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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers With Mac Photos App
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Negative, this is a brand new mid-range 2014 mini with 8 gigs of ram. It should be fine!
My cMBP is a mid 2012, purchased in June, and the update has not shown up for me either. So, not sure age has anything to do with it.
Not a developer, but I am part of the public beta.
This, from Google:
Will the Nik Collection be compatible with Apple's new photography application, Photos?
At this time, our engineering team is looking into the possibility of enabling Nik Collection compatibility with Photos. Please check back with us once Photos has been released in 2015 for an update on our compatibility status.
My read? No way it will be ready at launch...but maybe down the road? It remains completely unclear how/if extensions/plugins will be handled by Photos...I remain cautiously optimistic
Will the Nik Collection be compatible with Apple's new photography application, Photos?
At this time, our engineering team is looking into the possibility of enabling Nik Collection compatibility with Photos. Please check back with us once Photos has been released in 2015 for an update on our compatibility status.
My read? No way it will be ready at launch...but maybe down the road? It remains completely unclear how/if extensions/plugins will be handled by Photos...I remain cautiously optimistic
So am I, but some people on the public beta (earlier in this thread) say it's shown up for them.
I'm fine with waiting, but it's kid with a new toy syndrome. I want to play!
three years ago I would have been super excited, but now I know that this app will be so unbelievably buggy and unrefined that it's not going to be usable. It really adds up lately, I have tons of bugs on my iphone and on my macbook, just little things, but it's still super annoying. I notice that I'm getting used to all these little work arounds, it really reminds me of using a Windows PC 10 years ago. It works, but only if know exactly what works and what doesn't work.
Apple's software department really needs to get their sh't together. It seems to me like they're asked to do more than they can deliver.
Apple's software department really needs to get their sh't together. It seems to me like they're asked to do more than they can deliver.
anyone running the new photo app get it to upload the photos to the iCloud? Mine complained about not having enough storage so I upped it but for over a day the progress bar in the Preferences under iCloud syncing hasn't changed and I don't see any network traffic indicating it is uploading. Shows 42,000 photos to upload.
I made a business decision to use Apple 'professional' software and hardware - Apple are discontinuing Aperture.
Photos looks to be a marvellous step forward in OOD at a system level.
without a plan/contingency for a pro user how is Apple any more practical than a belief in unicorns when it comes to planning a business?
...are you as vacuous as Apple appear to be when considering professional Mac users?
Do you understand yet?
When I finally (after many years of loyalty (20+)) stop buying Apple hardware for business I'm pretty sure it will impact how I will spend on domesticated consumer electronics too.
Um, non-destructive means it doesn't destroy the original. Editing a copy of that original (master) is editing a COPY. Like RAW. Or making versions in Aperture (can't do that in Photos either). When I use Photos in iOS I can open a photo, make some crops say, and then send it to an app like Afterlight, edit some more, and it saves a copy in the Photos gallery or whatever it's called. More or less what Aperture and a bunch of other apps and applications can do.
The new part of Photos is that it can send edit info to other devices without passing the photo file itself. Photosmith, eg, does that with XMP to pass changes to LR without having to copy an image back but that's mostly for metadata. This will no doubt be nice for iPhone/iPad users, but it isn't anywhere near what Aperture already does, and Apple isn't making any claims that it will. An iPhoto replacement is a good thing; why make it something it isn't?
I just don't see why people don't get that Apple needs and has created a very very good photo editor that is just like their photo editor on their iOS devices; simple, but with a lot of power. For most users it will be all they need. Why on earth would they dump iPhoto and replace it with a pro-like Aperture? They need something simple, not some feature bloated pro application. Kudos to them. Look at video: they still have a pro and a consumer application. Here, they chose not to.
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Right. So why are they discontinuing Aperture then? That would completely take them out of the pro photography market.
Maybe they don't feel like there is any money in that market compared to whatever else they can resource.
An App Mash-Up
Having downloaded Photos yesterday, I'm just now starting to "fool around" with this new app. On first examination, it looks to me like a mash-up of Picasa and the [old?] iPhoto. Some of the other popular photo apps are likely hinted at within the features of Photos, but since I largely use Photoshop for editing purposes and manually organize my photos, I'm probably missing some obviously "borrowed" features.
Bearing in mind that I have used this app for all of about ten minutes, this is really just how I view it upon first glance. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed any similarities to other popular photo applications on the web or otherwise.
Thanks,
FD
Having downloaded Photos yesterday, I'm just now starting to "fool around" with this new app. On first examination, it looks to me like a mash-up of Picasa and the [old?] iPhoto. Some of the other popular photo apps are likely hinted at within the features of Photos, but since I largely use Photoshop for editing purposes and manually organize my photos, I'm probably missing some obviously "borrowed" features.
Bearing in mind that I have used this app for all of about ten minutes, this is really just how I view it upon first glance. I'm curious if anyone else has noticed any similarities to other popular photo applications on the web or otherwise.
Thanks,
FD
At the time of writing, 10.10.3 is not in the catalogue for the public beta.
Some of the example commands are not suitable for the public beta.
There'll be no such link within MacRumors Forums (it's contrary to rules) and moreover, it's sometimes not appropriate to apply an update in isolation.
App Store will be the appropriate method.
See above some of the example commands are not suitable for the public beta. According to my view of the catalogue, 10.10.3 should not be in your view of the App Store.
If there's a configuration utility for the public beta, please reuse that utility; do not allow App Store to install software that is not intended for the public beta.
I have to simply ask why on earth would you get your blood pressure up and get upset over a developer release of an unfinished software? With the plugins that are coming and extensibility not to mention features most likely reserved until later builds I'm not sure I'm following why so many are tore up at this stage.
How many v1 Betas stayed the same with Apple just in the last eight years? Almost always there's a few surprises. With this being a version 1 it will only go up from here and Apple isn't a company to just think one step ahead although it sure takes them enough time on some things to actually show what their plans truly are.
I'm guessing IF there's no additional features released by Spring that in the fall we will have some features announced that will directly involve this and other iLife apps as that's where the product cycle's have been trending and I see more features being added for both iOS and OS X regarding media THIS year.
Most importantly the timing of everything and including my opinion regarding what's to come would be Apple like to come out with a UXKit that adobe and Pixelmatr can take advantage of and still allow native syncing and etc and I see the timing to be this year as they said Support for Aperture and iPhoto was pretty much ending this year which means you have until around October to safely enjoy these options without worry for compatibility issues and it'll give you time to see what's being planned for OS X 10.11 and the apps they choose (iLife?) to update this year.
Regardless this is directed to all those who are freaking out and forgetting Apple rarely reveals everything before a product is done and unlike most updates this is done out of cycle which means they have WWDC 2015 to announce additional features and even then sometimes things don't get announced until product release.
Same issue. Worked fine first time, then I switch to another library and made that one the master (the first library had referenced pictures that didn't consolidate correctly, as my NAS wasn't connected at the time and I can no longer fix the bad links). The iCloud sync is now stuck 'Updating...' and has been such for several hours (not stating the number of pics at all).
Feel free to do a photo shoot for me! Sounds great other than I don't have an iPhone 6 for Apple Pay. But seriously people need to chill about professionals using whatever device is appropriate for the situation to do the work. As a student I use whatever device is convenient to write papers or read articles for class.
I'm sorry - I tried to explain but you seem to believe that Apple products are 'at worst' an ill chosen fashion accessory.
Question about Photos
I have a question about Photos:
In iPhoto, you could cut and past pictures from one event to another event. You could even drag pictures and you could drop one event on top of another, merging the two events.
I have not found a way to do this in Photos - is it even possible?
Also - I have some 32000 photos in my library - if I would want to put those in iCloud I would need to buy at least 150GB of space... so not happening!
I have a question about Photos:
In iPhoto, you could cut and past pictures from one event to another event. You could even drag pictures and you could drop one event on top of another, merging the two events.
I have not found a way to do this in Photos - is it even possible?
Also - I have some 32000 photos in my library - if I would want to put those in iCloud I would need to buy at least 150GB of space... so not happening!
Outdated documentation (tar, bsdtar, libarchive)
Beta
For any beta tester who would like to feed a documentation bug to Apple: please see today's comment against a 2010 commit to open source (Be consistent and complete and document all available options.).
Public beta
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Beta
For any beta tester who would like to feed a documentation bug to Apple: please see today's comment against a 2010 commit to open source (Be consistent and complete and document all available options.).
Public beta
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"… Apple is seeding a version of Photos to registered developers starting today, with a public beta planned for the near future. …"
After growing up with windows and taking computer science in college using nothing but windows I tend to believe that with Microsoft actually. They're cheaper for a reason. I can't even begin to go into how much of my life I spent troubleshooting and fixing issues with other people's computers or my own wether it was a bad driver to faulty (and cheap parts) to registry issues to viruses to hard crashes bringing the entire system down.
While no hardware and OS is perfect from my personal experience Microsoft and their hardware makers were complacent and always worried about the shareholders versus customer experience and product value and their own bottom line despite during that time being one of the biggest companies on earth.
My hatred for Microsoft isn't from some fanboy war as I never even touch apple until the last five years. My hatred grew from the number of viruses and malware etc that even my parents would get on a yearly basis up to the number of hard crashes while in college to the number of hardware faults I've personally experienced with dell and gateway and even third party hardware like munchkin when I built my own version of an Alienware computer and made it better for a grand less than what they sold it for.
I have examples from programming up to media management and even performance regarding how well apple has served me not to mention reliability. There's a reason professional reviews say Mac's are the best windows computer as u get the best of both worlds but since windows 8.1 I've pretty much stopped using windows except for Microsoft office and only use that due to about five years of VBA macros I've made and the fact some business apps are still windows only as the stigma that windows is better and easier and more reliable still exists within some companies despite the annual sales trends and multitude of articles pointing to the contrary.
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I've been paying for 200GB since September and IMO it's pretty cheap (especially since no one else such as Dropbox primarily had anything that could beat them when apple announced the price drop) however I can see your point.
As far as moving from within an album I tried that last night and couldn't myself but u can move a folder to another folder.
Not sure but maybe something that gets added in the final release otherwise it's gonna be a pain if we can't truly manage from within certain views.
I also have a love hate relationship going on with how deleting an album or folder doesn't delete the media. On one hand that's perfect but on the other it's a pain. I haven't tried deleting specific images within a folder yet however deleting an entire folder will not delete images inside as they are simply referenced like a database (which is what a photos app typically is).
Out of curiosity have you tried to delete a photo within a folder? I ask because I won't be able to try until late tonight
At launch, Pixelmator for iPad will already be compatible with a Photos app workflow.
You can upload your photos to your iPhone from a wifi enabled SLR then sort them in Photos for iPhone, favouriting some along the way. On your iMac, you can make adjustments such as exposure, contrast, healing.
If you encounter a photo that requires a little more TLC, you can pick up your iPad, open Pixelmator and using a Wacom Bluetooth stylus, you can work on the photo. When you go back to your Mac, the photo will have the Pixelmator adjustments applied.
That's just one example. You have hundreds of photo apps for iOS that are already compatible with Photos library on iOS which in turns makes them compatible with the Photos library for OS X which is the same. VSCO and Litely are excellent. Big names like NIK would have to be suicidal to not create a Photos extension.
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