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First Impressions of Photos for OS X: 'Vast Improvement' Over iPhoto
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I'll be interested to see what options are present for uploading the 20 GB+ of photos that I have into the cloud. I'd love for them to be backed-up and accessible on all of my devices everywhere. Today they are all local.
iCloud has been vastly improved. It handles email, music and now photos with aplomb; better than any 3rd party service. Even the apps that support it work great.
I was about to load Gimp on a Windows machine. I'll wait for Photos and see if it will meet my needs.
Been putting up with iPhoto for years now. Use only for the photo stream feature really. Maybe this will warrant an iPhoto delete! 
Now if only they would make the iOS Photos app worth a damn. No ability to search by the keywords set in iPhoto, my photo albums are in no semblance of order whatsoever, not chronological or grouped by location. Also, no way to search for a certain person based on Faces. Again these are all completely out of order. It's a joke; I wish I had never deleted the photos from my camera roll. At least those are in chronological order.
i'm familiar with Faces, but how does it integrate with Facebook? call me curious. and afraid for humanity...
I'm curious how the process will work from iOS to iCloud Photo Library and to the Mac when it comes to deleting stuff on the phone. I have a 16GB phone (which was a mistake, I know, but I'm living with it) and it'd be nice if I could just delete stuff from the iPhone knowing it's in iCloud. Some indication of what's synced and what's not would be nice. I'm afraid to experiment because I don't want to lose stuff. It's very confusing to me and so far nobody has really talked about it.
Anything is a welcome improvement over the current iPhoto, which has gotten to be so bloated and slow over the years. I still use it, however, to import my photos from cameras, my iPod, and other people's Photo Streams, to organize those photos, and to keep them organized by Faces, Events, and Places even, to some extent. I'm really looking forward to this new App, I just hope it won't disrupt my current set-up for iPhoto as it exists right now.
Does the library require to be on a formated Mac hard drive? Or can I use any hard drive (or server) to host the library? Only problem I had with iPhoto. I want to use my freenas to hold the library. That way it's backed up and can be accessed anywhere.
Definitely not my experience. Buggy, slow, frequently out of sync and very frustrating to use. Much less reliable than other services.
Looks like the big improvement besides a cleaner interface is the ability to apply all sorts of filters, ala Instagram, not really interesting for me. This isn't even geared to towards prosumers. It wouldn't kill them to add some features to make it comparable to what Aperture had, without overcomplicating it for regular users. Just have an "advanced options" view that can be switched on or off. Apple ran the numbers and decided it wasn't worth it. From a dollars and cents standpoint they're probably right, but its a lame, megacorp approach.
interesting to find out as well.
not being an power user iphoto wasnt there some unhappiness in how much space it used for the photos and the edits? how does the photos app compare?
Topped by iMovie if you ask me. Nevertheless, definetly looking forward to Photos being released!
That's my big question, too. I use a Synology NAS, and do off-site backup to Amazon Glacier. I really like the idea of syncing between Apple devices, but I want to be able to keep the actual photos on my NAS. I have over 300GB of digital photos, and I don't want to pay $20/month for online storage. I may need to make the move to Adobe Lightroom...
All I care about are Library Size. I have had to break up my family photos in to individual years because the libraries get to large on iPhoto. Will Photos have one big library? or can we switch easily between libraries? Maybe some way to link them all so I don't have to switch libraries to find a photo from a specific year....
Ugh!
Ugh!
Eh, not really impressed, they should have a separate storage option that allows you to allocate storage for backups, so that you can keep stuff (recoverable)past the 30/30 day window.http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378 said:
Hope it's good and we finally have a decent photo viewing app for Mac.
iPhoto is the WORST photo app I've seen on any platform,the most limited,most user unfriendly app of Apple,even basic windows picture view app was 100x better than iPhoto..
iPhoto is the WORST photo app I've seen on any platform,the most limited,most user unfriendly app of Apple,even basic windows picture view app was 100x better than iPhoto..
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So.... if I enable this fancy new iCloud photos feature on my Mac, is iCloud going to try and upload the existing 20GB (whatever) of my MAC photo library? Thus requiring me to buy more cloud space? If so, not cool. Hopefully a user can set it to NOT upload the entire Mac photo library... or maybe I'm asking too much... or maybe I'm not getting it. Which could easily be what is happening at this point.
So.... if I enable this fancy new iCloud photos feature on my Mac, is iCloud going to try and upload the existing 20GB (whatever) of my MAC photo library? Thus requiring me to buy more cloud space? If so, not cool. Hopefully a user can set it to NOT upload the entire Mac photo library... or maybe I'm asking too much... or maybe I'm not getting it. Which could easily be what is happening at this point.