Q: What is the benefit of using Photos over iPhoto or Aperture?
Are they all just the same?
iPhone 6s, iOS 9.3
Posted on Mar 29, 2016 6:21 PM
Both iPhoto and Aperture are at the end of their life cycle. Apple stopped the development and is no longer selling them from the AppStore. The current versions Aperture 3.6 or iPhoto 9.6.1 are compatible with MacOS X 10.11.4, but there will be no future updates. And Apple announced, that it will no longer be possible to order print projects (Books, Calendars, Cards) from Aperture or iPhoto after the end of the month.
It is too late to start using iPhoto or Aperture now, if your Mac is running MacOS X 10.19.3 or newer, because you will not be able to purchase compatible versions.
Photos for Mac is Apple's first Photo application, that allows to sync a photo library across several devices, and not only between Mac and iPhone or iPad. I am using it to keep my Photos Library in sync between for Macs. Editing is easy, and the photo editing extensions make it easy to use third party photo editors.
What is still problematic, compared to Aperture or other professional digits asset management software, is the lack of support for a customized workspace and batch processing. The user interface does not allow to customize the tools and in many cases is it not possible to apply commands to multiple selected photos at once. So editing is much slower than in Aperture. And not all EXIF or IPTC metadata can be accessed in Photos.
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Posted on Mar 29, 2016 8:36 PM