Fed Up W Photos

These are excellent questions, so thank you. I have a DSLR but I find myself using it less and less and just doing more with the iPhone. Moreover, as an artist I am using my own photos less and less and collecting photos from all kinds of sites and editing and working with them to create new images. I stopped adding any photos (except ones on my iPhone roll) to iPhoto a few years ago because they so often got caught in the s-l-o-w Photos UI, which beachballs into force quit every other time I open it. (And just trying to get an accurate count of photos right now, it is beachballing again.) I think it's about 400,000, but I would guess 1/4 of these are duplicates.

I am trying to keep pics low in size and quality — and as far as price goes, I'm far from liquid but I can rustle up some solid for the right software.

thanks again for your questions — they are better than many people's answers.

This is such great information — as well as being a range, it's also not too much nor too little. Just right, as Goldilocks famously said. The only one I really knew about is Lightroom, but I can't afford the monthly chunk for the suite and don't need all the functionality, so I will explore these others pronto.

I can't thank you enough!