iCloud Photo Library

[WilkoRam]

if you delete the picture it will delete it from your phone and icloud photo library.

Yeah that's my point.

 

[BrettDS]

So effectively with the 'optimised' option chosen you can't delete a photo from your camera roll until the new photo app for Mac OS comes out. A photo taken on your phone gets uploaded to icloud and an 'optimised' version left on the phone. Should I ever want to see the original again, rather than a reduced iphone version, I better leave the pic alone until 2015?

I don't think it's quite that simple. If you click on a picture on your phone then it should download the full res version for you to see, but it doesn't store all of the full res versions on your phone. Additionally, if you use your phone to attach a picture to an email or upload it to a web site it will download and attach the full res version.

As far as deleting photos goes, you can delete whatever photos you want, but just be aware that it will delete it from your phone, icloud, and whatever other devices you have at the same time.

 

[afsnyder]

So effectively with the 'optimised' option chosen you can't delete a photo from your camera roll until the new photo app for Mac OS comes out. A photo taken on your phone gets uploaded to icloud and an 'optimised' version left on the phone. Should I ever want to see the original again, rather than a reduced iphone version, I better leave the pic alone until 2015?

iOS 8 will clear space on your phone and keep the photos for you in the cloud when you need it. I'm not sure if you delete it, that it will also delete it from all your devices... theoretically it will.

 

[newagemac]

Basically Apple is simplifying the whole process. You're trying to think about it too much. Photos have gone from working like POP email to working like IMAP or Exchange. A much simplified and better solution. When you delete the photo, it's gone everywhere just like how IMAP works. There is no such thing as delete from a camera roll. You either keep the photo or delete it. Deleting it means ALL versions are deleted. You no longer have to manage whether the photo is local on your device, in the cloud, or what particular device it is or is not still on. Like IMAP email.

Edits to a photo show up everywhere and when you decide to edit, you always work on the full resolution photo. And when you want to share the photo, you'll always share the highest quality version. When the Photos app for Mac is available, I assume Apple will allow you to upload photos from your Mac to start working with that app as well in the same IMAP-like manner.

 

[Padmini]

iCloud Photo Library is great....except, there cannot possibly remain no way to manage the Library until Photos in 2015. They either need to grant access to it through iCloud.com or release an update to iPhoto that integrates the basic needs of iCloud Photo Library.

So far I'm a little concerned at what half baked solution this is.