Q: Drag and drop from Photos? Nope.

I just confirmed that drag and drop ONLY works when dragging from your "Photos" tab, but NOT from any of the shared albums. Export won't work either. Not only that, but when drag and drop DOES work from photos, the UI does not give me any indication that it's heard my request, and that it is DOING anything other than a TINY little pie-chart circle up in the upper left of the photos window, which is completely unlike any UI indicator Apple has ever used before. I'm just supposed to notice it.

SO, in order to get photos out from a shared library into the finder so that I can use them in Adobe Premiere, I had to contact the other person who's sharing the library and ask them to navigate to each of the individual photos in their "Photos" library, and drag and drop them from there into a shared dropbox folder where I can grab them. THAT, my friends, is truly ridiculous... and very NOT like the Apple I grew up with.

What in the heck is going on over at that company? They are ruining the entire Apple Macintosh experience with their constant dumbing-down of their software until there will be no differentiation between them and Windows!!

NOT from any of the shared albums

Correct - to use any photos from a shared PhotoStream you must first import into your Photos library - right click on the photo and import - then you can operate on it from Photos or all Photos like any  other photos in your library

LN

Thanks, Larry. I can't see why they would force you to do that just to add drag-and-drop functionality, but at least I know how to do it now.

Any idea why there's no indication on the drag and drop operation itself (other than the very non-Apple tiny pie-chart/clock-face icon?)

It is not just to drag and drop - it is to do anything - edit, email, etc - until the photos is imported you can not do anything with it including drag and drop or export by other methods

LN

I have given up on Photos as it ruins my workflow.

I work as a film location manager constantly taking shots for locations reference.  I used to be able to nicely organise the shots into files and then drag the file (50-60 images) into various web browsers to present the photos using smugmug or other web based photo galleries.

Nice file presentation in date order would allow for quick references etc etc etc.  Iphoto was quick and with editing tools that would be just enough.  Sadly all gone with photos and the ability to drag and drop tops the whole thing.  Even the automated move across to the new system lost a lot of information from the comments areas of iphoto.  I used to put the telephone numbers in the notes and could reference by that.

I HAVE REVERTED BACK TO IPHOTO...

I'm finding it really annoying. I always had my iPhotos set to edit in external editor (in my case Photoshop) in my iPhoto prefs as the default. And that worked really well for me.

So now with Photos it appears they want to elbow third parties out of the way in favour of keeping it as an all-encompassing Apple experience. I get that, I don't agree with it, but I get it.

What I don't get is that I can't even drag-and-drop files onto my Photoshop icon on the Dock. This would be a simple solution, and is a basic, fundamental Mac OS function. Prohibiting this function just feels like pure sabotage.

I'm finding it really annoying too!

Drag and Drop has always been a hallmark of Apple's OS. This must have been a massive oversight! Not acceptable! There better be a fix coming soon.

You can't drag and drop from the All Photos screen, but if you open a photo you can drag and drop that. I agree that this a stupid intermediary step, and Apple should fix it. Photos has a lot of bugs. Apparently a new version will be coming out this fall.

Not being able to drag photos out of Photos and into Gmail or into Google drive is a HUGE inconvenience.

Why would functionality that is GOOD be completely dropped? Were Apple's engineers being inconvenienced by the drag and drop code? I never understand this... Google did it when they released new Gmail and we were forced to embed images in the body of the email. We screamed long enough that they went back to allowing us to drag images to bottom of email and have them attach. It was another example of eliminating something that helped people work faster... for no reason!

I've been doing this out of desperation but now I have a million images on the desktop.... just an extra step that previously was not necessary!

You can always use the Media browser in your web browser:

it is staggering that Apple does not support such basic features anymore. Upgrading to OS X 10.11 still didn't bring back simple drag & drop support. The much advertised full screen feature is rendered useless as you can't use photos and e.g. FCP X sharing a full screen view to edit & drag and drop photos to include in FCP directly. You always have to export the photo first to desktop or another location and import into FCP X. And then you need to clean up the useless exported photos afterwards. This is a very inefficient workflow, what are Apple engineers thinking here or are they not aware they are ruining simple workflows by dropping basic functions? I'm puzzled  

Wow, I cannot believe how ridiculous this is. Super annoying.

Please fix this Apple, using the export function instead of simple drag’n’drop is unacceptable.

@LarryHN The vendor you speak off is Apple. Even drag drop Photos to Safari doesn't work.

That's because you're to use the built in Media browser of Safari to access the photos in Photos:

as with all Apple applications.