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#Digikam define pictures as a set pro

That setting is mostly aimed at pro shooters, like photo journalists, who need a quick copy of the image to send out immediately. Move your Photos library to save space on your Mac - Apple Support

#Digikam define pictures as a set how to

The following link explains how to move the Photos Library to an external drive.

#Digikam define pictures as a set archive

Having regular Time Machine backups and occasional clones as an archive of my libraries is very important to me, so the 'Optimize' option is out of question for me.

#Digikam define pictures as a set full version

That is clearly not feasible for a larger library to keep switching the iCloud Sync between your working, optimized library on the internal drive and the full version on the external. But even for my moderately sized Photos Library (50000 photos and videos) it takes a full week to switch between two libraries as an iCloud Photo Library and get them in sync and updated with iCloud. You can then backup the complete copy on the external drive. You need a second version of your Photos Library on an external drive, that is syncing with iCloud, but is not optimized. If you are using 'Optimize Mac Storage', your Time Machine backups or clones of the library will be incomplete, because not all original files are stored locally. When I am traveling abroad I am finding myself frequently without a reliable or fast internet connection, but I want to have immediate access to my photos.Īnother reason why I do not want to use iCloud Photos with the 'Optimize Mac Storage' option is, that it is nearly impossible to backup an optimized Photos Library as a library, if the library is large. I am not using it to save storage on my Mac, because I want all photos stored locally as well.

My main reason for using iCloud Photos is to keep my Photos Library in sync across my Mac and my iPhone. DxO Perspective is the easiest tool to get the perspective distortion corrected. I am using Photos to manage by libraries (because of the support for iCloud Photos) and Aurora HDR to develop my HDR brackets, Luminar 3 for advanced editing. It keeps the library in the Finder, so you can create albums by arranging the photos in the Finde rin folders. Luminar 3 even has support for a photo library.

In Luminar 3 I can combine the filters and look-up tables freely to define my own presets.

But I am limited to the presets for the adjustments.

Aurora HDR 2019 can combine exposure brackets into HDR photos and has many presets for acne types.

Why do you use both Aurora HDR and Luminar 3? Are there specific functions that you like in each? I read about DxO-it was recommended in an article to use with Photos app.Īurora HDR and Luminar support different things.

I'm adept at learning software so not shy there. I do like to search on events, people, favorite images, travel, etc. Or am I correct in being hesitant about putting all my images in Photos and use one of the other image organizers/DAMs. 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. I'm also afraid of losing the organization that I'm used too. 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 also take pictures on my iPhone so those are in Photos. My old workflow (10K+ images) was to upload to files on my hard drive, organize by year, month and event. 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.

I have researched many programs and these are my favorites right now-Affinity Photo (AP), digiKam, Mylio with AP or DxO.

#Digikam define pictures as a set update

Deleting many images can be extremely slow, as it tries to update the result count at every delete.Īll three of these tools find visual duplicates, not just files that are identical byte for byte.I am an amateur photographer who takes lots of family, travel and life pictures. It unfortunately does not provide an automatic selection mechanism with rational criteria, such as resolution, date or whatever, the automatic selection seems to just randomly just pick the first image found as the reference to preserve. Even then, it does not work perfectly at least for some kinds of images, like line-art. The 'custom' level of similarity allows restricting pairings only to the highest degree of similarity, but it has to be set on Preferences as 99. For visual comparison of images, there are specific, non-default options on a drop-down menu. You can drop directories to add their contents recursively. Drag and drop image files do the duplicates window. In the menu, select File / Find duplicate. Pass all the images you want to compare on the command line. This will look for duplicates across your whole collection. In the menu, select Tools / Find duplicates.