Hi folks!
I'm new to the forum. Was impressed with the things I've seen on the web about Affinity Photo.
I'm on a Core i5 iMac running MacOS 10.12 Sierra. I want to upgrade to Mojave.I am still using iPhoto (v. 9.6.1), because I regard Photos (from Apple or Google) as iPhoto Lite. Apple abandoned iPhoto a few years ago and in the process they stopped serving my needs. I regard Photos as a smartphone/tablet photo appliance.
If Affinity provides these features in their Photo app, I'd like to learn more. If Affinity does not provide these features, I hope they will accept my feedback and come up with a "digital shoebox" app like iPhoto.I store metadata in my iPhoto library as both prose captions and abbreviated labels in Events titles (I was improvising hashtag-like strings as titles long before the term "hashtag" was in use in social media).I'm looking for something...
with iPhoto 9's power and metadata capabilities that will run on MacOS Mojave
with an iPhoto-like image cataloguing system that allows for easy search for items
that can import iPhoto's database and metadata without loosing/mangling it
that can store the photo database on an external hard drive if necessary
can allow images to be posted to social media directly, especially Twitter and Instagram
that can allow for a paragraph of two to be stored in "comments" metadata so I can write a prose caption for a photo or group of photos
that can download photos from smartphones and tablets (both iOS and Android), D-SLRs and point-and-shoots, just like iPhoto
that can do some light retouching within the app like iPhoto, or hand-off editing of a photo to an external editor like Photoshop
I have about 60,000 photos in my iPhoto library. Everything from family photos, to photos of work projects, to community events, to civic volunteer work bees. I need to find a way to preserve all these photos and info and be able to do what I do with iPhoto on MacOS Mojave without having to worry about iPhoto breaking. I plan to clean install Mojave if/when I find something that will work.I've been looking at Photoshop Elements, but I'm not sure. I use Adobe Creative Cloud that is paid for by a business office I do part-time work for, but I regard Photoshop CC and Lightroom CC as a convoluted workflow with a lot of unnecessary features and procedures that are too distracting.Are there any Mojave-ready photo cataloguing and minor-retouching apps out there to succeed iPhoto?Thanks in advance.
