Matt Elliott/CNET Apple's blurring of the lines between OS X and iOS continues with the release of Photos for Mac. Photos was part of the OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 update and is meant to replace Aperture and iPhoto. IPhone users will immediately feel comfortable with its layout; Photos for Mac looks and acts like the Photos app for iOS. Apple makes it easy, holding your hand as you leave iPhoto and walk your photo library over to Photos.
There are still some questions you need to answer as you move to the new Photos app, from whether you should use the option to store your library in iCloud to what you should do with your old iPhoto library. When you update to OS X Yosemite version 10.10.3 you will get the new Photos app, and by default it replaces iPhoto as your default photo-management app. Connect a camera to your Mac and Photos springs into action instead of iPhoto, for example. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET. When you launch Photos for the first time, it'll ask you to choose a library or create a new one.
If you have uploaded photos to your Facebook account, you might want to later import these images into iPhoto on your Mac. Facebook account members can upload photos from any computer when they sign in to their account. Hook up the USB download cable that came with the camera. Turn on the computer. Open iPhoto and plug the USB cable into one of the Mac's USB ports. Mac OSX: I can't find iPhoto. I can't download any pictures anywhere. I thought iPhoto came with OSX but not all applications. Can I get iPhoto? Should I look for another application to do th.
Odds are you will opt for the former and choose your iPhoto Library so that you can use Photos to browse, edit and share your photos as you did previously with iPhoto. After choosing a library, the next question to answer is whether to use iCloud Photo Library.
ILife '11- single and family pack: I have a Windows 7, can I buy iPhoto and use it on my Windows? Mac computers come with iPhoto, which in addition to providing a great way to view your images, also allows you to edit and share your pictures. The first step is to get the.
If you go this route, then your photos and videos are stored in iCloud and you get the convenience of accessing them from your Mac, iOS devices, and a browser via iCloud.com. You'll have one centralized library so that photos you snap with your iPhone appear in the Photos for Mac without you needing to do anything, and photos from, say, your dSSL that you throw on your Mac can be viewed on your iPad. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET The drawback of this convenience is you'll almost assuredly need to pay for an iCloud storage plan. You get only 5GB for free, which even the smallest of libraries will quickly exceed.
Pay plans start at 99 cents for 20GB and go up to $19.99 a month for 1TB of online storage. Screenshot by Matt Elliott/CNET To use your iOS devices, update to iOS 8.3, which removes the beta tag from the mobile iCloud Photo Library offering. Then in Settings, go to Photos & Camera and tap the toggle switch to enable iCloud Photo Library. And to save space on your iPhone, you can choose the Optimized iPhone Storage option, which uploads full-resolution photos and videos to iCloud and keeps 'optimized versions' on your iPhone.
This arrangement allows you to access your local copies of your photos and videos, which means less lag than if iOS had to locate them on iCloud before displaying them. Photos for Mac has a similar setting to help you optimize storage on your Mac.