[DavidTrap (David)]

I was using Aperture, but have been converted to Lightroom. I tried to persist with Aperture, but Lightroom has so many cool features. The pro who showed me how to use it says he does 90% of his image editing in Lightroom alone, and only drags 10% of images into PS.

For a while, I was keeping my library on an external HDD and plugging it into which ever computer I wanted to work on, e.g. laptop while away from home or desktop at home. That seemed to work fine, but you do have the risk of losing the external drive and losing all your photos. It's slower than an internal drive, but the drive I was using had Firewire 800, so not too bad. I regularly backed up the library to my NAS.

Now that I'm upgrading to a 36MP camera, I've had to upgrade my laptop to cope. It is significantly more powerful than my desktop, so I'll be doing all my editing on the laptop. To keep the libraries at a manageable size, I'll probably start a new one each year. I'm also looking at a Synology NAS for backup of everything.

I'm interested to hear if there are any conduits to get Lightroom talking to iTunes, because I would also like to have things easily shifted across to an iPad and Apple TV for sharing with family and friends. Thus far, I've been doing an export into Aperture or iPhoto which feeds across to iTunes for distribution to the Apple devices.

DT

PS. My responding to this thread doesn't imply I consider myself a Pro!!!!!