Zews 39
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Q: Workflow messed up in new Photos for Mac

The new Photo for Mac is a very bad "upgrade". My customary workflow has pretty much been destroyed by it.

 

The old "Edit in External Editor" no longer exists. You now either have to drag a photo to the desktop (which degrades the quality), or export it unchanged by using File > Export > Export Unmodified Original. Then edit my photo  in whatever editor I want to use, and finally import the photo back into Photos.

 

What is no longer possible either is drag and drop a photo from Photos to MS Word, Pages, Adobe Illustrator or any other program I would want to use a photo in.

 

I hope there will be an update soon.

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Apr 27, 2015 7:29 PM

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Q: Workflow messed up in new Photos for Mac

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  • by LarryHN,

    LarryHN LarryHN Apr 27, 2015 8:08 PM in response to Zews 39
    Level 10 (85,007 points)
    Photos for Mac
    Apr 27, 2015 8:08 PM in response to Zews 39

    iPhoto ( and Aperture) are still in your applications folder and still work - if you do not like Photos use your previous solution while you wait for upgrades or look for alternatives

     

    LN

  • by dnb777,

    dnb777 dnb777 Apr 27, 2015 10:00 PM in response to LarryHN
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    Apr 27, 2015 10:00 PM in response to LarryHN

    iPhoto is not working anymore for me - I get an error message saying to look for a compatible version in the app store. (There is none.) My workflow is seriously messed up with Photos too - I used to be able to drag and drop photos into my wordpress site, and can't seem to do that anymore. So frustrated.

  • by Clem,

    Clem Clem Apr 28, 2015 12:17 PM in response to Zews 39
    Level 3 (677 points)
    Apr 28, 2015 12:17 PM in response to Zews 39

    Drag to the desktop after first holding down the Option key to drag out the unmodified original.  From there, drag it into any other app.

  • by notcloudy,

    notcloudy notcloudy Apr 28, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Zews 39
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    Desktops
    Apr 28, 2015 12:58 PM in response to Zews 39

    Zews 39 wrote:

     

    The new Photo for Mac is a very bad "upgrade". My customary workflow has pretty much been destroyed by it.

     

     

     

    I hope there will be an update soon.

    Photo is not an upgrade - its a redesign of the product seems main use is for tablets, ipads, iphone and Icloud for synchronizing on devices.

    Below are some links that may help you -- with links to other Apple support pages.

    Photos is suppose to have more options - but guessing not the way you want.

     

     

    photo getting started

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204655

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204410

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204264

    https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204414

  • by ks717w,

    ks717w ks717w Apr 28, 2015 1:37 PM in response to notcloudy
    Level 1 (10 points)
    iPhone
    Apr 28, 2015 1:37 PM in response to notcloudy

    Symantics folks - call it what you want,  I find Photo.app c***  All it does is "run more efficiently" but makes the user do all the work. It's like Apple decided to take a step backward and want all of us powerusers to embrace tunnel carpel before our time. So many extra steps to do what use to be one key command, or one right click, or one drag. It's like a PC product now. Not intuitive.

     

    I lament the loss of key features too and why I made the final decision a years ago to bite the bullet and use iPhoto as my key image organizer. I have 3 libraries for work and personal. Photo.app is killing my Apple joy. I get so frustrated with the "ultimate guides to Photo.app" articles out there that don't even touch on what an ardent creative would need to make this "app" software work. And don't get me started on the stupid name - did Apple hire Microsoft engineers?

     

    I hear you Zews. I keep putting in requests for features and then trying to find answers here or on the net but there's a serious lack of usable information and help regarding the issues I have encountered with the Photo.app since it was forced upon me in a security update.

     

    For those of us who updated our OS for security reasons, there is NO going back to iPhoto. It clearly states after one opens it that the software will not save changes. There is no workaround for the hours it has taken me to get just my work/image library to a usable but fractured state. I really wish everyone would stop touting the ability to go "back to iPhoto" when you can't. If you can open it then all you can do is eliminate and rearrange the contents to make the transition smoother with less keystrokes. Now that would have been the article I would have found useful. How to organize the libraries (plus merge them) PRIOR to the Photo.app being shoved down our throats. No try before you buy, well, update here.

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Apr 28, 2015 1:39 PM in response to ks717w
    Level 9 (50,786 points)
    Desktops
    Apr 28, 2015 1:39 PM in response to ks717w

    Then use iPhoto, trash the copy you have and go to your purchases list in the App Store and download the new one.

     

    Or complain about Photos instead if that fixes it for you.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Apr 28, 2015 1:40 PM in response to ks717w
    Level 10 (141,304 points)
    Mac OS X
    Apr 28, 2015 1:40 PM in response to ks717w

    Rather than complain here to other users like yourself  who are powerless to do anything about it tell Apple what missing features you'd like restored or new feature added in Photos via https://www.apple.com/feedback/photos.html.  It still is under active development.

     

    Until then continue to use iPhoto which will still work with 10.10.3 if you have iPhoto 9.6.1.

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  • by ks717w,

    ks717w ks717w Apr 28, 2015 4:53 PM in response to Old Toad
    Level 1 (10 points)
    iPhone
    Apr 28, 2015 4:53 PM in response to Old Toad

    I don't mind complaints because at least one realizes they aren't the only one with the issue. And who can say that if one complains here they haven't already wrote up a feature request? I have and I appreciate at least a glimmer that someone else is having an issue here that perhaps someone has found a decent workaround. If not at least the issue is in the forum.

     

    It's a stupid name for an app anyway.  Oddly there are very few references in google searches for solutions but they are for the most basic use or resolve issues if folks read the menu bar would find themselves

     

     

    I find almost nothing on the internet that has helped me, so complain away folks while you write your feature requests. At least I can find here that this new app is not as rosy as all the glowing reviewers who don't even seem to use the app have touted.

     

    The only response I received from Apple was to ask me for a screenshot of one of my issues. For what? I guess to prove the bug was true that I wrote them about??? It didn't resolve anything. Apple's engineer offered no solution or response as to why my smart albums have ALL been "modified" as well as now include images that have no reference to the tags for a particular smart album. I have no solutions or way to remove the image's seemingly invisible reference that ***** them into the smart album it should not be in. I have written Apple so they are aware.