iPhoto Update on El Capitan.

- Right now neither iPhoto nor Aperture can run on El Capitan, since no updates are available at all. (maybe on torrent)

Aperture 3.6 and iPhoto 9.6.1, the compatibility updates for Yosemite are running on El Capitan. You can update to these versions, if you own an App Store version of iPhoto or Photos.

Photos can do batch changing, can resize sets of images on export (in exactly the same way as both iPhoto and Aperture). Watermarking was never available in iPhoto, but, like iPhoto can be done via a 3rd party app in Photos.

Since I am not an expert of Photos - just weighting the upgrade price - I can rely on others experience and some testing.

I could not figure out, how can I add comments to a set of photos so that I can group them.

In iPhoto with Batch Change you added several buzz-words and could see pics in different groups.

I do not see this in Photos.

With Aperture you could resize pics to a given size in pixels (etc) and add watermark to it .

Yes, iPhoto cannot do that, but together - iPhoto, Aperture (80 bucks) could do the job.

I gladly belive that Photos will be a great product, but right now it created a gap and headache.

Aperture 3.6 and iPhoto 9.6.1, the compatibility updates for Yosemite are running on El Capitan. You can update to these versions, if you own an App Store version of iPhoto or Photos.

Well, I am on Lion so far. I guess my iPhoto comes from iLife and nothing to do with App Store.

it might be the reason that App Store says, iPhoto is not available in my App Store.

Due to the bad experiences I try to avoid early upgrades 🙂

I will overcome this problem, however it makes me feel uncomfortable, that I must dig, search, argue, etc

so that I can just use my staff.

It might be, that technology evolvement requires to re-learn, but in this case,

there must be a seamless migration path delivered by the vendor to the end-users.

Since I am not an expert of Photos - just weighting the upgrade price - I can rely on others experience and some testing.

The perhaps it might be wise not to speak so confidently, but rather to ask than assume.

Batch changing comments (and keywords) is simple - select the group Photos go command-i and add the information you want. It's applied to all the deleted images.

Photos is not a replacement for Aperture. Apple have simply got out of the pro software in this field. You don't replace a $80 app with a giveaway. If you're a serious Aperture user then Photos has nothing for you and you need to look at 3rd party apps.

There was a seamless upgrade path from 10.7 to 10.8 to 10.9 to 10.10 and now 10.11. You chose not to take it.

thanks for posting this. i followed this through to the very end, spent time with Apple Support. No luck. If you move to El Capitan, you lose iPhoto forever. photos was created for the ecosystem (iCloud sync, multi-device, etc), but as a photo app, it's awful. Despite threads that tell you it's possible to run iPhoto with El Capitan, you cannot. Once you move to El Capitan, you get photos, and iphoto is disabled, forcing you to update all other devices. Funny that Apple was the company for the rest of us, in stark defiance to Big Brother, who forced upon us one way of doing things, imposed complexity for inferior performance. Who will be the company to come up and throw the hammer at Apple?

As for photos (I refuse to capitalize it, as it gives it more status than it deserves), we are stuck using it now on our iMac. All the other devices have post it notes reminding us not to click on upgrade. We spend more time now on the non-El Capitan machines. Keeps us on iPhoto, automatically wipes SD cards (see related threads). Let's hope that with the next release, we take more steps forward than we do backwards - or that we are at least informed of the one-way decisions being made on our behalf

If you move to El Capitan, you lose iPhoto forever.

This is absolutely false. iPhoto v9.6.1 runs on El Capitan. I have it running here.

Despite threads that tell you it's possible to run iPhoto with El Capitan, you cannot. Once you move to El Capitan, you get photos, and iphoto is disabled, forcing you to update all other devices.

Nope. You are wrong. This is not the case. iPhoto is not disabled on El Capitan, all you need is the up-to-date version.

The rest of your post, based on this fallacy, is gibberish.

Although I don't disbelieve you Terence, there is a twist.

I've just replaced a late 2006 iMac (with all available updates installed ie. OS X 10.7.5) with a new 2016 iMac. I used Migration Assistant to get me started. Inevitably there were a number of updates available in the Mac App Store which I have installed. However, I found this thread because there is a problem. The iPhoto app is listed as an available update (v9.6.1) but when I request the update a message tells me it's not available. (No surprise given what I've learnt about the new Photos app and reading this thread.)

So, I'm in a kind of limbo whereby I click the iPhoto app icon (which has a white circle with a line through it) and the message reads "in order to open iPhoto, you need to update to the latest version"... "The version of iPhoto installed on this Mac is not compatible with OS X El Capitan. Download the latest version for free from the Mac App Store".

But I can't get the 9.6.1 update as it's not available to me.

There was a seamless upgrade path from 10.7 to 10.8 to 10.9 to 10.10 and now 10.11. You chose not to take it.

So when someone says they've gone from an earlier version OS X to El Capitan (and they claim they are not an expert) it might also include a change of hardware. I chose to upgrade my OS but was limited by the hardware. And now I have upgraded my hardware I am limited by the software.

No big deal for me I guess. I'll just have to delete the iPhoto app to get rid of the annoying update reminder as suggested in this thread. It's a good job I'm trusting that the Photos app is as good or better seeing as I'm not a power user of iPhoto.

If you never updated your old Mac past Lion and and your iPhoto version did not come preinstalled with Lion, it will not be possible to get the update to iPhoto 9.6.1, because this update has only been released for App Store versions of iPhoto - purchased from the AppStore or coming preinstalled on Macs without installer disks. If you do not see iPhoto in your Purchases history at the App Store (the fourth tab "Purchases") you unfortunately missed the window of opportunity to get access to an appStore version. Apple is no longer selling iPhoto from the AppStore and updating the older version is no longer supported.

But if you are seeing iPhoto in your Purchases history, or a family member has it in the Purchases history, because iphoto has been purchased for a different Mac from the App Store, move the crossed out iPhoto to the Trash, relaunch the AppStore, sign in with an AppleID that can download iPhoto, and reinstall from the Purchases tab.

Thanks léonie.

iPhoto is in my 5th tab "Updates" under the title "1 Update Available" (telling me v9.6.1 is available).
But it's not in my 4th tab "Purchased" as you suggest.

I purchased it on a family bundle iLife'11 DVD (which I still have in front of me) so I guess I'm disadvantaged.

PS. I have all the available updates on the 2006 iMac which limited it to OS X 10.7.5 and no further.

PS. I have all the available updates on the 2006 iMac which limited it to OS X 10.7.5 and no further.

That is the problem. The critical update you missed is the upgrade from iPhoto 9.4.5 to 9.5.1 on Mavericks, when Apple stopped releasing iPhoto updates for the versions purchased on iLife DVDs. At that time it has been possible to change the license for your iLife '11 DVD version and to associate with the App Store.

You could try to talk the Apple Store where you purchased the new Mac into providing a redeem code for iPhoto to be able to download the iPhoto update.

But in the long run it will be much better to switch to Photos for Mac. The application can open your iPhoto Libraries losslessly, and it the photo software that integrates bast with the Mac Operating system. iPhoto has been deprecated - you can no longer photo books or any print products from iPhoto, and I am sure you will be seeing more and more glitches in iPhoto with the next system updates.

Hi! I upgraded to El Capitan and can't access iPhoto. I did back up all of my photos on an external drive. I am not sure how how to get iPhoto back? Can you explain in a bit more detail. Just don't want to delete anything I shouldn't.

Thanks!

Can't Update iPhoto because it is not available in the App Store

LN

Good luck. This has been a DISASTER for me. Photos won't transfer from iphoto to Photos. And good luck transferring from external HD. What a mess

Vague comments can't really expect assistance, can they?