Hi Phil, it is my first attempt at wild life photography so don't laugh I have a lot to learn, big change from what I have done in the past. Sent URL to your messages and other AI regulars who are into photography are welcome to see it if the IM me, just don't want my personal info on a blog like AI.
Oh dear, I certainly wouldn't laugh at someone else's photos (strangely enough I think I'd be ok if someone laughed at my pictures).
Thanking you kindly; something to look forward to on NY eve. And I fully understand your wish for privacy. I'm doing the same on public forums.
Ha! But modern "duck (face)" is just so lame. I prefer to stick with my stash of Marilyn Monroe pics; the original who set the unattainable bar for being "ducky"... so there!
Yes I do everything non destructively in Aperture. Any cropping is purely compositional. I meant after all the non destructive work I sometimes crop then just yesterday I tried I exporting a few in Aperture set to the same pixel dimensions as the original RAW pre crop which was purely an experiment. When I didn't do that Flickr presented those cropped images far smaller than un-cropped ones which looked strange. This was using Aperture's upload and the upload after sizing up was with Finder.
Smaller than 2560x1440 (iMac full-screen res) or 2048x1365 (Flickr Large Res)? If I'm not mistaken, Flickr always uses Large Res anyway and scales it, allowing only for download of original files (files ending in *_o.jpg)
BTW do you pay Flickr to avoid ads? I didn't even realize it had them till I saw all my albums now have ads when viewed.
I'm a free Terabyte user. I'm also a proud user and supporter of Adblock since they days before I had a fast internet connection. Today it's used to make websites as fast as possible, and from throwing too many ads at their users and trying to fix financial problems the easy way. I know it's cheating to some extent, however I feel it's balanced out with my many hours behind an iPad daily... where I'm bombarded without recourse.
Note to internet ads: I so much wanted to write a huge rant to Google/YouTube the other night, as well as to Audi parent VW Group. Watching a playlist of 50 "2 Cello" videos "threw up" the same exact ad before every single video(!) This happens with other sites as well so much, that it's easy to see why the ad syndicates can't get similar prices per K impressions as with traditional publishing or TV. Even though targeted ads AFAIC is the better and more "palatable" way to serve ads rather than the "shot gun" approach to traditional media publishing.
Positive ending: if you like a different take on rock... ya gotta see the 2 Cellos... preferably a couple of their AC/DC covers or Nirvana live in Pula, Croatia!
Yep I have been flat out on plans B and C ever since Apple's announcement. So far I am not getting too far! I intend to watch a Lynda series on LM to see if I can make the change. The main issue I wrestle with is a) a library system for retrieval and b) an online backup for RAW. I have a) now with Aperture and I use my own web sever for b) but it is not synced in anyway since it uses the Aperture Library and nothing I try can look inside that for syncing and Aperture itself cannot work it's archival system over FTP as far as I know. Can it?
I can't really say too much about Aperture, so that's a question for someone else around here.
Here's a quick overview of a similar routine I use, with a couple personal choices like Carbon Copy Cloner (clones and scheduled backups rather than TM), BitTorrent (off-site sync), and using naked drives in a dual dock rather than everything having it's own enclosure or a monster rack server.
Complete Workflow for Photo and Video | Chase Jarvis TECH | ChaseJarvis
Note: at the time of this video Chase is using Aperture... question is... still using it? Regardless the workflow "works" for LR or any software/data and may give ya some ideas.
Ha! But modern "duck (face)" is just so lame. I prefer to stick with my stash of Marilyn Monroe pics; the original who set the unattainable bar for being "ducky"... so there!
Smaller than 2560x1440 (iMac full-screen res) or 2048x1365 (Flickr Large Res)? If I'm not mistaken, Flickr always uses Large Res anyway and scales it, allowing only for download of original files (files ending in *_o.jpg)
I'm a free Terabyte user. I'm also a proud user and supporter of Adblock since they days before I had a fast internet connection. Today it's used to make websites as fast as possible, and from throwing too many ads at their users and trying to fix financial problems the easy way. I know it's cheating to some extent, however I feel it's balanced out with my many hours behind an iPad daily... where I'm bombarded without recourse.
Note to internet ads: I so much wanted to write a huge rant to Google/YouTube the other night, as well as to Audi parent VW Group. Watching a playlist of 50 "2 Cello" videos "threw up" the same exact ad before every single video(!) This happens with other sites as well so much, that it's easy to see why the ad syndicates can't get similar prices per K impressions as with traditional publishing or TV. Even though targeted ads AFAIC is the better and more "palatable" way to serve ads rather than the "shot gun" approach to traditional media publishing.
Positive ending: if you like a different take on rock... ya gotta see the 2 Cellos... preferably a couple of their AC/DC covers or Nirvana live in Pula, Croatia!
I can't really say too much about Aperture, so that's a question for someone else around here.
Here's a quick overview of a similar routine I use, with a couple personal choices like Carbon Copy Cloner (clones and scheduled backups rather than TM), BitTorrent (off-site sync), and using naked drives in a dual dock rather than everything having it's own enclosure or a monster rack server.
Complete Workflow for Photo and Video | Chase Jarvis TECH | ChaseJarvis
Note: at the time of this video Chase is using Aperture... question is... still using it? Regardless the workflow "works" for LR or any software/data and may give ya some ideas.
[VIDEO]
Nice pic of a duck
The video was interesting. I ran production for two years on several ESPN and ESPN2 shows we edited non-linear style with early systems in the mid 1990's, and all we had was DLT for back up ... oh the time it took! There was little risk of losing anything on site due to disasters as I don't think I left the editing chair in two years! I only threw my 16 GIG SCSI RAID 0 boxes out a few years ago after they had collected dust for nearly a decade and a half.
I've taken the plunge ... I'm converting my largest Aperture Library over to LightRoom. It dawned on me the simple Finder level filing system has the huge advantage that as you mentioned, a copy of CCC or similar cloning tool with sync and FTP is all I need for remote backup to my servers. Aperture's Package approach prevented this not to mention the methodology of using import date for folder names, not creation date is a nightmare when you get down to the file level in Aperture.
There was little risk of losing anything on site due to disasters as I don't think I left the editing chair in two years!
Ha!
I've taken the plunge ... I'm converting my largest Aperture Library over to LightRoom. It dawned on me the simple Finder level filing system has the huge advantage that as you mentioned, a copy of CCC or similar cloning tool with sync and FTP is all I need for remote backup to my servers. Aperture's Package approach prevented this not to mention the methodology of using import date for folder names, not creation date is a nightmare when you get down to the file level in Aperture.
Wow! You decided! Who's next, will it be me? Well, I think I'll hang on to my precious Aperture since a) it won't stop working b) see what Photos for OSX has to offer c) see how LR will evolve as I think some things are very clunky and d) I think LR is merely a tool that gets the job done, but not in the 'fun way I have with Aperture'. Now fun is a strange word to use here, but I simply know you get my point.
One thing I like about LR is their 'reverse GPS lookup' feature: in Aperture we see out photos on a map but the software won't put the name of the city/state/country in the meta data, something LR can do (though this does mean all gps coordinates are being sent to Google who will return the location info - not for everyone I guess. Personally I think I would do such a thing, just not from my own IP address. For reasons beyond me, I'm premonition when it comes to Google)
Ha!
Wow! You decided! Who's next, will it be me? Well, I think I'll hang on to my precious Aperture since a) it won't stop working b) see what Photos for OSX has to offer c) see how LR will evolve as I think some things are very clunky and d) I think LR is merely a tool that gets the job done, but not in the 'fun way I have with Aperture'. Now fun is a strange word to use here, but I simply know you get my point.
One thing I like about LR is their 'reverse GPS lookup' feature: in Aperture we see out photos on a map but the software won't put the name of the city/state/country in the meta data, something LR can do (though this does mean all gps coordinates are being sent to Google who will return the location info - not for everyone I guess. Personally I think I would do such a thing, just not from my own IP address. For reasons beyond me, I'm premonition when it comes to Google)
Believe me I will parallel Aperture and LM for the time being and see if I can learn to love LM. It's possible, after all I love PS CS6 and can use it in my sleep. A lot of this all has to do with what we are used to I suspect. I started with Premier in the early 1990's before moving to Media 100 and eventually FCPro, and I used to be able to use After Effects before I used Motion. My problem is I seem to only have enough gray cells to know half a dozen apps in real detail. If I learn a new one i have to give one up! :no:
Yes, Transmit is amazing and I had found it can indeed see inside the Aperture Library. I am still messing with that ability. The problem is I have exported and re imported most of my main Aperture Library in attempts to clean it up not realizing it reset the internal folder structures to date of import not the photograph's creation date. I see the LM import plug in has fixed that. All photos and videos are now in a hierarchical folder structure based on date of the image being taken. So I could actually revert to Aperture by re importing if needed and have a far better data structure using the folders LM created. Who knew?
I noticed the import process asked me if I wanted reverse GPS and I said 'hell yes!' I've not seen the results yet, it is still chugging away importing my largest Library. I wonder if that is in the exif and if Aperture would accept that if I reimported back? What fun
Thanks for the research ... I too came across that Aperture plug-in page today for FTP enabled backup plugs and tried some. Transmit can do far better than the ones I tried to be honest.
Believe me I will parallel Aperture and LM for the time being and see if I can learn to love LM. It's possible, after all I love PS CS6 and can use it in my sleep. A lot of this all has to do with what we are used to I suspect. I started with Premier in the early 1990's before moving to Media 100 and eventually FCPro, and I used to be able to use After Effects before I used Motion. My problem is I seem to only have enough gray cells to know half a dozen apps in real detail. If I learn a new one i have to give one up! :no:
Haha. I believe you are about 10 years older than me, so I guess there's something in store for me.
But yes, very true on the learning curve, even if something doesn't work intuitively one can still learn the program. Use the keyboard shortcuts from day 1 and just keep at it. It's a bit like typing blindly; one needs to do it on a daily basis and you'll be proficient in no time. And if you can work with Motion, you can learn any program (I could've typed Shake! but that's EOL'd)
Yes, Transmit is amazing and I had found it can indeed see inside the Aperture Library. I am still messing with that ability. The problem is I have exported and re imported most of my main Aperture Library in attempts to clean it up not realizing it reset the internal folder structures to date of import not the photograph's creation date. I see the LM import plug in has fixed that. All photos and videos are now in a hierarchical folder structure based on date of the image being taken. So I could actually revert to Aperture by re importing if needed and have a far better data structure using the folders LM created. Who knew?
Well, I did know that Aperture stores the files by import date/time, but won't you loose adjustment settings when reimporting into Aperture from the LR masters folder?
I noticed the import process asked me if I wanted reverse GPS and I said 'hell yes!' I've not seen the results yet, it is still chugging away importing my largest Library. I wonder if that is in the exif and if Aperture would accept that if I reimported back? What fun
Monkeying around, trying things is can be fun indeed. It's just the waiting that's not so nice, though with your setup I'm sure it won't take ages.
I forgot what the default setting was in LR for the GPS info, I believe it will prompt you if you're ok to have LR send the coordinates to Google and fill in the City/State/Country in the meta fields when that info is received from Google. Even though it is merely text it may take a while since it needs to write to every individual file. Or perhaps it is simply building its own DB...
Time allowing, I would like to read up on your transition to LR.
The video was interesting. I ran production for two years on several ESPN and ESPN2 shows we edited non-linear style with early systems in the mid 1990's, and all we had was DLT for back up ... oh the time it took! There was little risk of losing anything on site due to disasters as I don't think I left the editing chair in two years! I only threw my 16 GIG SCSI RAID 0 boxes out a few years ago after they had collected dust for nearly a decade and a half.
Darn if I didn't realize right after hitting the submit button, that I was posting a reply to a seasoned professional, and thought, "hope he doesn't take this wrong and feel dissed?!"
I've taken the plunge ... I'm converting my largest Aperture Library over to LightRoom.
A "Hail Mary" at this point? But why? We're still in pre-season in the first quarter. this isn't NCAA ya know! (to use a ton of ESPN metaphors )
It dawned on me the simple Finder level filing system has the huge advantage that as you mentioned, a copy of CCC or similar cloning tool with sync and FTP is all I need for remote backup to my servers.
OMG! Someone's listening to my incessant preaching?!
Only thing that I've dropped (a couple of years ago) in your scenario is FTP. I was a huge fan of it and ran my own servers and those for clients many, many years. I just don't feel the need for it anymore other than 'rooting around' in website configs; what with NAS drives, Back To My Mac, and most routers having the ability to open a secure UPnP internet connection to your devices, not to mention advances in VPN.
Aperture's Package approach prevented this not to mention the methodology of using import date for folder names, not creation date is a nightmare when you get down to the file level in Aperture.
Adding to the list why multiple meta data entries are needed, and better served from within the data points and where they're located, rather than in a database with predetermined lookups.
On any given master, I need to see it's children along with creation/modification dates, where "duplicates, shares, and embeds/links" are... in addition to GPS, EXIF, ratings, keywords, labels, projects or anything else I deem worthy to search for. All best accomplished with a personal system wide search (Spotlight/Siri) rather than within database "libraries".
If I'm doing a video project, I NEED to see all assets incl. video, music, graphics, photos, clips, etc.... so please let me search based on the "project", then show all assets no matter where they reside on my disks. Saved Search: "Project Ducky" is my new "virtual folder" full of assets. At this point, you then can move to a new filing system similar to JBOD and what ZFS was supposed to be all about.
^^^ Just more preaching... sorry! ^^^
Just an aside: "Ducking" into my archives is fun.... "Oh Humphrey! Classy on the left and Thrills to the right... and choosing the the low-hanging fruit :rolleyes:"
Edited: That's his left and my right... uh... yeah.... just blinded by science... :smokey:
May I suggest keeping the ratio consistent and letting the pixel dimensions alone? Technically speaking, at 5472 x 3648 RAW size, you'll have ~3830 x 2553 JPGs which will still look glorious on 4K***
A note on cropping RAWs: I personally always suggest editing the full RAW size with non-destructive editing tools, whether Aperture, Lightroon, CameraOne, etc. and cropping later. Reason being is that it's far easier to crop later using a preset (LR) for optimal screen sizes for viewing (iMac, iPad, 1080p HD, etc.), or say a book project, specialty layout. Nothing hurts me more as an art director than when I have no room to crop, and/or finding out that the edit was done in Photoshop and has a "final" tight crop applied cutting of valuable pixels. Many times pixels chopped of left/right determine a pleasing crop top/bottom and vice versa, or at the very least takes unnecessary time to try and graft in what's now missing. I even go so far as to tell "profi" photographers to quite cropping in-camera. Composing is one thing; chop-crops are another... especially if a picture "might be" intended for multiple uses.
*** From Wikipedia:
I can only imagine!
Who said I was hunting because I didn't have your bookmark? I neglected my Flickr feed for a few weeks now, and it was happy hunting indeed!
I'm hoping for a serious "square one"... because the previous way was far too convoluted with photos, as it is with iTunes Music as well. I've been a happy supporter and subscription-cheerleader of Spotify for almost 2 years now and almost everyone still uses and loves it... me included.
I'm not ready yet to give up hope on Apple... we'll see. And even then, if they create the foundation and publish the APIs as some other folks here are also hoping for, I'll be content to wait it out and see what the 3rd party developers do with the "bricks".
With that said, funny how I woke up this morning to your reply to my post... and had a dreaded feeling of: "optimism is great and daydreaming is good; but be careful when ugly reality sticks it's head up and that it doesn't cause major detours in your carefully laid out plans". My way of saying: Plan B and C must also be in the works and not left to hectic stressful last-minute pivots(!) I hate those.... :no:
Now go "shoot some ducks" while I'm "feeding the chicks" at Flickr with stars and over-the-top ratings!....:smokey:
I'm back to Aperture. Lightroom is very limited in comparison. I would find life very hard without stacks for a start! I have both running and can do a side by side comparison. Aperture is far and a way a better work flow, easier controls and far better file management. Apple are absolutely crazy to drop Aperture!
Haha. I believe you are about 10 years older than me, so I guess there's something in store for me.
But yes, very true on the learning curve, even if something doesn't work intuitively one can still learn the program. Use the keyboard shortcuts from day 1 and just keep at it. It's a bit like typing blindly; one needs to do it on a daily basis and you'll be proficient in no time. And if you can work with Motion, you can learn any program (I could've typed Shake! but that's EOL'd)
Well, I did know that Aperture stores the files by import date/time, but won't you loose adjustment settings when reimporting into Aperture from the LR masters folder?
Monkeying around, trying things is can be fun indeed. It's just the waiting that's not so nice, though with your setup I'm sure it won't take ages.
I forgot what the default setting was in LR for the GPS info, I believe it will prompt you if you're ok to have LR send the coordinates to Google and fill in the City/State/Country in the meta fields when that info is received from Google. Even though it is merely text it may take a while since it needs to write to every individual file. Or perhaps it is simply building its own DB...
Time allowing, I would like to read up on your transition to LR.
I have both running and I am staying with Aperture.
I'm back to Aperture. Lightroom is very limited in comparison. I would find life very hard without stacks for a start! I have both running and can do a side by side comparison. Aperture is far and a way a better work flow, easier controls and far better file management. Apple are absolutely crazy to drop Aperture!
Well if stacks in Aperture are anything like those available in Adobe Bridge, I can surely understand your position.
Yeah... that continuous rant of mine again: good features scattered throughout the entire Adobe suite, with no decent framework (code foundation) for them to easily be included suite-wide and work consistently. Going on 15 years like this, sad to say.
With that stated up-front, I wouldn't mind hearing in some more detail why you think LR *sucks* (my assumption based on your terse wording). What part of the work-flow is slower in LR, and what are you doing with your photos where the interface is getting in your way. If I can... I'll see if I can shed some light on a hidden work-around.... and at the very least, go to the Adobe Forums and see if a suggestion I has been made to alleviate the problem.
Whether you, I or anyone else likes it, the fact is Adobe Lightroom is the de facto RAW editing standard at the moment and I doubt they'll be going away any time soon, so might as well see if we can help to make it better.
I have just enabled iCloud Photos beta on my iPhone but I want to know if there is a way to mass download all of the images stored from www.icloud.com/photos to my computer, in case I ever decide to move away from the feature.
I can see you can slept one by one and download but that would take hours!
I think no everyone can make good use of their iCloud account and most of the people don't know how to view iCloud photos. May be you will think it is not necessary to use a tool to view and download photos from iCloud, but actually the numbers of the photos you can view on iCloud is limited. If you wan to view the complete and all photos on iCloud, you'd better use a tool like FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery.
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Oh dear, I certainly wouldn't laugh at someone else's photos (strangely enough I think I'd be ok if someone laughed at my pictures).
Thanking you kindly; something to look forward to on NY eve. And I fully understand your wish for privacy. I'm doing the same on public forums.
Ha! But modern "duck (face)" is just so lame. I prefer to stick with my stash of Marilyn Monroe pics; the original who set the unattainable bar for being "ducky"... so there!
Smaller than 2560x1440 (iMac full-screen res) or 2048x1365 (Flickr Large Res)? If I'm not mistaken, Flickr always uses Large Res anyway and scales it, allowing only for download of original files (files ending in *_o.jpg)
I'm a free Terabyte user. I'm also a proud user and supporter of Adblock since they days before I had a fast internet connection. Today it's used to make websites as fast as possible, and from throwing too many ads at their users and trying to fix financial problems the easy way. I know it's cheating to some extent, however I feel it's balanced out with my many hours behind an iPad daily... where I'm bombarded without recourse.
Note to internet ads: I so much wanted to write a huge rant to Google/YouTube the other night, as well as to Audi parent VW Group. Watching a playlist of 50 "2 Cello" videos "threw up" the same exact ad before every single video(!) This happens with other sites as well so much, that it's easy to see why the ad syndicates can't get similar prices per K impressions as with traditional publishing or TV. Even though targeted ads AFAIC is the better and more "palatable" way to serve ads rather than the "shot gun" approach to traditional media publishing.
Positive ending: if you like a different take on rock... ya gotta see the 2 Cellos... preferably a couple of their AC/DC covers or Nirvana live in Pula, Croatia!
I can't really say too much about Aperture, so that's a question for someone else around here.
Here's a quick overview of a similar routine I use, with a couple personal choices like Carbon Copy Cloner (clones and scheduled backups rather than TM), BitTorrent (off-site sync), and using naked drives in a dual dock rather than everything having it's own enclosure or a monster rack server.
Complete Workflow for Photo and Video | Chase Jarvis TECH | ChaseJarvis
Note: at the time of this video Chase is using Aperture... question is... still using it? Regardless the workflow "works" for LR or any software/data and may give ya some ideas.
[VIDEO]
Nice pic of a duck
The video was interesting. I ran production for two years on several ESPN and ESPN2 shows we edited non-linear style with early systems in the mid 1990's, and all we had was DLT for back up ... oh the time it took! There was little risk of losing anything on site due to disasters as I don't think I left the editing chair in two years!
I've taken the plunge ... I'm converting my largest Aperture Library over to LightRoom. It dawned on me the simple Finder level filing system has the huge advantage that as you mentioned, a copy of CCC or similar cloning tool with sync and FTP is all I need for remote backup to my servers. Aperture's Package approach prevented this not to mention the methodology of using import date for folder names, not creation date is a nightmare when you get down to the file level in Aperture.
Ha!
Wow! You decided! Who's next, will it be me? Well, I think I'll hang on to my precious Aperture since a) it won't stop working b) see what Photos for OSX has to offer c) see how LR will evolve as I think some things are very clunky and d) I think LR is merely a tool that gets the job done, but not in the 'fun way I have with Aperture'. Now fun is a strange word to use here, but I simply know you get my point.
Oh, before I saw your post I was looking for Aperture Vault over FTP and didn't find any conclusive answer, but a few pointers were:
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20100427103944103
http://www.apple.com/aperture/resources/plugins.html (Cmd-F for ftp and you'll find 2 plugins.
One thing I like about LR is their 'reverse GPS lookup' feature: in Aperture we see out photos on a map but the software won't put the name of the city/state/country in the meta data, something LR can do (though this does mean all gps coordinates are being sent to Google who will return the location info - not for everyone I guess. Personally I think I would do such a thing, just not from my own IP address. For reasons beyond me, I'm premonition when it comes to Google)
Believe me I will parallel Aperture and LM for the time being and see if I can learn to love LM. It's possible, after all I love PS CS6 and can use it in my sleep. A lot of this all has to do with what we are used to I suspect. I started with Premier in the early 1990's before moving to Media 100 and eventually FCPro, and I used to be able to use After Effects before I used Motion. My problem is I seem to only have enough gray cells to know half a dozen apps in real detail. If I learn a new one i have to give one up! :no:
Yes, Transmit is amazing and I had found it can indeed see inside the Aperture Library. I am still messing with that ability. The problem is I have exported and re imported most of my main Aperture Library in attempts to clean it up not realizing it reset the internal folder structures to date of import not the photograph's creation date. I see the LM import plug in has fixed that. All photos and videos are now in a hierarchical folder structure based on date of the image being taken. So I could actually revert to Aperture by re importing if needed and have a far better data structure using the folders LM created. Who knew?
I noticed the import process asked me if I wanted reverse GPS and I said 'hell yes!' I've not seen the results yet, it is still chugging away importing my largest Library. I wonder if that is in the exif and if Aperture would accept that if I reimported back? What fun
Thanks for the research ... I too came across that Aperture plug-in page today for FTP enabled backup plugs and tried some. Transmit can do far better than the ones I tried to be honest.
Haha. I believe you are about 10 years older than me, so I guess there's something in store for me.
But yes, very true on the learning curve, even if something doesn't work intuitively one can still learn the program. Use the keyboard shortcuts from day 1 and just keep at it. It's a bit like typing blindly; one needs to do it on a daily basis and you'll be proficient in no time. And if you can work with Motion, you can learn any program (I could've typed Shake! but that's EOL'd)
Well, I did know that Aperture stores the files by import date/time, but won't you loose adjustment settings when reimporting into Aperture from the LR masters folder?
Monkeying around, trying things is can be fun indeed. It's just the waiting that's not so nice, though with your setup I'm sure it won't take ages.
I forgot what the default setting was in LR for the GPS info, I believe it will prompt you if you're ok to have LR send the coordinates to Google and fill in the City/State/Country in the meta fields when that info is received from Google. Even though it is merely text it may take a while since it needs to write to every individual file. Or perhaps it is simply building its own DB...
Time allowing, I would like to read up on your transition to LR.
Darn if I didn't realize right after hitting the submit button, that I was posting a reply to a seasoned professional, and thought, "hope he doesn't take this wrong and feel dissed?!"
A "Hail Mary" at this point? But why? We're still in pre-season in the first quarter. this isn't NCAA ya know! (to use a ton of ESPN metaphors
OMG! Someone's listening to my incessant preaching?!
Only thing that I've dropped (a couple of years ago) in your scenario is FTP. I was a huge fan of it and ran my own servers and those for clients many, many years. I just don't feel the need for it anymore other than 'rooting around' in website configs; what with NAS drives, Back To My Mac, and most routers having the ability to open a secure UPnP internet connection to your devices, not to mention advances in VPN.
Adding to the list why multiple meta data entries are needed, and better served from within the data points and where they're located, rather than in a database with predetermined lookups.
On any given master, I need to see it's children along with creation/modification dates, where "duplicates, shares, and embeds/links" are... in addition to GPS, EXIF, ratings, keywords, labels, projects or anything else I deem worthy to search for. All best accomplished with a personal system wide search (Spotlight/Siri) rather than within database "libraries".
If I'm doing a video project, I NEED to see all assets incl. video, music, graphics, photos, clips, etc.... so please let me search based on the "project", then show all assets no matter where they reside on my disks. Saved Search: "Project Ducky" is my new "virtual folder" full of assets. At this point, you then can move to a new filing system similar to JBOD and what ZFS was supposed to be all about.
^^^ Just more preaching... sorry! ^^^
Just an aside: "Ducking" into my archives is fun.... "Oh Humphrey! Classy on the left and Thrills to the right... and choosing the the low-hanging fruit :rolleyes:"
Edited: That's his left and my right... uh... yeah.... just blinded by science... :smokey:
I'm back to Aperture. Lightroom is very limited in comparison. I would find life very hard without stacks for a start! I have both running and can do a side by side comparison. Aperture is far and a way a better work flow, easier controls and far better file management. Apple are absolutely crazy to drop Aperture!
I have both running and I am staying with Aperture.
Well if stacks in Aperture are anything like those available in Adobe Bridge, I can surely understand your position.
Yeah... that continuous rant of mine again: good features scattered throughout the entire Adobe suite, with no decent framework (code foundation) for them to easily be included suite-wide and work consistently. Going on 15 years like this, sad to say.
With that stated up-front, I wouldn't mind hearing in some more detail why you think LR *sucks* (my assumption based on your terse wording). What part of the work-flow is slower in LR, and what are you doing with your photos where the interface is getting in your way. If I can... I'll see if I can shed some light on a hidden work-around.... and at the very least, go to the Adobe Forums and see if a suggestion I has been made to alleviate the problem.
Whether you, I or anyone else likes it, the fact is Adobe Lightroom is the de facto RAW editing standard at the moment and I doubt they'll be going away any time soon, so might as well see if we can help to make it better.
I have just enabled iCloud Photos beta on my iPhone but I want to know if there is a way to mass download all of the images stored from www.icloud.com/photos to my computer, in case I ever decide to move away from the feature.
I can see you can slept one by one and download but that would take hours!
Any advice would be great!
Many thanks
I think no everyone can make good use of their iCloud account and most of the people don't know how to view iCloud photos. May be you will think it is not necessary to use a tool to view and download photos from iCloud, but actually the numbers of the photos you can view on iCloud is limited. If you wan to view the complete and all photos on iCloud, you'd better use a tool like FonePaw iPhone Data Recovery.