Alternative to iPhoto?

Take a look at iView MediaPro. It's a professional application that is really very powerful. It's my primary image management application with iPhoto for books, calendars and cards.

Do you Twango?

I'm really not liking the way iPhoto organizes
photos.

I felt the same at first the more I use it and compare the more
I like it.

Is there an alternative program anyone can
recommend? Thanks!

Here is a link with more options.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/cs/imagemanagement/tp/photocatalog.htm

iview is cool cause you can try out iView Media v2.7
and then buy it and if you like it and need more
they let you upgrade for a fee to
iView Media Pro!
I use it for all my photos on my usb EX hard drives.

That link talks about ACDsee the windows v. is
fantastic for mac it does not do to much agin
i think you can try it first.

Adobe has a new program called light room that free
because it is beta v3 i have ben using it since v1
with no problem but i put a folder of photos
in the documents and use lightroom from there.
use the link and view the 2 video tutorial2

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/lightroom/

good luck!

Hi...my brother has been recommending iView for a while. My only concern is...if I download the trial, and import a folder or all my images, and then start editing them, do I mess up the file structure for iPhoto?

Yes. Actually iPhoto will recognize the edit when it goes to use the original in a book or calendar but the thumbnail will not be updated. If you're going to experiment with iView and use it's editing features you're best bet is to copy a few folders out of the Originals folder and use them. If you haven't seen them, there are some Tutorials describing how to convert over to an iView system, use iView and iPHoto on the same set of source files and use iView to sync keywords back to the original files in case you would like to convert to a different system and keep the keywords.

Do you Twango?

As of 07/03/2007Lightroom is $299.