Q: Photos questions for an iPhoto user
I currently have iPhoto 2013, running on a Macintosh on top of MacOS 10.9 Mavericks. I am considering a future upgrade to MacOS 10.10 Yosemite (or maybe waiting for 10.11 El Capitan) and then transitioning over from iPhoto to Photos. I have some questions:
1: Does Photos allow external access to external photo editors such as Photoshop CC or Photoshop Elements, etc.? iPhoto has long allowed the option of editing of images in another non-Apple program. I wanted to make sure this was available in Photos.
2: David Cox of PC Classes Online published a video tutorial on Photos shortly after its release, earlier this year. He pointed out one bug: in Apple's Mail, any image attachments could be saved to iPhoto but not to Photos. Has this bug been corrected?
3: Mr. Cox also pointed out that if you print out hardcopy photos directly from your computer to a home- or office-printer, you can print out the images only. No file nomenclature or other text. Is this still true in Photos? Is there any work-around?
4: I have no immediate plans to move my photo library to iCloud, even if I upgrade to Photos. My current iPhoto library (over 54,000 photos) weighs in at over 100 GB. I can't justify the cost of iCloud storage right now, and even if I like the idea of sharing the photo library with an iPad, I occasionally make presentations in hilly rural locations that offer no internet connection or useful cellular signal. If I wanted to make a Keynote or Powerpoint or video presentation from an iPad, how hard is it to create the needed show on a Mac and transfer it to an iPad? Do I have to worry about syncing which version of software I create the show on with the version used on the iOS device?
5: Does Photos work with the media browser in Microsoft Office 2011: Mac and Apple's iWeb 2009? I use both of these.
6: Does Photos allow images in its library to be exported (like using iPhoto's Export command to save JPEG images to a thumb drive, changing the size and using a different sequential file nomenclature)? Does it allow images to be exported in varying sizes and compression levels as iPhoto did? What options are available?
7: If I do not deem Photos to be "ready" to take over for iPhoto '13, will iPhoto '13 still run on newer MacOS's? Any word yet on El Capitan?
8: How well does Photos work with Keynote, Pages, and Office 2011? Is it easy to bring images into a document?
Thanks in advance.
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), late-2012 Core i5, 8GB RAM, 1 TB HD
Posted on Jun 9, 2015 9:20 PM