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First Impressions of Photos for OS X: 'Vast Improvement' Over iPhoto
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You can still use iPhoto. Nobodies deleting off of your computer.
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Photos will still act just like iPhoto does now. My iPhoto is set to download all my photos from the stream locally on to my computer via stream. It will still function that way. However those that want all of the photos from their computer available on all devices will have the option of purxhasing that option.
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Photos will still act just like iPhoto does now. My iPhoto is set to download all my photos from the stream locally on to my computer via stream. It will still function that way. However those that want all of the photos from their computer available on all devices will have the option of purxhasing that option.
This is exactly how I feel. There isn't a chance in hell that I would trust my dSLR photos to this app. As I just said in a previous reply, iCloud is simply unreliable. It needs to be rock solid 99.99% of the time. Right now I'd say it's around 80-85% reliable which in turn makes it a no go for my most important data (of any kind).
********. Read the various reviews and such online from different sites. You can opt to have photos save a full red copy on a computer while electing not to use the iCloud service and just leverage the same functionality you have now the last 1000 photos in your camera roll available on all devices. It's only the option of syncing back from your computer to your iOS devices that you need to buy iCloud storage for...
You can do everything you just said
Thanks - someone else posted that Export was basic and had most options removed. Will be good to know I can batch export including resize and sequential rename.
Did Apple ever say this photos app was intended to replace Aperture? Seems to me it's a replacement for iPhoto. Did iPhoto have robust editing tools like Aperture?
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When did Apple say Photos was an Aperture replacement? My understanding is it's an iPhoto replacement.
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When did Apple say this?
When iCloud can offer:
1TB Storage for the same price as Dropbox
Family sharing that actually let's my family share a centralised database.
(i.e. Sharing storage options for Photos and iWork doesn't work. I can't collaborate with iCloud on say, a Numbers document. I can share a dropbox folder with my wife just by her logging in to my shared folders. Any edits she makes are synced to the original file.
Choose which albums, events, or whatever you want to call them are synced back to certain devices so you don't fill up your iPhone in 5 seconds if you have a large library.
e.g "Only sync iPhone photos" or "Do you want to switch off visibility/syncing to this folder/event/whatever?"
Tick the box, move on - only download what you want to see on your device.
Prices are wrong, and Family sharing needs to be collaborative using the cloud as a central database.
I'd pay for it - in fact I already do with dropbox. Apple needs to sort this 'feature' out.
1TB Storage for the same price as Dropbox
Family sharing that actually let's my family share a centralised database.
(i.e. Sharing storage options for Photos and iWork doesn't work. I can't collaborate with iCloud on say, a Numbers document. I can share a dropbox folder with my wife just by her logging in to my shared folders. Any edits she makes are synced to the original file.
Choose which albums, events, or whatever you want to call them are synced back to certain devices so you don't fill up your iPhone in 5 seconds if you have a large library.
e.g "Only sync iPhone photos" or "Do you want to switch off visibility/syncing to this folder/event/whatever?"
Tick the box, move on - only download what you want to see on your device.
Prices are wrong, and Family sharing needs to be collaborative using the cloud as a central database.
I'd pay for it - in fact I already do with dropbox. Apple needs to sort this 'feature' out.
Maybe it't better to not download them to the Mac if you have a 128GB Macbook Air.... It's cool that it is finally possible.
I skimmed through most of the posts but was trying to understand if this is a solution to a very specific problem. My wife and I both take lots of photos of our daughter, and usually share them with family using a photo stream. However we both have separate libraries on our respective machine. With this allow us to unify our libraries and keep our library in sync across our respective apple IDs?
i.e if my wife takes a photo, it shows up on my photos.app library - and vice versa?
i.e if my wife takes a photo, it shows up on my photos.app library - and vice versa?
Yes they said users would be able to migrate their libraries. But when did they say the new app would have feature parity with Aperture? All I can find is a statement an Apple rep gave to Ars Technica.
https://www.macrumors.com/2014/07/01/photos-editing-effects-plugins/
To me what stands out there is, first, the word "plans" which to me indicates that more features could/will come to the app over time, and third party extensions.
Shawn King tweeted this yesterday:
. @peelman @Angry_Drunk @BenBajarin I know one or two folks on that team and they have said to me, Be patient, grasshopper.
1:22pm - 5 Feb 15
People can be upset that Apple has chosen to abandon Aperture but anyone expecting Photos to have feature parity with it (especially in the first version) seems to me had the wrong expectations.
Not in so many words. Their formulation was rather that they are retiring iPhoto and Aperture in favour of a new application called Photos.
I tried iCloud Photo Library Beta on my iOS devices and ran into a few issues and after a few weeks, i disabled it on my iPad and iPhone.
- the order in which pictures appeared in my albums (on iPhone) changed, and i was not able to change it back to the way i like to view them.
- multiple duplicate pictures from my devices were not merged and i had to go through 15K pictures to deleted duplicates.
- had numerous phantom albums in iCloud.com that were not synchronized to my iDevices and i was not able to deleted them on iCloud.com
To those that are using the iPhoto Beta, have you been backing up your iPhone/iPad photos to your Mac? If yes, i am sure now you have tons of duplicates (same pictures on iPhone/iPad/Mac), how is iPhoto Beta/iCloud Photo Library handling those?
- the order in which pictures appeared in my albums (on iPhone) changed, and i was not able to change it back to the way i like to view them.
- multiple duplicate pictures from my devices were not merged and i had to go through 15K pictures to deleted duplicates.
- had numerous phantom albums in iCloud.com that were not synchronized to my iDevices and i was not able to deleted them on iCloud.com
To those that are using the iPhoto Beta, have you been backing up your iPhone/iPad photos to your Mac? If yes, i am sure now you have tons of duplicates (same pictures on iPhone/iPad/Mac), how is iPhoto Beta/iCloud Photo Library handling those?
Can somebody please explain, what the master system library is? Would this be possible to be used by different user accounts as a shared library?
Oh ok then. I'm sure Windows 98 will still be available for you!
Why do people say things like this? Apple and the market will decide what's available, you have always been free to take it, leave it, or go somewhere else. Digital photography is changing rapidly. In five years your old Aperture running in Yosemite will be useless and whatever Photos becomes will have far more features and work with newwr formats and faster processors.
At that point, cold dead fingers or not, you'll need to move on.
Photo and other digital media asset management in the Adobe ecosystem is just as f'd up anyway.
Faces Feature in Photos?
I'm sorry if this was already covered in the last 11 pages, but is there any mention of the Faces feature being carried over to Photos? This is my most useful and favorite feature on my personal Mac. Having thousands of photos of my family, Faces is a life saver.
I'm sorry if this was already covered in the last 11 pages, but is there any mention of the Faces feature being carried over to Photos? This is my most useful and favorite feature on my personal Mac. Having thousands of photos of my family, Faces is a life saver.
Nobody is forcing you to use iCloud and even if you were, your master copies are on your Mac. It is just being copied to iCloud. Basically if iCloud was to go down, you still have them on your actual hard drive. I think you should take another look at your preferences.
It is also your responsibility to back up your Photos. Time Machine has been doing it for years.
iPhoto is still available on the MAS if you still don't like Photos.
I do back up my data. I am a systems admin and storage management is one of my specialties.
Perhaps I should play with Photos and see how it works before passing judgement; I'm just irritated with the concept of everything moving to "the cloud".
I want to manage and back up my own data. Maybe that makes me old school; if so who cares? In a few more decades I'll be an old codger who doesn't give a crap anymore and ya'll can have your cloud everything. For now, let me manage my data.
(yes, I'm being silly. I'm aware)
Perhaps I should play with Photos and see how it works before passing judgement; I'm just irritated with the concept of everything moving to "the cloud".
I want to manage and back up my own data. Maybe that makes me old school; if so who cares? In a few more decades I'll be an old codger who doesn't give a crap anymore and ya'll can have your cloud everything. For now, let me manage my data.
(yes, I'm being silly. I'm aware)
This is from Pogue's review:
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/everything-worth-knowing-about-switching-to-os-x-110129491789.html
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I would. It shows a big checkbox to disable the feature related to the concept that has you irritated.
All I can say is that I'm very disappointed in the sheer lack of tools provided. The UI is horrible, with Aperture you have the library pane where you can organize your images by projects, folders albums and smart albums. I see I can create albums and smart albums but the organizational tools provided are inferior to say the least.
The editing tools seem to be rudimentary at best. I don't see any way to use plugins or external editors.
This is definitely a huge step back for those enthusiasts who wish to use a non destructive DAM tool.
The editing tools seem to be rudimentary at best. I don't see any way to use plugins or external editors.
This is definitely a huge step back for those enthusiasts who wish to use a non destructive DAM tool.
Yes. If you are using Aperture and planning to switch to Photos (although I don't know why!) you can change the Aperture library to referenced first, the the pics won't be duplicated.
I spent a good bit of last night importing pics and recovering from countless Photos app crashes in the process. My first impression is that I don't like this app at all. All this praise is lost on me. I find it clunky, slow, limiting and hard to organize any way but the stock auto way it handles the pics. Faces has become very limiting in comparison. It's just way too limiting to be very useful compared to several other apps. I did really want to like this, but alas it's not for me.
I do back up my data. I am a systems admin and storage management is one of my specialties.
Perhaps I should play with Photos and see how it works before passing judgement; I'm just irritated with the concept of everything moving to "the cloud".
I want to manage and back up my own data. Maybe that makes me old school; if so who cares? In a few more decades I'll be an old codger who doesn't give a crap anymore and ya'll can have your cloud everything. For now, let me manage my data.
(yes, I'm being silly. I'm aware)
why are you forced to keep photos in the cloud? don't check that option.