iPhoto/Aperture

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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?

 

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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?

 

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awesome! Cheers Justin