The new Photos for Mac icon. In June of 2014, we all learned that Apple had been building a whole new photo managing program called Photos for Mac OS X. Later in the same month, Apple and declared they were also ceasing future development of both of their current applications — iPhoto and Aperture. Apple did however say they would update iPhoto and Aperture to run indefinitely with Mac OS 10.10 Yosemite. So, as long as you are willing to run 10.10, you could in theory use iPhoto or Aperture for as long as your heart's content.

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For the rest of us, we were left sitting there last year, befuddled, with the assumption that Apple must intend for us to eventually move our previous photo libraries over to their new Photos application when it's released sometime “next spring.”. Photos for Mac in the adjustments view.

It’s now February of 2015, and the first version of Photos has been released into the wild as a “developers beta” for a select group to try out. Unfortunately, I’m not a developer, so I don’t have access to the software yet.

However, I am very excited to get my hands on it, so thankfully there will also be a public beta released very soon. In the meantime, journalists and bloggers from multiple websites have already put out “first look” posts and videos letting us know what we should generally expect when we load this application up for the first time. I've read, watched and analyzed almost all of them so I could finally form a better opinion of what iPhoto and Aperture users are going to go through if we decide to start using Photos instead. As I finish up writing this article — and things could change if any new developments are uncovered — here's what I think about the current state of Photos for Mac.

If you use iPhoto regularly, and it pretty much does everything you need in a photo manager, I think you should be very excited about your future with Photos for Mac as a true replacement application. From what I’ve seen, almost everything that you probably use in iPhoto now has already been written into Photos.

On top of this, it's been made even better by simplifying the interface, speeding up the way the software handles large collections, and makes tasks such as color correcting photographs a much simpler process for novices with their new slider controls and syncing of all of your photos with all of your devices using their iCloud Photo Library. Aperture 3, Apple's former “pro” level photo managing application.

Still for sale in the Mac App store only until Photos for Mac is released. But, if you are outgrowing iPhoto’s current feature list — you know, you wish you could do a whole lot more with it — or you are already an avid user, the future still looks a little uncertain. And that's putting it mildly.

Photos for Mac, in its current version 1.0, is not an Aperture replacement. Those who earn a living as a professional (paid) photographer will especially be disappointed at what it can't do. However, I am still optimistic as ever, and do believe Apple is working towards the goal of adding a lot of Aperture's most popular features back in, either through core routine updates or possibly even 3rd party plugins and extensions. But, with this first 1.0 version release, the list of missing items that made Aperture so great is longer than even a light “photo enthusiast” Aperture user would prefer.

What's Already Great With Photos for Mac I went through all of the information I could find out there, and I took a lot of notes. Here are the best features the current version of Photos for Mac has going for it. This isn't an exhaustive list of all its features, but merely just a list of what I see as the highlights.

Clean Interface Not that I ever thought iPhoto or Aperture was ever cluttered, Photos for Mac is even cleaner and easier to find things. It looks like Jonathan Ive and his team did their thing and scraped away anything and everything that wasn't essential to the current list of features. What's left in some views is pretty much just your photos and a few buttons you will use to navigate around your photos. Non-destructively rotating an image in Photos for Mac. ICloud Photo Library If you elect to turn on this optional flagship feature, in addition to having all of your photos and videos stored locally on your Mac, you can also have them on all of your other devices as well by tapping into your iCloud Photo Library space. Yes, I said videos too!

And to be clear, this is unlike the current Photostream where you are limited to only the last 1000 photos you have taken. With iCloud Photo Library, you are only limited by the amount of space you have in your storage plan. Additionally, photos and videos formally backed up in iCloud won't be now, because they will already be stored in the iCloud Photo Library. This means you won't have duplicates taking up double the iCloud storage space.

It's fairly obvious why this feature is optional and turned off by default. Not only is an internet connection necessary (there are still places in the world without it), unlike in your Photostream, photos and videos stored in your iCloud Photo Library will come at a cost starting at $0.99 (USD) a month for 20 extra gigabytes of storage. ICloud Storage Pricing (Monthly) Prices effective as of. When you sign up for iCloud, you automatically get 5 GB of free storage. If you need more storage, you can upgrade to a larger storage plan (Prices USD Monthly). 5 GB Free 50 GB $0.99 200 GB $2.99 2 TB $9.99 The additional cost however will probably be outweighed by the tremendous convenience this will unleash on you having all of your photos on all of your devices at the same time.

This means you won't have to spend time anymore creating special albums to sync from within iPhoto or Aperture to your iPhone just so you were sure you had important photos with you to show your friends and family while away from your Mac. If you shoot a photo on your iPhone, it's automatically added to your iCloud Photo Library, which means it will then appear on your Mac, your other iOS devices, and even on iCloud.com.

(Cheating partners, here's your fair warning!) Are you getting excited yet!? ICloud settings panel in the Photos for Mac Preferences window.

ICloud Photo Library automatically stores all of your photos and videos in their original formats, including JPEG, RAW, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and MP4. Additionally, you can select “Optimize Mac Storage” for your computers and devices that have less storage space to work with. If you choose Optimize Storage, iCloud Photo Library will help make the most of the space on your device, keeping your full-resolution library in iCloud and storage-saving versions on each device. You will choose to have this “optimize” option on or off for each device in its settings for the app, as some of your devices will have more local storage space than others. According to Serenity Caldwell of iMore.com in her article ““: If you select optimized storage, your computer will only store a percentage of your images on-device at high resolution, with the rest available from iCloud.

That percentage changes depending on how much free space you have available on your Mac, and it intentionally doesn't take up the entirety of your hard drive. (You won't have to worry about your optimized library only leaving you 500 MB of free space to work with on a 128GB MacBook Air, for instance.) High-resolution pictures and video are prioritized behind the scenes, with specific groups of images — say, favorites and recently edited photographs — chosen to be stored locally. Additionally, any time you open up an image to edit it, the high-resolution version is pulled down from iCloud's central repository. If you would like to know more details about how the iCloud Photo Library works, here's a on Apple's website.

Syncing Not only can all of your photos be on all of your devices at the same time, they will also all be in sync. This is absolutely incredible. If you do something to your collection on one device, the change is also made to your other devices also running a version of Photos automatically. This feature goes hand-in-hand with iCloud Photo Library, so it will only be active if you have turned on iCloud Photo Library and on the device you want to be in sync.

Here are a few examples how syncing works:. Editing — If you edit a photo, for example you crop it and add a filter to make it black and white, the same photo will be updated within seconds on all of your other devices with the same edits applied. Deleting — If you delete a photo from one version of Photos on one of your devices, within seconds the same photo will be deleted on all of your other devices as well. Currently, if you were wondering, a photo can't exist on one device and not on others with iCloud Photo Library enabled.

IOS Parity iOS users will feel right at home since Photos for Mac was written to look and feel similar. So if you're already comfortable using Photos in iOS 8.1 or later, you already know how to use Photos for Mac. Multiple Organizational Views Like the iOS 8.1 and later version of Photos, Photos for Mac also organizes all of your photos in a chronological way so that you can see your entire life in photos quickly and easily without the complication of having to organize your photos in “Events” or “Project” folders like we were forced to do in iPhoto or Aperture. Apple states: The beautiful all-new design of the Photos app uses Moments, Collections, and Years views to automatically organize your photos and videos by time and location. With dramatically more screen space devoted to your photos, you can easily scan your entire library at a glance and quickly find the content you’re looking for. A new, streamlined toolbar puts the right controls at your fingertips, giving you instant access to the photos you’ve shared, the albums you’ve made, and the projects you’ve created.

And you can even use gestures to browse your entire photo collection with just a touch. Additional basic and advanced adjustments that you can add or remove from your view.(image: ) Aperture users take note of this here!! Advanced users who might be worried Photos for Mac doesn't at all have a pathway to advanced photo editing should be relieved to see this “add adjustments” panel opened.

Inside you will see additional adjustment controls that can be added or removed to customize your view. Notice how it's divided up into basic and advanced — one way advanced needs could and probably will be serviced in the future.

Apple could update the application with more and more advanced controls, and in theory, even open it up to 3rd parties with plugins or extensions to add anything a photo enthusiast or pro would want. Large libraries will now feel “zippier.” It's no secret that many people all over the world have complained their massive collections in iPhoto are bringing their laptops and some older desktops to a crawl as they try to do almost anything in it. These days are hopefully over since Photos was written from the ground up with an all-new method of handling your collection. “Buttery smooth” is a term Crag Federighi, Senior Vice President of Sofware Engineering, used to describe how flowing through an almost endless wall of your photos' thumbnails will feel. Filters There is a much improved upon filter support built into Photos that should also allow for 3rd party extensions to bring in custom ones.

Faces Faces is back to help you quickly group and tag multiple photos with someone's name using built-in facial recognition algorithms. It appears to be a bit different in Photos and hopefully is even more accurate than we've seen before. Metadata Support. Info window with metadata inside of Photos for Mac (version 1.0) Basic EXIF metadata such as detailed camera info and GPS location can be displayed in an Information window similar to how it functioned in iPhoto and Aperture. Photos also handles limited IPTC metadata support with captions and keywords. Sharing Use the Share menu to easily share photos via iCloud Photo Sharing and AirDrop. Or send photos to your favorite photo-sharing destinations, such as Facebook and Twitter.

You can also customize the menu and share directly to other compatible sites that offer sharing extensions. Sharing options in Photos for Mac.

Photo Books and Projects The ability to create special projects is back as you would have have hoped. Making special gifts for loved ones is easier than ever with Photos. Simple tools and new Apple-designed themes help you create beautiful prints, photo books, cards, and calendars that your friends and family will always cherish. Fresh new designs and streamlined tools help you easily build beautiful custom photo books. Add full‑bleed, two-page spreads and include your own captions, maps, and more. You can create square books in new 10‑by‑10‑inch or 8‑by‑8‑inch sizes in both hardcover and softcover.

Order gorgeous prints of the iPhone panoramas you’ve taken. Just choose Auto-Sized to print your photos with no cropping in sizes up to 36 inches wide.

Or choose from a variety of new square sizes. What’s Possibly “Bad” For You With Photos for Mac Now, after combing through all of the articles and videos I have found since the release of the first developer beta, here is my list of all of the things that stood out to me that have the potential to make switching over to Photos version 1.0 feel anywhere from a bit different for you, all the way up to very challenging or even uncomfortable. All of these points below shouldn't immediately be considered a bad thing to you. But, depending on how set in your ways you've become using iPhoto or Aperture, they may or may not be something that will cause you to rethink how you work with your photos. Like before, this isn't a complete list, but are just ones I was able to put together as I sensed concern and fear during my research. Events/Projects Are Simply Albums Now Photos doesn't use “Events” like we have in iPhoto or “Projects” like Aperture uses to separate, organize and store your master images in.

Instead, all of your photos (master images) are stored in one place — in one folder if you will — that you access by merely clicking on the “Photos” tab at the top of the application. By clicking on “Photos” tab at top, you have can view your entire photo collection in a thumbnail view that you can easily scroll up and down through. This is very similar to iPhoto and Aperture where you have the “Photos” quick-link at the top left of your library that when clicked, will display your entire library of photos all at one time. But, now the real difference is you will no longer need to bother spending any time choosing a secondary “folder” — Event or Project — to store your photos in like you had to before while importing new photos in iPhoto and Aperture. Instead Photos will use your camera metadata to organize all of your photos in various orders. The beautiful all-new design of the Photos app uses Moments, Collections, and Years views to automatically organize your photos and videos by time and location. I really think this could end up being a very freeing addition for iPhoto users or anyone else that never appreciated this task of organizing photos into separate “Events” or “Project” folders.

Now, using GPS, time and date information pulled from your camera's EXIF metadata, your photos are all automatically organized for you in a chronological linear fashion. But user-specified organization hasn't been eliminated from Photos. Instead of focusing all of your attention organizing your master images into separate folders, now you just deal with creating albums and smart albums to bring together limitless “virtual” copies of your photos in groups of your choosing. And whether you use albums is completely optional. Additionally for those who like their ways of tidiness, any number of albums can be put inside of folders to help create tighter and hierarchical organization. Jason Linaschke from “” says: On migration from Aperture, Projects containing no albums become albums, while Projects containing albums become folders containing multiple albums; one album contains the entire project’s photos, and additional albums are created for each album in the original project.

Years view in Photos for Mac (developer beta) showing how a lot of albums in a collection on the left hand side. Notice near the bottom, there is a folder called “iPhoto Events” that was created to contain all of the albums made from the user's iPhoto Events upon import. (Image: ) iCloud Is All or None From what I've read, and from what I can tell from the minimal Preferences window, iCloud Photo Library is an “all of your photos” or a “none of your photos” kind of a deal. So either you turn it on and all of the photos in your collection will be stored in your iCloud Photo Library space, or you keep it turned off and none of your photos are stored and synced with it. There is a workaround though. In theory, all you would have to do to be a bit more discreet without your collection that you share with “the cloud” is to create a second Photos library.

I believe the setting for iCloud Photo Storage is a per-library setting, so photos in this second library wouldn't have to be uploaded. As later versions evolve, and Apple becomes more confident in their syncing with all of our photos, they might opt to give us more control as to which photos we share in iCloud Photo Library. For example, they could allow us to select an album of photos and turn off iCloud syncing with that specific album. Correct EXIF Metadata Is Even More Crucial (UPDATED) (Revised – see below) Those using Photos with scanned photos in their collection will find that it's more important than ever to insure that the “date shot” is correct inside of your master image's metadata.

If you scan a photo, and don't use software to change the “date shot” EXIF metadata attached to this photo, if you were to import this photo into Photos for Mac, Photos will try and organize this photo chronologically based on the date and time you scanned the photo — which is near the current date and time, not when the image in the photo was taken! So now as you're scrolling through the Collections, Moments or Year view in Photos, you will see this older photo mixed in with current photos because Photos doesn't know that you scanned an old photo taken a long time ago. As of now, it doesn't appear that Photos has the “Adjust Date and Time” feature like iPhoto and Aperture has. So currently, you will be on your own to use another application to adjust this date and time before you import them into Photos. “Adjust date and time” in iPhoto. This feature is also available in Aperture, but isn't currently seen in Photos for Mac v.1.0.

UPDATED (2015-03-04): In the comments below this post, that while trying out the public beta that was just released, he discovered that Photos does in fact have an option to adjust the Date and Time of a photo. I just tested this in my beta version of Photos and he is most certainly correct! So, maybe this was added in a subsequent build from the original version journalists received. Photos for Mac showing “Adjust Date and Time” feature Photos v.1.0 (205.44.0). Batch Changing: Additionally, I tried to see if it could “batch change” multiple photographs. I highlighting two different photos and then selecting the option to “ Adjust Date and Time” and I was given the option of changing the first photo's date and time to the same specific date and time, and then the second photo would be time-shifted accordingly. The ability to time-shift multiple photos is great in situations where a digital camera's date and time wasn't set correctly and a set of photos is off consistently.

However, this won't be helpful when trying to change multiple photos to the same exact date, such as when trying to change the shoot date of multiple scanned photos you knew were all taken on the same date. Instead, it appears to want to only change the first photo highlighted, and then time-shifts the others using its current date taken metadata — which is most often the date the photo was scanned into your computer. Photos for Mac showing batch feature of “Adjust Date and Time” with 2 photos selected Photos Version 1.0 (205.44.0). Star Ratings, Flags and Color Ratings Are “Gone” Star ratings, flags and color labels are no longer part of Photos — at least not in this version. Instead, you have the option to favorite a photo by giving it a “heart” — clicking on the heart looking icon near the photo. All photos you've favorited in this manner are then accessible by the “Favorites” menu item under albums.

(This appears to work like flagging did in iPhoto and Aperture — either on or off for a give photo) Fear not though! All of your star ratings, flags and color labels you gave your photos in iPhoto and Aperture carry over to Photos, and are merely turned into keywords for you.

Your photos previously marked as having 5 stars now has a keyword of “5 stars.” The same for the rest: e.g. “4 stars,” “3 stars” “1 star.” Flags and color rating also receive an appropriately named keyword. So, you can continue to add a star ratings with keywords to all of your favorite photos and then search for these selected photos in the search field. Or, you could create a smart album with the condition of showing all photos that contain the keyword “5 stars” if you want to produce the same result often.

Additionally, for quick application, you can assign your star ratings as keyboard shortcuts, such as to the number keys 1 through 5. After you've set it up, it's as simple as just hitting a number key when a photo is selected and the keyword will be applied. I believe more than ever that Apple is moving all of their applications to using keywords and tags, which they see as the future of organizing in all of its software. Geotagging Photos Missing You can view the geotag information with photos already tagged with this geo-specific information from your camera's EXIF metadata. But, it appears as if currently you can't add geotag information to those photos missing it once inside of Photos. Edit Photos in Application Missing As of the beta release, opening a photo with an external editor (such as Photoshop) isn’t currently an option.

But, like other missing features, this doesn’t mean it’s not possible the public version of 1.0 “this spring” won’t be released with the feature added in, or that it won’t be one of the early items added in with feature updates. From what I am seeing with current software developed by Apple, they are moving forward with extensions (iOS with 3rd party extensions for photo filters etc.) and sometimes plugins (Final Cut Pro X) to allow externally controlled applications. So, I am really not too worried this is something they will never add in. I think it’s just a matter of time.

Aperture Specific Features (Currently) Missing:. Batch-renaming photos during import — This is personally huge for me. Though, we can do this in another application first before import if we had to. List view — Very helpful with many aspects of organizing and labeling in Aperture when you don't want to view just thumbnails. IPTC Metadata — All IPTC metadata thankfully is brought over and still stored within your photos, but sadly, much of it isn't currently accessible and in much of a capacity.

Custom fields — Not currently brought over at all! (Don't import your collection with custom fields at all into Photos without a backup stored away!).

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Stacks — sigh I love using stacks!. Brushes.

Metadata batch adjustments. Merge/split libraries. Split view. Curves.

Custom Metadata views Seeing Photos In Action Reading about Photos and seeing screenshots of it is one thing, but seeing video of the application being used is another thing entirely. I've good a few really good videos for you that I've found. First, start with the 2-minute long video clip of Photos for Mac being shown off for the first time ever during the 2014 World Wide Developer Conference in June of 2014.

It's already cued up for you, ready to start right when the software is being introduced. (Problems playing video? ) Final Thoughts If everything missing and different about Photos for Mac makes you feel a little sick inside, please remember that all of us who have enjoyed Apple for many years have come to learn that Apple is willing to kill off some of their favorite children if it means moving forward with how it envisions the future. So now, as you try and get your head wrapped around how your life will be with Photos for Mac, please keep in mind this is just the beginning.

The very beginning. Even if version 1.0 isn’t released later in the Spring with new amazing features we haven’t seen yet, it’s still possible Apple will have new features added in updates shortly. Just getting the iCloud Photo Library syncing engine working smoothly is a monumental task in itself. Maybe all of us being patient for a few “key” missing items, just long enough to give Apple enough time to make sure they don't lose half of our photo collections on the way up to the cloud, will turn out to be a good trade. Bit late to this topic but recently updated to El Capitan and Photos.

At least I put current library on Photos to see what it looked like. I only meant to add a few events but somehow the whole library went across. I decided I didn’t like the Photos version so have carried on using iPhoto. Trouble is that when I look at Events in iPhoto any photos which I put in an album aren’t in the Event any longer!

The album is still there. In searching through all my events in iPhoto I found a single new event with all the lost album photos in it. The method I used originally to create the albums was to flag selected photos and drag them across in bulk to the album, but of course when this was done they also were shown in the event.

Also, can’t use the return to original option in Photos for the imports from iPhotos, nor the export to Facebook with comments included. My biggest challenge is getting a backup of the Photos library off line.

And, when I want to restore it, it will work! I know I can drag a copy of the Photos library to an external disk and then drive to the bank and put it in a safe deposit box. Actually, that’s what I do!

But, I really would like something more dynamic and timely, i.e. Being able to back it up to a cloud service like BackBlaze. But I see warnings/disclaimers by Apple that say there are not guarantees because of formats, etc. And, actually it’s an even bigger question. For instance, TimeMachine has to go to a local drive too!

What do you do? I don’t share the hate you have for Apple Photos, but I do agree the name is certainly more challenging to work with when you are trying to search for information about it on the internet. But, Apple obviously wasn’t the only one that sacrificed this for us. I mean, Google named their product Photos too! Website content creators (like mine) have taken this into consideration and almost always use the full name of the application when writing tutorials and reviews. So, when searching in Google, search for “ Apple Photos” or “ Photos for macOS” and you will more than likely find what you are looking for. Another tip, if you use quotes around the title as well, this will insure your results find these keywords in places where the words are next to each other.

OMG this new Photos app is driving me freaking nuts! I am a graphic designer and regularly use finder to search and drag my photos into photoshop. I didn’t know this replaced iPhoto when I upgraded to High Sierra, otherwise I would have never done it. I am at a loss when i have to open Photos find my pic and then export it to my freaking desktop! Why did they destroy something that was so useful ie. ‘reveal in finder’ now i have to do 15 steps to accomplish the same thing that only took me one. How the hell do I get rid of this app I HATE it!!!!!!!!!

Also what is a good replacement. I was perfectly happy with the old iPhoto. This just made my life a living hell.

I can sense your frustration with the amount of exclamation points you used. I’m not going to try and oversell Photos on you, other than to tell you my initial reaction was somewhat similar, being a long-time Aperture lover (the pro version of iPhoto Apple stopped updating at the same time as iPhoto) But, over time, I’ve learned to understand why they did what they did, and can see where they are going with it. So, let’s start at the top with your issues: 1) iPhotos is probably still on your computer. Have you looked for it in the applications folder? Most people realize it’s still there, because the intention is for you to be able to use both applications while you get used to using Photos. If it’s NOT still on your computer, you can restore it from one of your Time Machine backups and use it again.

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I still often use Aperture and sometimes even iPhoto (even on the latest version of macOS, even though it hasn’t been updated in years). 2) You don’t need to open and export your photos to use it with Photoshop. You can: a) click “edit” on the photo you want to edit. Then at the top of the application, in the row of buttons, the second button over from the left, is one with a circle with 3 little dots in it. Click on it, and you can see all of the applications you can open that photo in and do edits with. Then those edits come back to Photos when you return. Or: b) if you don’t store your master photo files inside of the Photo library, but instead “reference” them — where you store your photos in folders on your storage drive wherever you want — then you can click on the little “arrow” icon badge at the top right of the thumbnail images in Photos (that tells you your photo is being referenced) and then it will say “Show referenced file in Finder.” This does the same thing as “reveal in finder” that was in iPhoto.

It doesn’t reveal the photo in Photos if your photo isn’t being referenced, because your photo is being stored safely inside of the library file. It doesn’t want you to accidentally move or delete it, breaking the link its managing, so revealing it isn’t in your best interest. I reference all of my photos (setting unchecked in the preferences before I import my photos) so I don’t have this issue. So, if you take your time to get used to Photos. And all of the things it does, I think you will find it actually does more than iPhoto in many ways. If you really don’t want to use Photos, or iPhoto. Curtis, this is a banner review of photos.

Granted, I just now got the email. Glad, too announce, I have purchased a pretty nice scanner and, now I am ready to scan my life. The extra bonus of this email to you is, the fact, I now have nearly 50 years of images to scan.

Including a collection of chromes (slides) from my father and the early years of my own chromes. Starting around the early 70’s. Plus all the photos, hundreds to scan. Of course, after the scan process is completed, not too sure how I will share these with the family. I seem to be the only MAC user. I had hoped to make videos for them to view on their cd players with their televisions. Not too sure how that will play out.

Thanks for all your hard work. I have switched over to the Photo App. Not too difficult to adjust to. The cloud is great, cause my MAC is a desktop. Makes sharing much easier with those that have a computer.

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May God continue to bless you and your loved ones. Victory-Lorie B.

Hey Victory-Lorie, that’s great to hear you purchased a new scanner. Is this one to replace your Canon-Pixma MG8220 you had when we last talked, or is this actually your new one? I wouldn’t worry about the sharing part with your non-Mac family and friends.

Photos will make it easy (if not already now, in later updates) to export and share all of your photos in a way they can enjoy them. Whether it be giving them access to an online gallery through iCloud or with another online photo sharing site like, or even just select a folder of photos and exporting them out to a drive or DVD and having Photos covert them to smaller JPG files in the process. There will be a way for you.

First off let me say I really like Photos and have been waiting patiently for it to update. On a side note when it finally did release it was quite anti-climactic for me I didn’t even know it happened, I guess since I was so excited I expected some triumphant fan fare. With that said I am finding it not as easy to add faces as it was in iPhoto. In iPhoto you could tab/Enter your way through all the new faces in a matter of minutes (if you are the kind of person that stays on top of it). In Photos you have to actually use the mouse to move around from one area of the screen to another, slowing the process down considerably.

Have you noticed this or do you have a solution for it. Also I created my first Smart Album only to discover they don’t transfer to iOS???? I would love some more blog posts about using Photos and maybe one dedicated to workflow. Thanks for your great blog.

I’ll have to look into your issue with Faces and navigating around. There’s still quite a bit I’m testing out with it myself, trying to catch up and get a hold with what’s just not updated yet (since this is a 1.0 release), and what Apple is planning on abandoning as the new application moves forward. I’m sure some things we loved with iPhoto and Aperture I’m sure they have decided to get rid of for good. Good to know you would like more Photos posts in the future.

Sna software for mac. Thanks for that input. Sometime’s it’s hard for me to gauge what people would like to read about the most. There are just so many applications to cover — Lightroom 6 just came out for example. Good question. Photos will allow you to sync all of your photos across all devices, assuming that you have paid for enough iCloud Photos Storage space to accommodate them. Right now the plans only go up to 1TB, but I suspect the storage amount and price is going to continue to fluctuate routinely through the years from here on out as more and more competition escalate, and the prices of hardware like hard drives goes down in price.

Each AppleID allows you to have up to 5 devices, so, it’s possible you could give one or more of your 5 device “licenses” to someone else in your family and they will have access to your entire collection that’s being synced and do everything to it that you have access to do to it — edits etc. Now, even though I haven’t done this yet, it appears from what I’ve read that Photos also allows you to share albums with others — anyone that you would like. This would be independent of your 5 devices restrictions because you aren’t giving them access to your AppleID or your entire collection, you are just picking an album in Photos and sharing it with others. Apple writes on “Create a shared album and you control who sees what. Simply choose a photo (or photos) to start with and invite a few friends to join in, make comments, and even add their own shots.” So, to answer your question, it’s mainly per person, but there are ways to share with others as well. Yup, Mark is right — 10.10.3 came out April 8th. A few people have reported to me that their copy of iPhoto or Aperture was removed from their Application folder after doing the update, and they had to re-download their purchase from the Mac App Store.

So, if it’s important that you have either of these applications installed a bit longer, and you don’t want to take this chance, it might be wise to make a backup of these applications someplace first so you don’t have to re-download or reinstall from a DVD copy. This didn’t happen to me when I updated to 10.10.3. My applications remained in my application folder, so I’m not exactly sure what triggers this application “removal.”.