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I do notice that it takes a little bit more CPU usage just sitting there doing nothing in the attached screenshot. Close it and it goes down to zero usage.
 

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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.
 
iPhoto was unreliable and one of the worst major photo apps, so "vast improvement" over it doesn't say much.

Being locked to iCloud, which is also a very poor cloud service is not a great benefit, either. Does anyone know if iPhoto works with other cloud services?

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.
 
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.
 
What about Faces? I know some folks, including myself, who have put a decent amount of time in getting face tagging to be accurate, and would hate for that feature to go away - especially thinking about facebook integration.

i'm familiar with Faces, but how does it integrate with Facebook? call me curious. and afraid for humanity...
 
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.

That's what iCloud Photo Library is for.
 
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.
 
What happens to videos in the Photos App???? Can they be edited/manipulated the same way as photos?
 
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.
 
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.

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.
 
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.

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?
 
Huh, pretty cool.

iPhoto has always been the most confusing thing about OS X for me. I just don't understand how to properly utilize it, or why it's so clunky. It always seemed so un-Apple to me.

Topped by iMovie if you ask me. Nevertheless, definetly looking forward to Photos being released!
 
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.

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...
 
Is it still usable without iCloud? My iPhoto library is huge and already backed up with Time Machine and Backblaze, so I'm not planning on paying for a premium iCloud account to sync everything.
 
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!
 
That's what iCloud Photo Library is for.

http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT6378 said:
How does iCloud delete photos and videos from iCloud Photo Library?

Deleting a photo or video from your Photos app will also remove the item from iCloud Photo Library and from your iCloud storage allocation. Photos and videos you remove can be recovered from the Recently Deleted album for 30 days. After 30 days, your content will be removed from the Recently Deleted album. Photos are backed up on our servers for up to 30 days after they're deleted from the Photos app. If you need to recover these photos during that time, contact Apple Support.
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.
 
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..
 
So....

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.
 
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