

APPS LIKE IPHOTO FOR MAC MAC
In addition to syncing all of your photos to iCloud, Photos will also sync any edits you make, so you can tweak a photo on your Mac and see those edits reflected on your iPhone moments later. Photos makes it easier than ever to get images from your Mac into the cloud There are many other ways to back up your photos from your phone or tablet, but Photos is the easiest solution we've seen to integrate images on your computer into the cloud. iCloud Photos will store full-resolution versions of your images on Apple's servers, but you can opt to have device-optimized versions delivered to your iPhone and iPad.
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The old My Photo Stream will be converted into an album when you opt in to iCloud Photos, but opting in is not required, and those that don't can still use My Photo Stream with its traditional limits. If you're not paying anything, that's capped at 5GB, which is frankly not very many photos, but Apple has paid plans with up to a terabyte of cloud storage. Photos will now just use the storage available in your iCloud account.

Gone are the confusing and arbitrary limits to how many photos could be stored in the cloud with Photo Stream. All of the photos you take with your iPhone are available on your Mac and vice versa. That's completely changed with Photos it's easy and painless to back up all of your photos and videos to the cloud and then access them on your Mac, iPhone, or iPad wherever you are. While it was possible to sync photos to iCloud Photos with iPhoto, it always felt like a tacked-on feature and wasn't very easy to use. Photos' other new big feature is its deep integration with iCloud Photos. We'll have to see if those performance improvements hold up once we have thousands of our own photos in the final version later this year, but we're crossing our fingers that the days of managing multiple libraries just to keep their size down are in the past. All of that contributes to making Photos much more enjoyable to use and a more modern experience than iPhoto ever was. There are also some really nice details, like a "loupe" mode that lets you preview images when you mouse over them. It supports all of the trackpad gestures you'd expect - two-finger scrolling, pinch-to-zoom, and rotation - and performance is really fast and smooth, at least with the demo photo library we tested on a new MacBook Pro. From our experience, it seems that Apple's efforts have paid off: the new Photos app effortlessly scrolls through thousands of photos, and you can quickly page through your collection, marking images as favorites. iPhoto was often criticized for choking on large image libraries, but Apple says it built Photos to handle large and growing photo libraries, since people are taking so many more photos than they used to before.

Photos is much faster and more responsive than iPhoto ever wasīut even more impressive than the new coat of paint is just how fast Photos is. The new design offers more room to show off your photos, and the navigation tools are all at the top of the window, like many other native Mac apps on Yosemite. If you've been using Photos on iOS for the past couple of years, you'll feel instantly at home on Photos for Mac. Apple has brought over many of the same organizational systems from the iOS Photos app, including automatic collections based on location and time. The biggest and perhaps most obvious change coming with Photos is an entirely new design that better fits in with OS X Yosemite.
