![]() ![]() I’ve used variations of this tool for many years,” he writes on the Phoshare project homepage. So it’s important to me that any work I invest into my photo collection (edits, organization, annotations, tagging) is not tied up in one application. And sometimes I feel like using Adobe Bridge. I also like Picasa from Google, for its speed and easy management of online albums (check out the “Sync to Web” feature), and it’s ability to automatically discover images, even if stored elsewhere on your network. “I like managing and editing my photos with iPhoto, but I don’t like having my work kept hostage inside iPhoto. He wanted to make a tool that could sync the photos to a different location to be used in other photo tools as well like Google Picasa or with home theatre boxes that could only read pictures from a file tree. ![]() Tilman says he likes managing his photos in iPhoto, but doesn’t like the fact that iPhoto effectively holds his photo library prisoner in its application-managed bundle file. I found a great tool to do this called Phoshare, created by Google! Tilman Sporkert, who works for Google in San Francisco, created the tool in his “20% time” - the time Google employees get to pursue projects of interest to them and the community. I’ve now figured out how to do it! Full details after the jump. Although some people might say that backing up the full resolution photos is important to them, to me, the most important thing is making sure those frozen memories don’t get lost - and if I downscale them to fit within 1920x1920px, then I still have a high definition, albeit not camera-resolution, version of the photo. I like Dropbox (my referral link included in that link) because it works so quietly and reliably in the background, but you could use any online backup service. The ‘ideal’ solution I had in mind was to do Time Machine backups constantly to my Time Capsule, as well as a fallback backup of downscaled resolution photos to an online backup location. Simply dropping the iPhoto library into an online backup program like Carbonite or Mozy isn’t viable, because uploading 200GB of data takes so long that it basically never completes - or the backup system gets so far behind that you’d be losing a lot of new photos if your house burned down. (Or, if my house was burgled and both the MacBook Pro and Time Capsule were stolen - which actually happened to a family member of mine.) However, one problem I’ve been seeking an answer to for years now is how to backup my photos off-site, in case a house fire takes out both my MacBook Pro and my Time Capsule backup. Obviously, at that price, it’s a ludicrously overpriced option at $3.50/GB compared to smaller, cheaper SSDs, typically around $2.50/GB, or mechanical hard drives at about $0.14/GB, but I wanted to have a boot drive on which I could have my full iPhoto library so I could work with pictures much more quickly (and boy, does it make a big difference.) It’s so big that it convinced me to part with $1800 (Australian) to get the 512GB SSD Apple is making an option with the latest MacBook Pros. Mine is currently sitting at 66,431 images and is 220GB on disk. If, like me, you took Steve Jobs at his word when he said iPhoto 6 onwards could support up to 250,000 images, and you’ve been piling them in ever since, you’ve probably got a very large iPhoto library. ![]()
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