Photo library management: iPhoto and Aperture?
I am looking for input here. Presently I organize my photo libraries (yes two) using Aperture and iPhoto.
I use iPhoto primarily for what I consider personal shots (shots w/ friends, family, camera phone etc) mostly because I had the library organized the way I wanted using folders and, when I first moved to a Mac, iPhoto understood this organization. I use Aperture for more what I consider my photo projects which has become the lion share of current photos taken.
Now I find Aperture more difficult to use (I am not as fast with it) but very powerful, while iPhoto is quick and easy to use. specially for just the random vacation shots (with Faces and Places).
The problem I’m finding is more and more of the pictures I take cross between these two applications. So I end up importing from a camera into one application and then exporting out some photos and re-importing into the other application. That’s not too difficult, but the line between which application to use is increasingly blurring.
To compound the matter, I essentially have to pick one application to share photos with my Apple TV and my iPhone. So on my portable device I 1) either pick Aperture or iPhoto to carry with me, or 2) re-import photos from the other application I want to have with me, or 3) consolidate all my pictures into Aperture (really, I’m not going back to iPhoto for all my project photos).
Does anyone else use these two applications together, or have any suggestions? I’m really not looking forward to the idea of bringing over all my iPhoto pictures into Aperture and reorganizing them but, that may be my only option.
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