Utter rubbish for serious photographers. This is point and shoot software for the selfie dilettantes.
You may be right.
And what's more, there's no other photography software available for the Mac, not one single application other than the upcoming Photos application! So Macs are now useless for serious photographers. Soon, Apple will abandon serious video editors and other creatives. Everyone will move to Windows, the Mac will die and take the iPhone with it, and APPLE WILL BE DOOMED!
Got it.
What a well thought out response which concisely takes on the poster's statement.
Here's another take: There are millions of people, like myself, who aren't moved by feature after feature that don't have anything to do with processing the image. That's what we're interested in, and it has nothing to do with pro or not pro. Tight integration with iCloud has as many downsides as it has advantages. If the actual editing is treated like an afterthought it puts an application squarely in a niche that misses the mark for these people, regardless of how amazing the sharing features are.
"Serious photographers" have been using Lightroom for years, and would never, ever have expected this Photos application to have the same kind of functionality.
Perhaps the user would rather pay Apple than Adobe and put up with their bug issues. I know I would.
Where are all the people who thought Photos would have Aperture featuress?
I don't know but I know a lot of us hoped it would have. Just spent the night playing with it. Sadly this is iPhoto gone to the cloud I won't elaborate due to the DNA (not that seems to bother AI but it does me).
I will say, it's a great product for the masses' holiday snaps and the like but useless for a serious photographer. I just don't understand why Apple don't just keep Aperture. Lots of photographers prefer it to Lightroom. We have Garage Band and Logic Pro X, we have iMovie and FCPro X why on earth can't we have Photos and Aperture Pro X? /rant
Where are all the people who thought Photos would have Aperture featuress?
I don't know but I know a lot of us hoped it would have. Just spent the night playing with it. Sadly this is iPhoto gone to the cloud I won't elaborate due to the DNA (not that seems to bother AI but it does me).
I will say, it's a great product for the masses' holiday snaps and the like but useless for a serious photographer. I just don't understand why Apple don't just keep Aperture. Lots of photographers prefer it to Lightroom. We have Garage Band and Logic Pro X, we have iMovie and FCPro X why on earth can't we have Photos and Aperture Pro X? /rant
That sounds like a shame.
So Adobe has won with Lightroom. I wish Apple wouldn't let them.
AI Staff member: Not a native English speaker then? Those multiple references to things happening "right off the bat". Of course, it couldn't be "more simple" because the word you didn't look for is actually "simpler" as in "simple, simpler, simplest"; I'm assuming you slept through basic English grammar lessons in Primary School because "whether to store or not store photos locally on the Mac" is so clumsily written; try "whether to store photos locally on the Mac or not". But of course, "There are also a convenient optimized slideshow configuration wizard" err, yes, is that one (as in 'a', the indefinite article) or more than one (as in are). The verb "To Be", present tense, is almost the first English verb those who speak English as a foreign language study so how come you ignore "is"? You know "There is a..."
You didn't mind me calling you a 'member' then? No, I didn't think you would... but really, it's not your fault. Articles like this are why there is such a thing as a sub-editor: someone who rights these wrongs, removes these insults to the English language so the reader can concentrate instead on the content. What were you writing about...?
Before we start echoing the Final Cut X debate exactly, could the impatient Aperture users please take a deep breath and remember that in major software transitions Apple typically tries to get the basics right and then add complex features in the next few releases?
You didn't mind me calling you a 'member' then? No, I didn't think you would... but really, it's not your fault. Articles like this are why there is such a thing as a sub-editor: someone who rights these wrongs, removes these insults to the English language so the reader can concentrate instead on the content. What were you writing about...?
Charming post¡
Oh, and where the hell did you learn your English grammar?
Also a welcome addition from iOS is the option to intelligently decide whether to store or not store photos locally on the Mac. This helps allow users to optimize their hard drive space while still having all of their images accessible when connected to the Internet and accessing them from iCloud.
Great! Placeholders. Too bad there's only 5GB of free storage on iCloud. I hope the public beta will come out next week.
I'll ge over myself when you get a **** clue. As I said, only someone who didn't have a clue about photography would make such a moronic statement as the one you made.
And what's more, there's no other photography software available for the Mac, not one single application other than the upcoming Photos application! So Macs are now useless for serious photographers. Soon, Apple will abandon serious video editors and other creatives. Everyone will move to Windows, the Mac will die and take the iPhone with it, and APPLE WILL BE DOOMED!
Got it.
Are you comprehension challenged. I was referring to the Photos apps.
I said a while back that photos are probably the most precious files I have. I can download my songs and my movies and books if I lose them, but not snaps.
I bought Aperture a year back since my photo library got really large and I wanted something that could handle it. It is sad that Aperture is EOL'd.
But I'll wait till I Photos is officially released. It could probably suffice for me.
...Some Aperture engineers were noted to have moved into developing frameworks such as Core Image...
When I worked at Apple it was highly encouraged to have engineers move from one project to the next. I cannot speak to how it is now but that was the way until you get up a ways in mgmt. Engineers were moving from group to group and although there was some cost in moving people it encouraged pier reviews of code and less ownership by one person so that there was a lot of cross training going on. This was well before the NeXT acquisition but MacApp was preached as the mantra to the 3rd party developers and was used inside a good bit also (just not in the system at that point).
How pro is it, does it have any Aperture features?
Yes, especially RAW pictures and photo management. Some of the Adobe Bridge features save you a lot of time and give you instant focus on the pictures that really matter.
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How do you import from iPhoto? Is this not functional yet?
Utter rubbish for serious photographers. This is point and shoot software for the selfie dilettantes.
You may be right.
And what's more, there's no other photography software available for the Mac, not one single application other than the upcoming Photos application! So Macs are now useless for serious photographers. Soon, Apple will abandon serious video editors and other creatives. Everyone will move to Windows, the Mac will die and take the iPhone with it, and APPLE WILL BE DOOMED!
Got it.
What a well thought out response which concisely takes on the poster's statement.
Here's another take: There are millions of people, like myself, who aren't moved by feature after feature that don't have anything to do with processing the image. That's what we're interested in, and it has nothing to do with pro or not pro. Tight integration with iCloud has as many downsides as it has advantages. If the actual editing is treated like an afterthought it puts an application squarely in a niche that misses the mark for these people, regardless of how amazing the sharing features are.
Perhaps the user would rather pay Apple than Adobe and put up with their bug issues. I know I would.
Yea, right. Ok.
I don't know but I know a lot of us hoped it would have. Just spent the night playing with it. Sadly this is iPhoto gone to the cloud I won't elaborate due to the DNA (not that seems to bother AI but it does me).
I will say, it's a great product for the masses' holiday snaps and the like but useless for a serious photographer. I just don't understand why Apple don't just keep Aperture. Lots of photographers prefer it to Lightroom. We have Garage Band and Logic Pro X, we have iMovie and FCPro X why on earth can't we have Photos and Aperture Pro X? /rant
Agreed. I have both and Aperture is far better IMHO.
Where are all the people who thought Photos would have Aperture featuress?
I don't know but I know a lot of us hoped it would have. Just spent the night playing with it. Sadly this is iPhoto gone to the cloud I won't elaborate due to the DNA (not that seems to bother AI but it does me).
I will say, it's a great product for the masses' holiday snaps and the like but useless for a serious photographer. I just don't understand why Apple don't just keep Aperture. Lots of photographers prefer it to Lightroom. We have Garage Band and Logic Pro X, we have iMovie and FCPro X why on earth can't we have Photos and Aperture Pro X? /rant
That sounds like a shame.
So Adobe has won with Lightroom. I wish Apple wouldn't let them.
You didn't mind me calling you a 'member' then? No, I didn't think you would... but really, it's not your fault. Articles like this are why there is such a thing as a sub-editor: someone who rights these wrongs, removes these insults to the English language so the reader can concentrate instead on the content. What were you writing about...?
Before we start echoing the Final Cut X debate exactly, could the impatient Aperture users please take a deep breath and remember that in major software transitions Apple typically tries to get the basics right and then add complex features in the next few releases?
Aperture will continue to work in the meantime.
Oh, and where the hell did you learn your English grammar?
Great! Placeholders. Too bad there's only 5GB of free storage on iCloud. I hope the public beta will come out next week.
Gives a whole new meaning to pop up.
get the **** over yourself.
I'll ge over myself when you get a **** clue. As I said, only someone who didn't have a clue about photography would make such a moronic statement as the one you made.
You may be right.
And what's more, there's no other photography software available for the Mac, not one single application other than the upcoming Photos application! So Macs are now useless for serious photographers. Soon, Apple will abandon serious video editors and other creatives. Everyone will move to Windows, the Mac will die and take the iPhone with it, and APPLE WILL BE DOOMED!
Got it.
Are you comprehension challenged. I was referring to the Photos apps.
By reading the thread.
I said a while back that photos are probably the most precious files I have. I can download my songs and my movies and books if I lose them, but not snaps.
I bought Aperture a year back since my photo library got really large and I wanted something that could handle it. It is sad that Aperture is EOL'd.
But I'll wait till I Photos is officially released. It could probably suffice for me.
...Some Aperture engineers were noted to have moved into developing frameworks such as Core Image...
When I worked at Apple it was highly encouraged to have engineers move from one project to the next. I cannot speak to how it is now but that was the way until you get up a ways in mgmt. Engineers were moving from group to group and although there was some cost in moving people it encouraged pier reviews of code and less ownership by one person so that there was a lot of cross training going on. This was well before the NeXT acquisition but MacApp was preached as the mantra to the 3rd party developers and was used inside a good bit also (just not in the system at that point).
How pro is it, does it have any Aperture features?
Yes, especially RAW pictures and photo management. Some of the Adobe Bridge features save you a lot of time and give you instant focus on the pictures that really matter.