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Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers With Mac Photos App

Apple Seeds First OS X 10.10.3 Yosemite Beta to Developers With Mac Photos App

My hope is that this is truly a goodbye to photo management and everything will just work via iCloud. Although I have my doubts as to whether or not this will be the case.
 
So I successfully imported my iPhoto database into Photos. It arranged them under my albums>iphoto events. I haven't had a chance to import new photos yet and sync it with my phone.
 
kettle said:
I'm still smarting about Aperture and its non-future as a 'professional' app running on 'professional' hardware.

I don't think I want to even bother trying this - it'll end in disappointment in a couple of years.
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If I were you I'd feel exactly the same way.

But I'm not you. I'm me, so I'm really excited to see and try the new Photos app.
 
Rogifan said:
Did Apple ever say this photos app was intended to replace Aperture?
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They said they were discontinuing iPhoto and Aperture in favour of Photos. You either read that as Photos replacing Aperture or as Aperture simply being discontinued without a true successor. Either reading is equally bad.
 
doelcm82 said:
But I'm not you. I'm me, so I'm really excited to see and try the new Photos app.
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I am excited as well to see a truly integrated cloud-mobile-desktop solution for casual photography. But I am disappointed that there is no solution for serious photography anymore.
 
manu chao said:
I don't think that is the problem. It is just so far removed from what enthusiasts and pros need that it really is a re-thought iPhoto with maybe some of Aperture's adjustment tools added.

It doesn't have projects.
It doesn't have versions.
It doesn't have stacking (one of eight main menus in Aperture).
[Edit] It doesn't have referenced storage.
It doesn't have even 1% of Aperture's metadata features (another main menu in Aperture).
It has maybe half of Aperture's adjustment tools.

Today, photo library management has taken a step back. No application still can match what Aperture offered. It's a sad day.
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Aperture is still available lol they just stopped development to work on this app.
 
does anyone that have this running yet that had wifi issues in the past, can you chime in on if the wifi performance is any better?
 
mumper said:
My biggest concern is if this new app supports folders for albums. That was the main reason I swapped to aperture. This allowed me to sort my library by years, months, etc. I would assume it does, otherwise bringing in my Aperture library would be a mess!

I saw folders in the sidebar on the Verge article, can anyone confirm we can make folders and nest albums in them? Can we also nest a folder inside of another folder?

Thanks!
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The Photos app should work just like the one on your phone. You don't need to manually sort them, just view Collections, which are sorted by Year/Month/Date
 
jrswizzle said:
Last I checked the Mac still had a file system and a Pictures folder than isn't attached to the Photos app (as far as I know).
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That last point is rather meaningless, why do you need a 'Pictures' folder? You just need a folder.
 
Can't believe they still don't have the ability for more than one iCloud account to sync into a single library. Ever since they messed up sharing an iCloud account between two different people in iOS 8, this just isn't a use-case they've considered. My Mac's library should consist of everyone in the family's photos automatically.
 
A couple things I'm curious about:

If I have a huge 120GB library, I upload it all to iCloud, will I have to keep this library locally still, or just have it in the cloud, like my music, movies, etc.?

I have my Aperture photo library on an external disk. Will the new app have any problems using external drives?

Thanks, all :cool:
 
Peel said:
I feel the same. I'm expecting another FCPX experience, where many familiar, necessary professional tools are missing in version 1.0.0, and over the course of the next 1-2 years will slowly be introduced back into the mix. I'm now at a point where I feel that FCPX is a better tool than FCP 7 was, but it's been a long, slow road to get here, and I'm not so excited to start back down that particular path with Photos.
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This is far more removed from Aperture than FCPX was from previous FCP 7. The foundation of FCPX in terms of organisation hasn't changed, it just had featured added to it. Photos just doesn't have the basic structure needed to get level with Aperture.
 
wow! Photos.app eats up ALL CPU available. 6-Core MacPro5,1 @3.46GHz and during import the machine almost came to a halt, all 12 available threads maxed :eek:
 
I can't believe it won't sync with iTunes anymore, forcing you to pay for iCloud storage.

Thanks a lot Apple!
 
ButteryScrollin said:
The Verge has a hands on with the new Photos app:

http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7982735/apple-new-iphoto-announced-photos-app-for-mac
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Just read their article. I'm very excited about this. My only concern is this

Is there a way to sync SOME of your library to iCloud?

I have many GB of digital pictures going back a decade or more plus older film ones I want to scan into my system. I really don't need or want shots from my trip to Kenya in 2002 on the cloud. I have them locally stored and backed up. However the other functions sound VERY cool for the shots I'm taking now. I want to know if there is a way to separate what will and won't get stored and shared between devices. I'd even be happy with everything from today on gets sent to iCloud but legacy pictures not.
 
muzzymate said:
Can't believe they still don't have the ability for more than one iCloud account to sync into a single library. Ever since they messed up sharing an iCloud account between two different people in iOS 8, this just isn't a use-case they've considered. My Mac's library should consist of everyone in the family's photos automatically.
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So common sense and so true...I end up synching phones manually to get around this.
 
armandxp said:
A couple things I'm curious about:

If I have a huge 120GB library, I upload it all to iCloud, will I have to keep this library locally still, or just have it in the cloud, like my music, movies, etc.?

I have my Aperture photo library on an external disk. Will the new app have any problems using external drives?

Thanks, all :cool:
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I highly doubt that thus I won't use it
 
muzzymate said:
Can't believe they still don't have the ability for more than one iCloud account to sync into a single library. Ever since they messed up sharing an iCloud account between two different people in iOS 8, this just isn't a use-case they've considered. My Mac's library should consist of everyone in the family's photos automatically.
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Just because you want this does not mean everyone does. I don't want my daughter to see every picture I take. Nor do I care to see everyone she takes. If you want to share photos, create a shared album and dump things in there.
 
ipedro said:
Professional Photographers: Photos is a platform for OSX, not just an app. The app is only the front end UI that Apple provides. Extensions are what will make this infinitely powerful for professionals. Imagine Pixelmator being able to natively tap into your Photos library and execute non destructive edits that will then become available to your library through Photos.app on your Mac, iPad and iPhone.

Other extensions will add power to those who need it. Need more fine tune control for your EXIF data? More automated importing? There'll be an extension for that. A whole ecosystem is going to pop up and it'll be a serious threat to Adobe's Photoshop/Lightroom monopoly.

Photo libraries are now supported at the operating system level. This is huge.
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Yeah, but third-party extensions cannot fix the basic organisation of images. They cannot bring back projects, versions, stacking, referenced storage and the like.
 
Daalseth said:
Just read their article. I'm very excited about this. My only concern is this

Is there a way to sync SOME of your library to iCloud?

I have many GB of digital pictures going back a decade or more plus older film ones I want to scan into my system. I really don't need or want shots from my trip to Kenya in 2002 on the cloud. I have them locally stored and backed up. However the other functions sound VERY cool for the shots I'm taking now. I want to know if there is a way to separate what will and won't get stored and shared between devices. I'd even be happy with everything from today on gets sent to iCloud but legacy pictures not.
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I haven't used it, but I doubt Apple would introduce a selective sync feature.
 
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