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And if that companyвЂ™s been Apple, youвЂ™ve basically been a guinea pig in a good idea that was hastily ( and poorly) executed.On your iPhone or iPad you can create a shared Apple iCloud photo album that you want to use and name it accordingly (example: Mango Display Photos). But storing and organizing them all in different places still manages to be an experience filled with gotchas, and one that varies wildly depending on what companies youвЂ™ve sworn allegiance to with your phone and computer. Taking them is easier than ever.

You should probably use the iCloud Photo Library feature, which syncs all your photos across all your devices вЂ” but you'll almost certainly need to buy more iCloud storage to take advantage of it. ItвЂ™s also been built with AppleвЂ™s iCloud in mind instead of an afterthought, which feels years overdue.At a high level here's three things that anyone thinking of using Photos for OS X should know: AppleвЂ™s discontinuing that software along with Aperture (which is aimed at pro photographers), in favor bringing the tools people have on their iPhones and iPads to the Mac. ItвЂ™s a rethink of how people manage their photo library on a Mac, something thatвЂ™s been iPhotoвЂ™s home turf for more than a decade. ItвЂ™s the final piece in a plan that Apple unveiled last June, and one that both fixes and unifies a patchwork system it rolled out in 2011. Use your Apple ID or create a new account to start using Apple.Apple might have just fixed that for Mac users with the new Photos app.

Familiar features have moved or changed, and in classic Apple fashion, some have also been quietly removed. If you don't want to try iCloud Photo Library, you can keep using the new Photos app as an iPhoto replacement, but you'll be stuck with the old My Photo Stream feature (and its odd restrictions) for syncing photos across your devices.As simple as Photos is, the devil is in the details, and there are quite a few details here. Using it is a pretty great experience.

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If you have Photos set to upload everything to iCloud, itвЂ™ll store the original, full-size images in the cloud and sync them across your devices. YouвЂ™re still free to choose the optimized setting on your iOS devices to save space there.Photos will happily import both JPG and RAW filesIf youвЂ™re a photographer who shoots with a standalone digital camera, Photos will happily import both JPG and RAW files and treat them much like the photos you shoot on an iPhone. Fortunately, you can set it up so that the Photos app on your Mac keeps all the original, full-size images stored locally if you so choose. Of course, if you buy into this setup, youвЂ™ll be trusting Apple to keep all the originals safe in iCloud. At any time, you can choose to download the full-size image if youвЂ™re so inclined.

That includes things like panoramics, burst shots, slow motion, and timelapse video. If you're an iPhone or iPad shooter, there's now a way to sort between specialty photos and videos from Apple's newer devices. But there are a few new features. WhatвЂ™s new?As mentioned before, this is a completely new app with changes to both its look and feel, and how you edit photos. Dedicated iPhoto users should find plenty to like about the new OS X Photos app, though.For more details on this, see our in-depth preview. This isn't an Aperture replacementNow, if you were one of the people who loved Aperture because you like adjusting every possible little setting, and having things like a loupe for pixel-peeping, adjustment brushes for fixing dust spots or blown highlights, and plug-ins to add extra features, hereвЂ™s some bad news: none of these things are present in Photos.

You can see what pictures are by clicking and scrubbing, just like how it works on iOS. A new zoomed out view for collections and years that makes thumbnails absolutely tiny. A new auto-crop tool that looks at your photo to figure out where the horizon is, then adjusts it according to the rule of thirds. The big difference here is that any shared albums you have with friends show up in the main source list instead of hidden away within the app. Apple's changed up its shared Activity View to look less like albums, and more of a running update log вЂ” just like it does on iOS.

The syncing tools for Flickr and Facebook, which let you set up an album to automatically post to either of those places, are gone. ThatвЂ™s an extra thing to have set up outside of Photos, but on the plus side it means that those messages will actually show up in your sent folder instead of into the ether of AppleвЂ™s internet as they did before. iPhotoвЂ™s odd built-in mail tool is also gone, and has been replaced with kicking photos out to YosemiteвЂ™s Mail app. The long-running star rating system has given way to favoriting photos with hearts, though existing star ratings are preserved from your old photos and accessible through search. ItвЂ™s worth noting we were using a pre-release version of the software, and things could be added in future releases.

ItвЂ™s worth noting that even if you choose to sync your photos with iCloud Photo Library, you can still keep the original files stored locally on your Mac while having your library mirrored across multiple devices. Power users might hate that, but the featureвЂ™s been designed so you donвЂ™t have to remember to flag items вЂ” something thatвЂ™s tedious with larger libraries. That means no selecting certain photos of events to sync up. Editing and color correction tools for photos on your videos, thatвЂ™s still iMovieвЂ™s territory you canвЂ™t even trim a video thatвЂ™s stored in your library without jumping out to another app.How does this handle storing photos on my Mac versus iCloud Photo Library?Either you keep everything on your Mac, or sync up everything in your Photos library with your iCloud Photo Library. You cannot geotag photos, though you can see, sort, and search by where photos were taken.

Once you've upgraded to iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream as we've known it is replaced by All Photos.If you do want to flip on iCloud Photo Library, Photos provides an estimation of how much storage it will take. You can also keep using iCloudвЂ™s Photo Stream feature, though it does not store full quality versions of your photos and won't even transfer videos. You can keep both photos and videos in the Photos app, just like you could with iPhoto and Aperture.

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