But based on what you wrote about iPhoto, Picasa, etc. You can also hit the Save button at the top of the search so that the criteria become an auto-updating Saved Search, which is about as good as a "Smart Collection" in a program like Lightroom.Īfter what I wrote above, I still prefer Lightroom over the Finder for working with photos. Great answer, not a lot of people know about that. Is there another software that searches huge number of files for EXIF data? Is LR the answer I am looking for? Is it able to handle huge libraries? Should I just start building out my library properly in LR? I have also tried Picasa and I don't like the folder watching it does and small hidden files it creates all over the hard drive. They choke on some files and cause hangs and a lot of problems. They just keep spinning, processing the photos, doing facial recognition and stuff that I don't want (I use them in reference mode as I don't want to make duplicates of all my photos). They do this but can't handle many photos. Is there a software on mac that is good for searching all the photos taken with a camera model or certain ISO or taken by a certain lens? In fact, from time to time, I delete the LR library (I keep all my edits as XMP files) to keep things simple and fast. I don't use any library features of LR so my LR library does not contain all my 14 years' worth of photos. I just import raw files, edit, and export jpegs from LR. For post processing I use Lightroom but I don't keep all my photos in LR library. I am used to managing my photos in folders myself and use a file browser (Lyn) to browse the folders and thumbnails etc.
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