If you're interested in a very complete and powerful photo editing tool that you don't have to "rent", take a look at Affinity Photo. All their products are currently $24.95 USD (half price) with a 90 day extended trial period, to help creatives during the pandemic. https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/ https://affinity.serif.com/en-us/photo/

Highly recommended!

I purchased a Mac Mini with M1 and so far it is all it has been professed to be. I have the luxury of continuing to use my 2016 MacBook Pro as well, so I've been only installing software that is M1 native or a Universal binary. Everything is incredibly fast, both to launch or in terms of rendering videos, etc.

Hi JDM,

Yes, you have some real exposure (no pun intended) with your current setup.

Time Machine by default does not back up external drives. It appears from your write up that you have two (2) WD 2TB external drives. One you use for backup to Time Machine, the other to hold your image files?

Most likely, your Lightroom catalog is on your MacBook and getting backed up to the external drive you are using with Time Machine. If you've truly forced it over onto the external drive, that's fine. In that case, I'd look into insuring that the automatic backups of LR catalog are done to your MacBook.

Your big exposure is that all your images (and maybe LR catalog) are on an external device that could fail, be lost, damaged, etc and if so - everything is gone in terms of your photos. The worst case scenario for most of us!

Amazon Prime does allow you "unlimited" storage of photos, if your format meets requirements - see: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GGU2SU8Y22DZYRMQ Note that videos are not unlimited. You'll need to at minimum get the Amazon Photos app for your Mac and set it up to backup your external drive. https://www.amazon.com/b/?_encoding=UTF8&%2AVersion%2A=1&%2Aentries%2A=0&node=16409408011

Disclaimer: This is not something I currently do, so I can't guarantee results (but seems like a good no cost option to investigate based on what you wrote). I used to use Amazon Drive with a tool called GoodSync to put my images in the cloud as one of my backups, but Amazon changed things such that the tool stopped working so I went another direction...

Hope this helps!

Always enjoy seeing your work pop up in here @infiniteiso - thanks for sharing!

Are these cards you are making in very small batches, i.e. just a few at a time? If not, your best bang for the buck may be to just use Vistaprint... they are always running a special on business cards.

Don't forget to remove the drive(s) from TM before you format and use them with CCC.

I'm assuming from all the replies that you are using Windows. If Mac is an option for you, take a look at Records - just $14.99 (I got mine as part of a "bundle"). Probably do just want you need with minimal fuss.

https://records.team/

I agree

Agree - a great shot - very flattering and intriguing at the same time!

I use both. Time Machine is free and works well. You can't have too many backups in too many places.

Wasn't sure this was appropriate elsewhere...

PDFexpert is a tool that would handle that (and much more) if you're Mac based. https://pdfexpert.com/

$80 one time license covers 3 Macs

1Password syncs seamlessly with iPad and iPhone. I don't have a Kindle Fire (which is what I assume you mean; essentially an android tablet), and while that is not directly supported by 1Password my understanding from a quick search is you can something called a "side load" from google play store to implement 1Password functionality.

I was a RoboForm user prior to 1Password (which came about as RoboForm didn't run on Mac); I have used 1P for many years now and it's rock solid. What I really like is you can literally store any sensitive information in there you may need to reference in odd places and can retrieve on your mobile. Credit cards, passport info, family SSN's, etc. I also track all my software licenses, which is quite handy at times.

Michael

With the great texture of the rocks in shot #1, I'm thinking it might look fantastic in B&W

Really nice shoot. I'd suggest perhaps removing in post the sheen on last shot on her cheek, upper lip and especially her chin