BenRiceMHaving Lots of Photos is a F**king Nightmare
https://www.benricemccarthy.com/having-lots-of-photos-is-a-f-king-nightmare/
Alex Pardoe@BenRiceM Maybe a question for a follow up blog post but how are you dealing with bringing across edits and metadata updates (like time changes and geotagging)?
@digitalpardoe ignoring metadata, I’ve never been one for tagging. I had some albums for events that it’ll be annoying but too difficult to replicate.
As for edits, I was exporting batches of originals, than filtering the same batch by whether images had edits, and exporting JPEGs of those, and adding both to Photos
@BenRiceM Fair enough, seems like the most efficient way of doing it.
I’ve been looking and doing it and wondered if there any tools out there that allow you to use the JPEG export and overlay it with the original photo using the various Photos “in place editing” APIs to make things a bit neater.
It seems like something fairly useful but niche enough I’ve not found anything.
@digitalpardoe it would be possible to build an app that adds the processed image as an edit, but if that meant going through each photo one-by-one, that sounds excruciating 😂
@BenRiceM 😄 Good point, it definitely need to be scripted up from a folder of originals and a folder of edits that’s for sure.
I did come across this a while ago but never got around to testing it: https://cyme.io/avalanche-photo-conversion/.
It makes a lot of claims about preserving edits in a native way.
@BenRiceM At this point I’m think I’m just holding off in the naive hope that maybe one day Aperture will come back.
@digitalpardoe you and me both 🥲