Still can't figure out how this is all going to work. Previously, my family (wife, child and myself) used a single icloud account. The purpose was I did not care about calendars, email, contacts documents etc. being stored in the cloud. Those options were all turned off. We only cared about having a single family photostream.
This worked out well with Aperture, because, as long as I opened Aperture periodically, the photostream was automatically populated as a folder in Aperture as well, so all images were stored locally.
With the new "family share", I thought we could start using are only iCloud accounts to accomplish the above, but it doesn't look that way.
1) It looks like the only way to get photos into a family photostream is to manually put them there one by one? Is that true? If so, yuck, is there no other way to have a single, automatic family photo folder where all my photos from every icloud account will go to one place and be visible on other devices? Or do I just need to go back to using a single icloud account and forgo the other icloud features?
2) How will Aperture and iPhoto handle the cloud. In other words, before, as long as I opened them periodically, they could automatically create folders for each month photostream month that stored locally. Will those programs see the cloud? Can they see more than one account if we decide to use individual icloud accounts?
3) Do I have to buy storage for photos - or are they not counted against my limit - ie like Google handles it (yeah, I know Google has a resolution max for "free" photo storage, but that max is still fairly high quality)
4) I thought photostream was now gone. Why do I still have a "My photo stream" toggle switch along with an "icloud photo sharing" toggle switch and an "icloud photo library (beta)" toggle. Very, very confusing.
This worked out well with Aperture, because, as long as I opened Aperture periodically, the photostream was automatically populated as a folder in Aperture as well, so all images were stored locally.
With the new "family share", I thought we could start using are only iCloud accounts to accomplish the above, but it doesn't look that way.
1) It looks like the only way to get photos into a family photostream is to manually put them there one by one? Is that true? If so, yuck, is there no other way to have a single, automatic family photo folder where all my photos from every icloud account will go to one place and be visible on other devices? Or do I just need to go back to using a single icloud account and forgo the other icloud features?
2) How will Aperture and iPhoto handle the cloud. In other words, before, as long as I opened them periodically, they could automatically create folders for each month photostream month that stored locally. Will those programs see the cloud? Can they see more than one account if we decide to use individual icloud accounts?
3) Do I have to buy storage for photos - or are they not counted against my limit - ie like Google handles it (yeah, I know Google has a resolution max for "free" photo storage, but that max is still fairly high quality)
4) I thought photostream was now gone. Why do I still have a "My photo stream" toggle switch along with an "icloud photo sharing" toggle switch and an "icloud photo library (beta)" toggle. Very, very confusing.