10 Pieces Of MAC Software To Help A Wedding Photographer

Being a full time wedding photographer, I rely heavily on my computer and software. Below are 10 Mac applications that make the job easier.

Adobe Photoshop

What can be said about this product that hasn't already been said. It's the industry standard, and has more features than you could imagine or use.

Adobe Lightroom

Image management software that is perfect when handling lots of images. Useful for re-touching. A bit slow at times, but saves a massive amount of time in the long run.

Transmit

A neat little FTP programme, that comes with a reasonable price tag and performs well and looks kinda cool too!

ChronoSync

Another beautifully engineered piece of software, this programme allows you to keep your drives or folders synchronised with each other. I use it to keep my off site backup hard-disks synchronised with my desktop.

Bento

Made by the same folks who develop filemaker, it's easy to use, works flawlessly and even syncs with your iphone. Great as a booking database, to record contacts or pretty much anything.

PhotoJunction

Free software from album company Queensbury, I use this software to layout my traditional albums. There are a lot of pre-loaded templates for a range of album manufacturers. It's not a perfect piece of software, but all in all its pretty decent.

Cinch

Cinch is a tiny application that makes your Mac do an old Windows 7 trick. When you drag a window to the left or right of the screen it automatically resizes to be half the screen size. Its so simple, but now that I've got used to it, it's a must have. It makes comparing things easy - and theres also a handy maximise function.

1Password

1Password stores all this information securely and can automatically fill the information on websites. No more forgetting all the different passwords you have for each website! Nicely made software too.

Dropsend

Great for emailing large files, though the downside is it's a subscription service. Works perfectly though.

Spotify

Excellent way to listen to music for (kinda) free. Not available everywhere, but if you can you should. Quality is surprisingly good - its what accompanies my album creation!

Mozy

Perhaps more of a web service than a piece of software, but Mozy is a client which backs up everything on your computer to a remote location. You pay per Gb, I use it to back up my webserver every day. It works great - most of the UK's broadband is too slow for backing up your desktop - but some day!