Recommendation for a non-confusing and efficient photo management app?
Here's what I want: CONTROL!
I absolutely hate iPhoto - I feel like it constantly does things behind my back that I neither asked for nor want. I don't want multiple copies of photos in folders I have no idea about. When I delete a photo, I want it deleted, not deleted from one folder but hanging on like an unkillable zombie forever in some other folder. I don't understand what it does and why, and I don't think I should have to read thick manuals to understand the simplest things about an app - life is too short... intuitive and simple is a design virtue.
What I need is an alternative to iPhoto.
Ideally, I'd like something like irfanview for mac. To me irfanview is totally understandable, extremely powerful, very intuitive and gives me total control.
I want to sort through photos quickly, evaluate and do simple things like resize, rename and so on in batches. Like irfanview.
So far I have not seen anything like that on the mac. I even bought for $69 an app called Photon that promised to do all these things - and was very, very disappointed: it again does things by default and gives me no control... one small example - it imports stuff automatically from a card (even if I don't want to), but when I delete photos from within Photon, it only deletes them from their internal folders ("stacks"), so you have to first export a stack to do what you want to do. In irfanview you have an option to delete either way and a million other settings - CONTROL which you don't have in any photo management program for mac that I am aware of.
Are there ANY options for decent photo management apps on the mac, or is this yet another field where the mac options are few and far between and mostly suck? TIA!
Here's what I want: CONTROL!
I absolutely hate iPhoto - I feel like it constantly does things behind my back that I neither asked for nor want. I don't want multiple copies of photos in folders I have no idea about. When I delete a photo, I want it deleted, not deleted from one folder but hanging on like an unkillable zombie forever in some other folder. I don't understand what it does and why, and I don't think I should have to read thick manuals to understand the simplest things about an app - life is too short... intuitive and simple is a design virtue.
What I need is an alternative to iPhoto.
Ideally, I'd like something like irfanview for mac. To me irfanview is totally understandable, extremely powerful, very intuitive and gives me total control.
I want to sort through photos quickly, evaluate and do simple things like resize, rename and so on in batches. Like irfanview.
So far I have not seen anything like that on the mac. I even bought for $69 an app called Photon that promised to do all these things - and was very, very disappointed: it again does things by default and gives me no control... one small example - it imports stuff automatically from a card (even if I don't want to), but when I delete photos from within Photon, it only deletes them from their internal folders ("stacks"), so you have to first export a stack to do what you want to do. In irfanview you have an option to delete either way and a million other settings - CONTROL which you don't have in any photo management program for mac that I am aware of.
Are there ANY options for decent photo management apps on the mac, or is this yet another field where the mac options are few and far between and mostly suck? TIA!
