Within iPhoto itself you get the ability to create Facebook and Flickr shares, and to share photos with other iCloud users. The last major loss by using iPhoto alternatives is the ability to create books, cards, calendars, and to order prints from Apple. If these are features you enjoy using, then you’re probably stuck using iPhoto, at least for these options. Have a favorite iPhoto alternative that I didn’t mention? Leave it in the comments for everyone else to try. Find your iPhoto library (usually in your Pictures folder).

And you can check it out for free before buying, too. Positives • Quick and responsive • Comprehensive feature set • Supports layers • Batch processing options • Enjoys local editing features Negatives • Idiosyncratic lay-out • Limited plug-in selection • No web or email sharing capability: £57.99 (usually $79.99, currently $59.99) Cyberlink PhotoDirector Suite PhotoDirector claims itself to be 'a unique application that combines all the features you need for photography in a single workflow – efficient photo management, complete adjustment and creative editing.' It comes with some serious editing firepower—from body-slimming tools to content aware object removal—and some sparkling reviews. You can try before you buy with a 30 day free trial. If the PhotoDirector Suite is a bit too pricey for you, have a look at PhotoDirector Ultra, instead. Positives • Intuitive interface • Comprehensive feature set • Facial recognition Negatives • No batch processing • Inconsistent import times • No geo-tagging capability • Limited lens correction profiles: £114.99 (currently £89.99) PhaseOne Capture One Pro You might think of Capture One as being a medium format image processor, but it's capable of handling dSLR- and EVIL-created files, too. It's history of medium format processing means that many of the features that you're accustomed to seeing in places such as Photoshop as well as Aperture and Lightroom come as standard in Capture One.

Apple's Photos for Mac is great, but it's not for everyone. If you want an alternative, here are the best free & cheap photo editing software packages for the Mac Share.

The Apple TV is a great little device on which to watch movies, listen to music, view your photo collection and share content that you have on your Mac, as well as being a second screen for all your iOS devices (and Mac) – all at the touch of a button using AirPlay. The Apple TV is a brilliant device for anyone with multiple Apple devices Apple’s “hobby” project has a simple yet effective and easy to use interface, access to a massive library of content through iTunes, and is one of the best streaming set top boxes available today especially if you have Apple kit already. Hopefully one day Apple will also add the ability to play games and apps Of course, the Apple TV isn’t the only such streaming video device on the market. But what else is there? In this post, we describe some of the alternatives as well as their pros and cons. Of course, the right device for you really depends on what you want – such as the ability to stream content from your iPad or other tablet. Or maybe you have an existing library of content in multiple formats that you want to watch, plus the ability to play content from an SD card or external hard disk, and many more factors besides.

There’s also an Android app called which will let you use AirPlay with Google TV devices. Asus Google TV Qube Price: $129 Dealing with the Qube first (which seems to be only available in the US currently at around $140), it’s rather cheap-looking and plasticky (and quite large, at least compared to the Apple TV), but differentiates itself by having a built-in mic (on the remote) for voice searching, as well as a rather interesting (albeit slightly confusing) cube-like interface to browse content and navigate. The cube spins up or down to move between categories (TV and movies, gaming, social, sports, music, news, education, photos, and favourites). Unsurprisingly, the Qube connects to your TV via a HDMI cable, but also provides 2 USB ports to connect to external media.

The biggest reason is all these duplicate files that take up so much hard drive space. I also like to be in control of what’s going on. How to program cross platform c++ application for windows/mac/linux. For me, iPhoto takes way too many initiatives, and they’re usually not very good. Picasa is probably good, but for me, right now (aug 3, 2014), Flickr blows away the competition: #1: Who else gives you 1 TB of online storage for free?

Any of these described above will provide NAS based storage? I assume Unbound should have no problem as it uses the system file structure. Anything other recommendations? I have the same comment/question as Daniel. Between my wife and I, we have three Macs, 2 iPads and 2 iPhones. What I really need is a NAS based solution for storing the photos and applications that can front-end/organize the photos. One photo library to rule them all.

The Travel slide show is really cool!?Now, with all this info set (called metadata in computer parlance), I can use Smart Albums to great effect. How to format usb to gpt in windows for mac bootable usb from windows. I have a smart album the contains all photos of my daughter that I’ve rated as 5 starts. This album is automatically synched to my iPhone, my wife’s iPhone, my iPad, and our AppleTV. Every time I import a photo into iPhoto and mark my daughter’s face and rate the photo as five stars, the photo is automatically sent to all our devices when we synch.