{"id":457,"date":"2007-08-19T17:12:49","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T21:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/19\/tools-an-excellent-mac-photo-tool-review\/"},"modified":"2007-08-19T17:12:49","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T21:12:49","slug":"tools-an-excellent-mac-photo-tool-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/19\/tools-an-excellent-mac-photo-tool-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Tools: An Excellent Mac Photo Tool Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Like Rui Carmo over at <a href=\"http:\/\/the.taoofmac.com\/space\/\">Tao of Mac<\/a>, I&#8217;m one of those amateur photographers who has long chaffed against the confines of the basic consumer photo management offerings (e.g., iPhoto), but hasn&#8217;t quite sorted out whether pro-level tools such as Aperture or Lightroom will be worth the effort and expense of adoption.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve found yourself in a similar place, I highly recommend this <a href=\"http:\/\/the.taoofmac.com\/space\/blog\/2007\/08\/15\/1953\">review\/comparison of iPhoto with Adobe Lightroom<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t persuade me that Lightroom is the answer (tho&#8217; we both agree that iPhoto is <em>not<\/em> the answer), but I&#8217;m glad to find someone with the same concerns as I have (library management, ease of access to\/integration with editing, etc.) who is also willing to spend some time taking a critical look at these programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Rui Carmo over at Tao of Mac, I&#8217;m one of those amateur photographers who has long chaffed against the confines of the basic consumer photo management offerings (e.g., iPhoto), but hasn&#8217;t quite sorted out whether pro-level tools such as Aperture or Lightroom will be worth the effort and expense of adoption.\u00c2\u00a0 If you&#8217;ve found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Like Rui Carmo over at Tao of Mac, I&#039;m one of those amateur photographers who has long chaffed against the confines of the basic consumer photo management offerings (e.g., iPhoto), but hasn&#039;t quite sorted out whether pro-level tools such as Aperture or Lightroom will be worth the effort and expense of adoption.\u00c2 If you&#039;ve found\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"tech\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/08\/19\/tools-an-excellent-mac-photo-tool-review\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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