Onstage at WWDC last June, Apple demonstrated a new photo management and editing app called Photos for Mac. It was slated to debut with OS X Yosemite in early 2015, where it would replace iPhoto, the Mac desktop's default consumer photo editing application, and also Aperture, Apple's pro photo application for the Mac So not only is Photos for Mac made to replace the two ends of Apple's photo editing lineup—pro and consumer—it's also built to create a more seamless workflow between your iPhone, your desktop, and your iCloud storage account. This is a Mac OS X app that looks and behaves very much like its iOS sibling. It's key to Apple's new strategy of cross-device unification, furthering the blending of mobile and desktop experiences promised with the tandem release of iOS 8 and Yosemite, as well as making one of the iPhone's strongest selling points—the awesome camera—even stronger. Photos for Mac is now available to developers as part of the seed of OS X 10.10.3, out today, and will ship to all Yosemite users as part of a free OS update (rather than an app install) later this spring. I got the chance to go hands-on with the new desktop software and found that overall, Photos is a vast improvement over iPhoto, and the new editing tools make it extraordinarily easy to transform a photo from 'OK' to 'Wow.'
Why is photos app on mac stuck on uploading. Email this Page If the photos are synced to iCloud then it’s possible that either your internet connection is throttled somewhere or your connection to Apple is temporarily problematic. Apple could be experiencing issues on their end. Just give it time. The problem should clear up. Get Help & Give Help! In order to change the capture date of a photo or video in the Photos app on your Mac, follow these simple instructions: 1) In the Photos app, select the photo for which you want to change date and time by clicking on it. If you want to adjust the date for multiple images, simply hold the Command key while selecting the photos. Starting Photo Booth. Connect a camera to your Mac (if necessary). Many Macs come with a webcam built-in, but you can install your own if your Mac doesn't have one or you want a higher-quality camera. Most webcams simply need to be plugged in to a USB port and they're good to go, as long as they're Mac compatible.
The first thing I noticed about Photos is how straightforward the interface is. It very much takes its cues stylistically from the iOS Photos app, especially in how it organizes your library. The app opens with all your shots grouped into Moments and Collections, just like in iOS. It's a little obtuse, but think of it this way: Moments is the most granular, zoomed-in view, the one where your photos are organized by date and location.
Collections is one level higher—your entire week-long vacation in Hawaii will be a Collection, for example, whereas a Moment would be photos shot at a specific beach over one afternoon during the trip. You can also zoom out even further to see your photos organized as tiny thumbnails in a year view, or view photos organized by what's been shared, by album, or by project. When you double-click a photo to open it, you can tap Edit in the upper right, to gain access to a variety of editing tools—just like in iOS. Here, Apple has bundled in the things you could do in iPhoto and Aperture, but in a more n00b-friendly way. For a one-click enhancement that generally makes colors more saturated, you can just click 'Enhance.'
I find this is mostly useful on photos that are a little washed out or over-exposed. The cropping tool has a neat Auto feature that automatically straightens out the photo based on the horizon line, and composes it according to the rule of thirds. Below that, you can tint a photo with the same set of filters you see in iOS. 'Adjustments' is where most of your familiar editing tools live. To start, Apple keeps the experience very simple.
You've got three options: Light, Color, or Black & White. To adjust the photo, you simply drag a slider right or left on each of these options until the photo looks the way you want it to. There is also an 'Auto' option for each of these settings.
I threw the app a variety of different photos: an awkward selfie, a slightly overexposed landscape, a closeup of a goat's face. For a good well-lit photo, the Auto settings barely change anything (as one would expect). But for a photo needing a little love, in every case I tried, simply tapping the Auto buttons in Adjustments made noticeable improvements to the images. And next to the Adjustments header at the top of this menu, you can tap Add to reveal even more settings you can adjust, like sharpen, noise reduction, white balance, and levels. You can hide or expose these different settings as you choose. As I mentioned, iCloud is a key part of the Photos experience.
Using iCloud Photo Library, your photos are synced across your Apple devices—from phone to desktop to iPad—and any edits made on one device are synced to the others as well. As it is in other Apple-made apps like iTunes and its workplace tools, the iCloud syncing is entirely optional. But the syncing of photos across devices is a powerful feature for anyone who's 100 percent bought in to the Apple hardware ecosystem. One note: While Apple is ceasing development of iPhoto, you can still use it if you choose. But edits that happen in iPhoto will stay in iPhoto, and edits done in Photos remain in Photos.
So what doesn't Photos have? Photos does not have things like the granular of Aperture. It does offer a retouching tool.
Using that, you can adjust the size of the touch-up brush, but you don't get to adjust the softness or the strength of this brush, or use the 'Detect Edges' feature. As only an occasional Aperture user myself, I suspect there are other advanced adjustments professionals may notice missing, as well.
Advanced users, particularly those operating on 5K iMacs or Mac Pros, may be happier eventually switching to Adobe Lightroom—though most of them probably have done so already. But for most of us, particularly recent Mac converts and people who may not fancy themselves serious photographers, Photos is a welcomely humble way to approach image editing. It will be available free as part of an OS X Yosemite update this spring. Correction 1:40 EST 2/5/2015 Original version misstated when Photos was expected to launch.
Anyone know how to, or what to use to get AVCHD into Photos for Mac? I'm running latest MacOS High Sierra v10.13.2, and Photos for Mac latest v3. It used to import fine on iPhoto. I've been waiting and waiting for Photos for Mac to get this removed feature back, it's now at v3 and still no where to be seen.
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It's video from my Digi Cam. Rather not convert it, I use iCloud photo library so I want it imported for backup. Is there an easy way, heard of converters, but dont really want to have to do that. Ideally I want to import and get it backed up on iCloud Photo library, I'm on top tier so want it all on here first.
What format is the video files in the cloud, can you tell? I.e when iPhoto imported did it transcode to mp4 and stored that away in its library. Sorry, not much help as I don't use those features of photo. I use FCPX for tagging and indexing video, I moved from iMovie to FCPX mostly because of its powerful video media management. I still use Aperture for photos. I just recall my neighbor awhile ago deciding to switch his camera recording format from AVCHD to mp4 format so it would be more apple compatible.
I think he has a Canon, maybe all cameras don't have that feature. Click to expand.Thats strange, must be a quirk with your camera, the neighbors and mine have the same frame rates and no difference in quality (Both containers contain compressed video). Maybe you should be looking at a better camera AVCHD - 1080: 59.94P / 59.94i / PF29.97 / 23.98P MP4 - 1080: 59.94P / 29.97P / 23.98P; 720 and 360: 29.97P / 23.98P Now different camera makers have different sometimes incompatible implementations of the trademarked AVCHD container as the standard is not that precise, but quality is the same. I'm guessing Apple is not wanting to pay all the different camera makers for the right to their implementation.
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My EOS doesn't bother with AVCHD. It uses a MOV container. Click to expand.Ok I found an old video that iPhoto imported direct from my camera which was recorded in AVCHD, when I 'get info' it shows as below screenshot, if this helps. It seems to have imported as.mov file but below the info it has the path?
All confusing to me. Really need this sorted asap, as want to import my videos that I've got stacked up now. I may just have to pay the $50 and get that ClipWrap, although its a little expensive for what I think I use it for.
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As I say I dont think I should convert al before importing though. Looks like iphoto assembled the AVCHD segments into a.mov container and saved it to that file path with the original frame rate and resolution. Too bad your camera doesn't support 50fps in mp4, as that would be a lot easier for you. I think the are several converters in the app store that simply assemble the segments into a.mov file. I've used several.
These are GUI over the built in command line tools. If you are handy on the terminal, you can used them directly. I used a paid converter because I need a few features not offered by the apps.
Looks like iphoto assembled the AVCHD segments into a.mov container and saved it to that file path with the original frame rate and resolution. Too bad your camera doesn't support 50fps in mp4, as that would be a lot easier for you. I think the are several converters in the app store that simply assemble the segments into a.mov file. I've used several. These are GUI over the built in command line tools.
If you are handy on the terminal, you can used them directly. I used a paid converter because I need a few features not offered by the apps. Click to expand.I was just saying that there may be a free app on the app store that does this that meets your needs, but since I haven't shopped for over a year I may not be completely up to speed. Seems to be a lot of options. I think the paid ones offer a free trial to check out. I think, if you feel uncomfortable paying for clipwrap, try all the free ones as well as the free trials and find the one that works best for you.
I've read that AVCHD cameras all don't record the same way and one app will work, another may not. Thats what I did last year, but I was looking for something that wouldn't barf on video errors. I don't use the photos app anywhere except on the iPad for rough editing. I use FCPX for video.
For video that may not be pristine I use Biggasoft ProRes converter to convert AVCHD,.wtv,.mts,.mpg, whatever to a quicktime movie file (.mov). Its set to use the ProRes422 (HQ) codec at the moment. The HD camera and the HDMI capture card record in.mp4 format and their video is imported directly into FCPX (the camera's SD card is plugged into the mac for import). Thats my workflow, not the one you use. Can't find any in app atore, and ones I can are converters. Don't mind paying for a product that will work, I'm just presuming Apple may add it (hopefully) soon and probably a day after I drop $50 ha ha.
If ClipWrap/EditReady work, I've tried ClipWrap very briefly and seemed to, then I'll buy. Actually ClipWrap and EditReady have the ProRes422 you mention, whatever that is! I just chose rewrap.mov choice and it converted them to about same size as a.Mov. It allowed to add either AVCHD,.mts direct though seemed to convert fine.