iCloud Photos: What You Need to Know

[Dimwhit]

I assume it's all or nothing still for the icloud library? If I want to do that, I have to have all 15000 photos in my library show up on my phone?

 

[Jamesk811]

I assume it's all or nothing still for the icloud library? If I want to do that, I have to have all 15000 photos in my library show up on my phone?

I have 30,000 photos and 2500 videos and it's using hardly any storage on my phone.

But if you don't want all the photos you own on your phone just set up a separate library with old photos you don't want and all your new photos in a separate library

 

[centauratlas]

My main question is that with the Photos app, the Apple TV doesn't show any albums for sharing and there doesn't seem to be a way to just share some albums from your Photos library with the Apple TV.

Anyone doing that?

 

[marcomartins]

Hello guys!
I've just published an article on Medium about my iPhone workflow when I take photos. It is very focused on the new iCloud Photo Library, and sync tools.
I would love to hear your feedback, and know if you also struggle like me with the iCloud Photo Library, which sucks!

please read it and leave your comments:
https://medium.com/@marcoandremartins/iphonegraphy-workflow-c45be3b80a32

 

[InsideTJ]

Hello guys!
I've just published an article on Medium about my iPhone workflow when I take photos. It is very focused on the new iCloud Photo Library, and sync tools.
I would love to hear your feedback, and know if you also struggle like me with the iCloud Photo Library, which sucks!

please read it and leave your comments:
https://medium.com/@marcoandremartins/iphonegraphy-workflow-c45be3b80a32

good article.

I use ICPL on a macbook air (without 'keep originals' checked). My entire library is in ICPL. 62k photos and a few hundred recent iPhone videos.

I also keep an offline archive of ALL my photos on a NAS (with other backups). ICPL on my iPhone broke my normal archive workflow. So now I simply export the prior month's photos (via a smart album) and add them to my NAS archive. So far, this has proved very reliable. The convenience of ICPL far outweighs the inconvenience of this workflow change.

i think my biggest struggle was the initial import of my older photos. fixing dates, etc. But NEW iPhone photos and videos seems to work properly with ICPL.

 

[Daysight]

Hello guys!
I've just published an article on Medium about my iPhone workflow when I take photos. It is very focused on the new iCloud Photo Library, and sync tools.
I would love to hear your feedback, and know if you also struggle like me with the iCloud Photo Library, which sucks! please read it and leave your comments:
https://medium.com/@marcoandremartins/iphonegraphy-workflow-c45be3b80a32

I had what seems to be quite the opposite experience going on vacation with ICL. All the photos uploaded from my iPhone daily. In the hotel on wifi I used my iPad to edit them, share to family and build an album of the trip. Everything was waiting for me on the Mac when I got home. Big improvement over the much less convenient experience on vacation a year ago, pre-Photos/ICL.

 

[kellyjstyle]

"edit photos simply"

Dropbox hasn't spent the money apple has in R&D and software development to make a series of apps that work across different devices, let you edit photos, organize, store, etc.

Dropbox offers you space in the cloud to store your files.

It's cheap and simple like public storage.

Now imagine your own personal gallery space where you have a curator laying everything out beautiful, helping you edit photos simply, with so much organization that you can quickly find any of your thousands upon thousands of photos with a few flicks of your finger.

Now, given all this context, think Apple's pricing plan is still "whopping" compared to Dropbox's?

Please help me "edit photos simply" in iPhoto! I'm a wreck.

 

[joejoejoe]

Please help me "edit photos simply" in iPhoto! I'm a wreck.

this is with regards to the new photos app, not iphoto.

the new photos app is much simpler than iphoto was.

you just hit the edit button and get a slew of simple sliders like white balance, contrast, saturation, exposure, highlights, shadows etc.

 

[kellyjstyle]

THANK YOU
I shall try it, I guess.

Assuming all my current photos can "simply" slide right over to this new program? (If you cannot tell, I'm fairly simple at this myself!)