What software should I use for managing/editing my photos?

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My folder of images has now nearly reached 1,000 and it's becoming difficult to manage manually, also GIMP has it's limitations. What software do people use to manage and post process photos en masse?

 

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That's pretty unanimous then.

 

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Lightroom, although my advice is to use Windows Explorer to put them somewhere sensible on disk and THEN import them.

That's the way I do it.

Yeah, I always do that first, I'm so glad I got a very fast memory card so it doesn't take forever to copy the files using the memory card reader.

Lightroom is currently going for £70 on Amazon with a purchase of a camera accessory if anyone is interested.