Is Photos for mac going to be improved?

There is nothing broken, but the Photos app is a poor excuse for a replacement of iPhoto. My opinion is based on my needs and experience. The Photos app doesn't allow me to readily organize my photos with the simplicity that iPhotos did. I don't like software that is so poorly designed that it requires you to do three or four things to obtain the same results that its predecessor did in one. I am also not a big fan of hidden features that require frequent visits to forums in order to discover the secrets to effectively using the software. If that was what I wanted, I would have bought a Windoze® POS.

Sorry - "they" are not here - only users just exactly like you are here and non of us changed anything or can change anything

Photos is a free program which you can use or not - if it does not do what you what then you most certainly should not use it and should instead sue a program that does do what you want - using a program that you do not like is foolish at best

LN

PS - Photos has much more functionality than iPhoto and most people who have bothered to learn it greatly prefer Photos to iPhoto - it is missing a few things and some things are different causing you to actually have to learn to use them

for help is the differences see Photos 2.0 vs iPhoto 9.6.1: Features and Capabilities

If that does not work see this article -- If Share options or Markup is missing after upgrading to OS X Yosemite or El Capitan - Apple Support

Thanks Larry HN...It was missing and the terminal add did the trick. Mail is there now.

Thanks again!!!

You are welcome

LN

PHOTOS is not a free program. I bought a computer with software as a total package. Without the included software, the iMac should have cost me about 1/3rd of what I paid. I expect that when I pay more for a newer version of a product that it perform better than the cheaper, older version. That expectation stands for the software that I purchased as well.

PHOTOS is not a free program.

Ok - what exactly is the price for Photos? It is free and included on all new Macs and with all free OS upgrades -- I have Photos as do millions of people and have never paid one cent for it - it is absolutely free to all El Captain (and Yosemite) users

as to expectations for software - what ever - if you think that you can sit at home and think up a set of "software expectations" adn then that any one is obligated to meet your "expectation" then you have a long life of disappointments ahead of you - that is not the way the world works nor is it even reasonable - your reasonable expectations for software whether free or purchased can only be what the vendor promises - not what you imagine them to be

Good Luck

LN

You're not locked in to using Photos. There are many DAM (digital asset management) apps out there and one is sure to operate the way you want. I use Media Pro 1 as my primary DAM and Photos for special projects like books, calendars, etc.

A good site to start looking is The DAM Forum.

Have you read this user tip: Moments in Photos are the New Events

And Photos is free. It's bundled with El Captian on new computers and is free for all earlier Macs that can run it.

Larry, do you now, or have you ever, worked for Apple? If not, what, exactly, is your relationship with them?

You obviously ignored, or were incapable of comprehending, my comments above. I used to develop commercial software for Olivetti. If I produced something as poorly executed as the PHOTOS app is, I would have been fired.

Would you purchase a car if the engine, transmission, tires and such were thrown in for "free" even if you found out that they were poorly designed? Would you be pleased to find that the "extras" such as the radio, air-conditioning, electric windows, etc., were given to you for "free" but failed to function after you used them two or three times? Obviously, if it was an Apple car ... you would.

You are amazing - what you are missing it that Photos workes great and most people like it better than iPhoto - you do not but that does not make it a bad program - it simply means you need to use a different program -- that and you love to argue

I used to develop commercial software for Olivetti.

No wonder they are long gone

LN