My photo life has been a mess since Apple discontinued iPhoto and Aperture. Back in the day, I loved being meticulous with organizing my photos into Events and tagging People etc. The editing features of Aperture were good.
I'm a hobbyist, not a pro, but love fiddling with the editing photos from occasional DSLR shoots, as well as having a way to organize phone photos and scans from my film shooting.
I switch to working in Lightroom (now Classic) in 2020. My current workflow is to import all photos, including photos shot on my Android phone in here. I love the editing tools, such as masked edits. Not so much the organization features, which are basically folders you have to do manually. It's terrible at organizing random photos shot with my phone. I feel like I'm still living in 2006 with my workflow basically being to take photos off the camera or phone and onto the computer, with no cloud syncing or way to see the photos on the phone again.
Yeah, I have an Android phone now (yeah this is MacRumors, still a Mac fan but my last iPhone was the 4), but never signed up for Google Photos as it looks like a joke (there's not even a desktop app). My next phone may be an iPhone if moving fully back to the Apple world would help.
I guess my question is this: what combination of tools to folks like when sometimes you want to do more "pro" shoots and serious processing that the pro tools provide, and sometimes you just take random phone shots where tools like Apple Photos really shine at organization and auto-syncing? Do you maintain two libraries and export/import photos between them?
The only suggest I've had so far is to import into Lighttroom for editing, then export to Photos for organization. Oy.
I'm a hobbyist, not a pro, but love fiddling with the editing photos from occasional DSLR shoots, as well as having a way to organize phone photos and scans from my film shooting.
I switch to working in Lightroom (now Classic) in 2020. My current workflow is to import all photos, including photos shot on my Android phone in here. I love the editing tools, such as masked edits. Not so much the organization features, which are basically folders you have to do manually. It's terrible at organizing random photos shot with my phone. I feel like I'm still living in 2006 with my workflow basically being to take photos off the camera or phone and onto the computer, with no cloud syncing or way to see the photos on the phone again.
Yeah, I have an Android phone now (yeah this is MacRumors, still a Mac fan but my last iPhone was the 4), but never signed up for Google Photos as it looks like a joke (there's not even a desktop app). My next phone may be an iPhone if moving fully back to the Apple world would help.
I guess my question is this: what combination of tools to folks like when sometimes you want to do more "pro" shoots and serious processing that the pro tools provide, and sometimes you just take random phone shots where tools like Apple Photos really shine at organization and auto-syncing? Do you maintain two libraries and export/import photos between them?
The only suggest I've had so far is to import into Lighttroom for editing, then export to Photos for organization. Oy.
