I've been using Lightroom for dealing with industrial-size (>1000) batches of photos for the past few years, and have been very happy with it.
To go through your points: - Yes, it will DTRT if you just dump a ton of photos in... which is to say that it will ask, but it will do sensible things like dump them in folders with dates on them, or rename with a custom name and a sequence number.
- As above, it's very flexible about organization, and has the extra level of "Collections" in order to allow you to organize photos independently of your file structure.
- Yup. Solid basic photo tools, including spot removal.
- Will do tagging, keywords, 1-5 stars, pick/reject, etc.
- Has not forgotten where things went.
The Aperture vs. Lightroom debate is a matter of taste. I get the impression that Lightroom is a more linear workflow than Aperture, but that works just fine for how I work.
Lightroom is Love
To go through your points:
- Yes, it will DTRT if you just dump a ton of photos in... which is to say that it will ask, but it will do sensible things like dump them in folders with dates on them, or rename with a custom name and a sequence number.
- As above, it's very flexible about organization, and has the extra level of "Collections" in order to allow you to organize photos independently of your file structure.
- Yup. Solid basic photo tools, including spot removal.
- Will do tagging, keywords, 1-5 stars, pick/reject, etc.
- Has not forgotten where things went.
The Aperture vs. Lightroom debate is a matter of taste. I get the impression that Lightroom is a more linear workflow than Aperture, but that works just fine for how I work.