Here are the best features the current version of Photos for Mac has going for it. I went through all of the information I could find out there, and I took a lot of notes. 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.īut, 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.
Those who earn a living as a professional (paid) photographer will especially be disappointed at what it can't do.
Photos for Mac, in its current version 1.0, is not an Aperture replacement. Still for sale in the Mac App store only until Photos for Mac is released.īut, 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 Aperture user, the future still looks a little uncertain.
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.Īperture 3, Apple's former “pro” level photo managing application. 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.įrom what I’ve seen, almost everything that you probably use in iPhoto now has already been written into Photos. 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.Īs 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.
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. However, I am very excited to get my hands on it, so thankfully there will also be a public beta released very soon. Unfortunately, I’m not a developer, so I don’t have access to the software yet. Otherwise you can only batch change the title in Photos with an Apple Script: Batch Change Title to Text w/Padded Sequential No.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. Use batch Change in iPhoto to add a title with a running number if the photos in the slideshow do not have title tags. If no title has been assigned, it will not use the filename instead. iPhoto is showing the filename as a default title, if no title has been assigned, while Photos is ignoring the filenames. The new slideshow will be sorted like the album.īefore you export your photos from iPhoto, make sure, that the titles you added are indeed included in the title field. "Īfter sorting, select all photos in the album and use the command "File > Create Slideshow". You can sort this album by date or by title, if you select it in the sidebar, ctrl-click it, then select "Sort > Keep sorted by. This way you will have an album with your recently imported photos. Select all of them there with ⌘A, then enter ⌘N for File > New Album. The most recently imported photos will be in the Last Import album. You create or own organization on top of this basic structure by defining albums. See Old Toad's User Tip: Moments in Photos are the New Events Moments correspond closely to events, only that the are created fully automatically. Photos creates these moments automatically based on the date and the location. Every photo and all its edted versions will be in one moment. When you import photos to Photos, all photos are stored in the library, and the basic structure is based on the moments.
I can not figure out how to reorganzie them. When I drag the slideshow of 300 images from iPhoto to Photos they get separated by date.