Apple is rolling out the first pre-release seed of OS X 10.10.3 to testers and developers today including the all-new Photos app with support for iCloud Photo Library beta. Previously, iCloud Photo Library was only available for desktop users through iCloud.com using a web app. The new Photos app replaces iPhoto while Aperture is also no longer being developed. Apple first announced the new Photos app at WWDC 2014 and later added that development would no longer continue on either iPhoto or Aperture. Adobe released a tool last fall to help Aperture users migrate photos to their pro app Lightroom.
â€" OS X Yosemite users with access to pre-release seeds can find the update through the Mac App Store.
â€" The pre-release seed is also available through the Mac Dev Center for developers.
â€" Build 14D72i for first pre-release seed up from OS X 10.10.2 build 14C109.
â€" New Photos app description:
All new for OS X, Photos automatically organizes your photo library and helps you perfect your photos with comprehensive editing tools. You can also store your photos and videos in the cloud using iCloud Photo Library, and access them on all your devices.
Photos lets you:
- Browse your photos by time and location in Moments, Collections, and Years views.
- Navigate your library using convenient Photos, Shared, Albums, and Projects tabs.
- Store all of your photos and videos in iCloud Photo Library in their original format and in full resolution.
- Access your photos and videos stored in iCloud Photo Library from your Mac, iPhone, iPad, or iCloud.com with any web browser.
- Perfect your photos with powerful and easy-to-use editing tools that optimize with a single click or slider, or allow precise adjustments with detailed controls.
- Create professional-quality photo books with simplified bookmaking tools, new Apple-designed themes, and new square book formats.
- Purchase prints in new square and panoramic sizes.
â€" Apple says the new Photos app will be released publicly this spring, OS X 10.10.3 will be a free update to Yosemite users
iCloud Photo Library offers users the ability to keep a single photo collection in sync across iPhones, iPads, iPod touches, and Macs. Edits to photos including crops and filter additions are even synced across devices unlike the alternative My Photo Stream feature. Albums you create and photos you delete are also synced across devices.
Also unlike My Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Library does count against your iCloud storage space. Apple gives each account 5GB for free, but if you have any real amount of photos in your library, you’ll likely want to upgrade to a larger storage plan. iCloud storage plans range from 20GB to 1TB starting at 99¢ per month up to $20 per month.
Apple pushes pre-release OS X 10.10.2 (14C106a) preview to testers
Apple releases new pre-release OS X Yosemite 10.10.2 beta (build 14C94b) w/ focus on WiFi, Mail, Â VoiceOver
http://www.macworld.com/article/2880099/first-look-photos-for-os-x.html
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7982735/apple-new-iphoto-announced-photos-app-for-mac
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7982517/apple-photos-mac-iphoto-replacement-explainer-faq
http://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7982517/apple-photos-mac-iphoto-replacement-explainer-faq
“THIS ISN’T AN APERTURE REPLACEMENTâ€
In The Verge’s review: “Now, if you were one of the people who loved Aperture because you like adjusting every possible little setting, and having things like a loupe for pixel-peeping, adjustment brushes for fixing dust spots or blown highlights, and plug-ins to add extra features, here’s some bad news: none of these things are present in Photos.â€
Also, this is the first beta, so those features may sneak back in as the development cycle progresses.
And while features will be brought into Photos in future versions along with UI improvements, it’s pretty clear that there’s no intention for the foreseeable future of Photos getting to Aperture level or being competitive with Lightroom.
This is a worthy iPhoto replacement in every way, but not an Aperture replacement. It’s weird Apple marketed it as such. But here’s what COULD save it: support for extentions. Pixelmator already has an OSX extention (their great repair tool) and there’s much more to come. Imagine if other apps would do the same. Photos could gain more functionality through these plugin-like extentions than Aperture ever had on its own.
it works!
http://downloadbox.org/apple-os-x-yosemite-10-10-3-build-14d72i/200978/
extract the file “Photos†(Pacifist for Mac)
On the other hand, albums will work as folders or as “tags†as they work on iOS?
Feedback for long processes is poor â€" looks like they copied from Windows Phone.
Something like FinalCutPro X.
Most professional needs to import RAW files, have big set of tools to edit them and then export them with specific settings.
App should be quickeasy, and gives photographer simple way to work with it his pictures.
New Photos App probably will be good for amateurs but It’s not revolutionary, innovative or modern.
It is just another boring program but with cloud based library.
I’m very disappointed that Apple ditched pro users completely. I didn’t bought macbook pro to use Windows Apps on it.
Early days i know, but i have switched on ‘iCloud Photo Library’ on iOS devices and done some trial albums. They sync nicely across all devices and any changes are mirrored so it seems. The editor looks good for simple editing. I am no pro but for general fixes, it seems neat and sleek.
Only thing I cannot figure out is recently taken photos. These seem to just be all thrown into an album titled ‘All Photos’ which has, as the title suggests, every photo in (including album sorted photos). Delete out of here and it deletes out of the album and vice versa. I’m just a little uncomfortable with everything going in here… it seems difficult to tell which snaps have been sorted into albums and any deletions made in here are affected across all devices.
Anyone have any ideas on how to keep ‘new snaps’ separate to ‘organised photos’? Can a smart album be synced so that is shows maybe only recent 14 days of photos?
Thanks :)
iCloud is optional:
iCloud is completely optional in Photos. It’s off by default, and there’s not annoyance or anything to turn it on. They’ll be marketing iCloud as a feature, but it entirely optional.
You could use other cloud services:
Simply store your library in the cloud syncing directory such as Dropbox. But keep in mind, you’ll need Photos on OS X to open that library as a library. Otherwise, you’d need to navigate within the package which is messy and you certainly wouldn’t want to edit there.
Almost everything from iPhotos in in Photos:
iPhotos users should be happy with the transition to Photos. The big exceptions comes from things like what you could do with Faces and Places.
Much is missing from Aperture:
I can’t imagine any true Aperture user being satisfied with Photos. You’d have to have been someone who was really on the iPhoto side of the fence with Aperture to be content with Photos. Clearly Lightroom is the intended transition path for Aperture users.
There’s not much reason to use Photos on a Mac versus Photos on an iOS device:
They share much of the same UI and functionality. There are some advantages on the Mac, but little that I could see that differs from what you could do on an iOS device. Faces is more functional on the Mac version. On the other hand, since few extensions are available on the Mac version yet, advanced editing may be stronger with iOS for now.
Import from iPhoto or Aperture:
Importing from iPhoto or Aperture is easy and painless but… you can’t go back with the library. Duplicate your library and import that into Photos first and keep the original just in case.
Sharing:
All the old sharing features are still there… Facebook, Flickr, etc…
Multiple libraries:
Still there, just hold down the option key on launch.
Non-destruction:
You can revert back to the original… even on a library imported from iPhoto/Aperture, but you can’t undo any previous single edit done in iPhoto/Aperture.
While this is still beta, I’m not expecting Apple to add many if any significant feature before launch, and certainly not expecting them to add anything that makes this Aperture level anytime in the foreseeable future.
Edit: let me know if you have any questions and I’ll try to answer them.
10.10.3 almost killed my Retina iMac which had to be hard reset during install.
“BUT ITS BETAâ€. Apple Betas are not supposed to brick Macs.
If you notice the other article, Apple actually built a new private framework for the app as well. Building a whole new app from the ground up takes a lot of time, and having a large budget doesn’t change anything.
They should really do that for all their software. Throw out the old and start over. iTunes??
â€" When you have information in the photo description field, will this be available in Photos once you imported the pictures from iPhoto? Is this field searchable from iOS devices?
â€" Does the old face recognition from iPhoto still work? What about all the faces that were already recognized?
Well, I will be able to transfer I photo library to photos for os x? I have my iPhone library on external hard drive