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Aperture is Apple’s professional image cataloguing tool for Macs. It’s similar to Lightroom, providing powerful image cataloguing tools and the ability to enhance images, create slideshows and web galleries and even create photo books. Aperture runs only on Apple Mac [...]
All image cataloguing programs use albums (or ‘collections’, in Lightroom). You might use them to collect together pictures for specific projects, for example. ‘Smart’ albums (collections), however, are different.
With a normal album, you add pictures manually, but smart albums are [...]
Adobe Organizer is a photo cataloguing program supplied with Elements. It’s not just a component of Elements but a separate, companion application.
Lightroom is Adobe’s professional photo cataloguing program. Your photos are stored as thumbnails and previews in a centralised database, or ‘library’ which makes it much easier to organise your photos, add keywords, captions and other metadata and carry out searches [...]
iPhoto is a fast and effective photo organising and editing program supplied as standard with all new Apple Macs and available separately as part of Apple’s iLife suite. You can use it to apply enhancements and effects and create prints, [...]
This is the name given to ‘albums’ in Adobe Lightroom. An album is a kind of ‘virtual folder’ in an image cataloguing program, where you can store pictures which share a common theme without actually changing their location on the [...]
This is software which stores and organises photos on your computer, bringing together your entire photo collection into a single virtual ‘library’ even though individual pictures may be stored in many different locations on your computer. The photos aren’t moved [...]
Bridge is a file/photo browsing program supplied with Photoshop. It has evolved to include basic image cataloguing and searching tools. It also integrates the functions of other Adobe creative applications like InDesign and Illustrator, so it’s not specifically a tool for [...]
A collection of photos in an image-cataloguing program. They are like ‘virtual folders’ used to group related photos together without changing their actual location.