Cocktail 7 ($19.00) - General purpose maintenance and optimization utility for OS X. MailHub ($19.00) - Powerful Mail.app enhancer. Mail Designer ($34.99) - Create beautiful email stationery templates. Labels & Addresses ($49.99) - Powerful label printing tool. iStopMotion 3 ($49.99) - Stop-motion animation tool for Mac, suitable for amateurs or professionals. Paragon 2-in-1 Bundle ($29.95) - Connect NTFS-formatted Windows drives to your Mac & HFS-formatted Mac drives to Windows PCs.

ExpanDrive 3 ($39.95) - Connect to and work with FTP, SFTP, Google Drive, and Dropbox as if they were local volumes. BackBlaze (6-months) ($30.00) - Cloud backup solution for Mac users. Anonymizer (6-months) ($49.99) - A VPN service for ensuring anonymity online. I only use Photos as a place to store edited images that I want to put on my iPhone or iPad to show off or share.The full bundle includes (retail value in parenthesis): I do maintain a few organized folders containing finished jpegs on my iMac’s desktop for those times that I’ll need to share them via Zoom, upload to a shared cloud drive, or send out via email. Since I process my photos with more than one application (Lightroom, Photoshop, DXO Photolab, and occasionally the Topaz suite of tools), and need to access them from a variety of different applications (everything from document creation to online posting to online sharing), storing them in Finder folders makes them accessible no matter what I’m doing. (Photos aren’t stored in Lightroom managing a photo library with Lightroom is roughly equivalent to indexing a repository of files with Devonthink.)

I manage my photo library with Adobe Lightroom. The platform I use for my photography website offers unlimited storage of full-res files, whether they’re publicly-facing or not, so I store a copy of my most treasured images there as well, just in case.

I back those folders up to the cloud using Backblaze. I’m an avid photographer who only shoots raw (even on my phone), so my library is terabytes huge. All of my photos, including those I’ve taken with my iPhone, are stored on an external hard drive in a well-organized hierarchy of Finder folders.

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