2019 Apple Photos or alternative image catalog and editor
I am an amateur photographer who takes lots of family, travel and life pictures. I need a new image processing/editor. I have researched many programs and these are my favorites right now—Affinity Photo (AP), digiKam, Mylio with AP or DxO. I have used Adobe Elements and it crashes on my Mac (always has) so I have not uploaded pictures from my SD card in awhile. My old workflow (10K+ images) was to upload to files on my hard drive, organize by year, month and event. I take RAW and jpegs on a Lumix G9. I also take pictures on my iPhone so those are in Photos. I'm afraid of combining all images into Photos b/c I'm afraid of the ramifications of having a large catalog and slowing it down. I'm also afraid of losing the organization that I'm used too. HELP! I need to make a decision, move on and clean this mess up! Would you go with Apple Photos and use DxO/AP as your editor? I know they work together. Or am I correct in being hesitant about putting all my images in Photos and use one of the other image organizers/DAMs. I do like to search on events, people, favorite images, travel, etc. I want to be able to share my images. I'm adept at learning software so not shy there.