iPhoto/Aperture

Blackout · 6 Mar 2008 at 15:45

Hi all, possible switcher here looking to find out what fits my households needs best and would appreciate your input on something (well probably a lot in the course of the next month or so before I decide).

If I were to have two Macs in the house, with photo's on one PC or a network drive etc. Could both PCs (err...Macs I mean!) manage, catalogue/tag a shared photo collection?

I just learned in the Windows forum that Vista will let you 'tag' a file and those 'tags (names, places, events etc)' will be imbedded in the file...so either PC can search based on them etc.

Would iPhoto/Apperture do the same?

Deleted member 651465 · 6 Mar 2008 at 16:51

Aperture could do that to the nth degree.. it was made to sort photo libraries.

iPhoto is the same, except it's slimmed down and doesn't really give you the advanced editing tools for the images as Aperture does.

If you're looking to just add a casual tag here or there, then use iPhoto, otherwise Aperture is the king really.

Blackout · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:21

would that work if the tags are set by one mac and then read/edited on another mac? i.e are the tags stored in the image file itself or on some sort of mac-end databse in iPhoto/Aperture?

J1234 · 6 Mar 2008 at 21:23

It will be stored in the images EXIF data, so will be stored in the image itself.

Blackout · 6 Mar 2008 at 22:52

awesome! Cheers Justin

iPhoto/Aperture

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