Occasionally, like many others, I have 10+ images that are pretty much the same thing/subject. I liked being able to stack them and have the best one be on top of the pile.
I don't see a "stack" feature yet in Photos and I will submit it as a request. How do people plan on doing this in Photos? Hiding images? I'm just not clear what the best way to handle this is. I'd prefer not to delete them.
Jon
I only recently discovered this very useful feature in Aperture. Select a set of photos, hit cmd-k, then hit the number in upper left of stack to collapse stack (I wish I could configure this to happen automatically). It is also useful to pick the photo in the stack that will display (cmd - \, see Aperture: Working with stacks - Apple Support).
I wish Apple maintained a website where features that people want that are in Aperture can be added to Photos. As it is, I'm not going to switch to Photos (I hate that the number rating is gone too). I will perhaps migrate to a non-Apple product, but I didn't like Lightroom last time I tried it (years ago). Perhaps Affinity will someday come out with an Aperture like program.
Dara
I have the same question. I had the different versions of a picture stacked in aperture because I do not need to see the originals in the library if I have made corrections to it. Now it looks like the different versions show as separate pictures and I can't stack them.
If there is such a function, it does not seem to be handled by the import. I think this is a deal-killer for this application as far as I'm concerned; "stacks" were my primary organization method and I'm not redoing everything with thousands of photos. Please correct me if I am in error.
Please report back on your experience. I'm looking at that and After Shot Pro, which can be purchased outright instead of paying $10/month "rent". If you know of other replacements, please suggest them. I don't think there is any hurry, as Aperture still works at this point.
Just started looking into Lightroom. From what I can tell you can geotag photos with it but not the originals. My camera does not have GPS. I don't like to alter the originals except when it comes to geotagging and time stamp if it is somehow wrong in the original (like scanned old pictures for instance).
As for the equivalent of stacking we have in Aperture, I have not gone that far yet.
If anyone else has comments on other software or on Lightroom, let us know!
So far it looks like Lightroom does everything I was used to and liked about Aperture. I was just about to write that the only thing it does not do is face recognition, but they just released an update and it can do it now (have not tried it yet). It took some adjustments since the file organization on the computer is different from Aperture, but not in a bad way. The originals are in a separate folder from the libraries in which changes to pictures can be made. It makes the libraries themselves smaller than the Aperture libraries, which were hiding everything (masters and modified copies). So, I may switch for good...
No - the only things that are 'stacked' are RAW/JPG pairs and you have to manually select which you want from the edit screen via the image menus or context sensitive right click/double finger tap on the photo.
You can't stack pictures in Photos (yet). I imagine this won't be feature that is fixed anytime soon either as you can't stack photos on your iPhone or iPad and the OS is meant to mimic the iOS, so I can't see it being reintroduced unless it's introduced across the board (and it doesn't look like that will feature in iOS9).
Lightroom does stacking. I migrated to Photos and then tried Lightroom. I'm still torn so still using Aperture myself, but might not upgrade to El Capitan until I've seen whether Aperture will cease entirely under that.
I imagine this won't be feature that is fixed anytime soon either as you can't stack photos on your iPhone or iPad and the OS is meant to mimic the iOS...
This is not true. There are already features on Photos for Mac that not on the iOS version - assign Faces for one. In spite of what you might read, in all these app the Mac version is more powerful than the iOS version - ever try create a style in Pages on iOS? There s no reason to assume that the two versions will have the same features, only that they will be interoperable in some fashion.
Pages has its own problems – the Mac version can’t even re-open documents that it creates – you have to go into iCloud to re-open them (which renders the desktop version pointless). But we're going off topic here.
I’d love to see them introduce stacking, I truly would, but I’m not holding my breath.
Why would you expect a giveaway consumer app to replace the feature set of pro level $80 one?
Alternatives to Aperture include Lightroom, Capture One and one new entrant from OnOne, currently in beta - OnOne Photo Raw
You have loads of choices. You can swap a pro-level $80 app for a consumer level free one. You can choose to use any of a number of powerful pro-level apps made by 3rd parties, you can choose from an even larger selection of consumer level apps. You can even choose to just stay with Aperture and not update your OS. Every choice will involve change, some will result in an app more powerful than Aperture, others in a less powerful one. You get what you pay for. I don't know of any consumer level app with the stacking feature you prefer.
I think it depends what you are looking for in the product. So many these days just sort by date, following Photos' lead. Aperture was great because you could sort photos by album, and more importantly, sync to your iphone easily. There are tons of great photo editing apps out there equal to Aperture, but nothing with the sorting capability and syncing capability that Aperture had. Aperture itself is sadly quite buggy and slow these days, making it an unattractive option. I think there are a lot of people (myself included) who would happily pay for an Aperture 4.
Yes you can put photos into albums, but you can't see which photos are not in albums and you can't stack photos. I used to use it for taking photos of cakes, several of each cake with the best shot stacked at the top. Because they are taken at different times, I don't want to see them in a chronology of my normal pics, I wanted them separated. Now I just see 5 pictures of each cake and can't remember which was the one chosen for publication etc. and can't easily separate them from my other pics.
I guess each person has their own intentions for a photo program. It's just a shame that Aperture did such a great job and then they stopped it, and no one has brought anything out that compares, at least for what I use it for.
Photos is a successor to iPhoto, but not to Aperture. iPhoto could not stack photos either.
However, if you are taking Photos in a quick succession they will be stacked as a burst and you can select the photos to keep.
Well, I am about to retrieve my backed up library before migration and try out Adobe Photoshop Lightroom...
Can we still stack image in Photos?
