Photos is poor replacement

There are dozens of them, look in the App store

So you want an filing system rather than an editor.

What did you use prior to Photos and why not continue to use it if it works for you?

I fee l the same. No advice on alternatives, sorry. I changed from photoshop elements to iPhoto about 2 years ago and had a frightful transition but in the end was happy after lots of work from me. I feel like I am back at day one and the new program is not as user friendly as iPhoto. Locations, faces, merging and moving folders are all problems I've encountered after a few days, the list grows each day....Sigh...

For now continue using iphoto (or Aperture) they are in your applications folder and will work until some future OS upgrade breaks them

this is a how to use Photos forum - not a general photo manager for - there is a Digital Asset Manager (DAM) forum that discusses all DAMs

The most often mentioned one I see here is LightRoom although there are otheres

LN

Andy E wrote:

I have a modest photo library of 22 thousand photos and find Photo to be a poor replacement for iPhoto. It doesn't have the features of iPhoto and the AppleScript support is very poor. It's essentially an iPad/iPhone app ported to OS X .

Are there any other OS X alternatives? I need a photo manager program not an iPad app.

Andy

Adobe Photoshop and Corel may have a product that suits your need.

Unfortunately Apple did not create a PDF/IBOOK downloadable manual for PHOTOS so you have to go through the online support pages to find out how to use - and where any bells and whistles went.

It looks like PHOTOS is set up for touch screens and no keyboard with Function keys.

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

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Csound1Apr 30, 2015 6:46 AM Re: Photos is poor replacement
Re: Photos is poor replacementin response to Andy E

So you want an filing system rather than an editor."

Photos replaces both Aperture and iPhoto. Aperture is a an asset management tool first and editor second. iPhoto may be limited in both asset management and editing but at least you could use an external editor which you cannot with Photos.

Photos is not a replacement for Aperture.

For example, I have a script to apply a keyword to the selected photo's. I select the photo's, run the script which presents a list of all the defined keywords, pick one and click on apply. Job done. You can't do any of this with Photos. There's no way to get a list of defined keywords.

That's not true. Select the image you want to apply a keyword to and type Command+K to bring up the Keyword pane:

If you want to assign multiple photos with the same or multiple keywords it's essentially the same:

IIt's just playing with words to say that Photos is not a replacement for Aperture. When Apple says they are not developing Aperture but you can migrate your Aperture library to Photos the.N it is implied that it is a replacement.

"“With the introduction of the new Photos app and iCloud Photo Library, enabling you to safely store all of your photos in iCloud and access them from anywhere, there will be no new development of Aperture. When Photos for OS X ships next year, users will be able to migrate their existing Aperture libraries to Photos for OS X,” reads a statement Apple released to Macworld."

And when they do that they will find that Photos is in no way a replacement for Aperture.

Csound1 wrote:

And when they do that they will find that Photos is in no way a replacement for Aperture.

In Spades it is not - unfortunately

It is not even a good replacement for iPhoto for large libraries and digital cameras - as far as I see so far it is really only good for iPhones

LN

It's OK (for me) as an iPhoto replacement, but for serious pictures I have not converted from film. Digital pics tend to be more of the 'remember this' snapshot so I require little in the way of editing for those. Sometimes (usually an opportunistic shot) I will need more, then I use Photoshop. I have used Aperture and it was excellent, far above iPhoto or Photos, similar level to Photoshop. I also find Pixelmater very useful (along with 645Pro on the iPhone to take the shots with)