All the New Features in Apple's Photos App in macOS High Sierra

[ep2002]

Truth be told, I spent months originally organizing albums. I have the some of the same photos in multiple albums. With tons of different categories.

At first, I really liked it and was proud, but then it became a chore. I grew tired of having to organize every time I imported.

Now I just dump them and don't organize them. I'm sure once my wife and I have kids I will, but now I just let them go.

Just my two cents.

It’s funny that you mentioned this as a solution just to “dump” the photos and not organize them. This is kinda what’s happening right now, just because I haven’t put the time in to organize.
It’s been a learning curve for sure moving away from Aperture

 

[rhett7660]

Can anyone confirm if a photo is hidden, it is actually hidden until you unhide that folder?

 

[TonyC28]

Maybe my mid-2011 iMac is starting to show its age, but High Sierra has pretty much killed Photos on my machine. It is terrrrrribly slow. Clicks take 10 or more seconds to register. Exporting edited RAW files now compresses them down to less than 100 KB as a JPG. Maybe I need to do a clean install or something but this is really disappointing.

 

[rhett7660]

Maybe my mid-2011 iMac is starting to show its age, but High Sierra has pretty much killed Photos on my machine. It is terrrrrribly slow. Clicks take 10 or more seconds to register. Exporting edited RAW files now compresses them down to less than 100 KB as a JPG. Maybe I need to do a clean install or something but this is really disappointing.

Hmmm. I am using it on my 2011 MBP and haven't seen this. Are your photos stored anywhere outside of the default location? Is it connected to a USB drive?

 

[MacOG728893]

It’s funny that you mentioned this as a solution just to “dump” the photos and not organize them. This is kinda what’s happening right now, just because I haven’t put the time in to organize.
It’s been a learning curve for sure moving away from Aperture

It's simply too much time. As long as the photos are on my computer and are backed up, I'm now satisfied.

 

[TonyC28]

Hmmm. I am using it on my 2011 MBP and haven't seen this. Are your photos stored anywhere outside of the default location? Is it connected to a USB drive?

The pics I’ve been working on are stored locally. A restart helped it temporarily but it’s back to being sluggish.

 

[ColG]

Nothing saves back to Photos from Edit In as best I can see. Have tried - Luminar, Topaz Adjust and Affinity Photo. I think we have been given duff information - i cannot find this save functionality mentioned on the Apple web site. It does work when using a third party app as a plugin but that has huge restrictions and was available in the the last release anyway.

 

[Donka]

Same issue with me regarding saving back to Photos after using the Edit In option. Only apps to work so far for me are the Google Nik apps such as Silver Efex Pro. Affinity Photo and Pixelmator don’t.

 

[Nigel Goodman]

[doublepost=1506422571][/doublepost]You say -
Third-Party Photo Editor Support
Lastly, Apple has enhanced the integration of its native Photos app with third-party apps, which should come as good news to those looking to broaden their editing options.

For example, it's now possible to open a photo in a third-party app right from within your Photos Library. Not only that, any edits that you make within that third-party app are automatically saved back to your Photos library.

None of the apps I have tried -Affinity Photo, Luminar, Topaz Studio, will save the edited file back to the Apple Photos library

I noticed that, but I found this (I haven't tried it yet) [text in red is my emphasis]:
Edit photos within third-party apps on your Mac
With Photos for macOS High Sierra, you can send a photo to most third-party photo apps for editing, then save the changes right back into your library.

1. Control-click a photo and choose Edit With from the contextual menu. Then choose from the list of third-party editing apps on your Mac. You can also click a photo and then choose Image > Edit With in the menu bar.
2. The photo opens in the third-party app that you chose. Make your edits, and then save.
   If the app saves photos in a non-standard format, look for an option to save as JPEG or another format that Photos supports.

Your edited photo appears automatically in Photos.
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT205245

 

[Donka]

It looks to me that Apps need to allow the save function to save back over the original file instead of prompting to Save As for this to work as seamlessly as it is advertised.

 

[Donka]

Just to add to this, Pixelmator have posted that they should have an update out next week that supports this functionality so looks like it is something the app needs to support.

 

[marnixva]

I bought the Aurora photo editing app about 6 months ago. Worked fine as an extension in Photos in Sierra, but now with High Sierra, the "blend" and "shift" controls in the "Top & Bottom Adjustment" section of Aurora no longer work. Well, the controls might work, but they no longer display lines moving up and down where the adjustments are being made. It doesn't matter if I access Aurora as an extension within Photos or just startup Aurora by itself. Aurora no longer shows those adjustment lines. I guess I should check with Aurora support. I'll soon do that. I just happened to get here via a Google search.

 

[clutterfreenow]

Apple's native Photos application got an update with the release of macOS High Sierra, including new library browsing features, a reorganized editing window, enhanced image recognition, and some additional tools to help make your photos look even better. Keep reading to find out what's new in the Photos app.

Browsing the Photos Library

Apple has tweaked the main Library interface in Photos. Whereas previous versions of Photos let you use tabs along the top of the screen in place of an optional sidebar, Apple has now fully embraced the latter as the main navigation area, and has also added a draggable selection counter to the browser that you use to move or export batches of photos.

The new sidebar is divided into five sections: Library, Devices, Shared, Albums, and Projects. The Library section is where you can select from different browsing options, including Memories, Favorites, People, Places, and a useful new option called Imports, which organizes your photos based on when they were imported into your library.

The Shared section contains links to any shared albums you've created, while likes and comments appear in the Activity feed. The Albums section meanwhile contains two collapsible sub-sections called Media Types and My Albums. Media Types contains auto-generated views of your photos filtered by Selfies, Panoramas, Live Photos, and the like, while My Albums contains all the albums you have manually created. Lastly, Projects is where any books, cards, calendars, prints, or slideshows you're working on appear.

The Editing Window

The Photos app also got a reorganized editing window in High Sierra. In addition to the sidebar, there's now a toolbar along the top of the screen with three tabs that let you toggle through three different editing sidebars, making for a less cluttered interface all around. Notice too that the One-click Enhance option is now an icon at the top right of the screen, next to the Done button.

The Crop tab corrals the traditional crop functions in the sidebar, while the Filters tab is home to an enhanced selection of image filter presets, each with three variations to choose from - Vivid, Dramatic, and Black and White.

Selecting the Adjust tab switches the sidebar to all the usual advanced editing tools, including two new ones, Curves and Selective Color. The triangle beside each tool allows you to expand it for more options, or collapse it to make room for others.

Live Photos

Apple has introduced additional tools for editing Live Photos, including the ability to manually select the static image that represents the clip. This is achieved by adjusting the slider at the bottom of the editing window and selecting Make Key Photo.

You can also now trim Live Photos, and even apply effects such as a Boomerang-like back-and-forth effect and an ethereal Long Exposure style, similar to when a shutter has been left open for a long time. The icons at the bottom left of the editing window let you mute the clip or turn off Live Photo entirely.

Third-Party Photo Editor Support

Lastly, Apple has enhanced the integration of its native Photos app with third-party apps, which should come as good news to those looking to broaden their editing options.

For example, it's now possible to open a photo in a third-party app right from within your Photos Library. Not only that, any edits that you make within that third-party app are automatically saved back to your Photos library.

A number of popular third-party apps have already announced their support for Apple Photos, including Pixelmator Pro, Aurora HDR, Luminar, and Creative Kit. Several photo printers have also signed up, including Whitewall and Shutterfly. You can find more apps that support Photos by checking out the new dedicated section in the Mac App Store, which can also be accessed from within the Photos app.

Article Link: All the New Features in Apple's Photos App in macOS High Sierra

[doublepost=1515083483][/doublepost]Does the "new improved" Photos restore the batch change feature? If not I'll stick with i-photo!

 

[rann1009]

paul987 I just wrote to say that I’m also in agreement with you. I felt “forced” to update from Aperture and iPhoto to take advantage of the new features of Photos app. It did transfer all my events into “albums” in my Events folder, but I do missing the simplicity of importing and automatically generating new events by date. This is. It a “clunky” manual process.

Any advise for organizing is appreciated

I feel exactly the same way. Did you ever figure out a good solution?

 

[ep2002]

I feel exactly the same way. Did you ever figure out a good solution?

Unfortunately, I’m still having to manually create new albums for my “events” in order for me to visually “organize” my photos within the app. I’m fully aware that once imported my photos and videos are viewable in my Collections but I have not been able to recreate the feature I loved in the Aperture app.

 

[clutterfreenow]

I'm actually still using iPhoto because I never liked that Photos dropped iPhoto's "Events" functionality. I like categorizing my photos into discrete containers, and the Albums functionality of Photos is just not the same because a photo can be in multiple Albums or in no albums at all. With iPhoto you know that every photo is in one and only one Event. If anyone has come up with a way to replicate similar functionality with Photos please let me know.

[doublepost=1515348387][/doublepost]I am still using I-photo as well. Has anyone done the latest Mac Sierra OS upgrade and tried to use i-photo? I will not upgrade (or should I say downgrade?) to Photos until I have batch change functionality and I will not go to Sierra unless I know tha that I will somehow still have the ability to do batch change in my photo app. I use this on a regular basis to save time and increase my productivity.