that it plays nicely under wine on linux.
I find it really fast to go through and cull photos, tag them, do most of my edits (I haven't opened up photoshop in over a year), the editing is non-destructive and you can quickly/easily make virtual copies of things.
Beta 3 adds direct interaction/support for flickr - and there's useful plugins for services like smugmug and facebook (and I can't wait until those get updated for LR's bi-directional support - so that things like comments and such can be sync'd back to you).
Also, unlike iPhoto, Lightroom makes it easy to split your collection. I usually only have the current month's worth of photos on my laptop, the rest are on an external drive - but I have one lightroom library (well, two now - lightroom 2 and the one for lightroom 3) that still has/tracks all the metadata/thumbnails and such so I can still poke through my library even when my drive array is disconnected.
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Date: 2009-11-05 07:37 pm (UTC)I find it really fast to go through and cull photos, tag them, do most of my edits (I haven't opened up photoshop in over a year), the editing is non-destructive and you can quickly/easily make virtual copies of things.
Beta 3 adds direct interaction/support for flickr - and there's useful plugins for services like smugmug and facebook (and I can't wait until those get updated for LR's bi-directional support - so that things like comments and such can be sync'd back to you).
Also, unlike iPhoto, Lightroom makes it easy to split your collection. I usually only have the current month's worth of photos on my laptop, the rest are on an external drive - but I have one lightroom library (well, two now - lightroom 2 and the one for lightroom 3) that still has/tracks all the metadata/thumbnails and such so I can still poke through my library even when my drive array is disconnected.