David Appleyard’s article is actually called “The Ultimate Mac Setup for Photographers (50 Apps)”
He covers applications for various areas of photography: organizing, post-processing, geo-tagging, panoramas, HDR images, uploading/sharing images, and more.
Some examples:
Organizing & Editing Photos
* iPhoto – The basic photo program shipped with OS X, iPhoto packs a wide range of features and integrates brilliantly with all the other software on your Mac.
* Adobe Photoshop Lightroom – A professional photo organization tool, complete with powerful editing features. You can quickly import, process, manage, and showcase your images — from one shot to an entire shoot.
Post Processing
* Adobe Photoshop – The de-facto photo editing application, Photoshop has been an industry leader for many years. It’s incredibly powerful, but comes at a price.
* Pixelmator – An incredibly fast photo editing tool for OS X, which uses various speed-enhancing features of Leopard. Definitely worth taking a look at.
Panoramas & Stitching
* Panorama Tools – A page crammed with technical information seems to suggest that this is a very proficient set of tools for stitching and viewing panoramas. Also available as a Photoshop plugin.
* Double Take – A very simple, user-friendly interface make this a good choice for when you can’t get far enough away to fit everything in the viewfinder.
Backup & Recovery
* CameraSalvage – Retrieve your photos from corrupt or formatted flash cards or other digital camera media. It can recover data from digital camera media cards, hard drives, CD-ROM, external devices, Apple iPods, and much more.
* Salvage – Salvage is a tool for recovering digital camera pictures from corrupt removable media.
Of course, you can find lots more complete with links at the original story here.
Unfortunately the site doesn’t have comments, so we don’t get any feed back, but do you know of any programs that they missed?
