Andrew Brown said:

iphoto, aperture, lightroom, capture nx, bridge?

I use Capture NX but I’ve been trying out the Aperture 2.0 Beta. Other than being really pretty I find it A memory.

lechuck said:

I guess I’m old school, but I use folders on my hard drive. I don’t use any actual programs to manage my photos, and I probably have thousands of image files. Generally I break them up by Date…

2007 > January > Winter Fest ‘07 > ...files…

Sure, it’s a bit cave man, but generally it works for me.

RLLillis said:

Photo Mechanic

Peter Blomert said:

At the moment I use Aperture 2.0. Lightroom, too is a very good program, but as I am an Apple-guy I stick to Aperture ;-)

In Aperture I store my pictures and do some editing as lightning, color-correction … .

For Print-Editing I use two programs: DXO-Optics Pro, a program that corrects lens-flaws, reduces noise and does other difficult editing, and Adobe Photoshop when extensive editing or artistic alteration is necessary.

gfurry said:

I am also back to Aperture 2.0 at the moment. Spent some time in Lightroom while I was waiting or Apple to update Aperture so I could use it with my D300. I miss some of the features of lightroom like the presets. Didn’t like the way it handled projects. Not easy to move photos with edits from a laptop to desktop. I didn’t like only being able to open one project at a time.

severoon said:

I use a combination of Picasa and my own organizational method. Basically, I group my photos by timestamp into “photo sessions”. A significant break between any two photos in time indicates I changed location or some aspect of photography.

Each session gets its own folder with a long, descriptive title. This way, when Picasa auto-indexes the photos, each one in that session is tagged with each word in the title. When traveling, I organize my photo session folders by location, and everything is organized further under folders by camera. So when I’m done, a photo might reside at: C:\Media\Photographs\Canon 40D – severoon\Shanghai, China\Humble Administrator’s Garden\_MG_3021.CR2.

Because Picasa uses the words in the path to automatically index photos and organizes them into albums by folder, I can restrict what it’s showing me to any subset of the photos I want, by any criteria in the folder names, EXIF data, etc. To see all the photos taken in China, I’d search for: “China”. To restrict to shanghai: “Shanghai China”. I could add “JPG” to restrict further to jpegs, or “40D” for only photos taken with that camera model, or even “f/2.8”, “ISO 400,” etc. I have about 50k photos stored, and I’ve never spent more than a few minutes looking for a particular image.

Because Picasaweb also allows galleries, I can further pick individual photos and store them by gallery, and even upload the gallery to the web with just a couple of clicks: http://picasaweb.google.com/severoonsviewings.