Well, I’ve moved over to Adobe Lightroom. It’s still a beta, and it’s free in a couple of ways for me - the first is that it was a no-cost download.
The second, more important missing cost is that I gave it a set of my photos that are hard-linked to the originals, so there is no extra disk space usage.
It uses a slightly different schemata than iPhoto - photos are stored in “Shoots” rather than being date sorted, but it still looks rather good. It seems a bit faster than iPhoto, but not as snappy as I’d like it to be. Maybe I just need more RAM.
I’m playing around with the beta too, and it is looking good. I don’t have issues with iPhoto (old dual processor G4 storing Canon 350d shots as well as non-dSLR) but I wanted to start looking at more advanced tools for manipulating my best shots. The Lightroom side-by-side is nice but I found it tricky (perhaps just not intuitive) to get back to the original state of a shot.
Apple’s doing a trial of Aperture - I must get that downloaded too.
9 hours, 47 minutes after the fact.
Yeah, I downloaded it, but it needs >1GB to install, and I only have 768MB. I’ll try to find where it checks this, because I have heard some nice things about it.
1 day, 1 hour after the fact.