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Photos OSX - what do we want for 1.1?

I don't even need to read the above posts. I just loaded a couple hundred Canon 5D3 JPGs into it and fiddled around for awhile.

Is it possible for Apple to introduce something as useless as Photos, the new base mini and the latest base iMac. All three are pathetic.

Photos appears to offer nothing over over the much better to look at iPhotos. Compared to the it-must-be-too-hard-for-our-customers-to-use Aperture Photos represents a huge step backwards.

The still-wonky Windows 10 Photos Preview is a far more elegant looking app. Good G-d, weak hardware, ghetto headphones, and a wristwatch? What the heck is going on at Apple?
 
Also arrange by camera or gear of some type will be most welcome. My photos from my iPhone, which is more family and friends stuff, are very different from my work-related shots.
 
Craigy Boy said:
"MAKE UPLOADS FASTER AND HAVE BETTER INFO WITH WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON!!!!"?
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Make sure you've got adequate bandwidth before using iCloud Photos. Each of my RAW picture is about 40MB in size. Uploading just one of those babies to the internet means consuming my entire domestic bandwidth for around 5 minutes. Not much Apple can do about that.

Most users have an ADSL connection. In the UK, that might be 20Mb/s download, but only around 1Mb/s upload. Meaning, it's much slower to upload anything to the internet than to download.

My answer: take my laptop into work, where we have a DSL line. Uploads are 5x faster.
 
hydr said:
Here is my wish list:

  • Allow family to use the Photos. If so be it, let me login into Photos on my wifes IOS devices so she can be part of our library.
  • Geotagging + a world map to browse.
  • When dragging items out of Photos, don´t convert/resize to lower versions. Tired of having to do File->Export->Unmodified Original
  • Edit Sort Photos -> Date, Size, Number of people, Length, "Color", Camera, Ascending/Descending
  • Third Party Filters, I would like to decent Adobe filters in here.
  • Ability to sync Smart-albums to IOS/Other Macs
  • Option to put Info Pane fixed into window.
  • More parameteres in Smart-albums, like the ability to keywords = none. Maybe smart-album based on geo info.
  • I know this is a long shot. but I want more analytics into Photos. Analyse my photos and tag them based on main color, "sky" - "water" "objects" "number of people" "Animals" "eating" etc. 2015 and very little analytics in desktop clients vs say cloud. Time to fix it.
  • Faces on IOS/Macs (now missing)

    It´s a great v1, now give us the same urgency to improve v1.1. Apple need 100% focus on Photos.
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I totally agree with you on the need for geotagging support and a world map to browse. Apple basically needs to add the Places feature from iPhoto. Then the new Photos app will be perfect.

Is there a way to remind Apple on the urgency to add that feature?
 
hydr said:
Here is my wish list:

  • Allow family to use the Photos. If so be it, let me login into Photos on my wifes IOS devices so she can be part of our library.
    [*]Geotagging + a world map to browse.
  • When dragging items out of Photos, don´t convert/resize to lower versions. Tired of having to do File->Export->Unmodified Original
  • Edit Sort Photos -> Date, Size, Number of people, Length, "Color", Camera, Ascending/Descending
  • Third Party Filters, I would like to decent Adobe filters in here.
  • Ability to sync Smart-albums to IOS/Other Macs
  • Option to put Info Pane fixed into window.
  • More parameteres in Smart-albums, like the ability to keywords = none. Maybe smart-album based on geo info.
  • I know this is a long shot. but I want more analytics into Photos. Analyse my photos and tag them based on main color, "sky" - "water" "objects" "number of people" "Animals" "eating" etc. 2015 and very little analytics in desktop clients vs say cloud. Time to fix it.
  • Faces on IOS/Macs (now missing)

    It´s a great v1, now give us the same urgency to improve v1.1. Apple need 100% focus on Photos.
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Couldn't agree more with this list, but especially with geotagging. I didn't realize how much I used this in Aperture and iPhoto, but I'm sort of obsessive with keeping all my metadata neatly organized, and not being able to geotag the photos that come off my DSLR is seriously driving me nuts. I want to be able to add/edit geotags on all my photos, see them all on a map, and easily find photos that don't have a geotag so that I can add one.

Perhaps they're waiting to introduce this alongside an iOS version, as the iOS Photos app has never had the ability to edit geotags or a view of all geotags on a map. At least, not that i can recall. One can hope! In the meantime, I definitely encourage everyone to submit feedback!
 
boston04and07 said:
Couldn't agree more with this list, but especially with geotagging. I didn't realize how much I used this in Aperture and iPhoto, but I'm sort of obsessive with keeping all my metadata neatly organized, and not being able to geotag the photos that come off my DSLR is seriously driving me nuts. I want to be able to add/edit geotags on all my photos, see them all on a map, and easily find photos that don't have a geotag so that I can add one.

Perhaps they're waiting to introduce this alongside an iOS version, as the iOS Photos app has never had the ability to edit geotags or a view of all geotags on a map. At least, not that i can recall. One can hope! In the meantime, I definitely encourage everyone to submit feedback!
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That's actually not true. Before Apple updated the Photos app for iOS7, you can see all geotagged photos on a map.
 
LV426 said:
Make sure you've got adequate bandwidth before using iCloud Photos. Each of my RAW picture is about 40MB in size. Uploading just one of those babies to the internet means consuming my entire domestic bandwidth for around 5 minutes. Not much Apple can do about that.

Most users have an ADSL connection. In the UK, that might be 20Mb/s download, but only around 1Mb/s upload. Meaning, it's much slower to upload anything to the internet than to download.

My answer: take my laptop into work, where we have a DSL line. Uploads are 5x faster.
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Thanks for the info but yeah I've been taking my laptop into work where we have 20 meg upload! Still takes ages. I can upload the same 1000 photos to Flicker in about a 1/20th of the time they take to upload to iCloud. :confused:
 
Craigy Boy said:
Thanks for the info but yeah I've been taking my laptop into work where we have 20 meg upload! Still takes ages. I can upload the same 1000 photos to Flicker in about a 1/20th of the time they take to upload to iCloud. :confused:
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Start Activity Monitor and have a look at the Network tab. When my (RAW) photos were being uploaded from home, it was maxing out at around 120KB/s. At work, it would happily upload to Apple's servers at 700KB/s, which is what I'd expect.

The upload process takes periodic breaks where it has a rest for a minute or two, but should dominate your available bandwidth when it re-starts.

If you have exclusive access to a 20Mb/s upload at work, Activity Monitor should be indicating data sent/sec well in excess of what I was seeing, i.e. in the megabytes per second range.
 
Another bug I noticed, if you take Panorama shots and edit them on iPhone you are unable to "Edit" in Photos again. If edited on Phone, a panorama becomes uneditable.
 
dukeOfPrunes said:
I resolved my issue by repairing my Library (start photos app while pressing cmd-option). Everything is now uploaded and synced!
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THANK YOU! Everything uploaded and now I'm downloading 2k photo's probably from other devices.

I needed to either cancel or accept another month of iCloud storage charges by today so I'm glad this appears to have worked.
 
Make it so that dragging a video to the desktop exports it (like it does with photos, and like iPhoto did with videos).
 
smart albums to not forget photos

A few people have brought up making a smart album to make sure that you haven't forgotten to file photos. A catch all if you will for photos that are not already in an album. I have been playing around with smart albums and can't figure out how to do this for the life of me! Can some one please explain how to do it?
 
morg0052 said:
A few people have brought up making a smart album to make sure that you haven't forgotten to file photos. A catch all if you will for photos that are not already in an album. I have been playing around with smart albums and can't figure out how to do this for the life of me! Can some one please explain how to do it?
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This seems to work for me.

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dukeOfPrunes said:
I resolved my issue by repairing my Library (start photos app while pressing cmd-option). Everything is now uploaded and synced!
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Everything uploaded/downloaded over the weekend.

I'm synced across 2 computers (1 "main" and the other is set as optimized), 2 iPhones, 1 iPad, and 1 Apple TV. Thanks again.
 
How to disable Photos auto launch when connecting an LG G3 in Yosemite? I don't want to opening automatically.
 
I'd quite like the ability to just upload my favourited pictures to iCloud photos. My library is over 300GB and would take years to upload them all otherwise!
 
Apple TV only updates with newly imported Photos pictures (via Home Sharing) when Home Sharing is turned off in iTunes, iTunes rebooted and Home Sharing turned back on.

Previously used Aperture and it worked without doing this.

Hopefully the Apple TV iCloud Photos will be updated to sync with everything that is in the could.


More flexibility in how your photos are organised
 
Another feature I want:
On IOS devices when optimise storage is enabled.
The ability to download Albums (all photos fullsize) as long as storage is not an issue.

And for Photos to consume more space on a device if it has a lot of freespace.
 
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