So I have had my Mac for about a month and I am still digging it. I like it so much that I have actually gone out and purchased some software for it. I just got Adobe Lightroom, which is great photo workflow/mangement program. It lets you go through your photo collection. Here are the highlights:
- Tag photos with keywords
- Organize them into collections
- Edit them, all changes are virtual which means the original is untouched
- Since the editing is virtual, you can keep multiple virtual copies
- Export selected photos and correctly resize and do special processing.
The end result is that it is easy to go through a bunch of photos, find the ones you want, clean those up, export one downsized version for the web and export another color corrected version for printing, all while keeping the original version intact. With photoshop, you would have to create a custom folder structure where you save different version and come up with some custom scripts. Not fun!
So far I am loving Lightroom, and it is helping me go through more photos.
I also purchase Ecto for blogging. It is not my favorite blogging client. I still like Windows Live Writer better, but Ecto is the best Mac blogging client out there. I searched around and I couldn’t find anything that came close. It has a decent WSIWYG Rich Text editor that allows you to simply drag photos in. It can also resize photos right in the program, if you need that. So far it is getting the job done. I think I will come to love, it is just a change. I think it may also be the first Shareware program I have purchased.
The next thing up for me is a FTP client. It is a show down between Transmit and Cyberduck. Transmit may win out, but Cyberduck is pretty good!