You can zoom into the 'collections' view by using your trackpad or clicking on the right arrow near the upper-left of the screen.Īpple has created a structure that puts 'Moments' (formerly Events) at the bottom, 'Collections' (groups of Moments that happened at around the same time or area, if you've been geotagging) in the middle, and 'Years' at the top. You can click on one of those tiny images to see a larger version, and keep moving to 'scrub' through your collection. The 'years' view is almost comical when you first see it. The sidebar that many iPhoto users will be used to is available via a menu option.Īs I was expecting given the teasers that Apple had shown leading up to the release of Photos, the software is very much like the app of the same name in iOS 8. In other words, the user interface in Photos has been greatly simplified. The main view in Photos, which are grouped by date, which Apple calls 'Moments'. It took about 30 minutes to 'prepare' to copy before the software could be used, and then I could watch thumbnails slowly appear in my photo collection.
#APERTURE SOFTWARE REVIEW MAC OS X#
Seeing how it came bundled with an upgrade to Mac OS X Yosemite, I figured I'd try that out to see how it went.Īfter some initial toying around, I decided to go for it all and import my entire Aperture Library into Photos. There's always Lightroom 5, which is more accessible now than when I evaluated it years before.īut in April 2015, there arrived another option: Apple's Photos, the official successor to both iPhoto and Aperture. For now, I can continue to use Aperture, though future upgrades to OS X might put an end to that. With an Aperture library of over 130GB, it was decision time. A month prior to writing this article, Aperture was removed from the Mac App Store.
In June 2014, the official word came down from Cupertino: Aperture would no longer be updated. The software got updates here and there, but at some point users got a sense that Apple was losing interest in their product. On the right you'll see a photo of some people without a lot of common sense.Īs with iPhoto before it, I had many pleasant years of using Aperture. While not as robust as Lightroom, they did the job for me. On the left side are the numerous adjustment tools in Aperture 3. I found Lightroom's UI and workflow to a bit too different, so I chose the comfortable option and went with Aperture. Aperture felt familiar to me, like a grown-up version of the iPhoto. Given that, and my growing interest in shooting Raw, it was time to look for something else.Īt the time there were really two choices: Apple's own Aperture 3 software and Adobe Lightroom, which I believe was also at version 3 at that time. Getting prints and making photo books (the perfect gift for your parents) was ridiculously easy.Īfter years of relative bliss, iPhoto '11 came around and had a slick new interface, but several features from previous versions were gone, and the whole thing was just. iPhoto had a friendly interface and made splitting photos into events easy. Being a Mac user in (around) 2005 didn't give me a lot of options, so the decision was easy: iPhoto. Can an Aperture user be happy with Apple's new 'Photos' software?Īfter building up a sizable collection of digital photos that I'd taken since 1996, I decided that just dumping them into folders wasn't going to cut it anymore.
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