(Sorry iTunes, free downloads aren’t eligible.) By offering an easy-to-use way to view and organize digital photos, it’s become the shoe box of the digital-photo generation-for Mac users at least. But two significant criticisms of iPhoto are frequently heard: poor performance with large photo Libraries, and a lack of easy-to-use support for multiple Libraries (the latter perhaps a necessity due to the former).īrian Webster’s iPhoto Library Manager 3.2.3 ( $20) offers solutions to both issues. By letting you split your photos into multiple iPhoto Libraries, you’ll see better performance. (To be fair to iPhoto, recent versions let you hold down the Option key at launch to choose a Library or create a new one, but iPhoto Library Manager is even easier to use and offers far more functionality…read on.) And by making it easy to work with those Libraries, it will make you actually want to use multiple Libraries. IPhoto Library Manager also lets you move photos between Libraries. For example, if you want to move an album or a folder of albums from one Library to another, choose the source album on the left-so that its albums and folders are displayed-and then drag the desired album(s) or folder(s) from that Library to the desired Library. iPhoto Library Manager will switch iPhoto to the destination Library and then import the chosen album(s) or folder(s). (If you copy a Smart album from one Library to another, iPhoto Library Manager will create a standard album in the destination Library containing the photos present in the Smart album at the time of the copy.) What’s more, your albums maintain their organization, and your imported photos even retain their metadata-names, dates, ratings, and comments. This ability to move albums and folders between Libraries means that you can use iPhoto Library Manager to manually merge multiple Libraries, or just parts of multiple Libraries, into a single Library or to split an existing Library into two smaller Libraries. (To accomplish the latter, you would create a new Library, transfer albums or folders to it, and then delete those albums or folders from the original Library.
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