HELP, Organizing of mass photos

[Rchawks]

What apps have you used for the Mac to quickly identify and organize groups of photos quickly at a reasonable cost. It would help if it compared photos regardless of file name. I should add I'm trying to do a particular project with hundreds of before and after shots for a slideshow presentation and I'm overwhelmed with the workload. There is no set timeframe but I'm sure there's a faster method than the way I'm doing it.

 

[Phantomrain.org]

What apps have you used for the Mac to quickly identify and organize groups of photos quickly at a reasonable cost. It would help if it compared photos regardless of file name. I should add I'm trying to do a particular project with hundreds of before and after shots for a slideshow presentation and I'm overwhelmed with the workload. There is no set timeframe but I'm sure there's a faster method than the way I'm doing it.

I think i would go with Lightroom , and the reason why is that it has a Before and After Hot key built in to it and can Handle photos well and save them in groups quickly.

When you hit the Y key is splits the screen and shows you the Before and After of the Picture and makes the slide show although I have never used it. My shot at making a silloute land scape.

 

[tlswift58]

What apps have you used for the Mac to quickly identify and organize groups of photos quickly at a reasonable cost. It would help if it compared photos regardless of file name. I should add I'm trying to do a particular project with hundreds of before and after shots for a slideshow presentation and I'm overwhelmed with the workload. There is no set timeframe but I'm sure there's a faster method than the way I'm doing it.

Can you be more specific on "before and after?" Is that before processing and straight from drone and after processing you are looking for? If so, the @Phantomrain.org has a good suggestion.

I use Lightroom as well and I import the files, then save to a separate folder in same directory as the originals - typically Lightroom names it Export, but you can name it anything you want. I create my new folders with date of pictures / name of location before moving my files from the SD cards to my PC. Since I shoot both drone and DSLR, I move the main folder - for my Nikon it's NCD100 or something like that and so it's a subdirectory under the date / name folder. If I want to keep the photo's separate, again in Lightroom I just change the "save to folder" name.

There are some programs that do allow you to find and catalog files, but I've never used one - sorry. There are some "photo sticks" I've seen advertised that also seem to catalog the photo's - probably more so by date or naming convention, but again - don't use them.

 

[MavicAir2Marc]

You could try tags or keywords then search the tags

 

[Rchawks]

Can you be more specific on "before and after?" Is that before processing and straight from drone and after processing you are looking for? If so, the @Phantomrain.org has a good suggestion.

I use Lightroom as well and I import the files, then save to a separate folder in same directory as the originals - typically Lightroom names it Export, but you can name it anything you want. I create my new folders with date of pictures / name of location before moving my files from the SD cards to my PC. Since I shoot both drone and DSLR, I move the main folder - for my Nikon it's NCD100 or something like that and so it's a subdirectory under the date / name folder. If I want to keep the photo's separate, again in Lightroom I just change the "save to folder" name.

There are some programs that do allow you to find and catalog files, but I've never used one - sorry. There are some "photo sticks" I've seen advertised that also seem to catalog the photo's - probably more so by date or naming convention, but again - don't use them.

Didn't see your comments until now. The before and after refers to AP shots from a location taken 15 yrs ago and is being compared to AP of the same area today. I will look into using your method for solving this issue, Thank you for your suggestions.