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It’s very hard to share outside of Picasa, and you can’t even drag a photo out of its viewer to do something with it outside the app. But it’s also a little byzantine if you have a large library with photos spanning various directories, and it’s easy to get lost. Editing is very easy, and it’s pretty fast. It’s closer to what I like, giving you an eye to the file system your photos live in, but presenting them in a manageable and mostly-friendly way.

There’s Google’s Picasa, which I have switched in and out of at various points. But it’s not an application on my computer, and it doesn’t manage my local copies. I love its editing features, I like the interface, and I like the stuff it does automatically. There’s no file system, and everything is stored on the cloud. There’s also Google+’s photos feature, which I really, really like, but it’s not a desktop photo management app, it’s a web service more akin to Flickr.

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But it’s also a black box, storing everything in a package file called “iPhoto Library” which you can technically crack open from the Finder, but you really shouldn’t. It’s godawful slow, and its editing features are sparse and clunky, but at least once you’re editing you can stay editing. I’ve migrated back to iPhoto, which I also don’t like, but at least it’s the devil I know. A bug, of course, which is fixable, and we all know how good Apple is at fixing bugs lately. Ahem.Īlso, it began geolocating many of my photos, taken at home or close to home in Maine, as though they were taken in Afghanistan. You shot them with an iPhone 6 after all, right? They’ll be perfect anyway. It’s a huge waste of time that serves no purpose other than Apple’s overall philosophical stance that normals shouldn’t even bother editing photos. You can’t just advance to the next photo and keep working. You can click edit, do your adjustments, save them, and then you’re booted out of editing mode. They’re very good editing features, but you can’t remain in an editing mode once you’ve finished with an individual photo. But its editing features are strangely tucked away. It’s got some nice features, it’s clean and fast, and all that’s great. That aside, how does it function simply as a photo management tool for my machine? Meh.

Ahem.īut seriously, it sounds like a time bomb of sadness to me.

You just have to trust Apple to get it right. It allocates what photos live on your local hard disk and which don’t in order to preserve space, but not in any way that users have any direct control over. And from all I’ve read, the iCloud syncing aspect of it is a black box. I also presume they just don’t give a shit.

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This emphasis is not technically a “flaw,” but I presume they’re aware that not all Mac users are also iPhone or iPad users.

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Marquee, and inapplicable to me as a happy Android user. First, it’s been developed with the assumption that you own at least one iOS device, and its syncing-through-iCloud feature is marquee. Apple has recently released the first version of its new Photos app for Mac, and it’s not working for me. And it’s my blog, so I don’t see what else could possibly matter. Yeah, I said it! At least, I’ve seen none that satisfy the few but crucial needs that are specific to me. There are no good photo management solutions for the Mac anymore. Photo credit: blentley / Foter / CC BY-NC

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