So with my new M4 Mini I’m looking to deal with all my photos. So I have about 10,567 questions. First, I see that Photomator can “see” my entire Photos library. Or it can catalog my images from my local disk. But what draws me to Photomator is it’s relatively inexpensive and seems to have far better editing tools than Photos. So I am trying to figure out a strategy. Now nowhere to I read about Photomator & iCloud. Except that I CAN dump all my photos on the iCloud drive and import them from there to my Photomator library. OR I could drop all my uncataloged images into Photos which I think it send them all to iCloud. I DO read that when imported into Photomator it will preserve any folder structure I already have. Will Photos do the same? This is a bit important because I have all my RAW files very neatly done in a folder structure… I want to preserve that structure.
So am I correct in thinking Photomator can create a catalog with images left on my drive or Photos which will I think send them all to iCloud. Yeah, I already upped my iCloud space to 200G which is way more than enough (got about 50G+ of images). Once I know they are all in iCloud I can delete them from my active drive, no? Oh, I have all of those images on my cMP (boot drive is SSD RAID on a PCIe holder) and in a single HDD clone PLUS on a flash drive I have.
So what might be my best strategy there? Yes I DO want access to all these images on my iPad Pro and even my iPhone. IF Photos does support keeping a folder structure for images imported to it, it might seem best to import them all in Photos and henceforth pretty much only use Photomator both as a catalog and editing app.
Opinions please!