what software to use with a photo library stored on a server?

[sparkie1984]

Morning all,

what is the best setup to use if I wanted to store my photos on a server rather than iPhoto? after reading about I see you cannot let iPhoto use anything other than a mac osx partition for storing the files so what do you use to import and view photos if you wanted to store your photos on a central server?

thanks for any advice

 

[chrono1081]

Morning all,

what is the best setup to use if I wanted to store my photos on a server rather than iPhoto? after reading about I see you cannot let iPhoto use anything other than a mac osx partition for storing the files so what do you use to import and view photos if you wanted to store your photos on a central server?

thanks for any advice

Aperture or Lightroom would do this.

 

[sparkie1984]

thanks croon,

I will look into these, I want to spend as little as possible ideally as I don't do much editing of photos, more of somewhere to be able to view and make small adjustments (I am still very much an amateur photographer)

 

[chrono1081]

thanks croon,

I will look into these, I want to spend as little as possible ideally as I don't do much editing of photos, more of somewhere to be able to view and make small adjustments (I am still very much an amateur photographer)

I woud say if no one knows of a free version, and you are choosing between the two I mentioned go with Aperture, its cheaper and can do the same thing as Lightroom (I used Lightroom since beta up to the most recent version and recently switched to Aperture, I like Aperture better but its all personal preference).

If you are getting into photography I'd highly recommend one of the two. Incorporating them into your raw workflow will save a ton of time.