![]() But with all the new ways pictures can automatically come in through the cloud, it doesn’t take long for me to get lost with a bunch of random garbage pictures (screenshots on my phone, pictures that are messaged to me on whatsapp that are automatically downloaded, etc…). I may have done a terrible job explaining this, so apologies for that. I’m sure there are hundreds like this, since my phone is constantly uploading pictures to my library. Occassionally I’ll scroll through the pictures and I’ll notice that theres a picture that’s “garbage”, and I’ll manually delete it. Unfortuantely, I’m not a big fan of this because there could be pictures in that “collection” that haven’t been “assigned” an album. OS X Photos brings all your photos into your “collection”, after which you can assign to albums if you’d wish, but the photos always stay in that “collection”. My iPhoto library was the same, where all photos came in as a “queue” for me to manage, and I would have to assign photos to an “event”, at which point they wouldn’t exist anywhere else. I began treating my inbox like a queue, address e-mails individually, archiving or scheduling, with the end goal to be being an empty inbox. A good comparison might be the innovation the “Mailbox” app and subsequent email applications brought to mobile email. However, I feel it really stems from the fact that the new app looks at your library from a photo-centric perspective, instead of the event-centric perspective that iPhoto did. Now I understand that this may be partially because I no longer have the time to dedicate to learn all the different capabilities of the new Photos app. However, since the day I migrated, my photo library has never been more disorganized. The seamless communication between the app and iCloud as well as my iDevices is amazing as well. It displays pictures nicely, is fluid, and is everything I would want a modern day application to look like. This being said, I was excited that there was a new Photos application being released as iPhoto was starting to seem a bit dated - so I downloaded on release day, and easily migrated all of my photos to the app. I have jailbroken devices, rooted android devices, jump to try iOS / OS X beta software, etc. I think the key reason I liked this was because you could not have a picture that could exist in your photo library, but not inside one of these “events” (more on this later). (for example, I take a picture of something funny I saw on the subway – place this photo into the “Funny Pictures” event). I treated “events” in iPhoto more as folders for pictures, as they didn’t always correspond to an event. I used to upload all my photos from my cameras and iPhone every so often, and I would go back and organize them by “Events”. I’m a person that tends to be very organized, and being “stuck in my ways” on how I organize things once I get into the rhythm. I thought I’d spend a few minutes to talk about my transition to the OS X Photos app that Apple released some time ago to replace iPhoto. DISCLAIMER: Sorry for the long post :( Didn't mean for it to be
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |