Macworld:
Providing many of the features found in its mobile sibling, the Yosemite-only Photos for OS X offers an interface less cluttered than iPhoto, improved navigation, simpler yet more powerful editing tools, the ability to sync all your images to iCloud (though it doesn’t require you to), and new options for creating books, cards, slideshows, calendars, and prints. I’ve had the opportunity to take an early look at Photos, and this is what I’ve found.
This is the developer preview but, in my experience, it’s pretty stable with few true glitches or bugs. Keep in mind, this is not (yet at least) a professional Aperture or Lightroom level app. But, that being said, it’s still pretty good.
Upgrading to a 0.0.1 seed is a tall price to try it out, though, particularly one not going final until “Spring.”
Maybe when I get another hard drive. 🙂
I’m going to miss some of the iPhoto features like Faces, star ratings, sort options, events and creating calendars (especially calendars as we create one for about 20 family members every year as a christmas gift – will need to look for a third party replacement)
Hopefully we can add keywords or tags and have smart albums that essentially duplicate the star ratings and faces features.
Calendars creation is still there. Faces and events are imported too, I think but less prevalence in the app.
Oh that’s good to hear… Thanks
Dang it, I might just have to upgrade to Yo, Semite.