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Picturelife + Lightroom works pretty well for me. Lightroom lets me do all the adjustments and metadata correction locally (something that only has to be done

by Veratyr 12y ago

Picturelife + Lightroom works pretty well for me. Lightroom lets me do all the adjustments and metadata correction locally (something that only has to be done once anyway) and Picturelife gives me the cloud storage and browsing/sharing capabilities I need. It's not one application but it is a workable solution. As for webapps being 'doomed', there's a pretty large spectrum between 'horrid blurry version' and 'full-resolution version'. Considering that my photos are generally ~4K in resolution and I don't own a monitor that can display them in full resolution, a 1080p scaled version is fine and loads entirely fast enough, even on my terrible ~8Mbps ADSL connection. Sure it's not as great as flipping through an SSD locally but I think it's definitely acceptable and 'a reasonable way'. I think you're just setting your standards too high. Most of the world doesn't even own an SSD, let alone demand that speed in every application they use. Most users are entirely happy just flipping through albums on Facebook.

veidr 12y ago
You are right to some extent, but I think the reason I have these expectations is not that I'm some kind of computing perfectionist, it's simply that all my machines have had SSDs and high-res monitors for a while now. Once you get used to that (which doesn't take long at all) the old, painfully slow ways no longer seem 'reasonable'. Right now, my equipment may be fairly high-end, but we are fast approaching the day when virtually all computers have fast storage and 4K+ displays. In 1992, I thought it was reasonable to dial a modem, log onto the Interzone BBS, and have conversations like this one at 9600 baud in Zterm on a 512x342 pixel screen. Few people would accept that today, though. Having said that, I do agree that Dropbox + Lightroom + Picturelife is about as good as managing photos gets today. (I canceled my own Picturelife subscription, though, because using it was too slow.)

by Veratyr 12y ago

veidr 12y ago

You are right to some extent, but I think the reason I have these expectations is not that I'm some kind of computing perfectionist, it's simply that all my machines have had SSDs and high-res monitors for a while now. Once you get used to that (which doesn't take long at all) the old, painfully slow ways no longer seem 'reasonable'. Right now, my equipment may be fairly high-end, but we are fast approaching the day when virtually all computers have fast storage and 4K+ displays. In 1992, I thought it was reasonable to dial a modem, log onto the Interzone BBS, and have conversations like this one at 9600 baud in Zterm on a 512x342 pixel screen. Few people would accept that today, though. Having said that, I do agree that Dropbox + Lightroom + Picturelife is about as good as managing photos gets today. (I canceled my own Picturelife subscription, though, because using it was too slow.)