I’m not going to list all the problems with Apple’s iPhotos for OS X. I’ll just say that it’s clunky, slow, the library bloats as fast as a mob informer that’s been dumped in the Hudson, Photo Stream doesn’t work reliably and – every frikkin time I switch back to the app – it flips to the “Last Import” section in the source list. So I set out to find an alternative. This article will tell you all about my final choice – called Pixa – and a little bit about the alternatives.

I wanted a Mac app which would let me organize all the JPGs that come from my iPhone and iPad, make them into albums and generally wrangle them. It should work with Dropbox, Photostream and any other local folders and – this is important – it should reference the existing folders, not suck all my pictures into a big internal database.

Lightroom actually does all of this, but I use it for RAW files and JPGs shot with my actual camera. I don’t want to clutter it with all the screenshots and other crap that ends up in my Photo Stream.

After a little research, I came up with this list.

I dont like iphoto as it copies two copies in my hard disk and doesn't even add information(description,keywords) to the original image file.Is there any other.
May 30, 2011 On iPhoto 11 and later: Select one of the affected photos in the iPhoto Window and go File -> Reveal in Finder -> Original. A Finder window will pop open with the file already selected. You can set Photoshop (or any image editor) as an external editor in iPhoto.

At least the backup feature 'missing' in iPhoto are available for the price of.Mac or probably other cheaper backup software for the mac (because, as we know, it's so hard to move an iPhoto library to a disk for backup).

Picasa $Free
Dropbox $Free or paid
Lyn $20
Pixa $30
Everpix $Free or $5 per month

Picasa

Picasa is Google’s free photo app, and it comes with a web component. It does everything, although that’s it’s biggest problem. If you ever used open-source, cross platform software you’ll know about settings. There are settings everywhere, and none of them are particularly easy to find. It’s like somebody started off with a simple image browsing app and kept adding features. And adding features.

Picasa is, well, from Google, which means it does a lot, but lacks polish.

The good news is that Picasa can do pretty much anything, from facial recognition and tagging to GPS tagging to web publishing. It even automatically scans your entire Mac to find photos, and leaves those photos where they are. In short, it’s pretty good. It’s also big and slow, and likes to keep my hard drives ticking away the whole time.

For some, Picasa is great. But not for me.

Dropbox

I thought that Dropbox Albums would be the perfect answer, and it might well be. Albums – available for the desktop browser and for Android – shoes you all of the photos you have on your Dropbox, and lets you sort them into albums. This is just like iTunes for pictures, only in a good way. You photos remain where they are, and the albums are like “playlists.” You can share these Albums (or not) and even if you move the original photos around, the Albums remain intact.

You can see where I’m going. Combine this with Dropbox’s Camera Uploads, which slurp pictures in from your iOS devices, and an auto-filing app like the amazing Hazel and you can access your albums from wherever you like, all while keeping them safely filed in folders (folders are the plain-text file equivalent of… Well, of folders – they work anywhere, and are future-proof).

Another great advantage of Albums is that you can view all of your Dropbox photos in the browser, through a slick interface that feels almost native. This means I can browse gigabytes of pictures from my space-constrained MacBook Air.

The problem? No album support for iOS. I can organize and curate all I like, but I can’t view the albums on my iPad. Not even through the browser (tapping doesn’t translate to a click on the Albums page, even when I use iCab pretending to be desktop Safari). When Albums comes to iOS (as it will, eventually) then this might change.

Lyn

Lyn is a “lightweight and fast image browser and viewer for Mac OS X designed for Photographers, Graphic Artists and Web Designers.” It is also the most iPhoto-like app on my shortlist, and works great with OS X.

Over on the left is a sidebar with access to your hard drive, plus all the libraries available to the OS X image browser. That’s right – Lyn has direct access to your iPhoto, Lightroom and Aperture libraries, including their albums and even the Faces.

Lyn also shows an embarrassment of EXIF data (and lets you edit metadata), shows your pictures on a map, offers a film strip view, browses the photos on connected iOS devices and lets you upload to Facebook, Dropbox, 500px, Flickr, Picasa and SmugMug. You can even edit photos (yes, RAW photos to, although it looks like you’re only editing the JPG preview).

The app has a few oddities. Because it is so tight with OS X, it uses some OS X features that you might not want. For example, hitting the spacebar shows the photo in QuickLook, not in the in-app viewer (click or double-click to do this, depending on how your preferences are set).

Lyn, then, is pretty amazing, and I’m planning to pay the $20 for the license when the trial expires. It’s certainly nicer to use than iPhoto. The problem? No albums. One of my main requirements was to be able to make albums in the app, grouping pictures into collections.

So, while I’m keeping it around as a general utility, Lyn won’t be my full-time photos app. But if you organize your pictures manually into folders, then you should totally check it out. Just give it a little time – it’s easy to dismiss as it’s pretty plain looking.

Everpix

Everpix is an online-only solution for your photos, and if you don’t need to do any organizing then it’s great. I use it daily as a browser and archive.

Everpix slurps up photos from everywhere you publish them: You iOS camera roll, any folder on your hard drive, Flickr, Picasa, Aperture, Lightroom, iPhoto, Instagram, Facebook; even Gmail and your iMessages. It then processes them and presents them to you in the iOS app (or on the web) as Moments. “Moments” pretty much means “days.” You can also view “Highlights,” which are your best pictures, as determined by clever (and surprisingly good) algorithms.

What I like best about Everpix is that I have access to all my photos, always. The cache in the iOS apps keeps all thumbnails, and up to 2GB of photos stored locally, and when you have a connection the browsing is fast. You can also share images via “Photo Mail” and even browse by image type (landscapes, people, buildings, food and so on) thanks to those clever algorithms.

The other thing I like best is that I never see duplicates. Somehow Everpix ingests many dupes from my various sources, and yet only shows me one of each. I only got dupes one time, and that was – I think – thanks to geotagging some pictures on my iPad. The tagging app changed the file name and re-saved them, and the originals had been uploaded a few days before.

What I like best about Everpix is that I have access to all my photos, always.

Everpix has some disadvantages: Browsing is by date only (although you can browse each source separately, and if you have synced a folder with subfolders, those can be browsed directly), and deleting images is a multi-click affair, done in the browser only, with no bulk options. You’ll see a lot of detritus in your stream if you save a lot of pictures to your iPhohe’s camera roll.

Finally, Everpix can be used in conjunction with any of these other apps here, bith as neat backup and always-on browsable archive.

Pixa

At first glance, Pixa looks like an app for graphic and web designer to organize their images, and it will do just that, and do it well: you can browse by image color, use a picker to click and extract the exact RGB (or other) color codes, and you can quickly export your pictures to many formats.

But it also makes a great photo app. Here’s why:

Import

You can get Photos into Pixa in a few ways. You can add them as a live folder (just drag to the Live Folder section of the sidebar), which will ref

Photo Program For Mac Other Than Iphoto