I'm on a late 2013 MacPro 6-core, not sure if there's been any issues with this machine and Yosemite..
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Apple Releases OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 With Photos for OS X App, Emoji Updates
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I'm on a late 2013 MacPro 6-core, not sure if there's been any issues with this machine and Yosemite..
Sorryif this has already been asked and answered but I have been searching and not found and answer yet. If my aperture library is around 300 gb but I don't want to pay that much for iCloud storage, can I buy 20 gb per month and will it just keep the most recent 20 gb online with the rest stored locally on my Mac? Or do I have to buy a storage plan bigger than my library? Thanks.
Well, make sure to make a time machine backup first. Second, I'd give it another week or two just to make sure.
I still find this quite ridiculous that once something like this happens, people just shrug their shoulders and say "do a re-install". I use to make fun of people who did re-installs every couple months for windows... and yet here I am having to do it on my mac and my windows partition runs just fine.
Thanks for testing.
Since I posted, I've experimented more and have narrowed the problem down to jpgs that were exported from Lightroom 5.7 at full size. If I export from Photoshop CC, no problems.
There's some odd interaction happening, but I have no idea what it is. In the meantime, I grabbed Xee3 and am using that. I like it. If I have to give up Preview for a while, that's fine. I might have to wait for LR6.
immediate impression of Photos is not good.
doens't seem faster. I have 100gb or more of photos.
Looks a lot crappier. Very plain.
Iphoto events all got put into one big Photos Album called Iphoto Events. Seems to me.... every Event should have been an album.
It doesn't feel good to change the size of the photos on display when using a mouse. Drag a slider feels kind of meh. Then using arrows to see drill down into or back out by date feels lame too. I would think holding the option and key and scrolling in or out would be more natural.
Last no dragging the mouse over an Event(Album) to see photos inside? That was the great thing about iPhoto.
Options all seem buried in menus. Guess you hit edit first but seems like iPhoto had more quick access icons.
I think they iOS'd it too much. On a big screen it comes across as just too much white and looks all the more plain.
last the iCloud library push. What about letting me save to a wifi drive so anyone can access the library? Will it let me do that? I guess I don't know yet. How does iCloud library work if you just use the free stuff? Not sure yet either. Or what about multi-user support on same Mac? Been crying for that forever, but maybe that's there and I don't know it.
Will give it a chance and see if it grows on me. Disappointed overall based on all the great things I heard in previews.
doens't seem faster. I have 100gb or more of photos.
Looks a lot crappier. Very plain.
Iphoto events all got put into one big Photos Album called Iphoto Events. Seems to me.... every Event should have been an album.
It doesn't feel good to change the size of the photos on display when using a mouse. Drag a slider feels kind of meh. Then using arrows to see drill down into or back out by date feels lame too. I would think holding the option and key and scrolling in or out would be more natural.
Last no dragging the mouse over an Event(Album) to see photos inside? That was the great thing about iPhoto.
Options all seem buried in menus. Guess you hit edit first but seems like iPhoto had more quick access icons.
I think they iOS'd it too much. On a big screen it comes across as just too much white and looks all the more plain.
last the iCloud library push. What about letting me save to a wifi drive so anyone can access the library? Will it let me do that? I guess I don't know yet. How does iCloud library work if you just use the free stuff? Not sure yet either. Or what about multi-user support on same Mac? Been crying for that forever, but maybe that's there and I don't know it.
Will give it a chance and see if it grows on me. Disappointed overall based on all the great things I heard in previews.
It is all or nothing so far. You have to do it manually, or get storage space that is large enough to fit your entire library.
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Anyone a bit confused by the Albums section?
I see some Albums like Faces or Videos or All Photos which seem like saved searches. Same with Flagged.
Then I have the iPhoto Events Album and inside that are my 1000+ IPhoto events that count as 1000+ Albums. Those are all organized by the wife over the years in iPhoto.
To me they should divide things & distinguish between Searches (for lack of a better word) and Albums. And my Iphoto Events should be dumped under My Albums instead of in an IPhoto Events folder under My Albums.
And what's with the All Photos Album and the Photos section(tab at the top?) Only difference is they put the latter has date headers.
Take out the All Photos "Album." No need. Just give Photos tab a toggle to turn date headers on/off. Same difference.
Organization leaves something to be desired.
I see some Albums like Faces or Videos or All Photos which seem like saved searches. Same with Flagged.
Then I have the iPhoto Events Album and inside that are my 1000+ IPhoto events that count as 1000+ Albums. Those are all organized by the wife over the years in iPhoto.
To me they should divide things & distinguish between Searches (for lack of a better word) and Albums. And my Iphoto Events should be dumped under My Albums instead of in an IPhoto Events folder under My Albums.
And what's with the All Photos Album and the Photos section(tab at the top?) Only difference is they put the latter has date headers.
Take out the All Photos "Album." No need. Just give Photos tab a toggle to turn date headers on/off. Same difference.
Organization leaves something to be desired.
Stupidest update I've ever got from Apple
Photos is terrible, makes me wonder why they waited this long to release it. The Photos app in iOS is much better experience and natural to a touch device. The new emoji is terrible, it creates more diversity to what represents the human race. It used to be only represent us as yellow now we got white and dark and darker colors. So much expectation and anticipation and this is what we got more like a downgrade. imo!
Photos is terrible, makes me wonder why they waited this long to release it. The Photos app in iOS is much better experience and natural to a touch device. The new emoji is terrible, it creates more diversity to what represents the human race. It used to be only represent us as yellow now we got white and dark and darker colors. So much expectation and anticipation and this is what we got more like a downgrade. imo!
For a long time the Windows Photo Viewer just looked plain terrible, white background and ugliness everywhere. It was easy to see why discerning people preferred the finished, artistic look of iPhoto.
Now iPhoto has been ditched for no apparent good reasons at all. The new is Photo is ugly white. Over at Windows 8.1 the Photo app lacks a lot of the things that iPhoto does but it really displays the images great on a black background.
For Windows 10 the universal Photo app, while still in partially finished beta form, also looks great with its black background. Photos are kind of mashed in together but that lets every thumbnail be displayed at the aspect ratio of that particular image. Square is square while a wide pano is wide.
My my, how things change!
My MBPr13 is finally running to expectations. Smooth scrolling, apps launching immediately, etc. Everything seems much faster. Memory management is vastly improved. I was getting pageouts after a few hours of use with just Safari and iTunes open! Also Safari page loading would slow to a crawl whenever anything else was being downloaded on my network. The behaviour only started from 10.10.2, and I tried everything to fix it. Now Safari is back to behaving normally.
Very happy with this update. Computer finally feels worth the money.
Photos must be some kind of joke. Absolutely shocking step back.
Very happy with this update. Computer finally feels worth the money.
Photos must be some kind of joke. Absolutely shocking step back.
iphoto/aperture and Photos
Are we sure about this? I have and early beta on my second HDD (primary SSD still 10.10.2) and whenI installed the beta iPhoto became a crossed over application suggesting it's been made redundant. Ditto for Aperture.
If some one could post a screen shot of their applications folder showing the icons of both (or all three as openable apps) that'd be awsome
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well my library of 35K images must be a real dog then
...... and most are SLR images too. Off a HDD prolly would be but SSD and it's truely fine, this is on a 27" iMac i7quad from mid 2009 too with SSD in the optical bay, only lag comes from the books we've built over the time - one contains around 100+ pages and 600 images.
But Aperture is just fine too.
I don't want to jump yet until I know I can use both iPhoto/Aperture on same OS version as Photos. A previous post of mine mentions in and admittedly earlier beta it hijacked the apps iPhoto and Aperture allowing them not to be able to launch
Are we sure about this? I have and early beta on my second HDD (primary SSD still 10.10.2) and whenI installed the beta iPhoto became a crossed over application suggesting it's been made redundant. Ditto for Aperture.
If some one could post a screen shot of their applications folder showing the icons of both (or all three as openable apps) that'd be awsome
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well my library of 35K images must be a real dog then
...... and most are SLR images too. Off a HDD prolly would be but SSD and it's truely fine, this is on a 27" iMac i7quad from mid 2009 too with SSD in the optical bay, only lag comes from the books we've built over the time - one contains around 100+ pages and 600 images.But Aperture is just fine too.
I don't want to jump yet until I know I can use both iPhoto/Aperture on same OS version as Photos. A previous post of mine mentions in and admittedly earlier beta it hijacked the apps iPhoto and Aperture allowing them not to be able to launch
Faces
Argh! I wasted so much time over the years tagging faces in iPhoto and now I find out that while faces continue in Photos, they don't carry over. That seems like sort of a big deal and something that I can't find mentioned anywhere. Does Apple really expect anyone to tag another face when they might just screw us over again in the future?
Argh! I wasted so much time over the years tagging faces in iPhoto and now I find out that while faces continue in Photos, they don't carry over. That seems like sort of a big deal and something that I can't find mentioned anywhere. Does Apple really expect anyone to tag another face when they might just screw us over again in the future?
Please correct me if I am wrong, but in the Photos app I cannot see resizing image options. How pretending to be (semi)profi app may be missing that essential tool if it is closely connected with social media?
Beta was same ...
my machine eventually settled down. Though I still maintain it's heavier on CPU than iPhoto/Aperture ever was at idle
my machine eventually settled down. Though I still maintain it's heavier on CPU than iPhoto/Aperture ever was at idle
Photos supports GPS in multiple ways.
1. Get info (Cmd+I) on a picture (or all the pictures you want), it will show the location info, if it exists.
2. In Photos mode (not Albums), only Years or Collections, click on the title of that year or collection. It shows you a map with all the pictures. This works the same as in iOS.
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There's still a bug where even if Photo Stream is turned off and all photos in it are deleted, selecting an option to change the User Account photo in System Preferences results in photos that were in the Photo Stream still appearing
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