This digital malarky

[Godfrey]

Sorta kinda... but not exactly. Yes, if you just look at the top level you would just see a iPhoto (or Photos) library but all you have to do is alternative click on that and "Show Package Contents" to see everything. Your photos will be in the Master folder and then sorted into additional photos by year->month->day.

Shawn

And if you mess with anything in hose folders, you risk losing everything in its entirety.

You can also set Photos to work "by reference"... where it becomes similar to Lightroom in terms of how it accesses the originals.

The real problem is that both these apps are parametric editors. Until you export a completed image from them, the changes and edits you make sure not in the files, they're only in the apps' records about the image. So if you want to protect against loss of data, after you finish a rendering, you must export the file out of the app's environment to create an image with all your edits and metadata embedded in them.

My question is, why does the OP consider this "malarkey"?

 

[PRJ]

Lightroom is the best cataloging application.

The best free image editor is Hasselblad's Phocus.

 

[Doug]

Interesting about Photos, Godfrey, thanks. And as a matter of convenience in addition to file safety, I export from Lightroom as a full-res TiFF file, and other uses derive from that TIFF. For final sharpening, scaling, and jpeg conversion I take the TIFF into a shareware app called GraphicConverter, surprisingly competent tool.

 

[David Hughes]

Well, you've had a lot of free* advice and I reckon some of it is priceless and some is worthless. Anyway, that will be a pound, I mean a guinea, please pay my secretary on the way out...

Regards, David


* Fascinating paradox, isn't it?

 

[Axel]

...
I use the Finder for file management...

So I do. It is an easy way to keep overview and find my pictures. No additional software needed here.
What "malarkey"?

 

[Dralowid]

Perhaps I shouldn't have asked.

I'm not precious, if I just chuck a few thousand files into the bin all will be much clearer.

 

[David Hughes]

I suppose I'd better say it; there are some excellent free programs out there. Some are big and rival expensive ones and some are tiny and extremely usefull.

Best of all, if you don't like them you can move on without having wasted your hard earned cash on them. The test is, of course, using them. F'instance, if you asked my opinion of a wine I'd suggest a test involving some glasses and a corkscrew; others would have an opinion using reading glasses and the price list. I know which test is best...

More to the point, I have never seen a link between prices and quality that is consistent across the range of whatever we are discussing at the time, be it cars, cameras or cakes...

Regards, David

 

[Ko.Fe.]

I searched it as Media Asset Management free software.
Scroll down in this article. Two freebies are mentioned:
https://photography.tutsplus.com/tu...nage-your-digital-image-collection--cms-24660