Bye Bye iPhoto

iPhoto is one of the simplest picture management tool ever written, so simple that it is not well suited to manage a huge picture library :
- it consumes a lot of memory,
- pictures are stored into a directory structure that only iPhoto developers seems to be able to understand thus organizing you picture files as you want is not possible,
- backups are not possible
- usage of removable media (DVD, hardrive...) is not possible,
- classification is painful, at the application launch all picture are displayed,

I finally installed Adobe LightRoom, and magically everything I wanted to do with my pictures is now possible.

LightRoom has a kick-ass GUI organized the same way Eclipse does : it features some kind of "perspectives" to classify, retouch, print and publish pictures. It can run fullscreen allowing to take advantage of modern large screens. It does not destroy you're files folder when importing picture directly from an hardrive, and has a convenient import tool. Batch editing is really easy eg: add 9 hours to dates of pictures of only one camera model = less than 5 clicks and no need to go to a menu... Surely the best GUI available today for a Mac OS X application.

I will never launch iPhoto again