I mostly with photos. Tried Picasa, Photoshop Elements and currently using Lightroom. I realised that the way to go is avoid managing photos in folders and instead tag them in some application. Since all my photos are in RAW format, I had trouble with Picasa. Also, support for RAW is limited and it has trouble with other color profiles than sRGB. I found Photoshop Elements much better than Picasa, mostly on the editing part - Camera Raw and limited photoshop tools are much better than what Picasa offers. However, I missed support for uploading albums directly to PicasaWeb. Photo organizer was a tad better, and photo export was a bit better as well. I then moved to Lightroom, mainly because I found Elements photoshop tools too limiting and wanted DNG support. The lightroom organizer is pretty much identical to the one in Elements although it looks a bit different. However, editing tools are way better. There's also batch processing and a more advanced Camera Raw version. Conversion to DNG on import is supported in Lightroom. What I find a bit annoying is that Lightroom does not have a "erase sd card after import" feature. Backups are supported in both Elements and Lightroom, but I just backup the photo folder and the Lightroom catalog files. I also buy upgrade every second release so it ends up being quite cheap.
TL;DR; Picasa is primitive but does the job of organization, Elements just right if all you need is import and organize photo library, Lightroom is great if you want Elements with some more serious editing, but not Photoshop serious. Elements and Lightroom also support videos, but I have little experience with that. Oh and yeah, they are not supported on Linux...which sucks donkey balls. On Saturday, June 22, 2013 8:51:58 PM UTC+2, rakesh mailgroups wrote: > > Hi, > > I wanted to see if anyone in the group had found the holy grail of > managing photos and videos (from cameras and smartphones mostly) with the > least effort. > > Rakesh > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Java Posse" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
