Like in iPhoto, you can still add keywords to photographs rating systems and flags are gone, but the beefed up keyword manager lets you add keywords to that effect. (Of course, that's what Smart Albums are for.) Photos's beefed-up search field is also a nice companion for quickly finding people, places, times, and keywords or filenames, though it lacks the boolean operators to make it a true powerhouse. But though I poo-poohed Moments and Collections when I first saw them in Photos for iOS, they're a fantastic way to quickly find photos of certain events: I know when I took the photo, so, it reasons, I should be able to quickly find the photo itself.
Now, unorganized, you might think that such a unification would prove disastrously messy. But at the end of the day, I had every photo and video I'd ever taken that was still available to me, all unified under one roof. A few duplicates, most of which were weeded out during the import process. Then I tossed in sixty folders' worth of random iPhone images I'd been offloading. It took a few hours, sure, but all my photos were imported. I first got an inkling that Photos for OS X might be something special when, in its earliest beta, it handled me throwing a gigantic Dropbox-hosted iPhoto library into it without complaint. I finally ended up dumping my old iPhoto Library and every miscellaneous photo and video I could find into a Dropbox folder labeled "PHOTO MESS, CLEAN UP SOMEDAY". I tried keeping everything in folders, labeled by the date. Especially if you wanted to keep those photos on your iPhone for later viewing.Īnd so, I tried cloud services, like the now-acquired Loom and Picturelife. When you're taking hundreds of photos a month, that meticulous management becomes maddening, and eventually impossible without extra hours in the day.
That all, unsurprisingly, went out the window when the iPhone came into my life. There are new special smart albums, including Timelapse, Favorites, Slo-mo, and Bursts they automatically collect images and video from those categories for your perusal. Apple's face-recognition algorithm, Faces, has been reimagined as a special sort of smart album, and sports all the same features (and bugs) as its iPhoto predecessor. Smart Albums and nested folders are at your beck and call, ready for you to organize accordingly. The moments, collections, and years view is fun, but where Photos for OS X showcases its power is in Albums. But for the vast majority of users - beginner to prosumer alike - Photos for OS X is more than enough for your photo management needs. It's got a long way to go before it's ever going to be Aperture - and honestly, Apple may be ready to cede the true pro-editing market to Adobe and the like. They've taken lessons from those launches, and Photos for OS X actually sports a surprisingly robust feature-set. The Photos team could have followed the iMovie '08 or iWork template and gutted the program to its core for this redesign, leaving out all features but the essential ones - but they deliberately chose not to. But just because the Photos for OS X interface is simplified, that doesn't mean it's lost its underlying power.
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