Bridge or iPhoto

[graffitisurf]

I am pretty new to digital photography and have been happily working in Photoshop Elements on the PC. I love the Organiser.My PC is now dead and I have converted to Mac. I bought PSE 8 for Mac and disaster......no Organiser....Bridge instead.
Before I get involved in bringing across thousands of photos could the forum offer some advice as to whether they think I should go with iPhoto or Bridge to keep everything organised.They both seem to have their good points and their bad.For editing I'm quite happy with PSE at this stage.
Any suggested workflows would also be very much appreciated.

[FormElement]

Well, if you are into this, and expect to take a bucketload of photos then you will probably upgrade your software in the near enough future. iPhoto is really slick, convenient and robust, but it will be inconvenient to break away from when you want to upgrade to something else. I know that from personal experience. I used it very happily until I got my DSLR, then I soon enough realized where it's limits are (after all it is still basically free consumer software). Maintaining good file and metadata structure is critical anyhow, and no software can really save you from that. I would use Bridge for now, and turn on Time Machine for brainless and painless backup.

[acedrew]

Consider the upgrade to lightroom or aperture for Library Management.
I LOVE Lightroom!!

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