Apr 12, 2020 Create a new Photos library and see if your issues persist: Quit Photos. Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos. In the dialog that appears, click Create New. Give your new library a name, then click OK. Note whether Photos opens successfully with this new library. To return to your main Photos library, quit Photos. Apr 12, 2020 Create a new Photos library and see if your issues persist: Quit Photos. Press and hold the Option key while you open Photos. In the dialog that appears, click Create New. Give your new library a name, then click OK. Note whether Photos opens successfully with this new library. To return to your main Photos library, quit Photos. Apr 15, 2020 Each Mac was introduced in 2012 or later (excluding the 2012 Mac Pro) and is using OS X Yosemite or later. To find out, choose Apple menu About This Mac. Each iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch is using iOS 7 or later, with Personal Hotspot turned off. Make sure that your devices can receive AirDrop requests. Jul 11, 2015 With OS X Yosemite you have a new app called Photos that all iOS users might find familiar. The app works much the same way as iPhoto did, but it brings a new and improved user interface for its users. While that is a really nice move that Apple made, it apparently caused the iPhoto app to not launch anymore.
Apple released a developer preview of its new Photos app for OS X Yosemite on Thursday. The app is part of the new OS X 10.10.3 beta now available to members of Apple's Developer Program.
First previewed at WWDC 2014, Photos is a replacement for both iPhoto and Aperture.
See also: OS X Yosemite Review: An Equal Partner for iOS 8
Photos works in conjunction with iCloud Photo Library to help keep all your photos on all of your Apple devices accessible, manageable and in-sync.
We've had a day or so to play with Photos, and although it is definitely still in beta, the app has been promising so far.
New look, new approach
The app has been designed from the ground-up to better address the photo needs of today's user. If you think about it, the way we manage our digital photo libraries today differs from how it was even ten years ago.
It's sometimes hard to remember a world before our phones became our primary cameras. Apps such as iPhoto and Aperture were built for a time when user's primarily took photos with a digital camera, transferred those photos to a computer over a USB cable or a card reader, edited those photos into albums or sets and then either printed the albums out or burnt them to CD-Rs.
As a result, looking at Photos, especially compared to the old iPhoto or Aperture apps, feels distinctly modern.
The app was built with all of the latest OS X Yosemite UI. The windows are translucent, the chrome and the buttons are minimal and the app is designed to be front and center.
The app is designed into sections:
Within the Photos section, photos are organized by moments, collections and years — in a manner very similar to the Photos app on iOS 8.
You can use gestures to sort through years worth of photos and to view photos by date or by location.
New editing tools
The biggest change to the app is with its editing tools. Click on any photo to view in its full glory. At this point, you can add a photo to a project or album, identify people in it and most importantly, edit the photo.
Clicking on auto-enhance will automatically apply the most common settings to photos — a great way to even out white balances or skin tones or to lighten up an overcast image.
The crop tool will look familiar to iOS 8 users because it has a similar look at feel as the tools on the iPhone and iPad. This makes cropping and straightening photos extremely easy. The auto-straighten tool can find the horizon in a background and instantly adjust a photo accordingly. You can also crop photos to specific aspect ratios.
The Filters menu brings all the filters from iOS 8 to the Mac. One-click and you can preview how a photo looks with a number of new Instagram-like filters.
The best feature, however, are the new Smart Adjustments. These sliders allow users to easily control how an image looks, without having to bother with a lot of tools and settings.
In the 'Light' adjustments, users can just move the slider to granularly adjust settings like exposure, highlights and brightness.
Here's where the photo editing tools get super cool: click on a down arrow and you can expand the tools to access specific sliders and settings for more granular controls.
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This means that if you're a more advanced user — or you just want to learn — you can adjust brightness, black point and contrast to your own specifications.
In this way, Photos is a great hybrid between iPhoto and Aperture, wherein it's easy for beginners but powerful for experienced users.
You can also adjust black and white levels and color settings. You can even go to advanced adjustments to add a histogram, adjust noise reduction and create vignettes.
It also includes pro-quality white balance options and there is an auto white balance tool that works really, really well in our tests.
The new Photos app might note sate all hardcore professional Aperture users, but frankly, it doesn't really have to. Adobe has made a great product with Lightroom and if you're a pro, that's probably what you should use. For everyone else, however, we think Photos will do the job and then some.
iCloud Photo Library
The biggest feature within Photos is how it operates with your other Apple devices. For years, Apple has had a shared photo stream between its devices. In theory, the idea was that photos you took on your iPhone would show up in iPhoto on your Mac and albums you created on your Mac would sync back to your iPhone or iPad. In theory.
In practice, the integration always felt clunky and incomplete. We're happy to report that even in this developers preview, the iCloud integration with Photos for OS X and iOS 8.2 beta is fast. Like, really fast.
A photo I took on an iPhone 6 showed up in my Photos library almost instantaneously. Photo edits, albums and projects I created on my Mac were likewise visible on the iPhone.
Even better, the non-destructive edits you make on your iPhone or on the Mac can be undone or further edited. So if I make some changes to a photo on my Mac and then decide later that I want to revert it to its original state, I can do that.
iCloud Photo Library is also designed to store not just your photos from your iPhone or iPad but all your past photos from your iPhoto or Aperture libraries in one place.
To do this, you'll probably need to have a bigger iCloud data plan — and the Photos app will show you how much space your photo library will take in iCloud and you can decide if you want to upgrade. Apple's cloud pricing options are now much more affordable than they were before and the ability to have all of your photos on all of your devices will likely appeal to a lot of people.
That said, there are still a few caveats with iCloud Photo Library. My biggest issue with how the program works now is that there isn't a way to keep your files in the cloud but not necessarily on your phone.
What I mean by that, is say I have 70GB of photos in my photo library in Photos for OS X. I can have this saved in iCloud Photo Library and that's awesome — but it also means that I need enough room on that device to load all of my photos.
In a perfect world, I would be able to backup my photos to iCloud Photo Library and the Photos app, without having to have them necessarily have those photos taking up space on my phone.
Right now, you can choose to optimize your phone or computer storage, which means that smaller files are stored on your phone or computer while the full-resolution version is on the cloud. We'd love the ability to just have photos on the cloud and keep only certain albums available locally (you could choose to download them later).
Still early, but it looks good
Photos for OS X is still very much in developer beta. A full beta for consumers will be available soon and the final product is expected this spring.
For now though, we're impressed with what Apple has done with Photos. It's a brand new app that manages to be powerful and fast. It's editing options are great and the iCloud Photo Library integration actually works.
Great apps for your Mac. Right there on your Mac.
The Mac App Store makes it easy to find and download Mac apps as well as widgets and extensions — like editing extensions for the new Photos app. You can browse Mac apps by category, such as games, productivity, music and more. Or do a quick search for something specific. Read descriptions and customer reviews. Flip through screenshots. When you find an app you like, click to buy it. The Mac App Store has apps for just about everything and everyone. Here are a few of our favourites.
Pages
Create beautiful documents, letters, flyers, invitations and more.
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Numbers
Make eye-catching spreadsheets and charts in just a few clicks.
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Keynote
Put together a presentation with captivating graphics and transitions.
View in Mac App Store
iBooks Author
Create stunning Multi-Touch books for iPad and Mac.
View in Mac App Store
Final Cut Pro X
Bring your film to life using revolutionary video editing software.
View in Mac App Store
Logic Pro X
Turn your Mac into a complete professional recording studio.
View in Mac App Store
Wunderlist
Manage and share your to‑do lists across all your devices. View in Mac App Store
Evernote
Take notes, save web pages, create lists, attach images and PDFs, and more. View in Mac App Store
Cobook Contacts
Find, organise and keep your contacts up to date in even easier ways. View in Mac App Store
Things
Keep track of to-dos, deadlines and projects with this task manager app. View in Mac App Store
Notability
Annotate documents, record lectures and take notes with this all-in-one app. View in Mac App Store
Autodesk SketchBook
Take your ideas further with a complete set of digital drawing tools.View in Mac App Store
Day One
Keep a journal that sends reminders and looks great in day or month view. View in Mac App Store
Pocket
See something you like? Save interesting articles, videos and web pages for later. View in Mac App Store
The Photo Cookbook
Follow over 240 easy‑to‑prepare recipes picture by picture. View in Mac App Store
Kuvva Wallpapers
Choose specially curated wallpapers from a new artist each week. View in Mac App Store
Tonality
Create inspiring black-and-white images on your Mac.View in Mac App Store
swackett
Get visual weather reports that turn complex data into fun infographics. View in Mac App Store
Sky Gamblers Cold War
Rule the action-packed skies in over a dozen different aeroplanes. View in Mac App Store
Sparkle 2
This easy-to-play but enthralling game makes the most of the Retina display. View in Mac App Store
Bike Baron
Beat hundreds of challenges as you master over 100 different bike tracks. View in Mac App Store
Civilization V: Campaign Edition
Build and defend the most powerful empire the world has ever known. View in Mac App Store
Galaxy On Fire 2™ Full HD
Battle your way through a 3D war-torn galaxy against an alien armada. View in Mac App Store
SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition
Build a city from the ground up and manage your metropolis in every way. View in Mac App Store
Money
Set a budget, schedule payments and track investments — all in one app. View in Mac App Store
MoneyWiz – Personal Finance
View all your accounts, transactions, budgets and bills in one secure place. View in Mac App Store
iBank
Manage your money with this fully featured, intuitive personal finance app. View in Mac App Store
Next - Track your expenses and finances
See your expenses by year, month or day, and take control of your finances. View in Mac App Store
Investoscope
Monitor your portfolio of stocks, bonds, mutual funds and more. View in Mac App Store
StockTouch
Keep track of the market in a whole new way. View in Mac App Store
djay
Mix songs from your iTunes library and spin live on a digital turntable. View in Mac App Store
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Sound Studio
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Record, edit and produce digital audio. Create your own mixes and add effects. View in Mac App Store
Shazam
Like what you hear? Identify a song at a moment’s notice. Then share it or buy it. View in Mac App Store
Tabular
Read and write tablature notation for guitar, bass, drums and more. View in Mac App Store
AmpKit
Turn your Mac into a powerful guitar amp and effects studio. View in Mac App Store
Sound Forge 2
Record, edit, process and render high-resolution audio files. View in Mac App Store
Install any app with ease.
The Mac App Store revolutionises the way apps are installed on a computer — it happens in one step. Enter the same iTunes password you use to buy apps and music on your iPhone, iPad, Mac or iPod touch. Within seconds, your new app flies to Launchpad, ready to go. So you can spend more time enjoying new apps and less time installing them.
Keep your apps up to date.
Since developers are constantly improving their apps, the Mac App Store keeps track of your apps and tells you when an update is available — including OS X software updates. Update one app at a time or all of them at once, for free. You can even have your apps and OS X update automatically, so you’ll always have the latest version of every app you own.
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Buy, download and even re-download.
You can install apps on every Mac authorised for your personal use, and even download them again. This is especially convenient when you buy a new Mac and want to load it with apps you already own.
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