This is a cross-post-question from this one I posted earlier about uploading image files imported with iPhoto to websites ( gdgt.com/question/how-do-i-upload-photos-that-were... ). What I gathered is that it's not possible without having to search for the individual files and copying them to a different folder. So I don't think I'll be using iPhoto.
On the Windows side, I always used Picasa and I dabbled around with Adobe Lightroom. I'm wondering if there's any other awesome apps I'm missing before I start importing all my photos to my Mac.
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What's your favorite non-iPhoto photo management app for the Mac?
Picasa is available for the mac. There's also Image Capture that's built in to OSX. With IC you can import to any folder you want. I generally don't use the built in Docs, Pics, Music folders anyway so this makes it easy to organize stuff the way it makes sense to you.
Then you can just use Finder + Preview (spacebar) when you need to find any pics, music, docs.
Then you can just use Finder + Preview (spacebar) when you need to find any pics, music, docs.
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There is an even bigger reason to stick with Picasa... keywords. When you add keywords in iPhoto, they reside in the resource fork of the file and are therefore only useful on a Mac through Spotlight or iPhoto (unless something has changed since I last used it). In order to have the keywords embed into the actual file as IPTC keywords, you had to export the images from iPhoto. Picasa, on the other hand, embeds all the keywords into the IPTC metadata in the file so that you can move your files around and the keywords go with them without having to take any extra steps. This means they will be keyword accessible on any OS that looks at IPTC metadata when searching. This was what made me move to Picasa in the first place and why I am still using it. If you use multiple OSes, Picasa is the only thing I've found that makes this easy on Linux, Mac, and Windows.
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