![]() Much as I counseled AppleWorks users to stop doing work in an app that had no future, so too would I suggest that Aperture users start looking for the next way forward. Apple’s moved on and it seems you’ll have to as well. You can certainly be disappointed that a free bundled app doesn’t replace one that once cost a couple of hundred dollars, but all that’s going to earn you is frustration. It doesn’t offer Aperture’s organizational powers, brushes, versions, and so on. I would suggest, in the most respectful way possible, that we all get over it. Some people have made the argument that because Apple will no longer support Aperture as well as iPhoto, Photos is a failure because it doesn’t offer all the power of Aperture. Grumble grumble grumble Aperture replacement grumble professionals grumble no substitute grumble grumble!? Sorry, without Yosemite, no Photos for you. But if you want to make the switch you’ll also have to upgrade to Yosemite. And they’ll continue to run perfectly well under the OS you’re currently using. While Apple isn’t going to continue selling new licenses to iPhoto and Aperture, current owners can always re-download the apps should something happen to their original copies. There are things happening under the hood that require Yosemite. Will Apple provide a version of Photos for Mavericks? I’m not using Yosemite and don’t plan to anytime soon. Given all the security and privacy breaches we’ve seen over the past couple of years I’m not sure I’d blame Apple for deciding this feature is just too risky. When using iPhoto on a hotel Wi-Fi network I’ve been able to access another person’s images because they weren’t cautious enough about their sharing settings. That feature isn’t in the beta release I’ve seen and, because of privacy concerns, my guess is that it may never reappear. This tells you that the Finder is fibbing in regard to how much data each library really holds. And yet it works and there’s the Finder proudly displaying two file sizes that exceed the capacity of the image. Given that the disk image can hold just 2.5GB of data-4/5ths of which is already being used by your iPhoto library-you should be told there’s not enough storage to complete the operation. Photos will launch and create a Photos Library archive. Click Other Library and navigate to the iPhoto library on the disk image. Copy your iPhoto library to the disk image and then launch Photos while holding down the Option key. Let’s say that your iPhoto library is 2GB and you create a 2.5GB image. In Disk Utility create a disk image with a capacity 25-percent larger than your iPhoto library. It’s a bit confounding, but you can test it yourself. The Finder simply reflects the size of the library as if it held all the original files, which it isn’t as it’s referencing the original images. But the truth is that it’s not really consuming that amount of space. And the Finder tells us that it’s a bit bigger than the iPhoto library. When you launch Photos and it pulls images from your iPhoto library, a new Photos Library archive appears in the same location as your iPhoto library. The Finder, however, is telling a half-truth. Is it possible to assign a geotag after the fact?Īs you say, the Finder seems to tell us that you’ve doubled the storage requirements necessary to maintain these two libraries. What about applying geotags as I could do with iPhoto’s Places feature. Open the Keyword Manager to easily assign ratings to your images with a click or key press. To assign a rating all I have to do is open the Keyword Manager window, select an image (or group of images), and press the appropriate number key to assign the rating. In my case, because the first five keywords I assigned were 1 Star, 2 Star, 3 Star, 4 Star, and 5 Star, they were assigned numbers 1 – 5. ![]() When you do this, these keywords are automatically assigned number key shortcuts. You might, therefore, add 1 Star, 2 Star, and so on. Photos has a Keyword Manager window where you can add keywords. You can continue to create smart albums based on rating.īut that means I can no longer easily assign a rating by typing a keyboard shortcut!Īctually you can, but it takes just a little finagling. ![]() If you’d like to gather together all the images that you’ve assigned a particular rating, you can do so by creating a smart album using that keyword search as its condition. Although you can no longer sort by the star character, you can perform a keyword search by entering 2 Star or the like. When it does so, it turns them into keywords along the lines of 1 Star, 2 Star, 3 Star, and so on. While it’s true that star ratings have been replaced by Photos’ on/off Favorite feature, Photos does import star ratings from your iPhoto library. ![]()
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