“Photos is certainly among the most important applications on Mac or iPhone, so Apple’s decision to improve it in iOS 10 and macOS Sierra will impact all of us,” Jonny Evans writes for Computerworld. “The new and improved Photos is smarter than ever before.”
“You’ll find the views to be cleaner and more modern feeling, with rounded album tiles, photo and video counts,” Evans writes. “When you hover over an album it will let you scrub through a short preview of what’s inside.”
“The biggest addition is intelligence,” Evans writes. “The Memories feature (controlled by a new Preference item, all preferences otherwise the same) helps you look back at photos you may not otherwise have looked at, surfacing forgotten moments that may have become buried in your collection as it grows.”
“People replaces Faces and is much smarter at identifying people,” Evans writes. “Click on a person and you’ll be rewarded with a beautifully presented album of images featuring them, with links to selections consisting of your images of people they have been photographed with and a Places map showing you where on the map you have been together.”
Much more, including screenshots, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The new Photos’ ability to identify not just faces, but also objects and scenes within your library of images is a boon for organizing and presenting your photos!
OK, but the scrubbing thing was already in iPhoto. What we want are the organizational features put back so we can migrate big libraries.
I have older photo libraries that I want to tag by group with dates and locations. Can I do that?
Please bring back Events. They were easy to understand and just worked. Moments just doesn’t work like Events.
I have a large library in iPhoto (~2tb) that I haven’t brought in to Photos yet owing to Photos lack of “Events”. Apple got me to organize my stuff using Events for years, and now I’m being punished. David Pogue intimated that Events would be brought back in upcoming versions of Photos, but it doesn’t look like it’s in this new version. I also wonder if all the “Faces” that I’ve meticulously organized in iPhoto will transfer over to “People”.
Events is still there: it’s called “Moments” now.
Events were auto-generated groupings of photos by time taken.
Moments are auto-generated groupings of photos by time taken.
There is *literally* no difference there other than the name.
I have a big aperture library (6tb) and am wondering if photos will ever have all the features. And will I ever be able to import it?
….waiting
It’s called albums…
“a boon for organizing and presenting your photos!”
Yeah, like properly scaled star ratings. Are those back yet?
Hope Photos has this feature: on my iPod or iPhone, I want to type “Boeing 777” into a search bar and find my photographs of that airliner.
Maybe find it with Siri, too, by saying Boeing 777.
Try Google Photos. It can already do that.
I know people will say that Moments are just the new name for Events. Maybe so…but,
as of now, you still can’t create a new Moment or merge existing Moments. If they ever let us do this then I think a lot of people will be more accepting of Photos. I deal with it but still don’t care for it too much.
I hear Affinty is working on a DAM of their own. It’ll be interesting to see this. I really dig Affinity Photo.
They’ve kept it pretty well under wraps with nary a mention of their intentions save one tidbit in their blog.
I’m sorry to sound like a broken record but I would do anything to dump Lightroom.
The first co. to make a compelling alternative gets my cash.
You would trust Apple again after they dumped Aperture? I had Aperture and I was pissed!
Trust is a strong word my friend.
I’m one of those positive types and I’m just hoping for the best. Apple once considered us to be customers actually worth courting, perhaps they will again.
Meanwhile I await news from Affinity but also from On1, they have stated confidently that they are releasing an all-singing-all-dancing DAM/Photoshop app in the autumn and I can’t wait to see if it is worthy of the hype.
I am in Designer every day. Digging that, too.
WHY IS THE BACKGROUND STILL BLINDING WHITE?
Affirmative Action doesn’t apply to macOS software yet. I hear it applies in iOS, hence the sightings of “Dark” mode.
😮
Agreed..
At least allow the user to change to black or dark grey… Whats the big deal in allowing that?
Some of Apple choices are bewildering …
Go to Apple’s suggestions page and ask for it.
I am about to do the same.
While you’re there, ask them why video and audio professionals have an app but photographers do not. Why must we be made to schlep it with rubbish like Lightroom? 😡
Think about it, a professional grade app built on the backbone of Photos. It would be pretty brilliant. 🎈
I do that all the time.. To Feedback.
And i email some contacts i have at apple.
Sometimes im convinced they listen.. Sometimes i wonder… ?
Nevertheless … I find some apple decisions and choices incomprehensible….simple yet critical stuff that are so obviouse yet they are never taken care of … Or linger and linger ……
Tvos to me the pinnacle of shallow thought and implementation… So much hype and buzz for years( not months but years).. So much potential and yet some obviouse and basic navigational and content orginazitional tools are ommited and missing….. Rendering content orginazation and followup a fragmented experiance between individual apps with no centralization…
No way to organize and consolidate favorites from different apps in central interap folders ….no centralized reminders for new content of interest ..
I have to memorize and remember what content i have liked in each app and then individually scan each app to get to them.. That is if i remember!?
Why?
My Jurassic dvr/cable box does a better job of letting me organize and centralize my favorite stuff and does a better job of reminding me of new content .
The database is there.. Tags are there.. Why not allow centralization… Whats the benifit of the fragmanted experience? None imo .
So many examples…
I gave the iOS photos app many chances. I’ve now given up. Could never get the photos to reside on my device. They were always in low-resolution mode and sometime took many minutes before they were clear. Not acceptable on a $1000.00 128GB iPad Pro when you’re trying to show your colleagues your vacation photos. It’s Flickr for me from now on.
That’s awesome, maybe now it’ll automatically recognize all the snowmen, that I was previously adding to a “face” manually back in the old pre-Lion iPhoto app. Or my cat too. >’o'<
This is one time I am so happy they copied Google.
Great features to add, and will improve photos quite a bit.
Until Apple brings missing iPhoto/Aperture functionalties into the new Photos app, I will stay using iPhoto and Aperture on an older version of OS X.
I skipped the upgrade to Yosemite, but went to EL Capitán because I liked most of its features only to find out that most of the cool features I expected are not supported on my older 2009 and 2010 iMacs.
So, needless to say, I do not hardly use El Cap ( kept of with OS and software updates, though)
and I am not using the Photos app until the improvements and feature ommisions return in some manner.
I am in a very wait and see mode with macOS Sierra.
If there are any further feature ommisions for older Macs, I will be skipping this mac OS version completely.
I am still a hard core Snow Leopard user, but have migrated most of my workflows and projects to both OS X 10.8.5 Mountain Lion and to OS X 10.9.5 Mavericks.
I will be staying with either of these for my foreseeable future.
Pretty similar here: “Photos” is still a lame hobbyware beta that’s still not as effective as its predecessors.
The current (2009, 2012 tower) Mac Pros are still running fine, but Apple’s ecosystem failures is driving me to look to replacing OS X with an all-Windows workflow.
Photos on the iPhone is a cluttered mess. It will be a genuine miracle if Apple can manage to actually improve it in iOS 10. I ain’t holding my breath.