How do you deal with your photos?

[moominmolly]

I dislike iPhoto kind of a lot, which makes me curious what different people use to manage/browse/tag/sort/keep their photos. I'm currently using F-Spot Photo Manager (on Linux); what do you use, and on what platform? Lightroom? iPhoto? Aperture? Something else? I personally commonly need to sort photos on Linux, Windows, AND MacOS, depending on the day, so I'm interested in all answers. :)

Comments

[coraline]

lightroom is the way and the, er, Light.
they actually hired honest-to-god UI engineers, and it is way slicker and more intuitive than i expected. and with university discount, it's only $99.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

Not only that, but a number of the core engineers on it were hard core photographers - who started working on this specifically because bridge/photoshop was clunky to work with.

It's also fast - one of the reasons I went with it over aperture early on is because I was working on a lower power machine, and aperture wants beefy. I actually run lightroom on my little msi-wind running snow leopard for doing photo work when wandering around (the wind fits in my smallest camera bags, the laptop, not so much)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Whoa, you run it on that thing? OK, you've sold me.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

No, no! It's "You're braver than I thought!" :)

[srl.livejournal.com]

Does lightroom have support for extending metadata to include custom fields? The $99 student discount makes it sound like something I might go for.

[sol3.livejournal.com]

I haven't played with it - but it looks like people have come up with ways to Create custom metadata sets

[sol3.livejournal.com]

In fact, Lightroom goodies has a great set of lightroom plugins/additions. I don't know whether or not these have been vetted with lightroom 3 yet, but i used the smugmug, facebook, and flickr exporters in lightroom 2 happily.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

What field are you looking for, specifically?

[srl.livejournal.com]

Arbitrary fields defined by me, as well as XMP fields. I'm a historian who takes pictures of archival materials, and I need robust metadata to keep track of citations and item locations for each image I shoot.

[coraline]

i don't know? i wouldn't be surprised, but i haven't used the keywords feature...