So you are diligent about backups. You have an external hard drive, and maybe you even backup your digital photos to CD or DVD, but where do you keep them? If the answer is in your house, you are not really fully backed up. Sure, you are ready for the inevitable hard drive crash, but what about fire or burglary?

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tags: amazon | backup | cloud | lightroom | photos | s3

When Apple released Aperture they changed the way photographers thought about workflow, and I was an early adopter and advocate of the program. However, today I find myself using Adobe Lightroom and needing to transfer another 7,000 images out of Aperture. Why did I make the switch? Read on and I will try to explain the rationale behind my change of heart.

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tags: aperture | lightroom | mac | post-processing | workflow

Reading Michael Clark’s recent post on Inside Lightroom, I got to thinking about the current jpeg workflow that I developed after switching from Aperture to Lightroom and I just realized an extra benefit that I hadn’t realized when I developed the steps.

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tags: iphoto | jpeg | lightroom | mac | post-processing | workflow