High Sierra Photos Editing Issue

I'm having this exact issue - just upgraded to High Sierra today and now can't edit any images. The retouch tool is worthless and what used to be quick and easy now is a huge waste of time.

I submitted feedback to apple on this issue. Hopefully they will get it resolved soon.

I'm holding out a bit longer for a fix/update from Apple. If it doesn't come, I'm going back to Sierra. Photos worked smooth and quick with it. Funny, the only reason I updated to High Sierra was because I wanted to try out the updated version of Photos. Jokes on me.

Are you saying that when your computer is running off battery Photos is OK, but when on power cord it is messed up? Excuse this question, but I am not a tech savvy person.

Also, I have another MacbookAir that has not been upgraded to Sierra. I exported several albums from Photos on High Sierra computer to thumb drive, then imported from thumb drive to Photos on other computer. When I opened an album none of my titles displayed even though the titles were displayed in the “info” box. So that is not a solution as I am I. The midst of sorting 2000 photos and sequence them using titles I assign.

Now ow I am looking at Picktorial for editing. Anybody have experience with it?

I recently upgraded to High SIerra 10.13.1 for the sake of my new Iphone to solve the "Live" photo issue. Without it, I couldn't edit my cell photos on any of my Macs. Mac Photo "retouch" is COMPLETELY USELESS. Bad timing for me, as I need Mac Photo for my work. Can't erase at all. It takes so much time, as it slowly leaves a white trail, that is slow to disappear and then simply does nothing. Waste of time. PLEASE FIX this bug, ASAP. Thanks

I tried running my MBP just on battery so as to access only the integrated graphics (i.e. a possible solution outlined above) - and it made no difference whatsoever to the problems currently occurring in Photos in High Sierra. Not a quick work-around as suggested above.

I just noticed that on a large export (200+ pictures, RAW to PNG) the retouch steps were all corrupted,

That has nothing to do with Photos - If you export the RAW it is a bit for bit copy of what you imported - Photos never touches the original for any reason so when you export the RAW you are exporting the original and Photos has not done anything to it

LN

BEWARE of 10.3.2 UPDATE! I was alerted by the Apple tech to run the update that just came out. It seems to have fixed the crashing of PHOTOS only, but somehow wiped out all photos taken from the Mac High Sierra update to the software update! I have checked my backup on Time Machine, and so far cannot locate the missing files either! Not sure what is going on but have a call into Apple this morning.

I had had no problems with (Leica) RAW files on the previous-to-High Sierra photos program. Since the download the editing program is non-functional. Supposedly Apple is aware of the multitude of issues and is working on a fix.

I am having multiple problems with jpeg files from my Canon, a friend’s Olympus, and our iPhones. Editing is useless and, if I bring photo to full page image from album view, several photos slide by so I cannot even bring the photo up to edit. This includes older photos prior to High Sierra. Do disgusted!!!!

If only Apple would provide users with an expected timeline for the fix instead of leaving everyone in the dark. That is where the enormous frustration stems from - it always is the case. Not knowing when the system will be functional again.

I am assured that Apple is working on the problem from their tech support, as the failure is popping up across the board.

Hopefully, soon!

They don't even trust in their own software. 😕

I have a Time Machine backup of my Mac, but all my photos are on the cloud. So I guess the Time Machine backup is not really a backup of my photos, just the library.

In fact, this is just starting to make me nervous. ALL my photos are in Apple hands.

How much I miss Aperture. 😟

EDIT: Have you read about any success from someone else by doing a Clean Install?

I am having a terrible, frustrating time with photos on my Mac. I cannot go from crop to edit or from edit to crop without the spinning rainbow. It even crops without me doing it. The retouch feature makes the photo look worse and does not work. Period.

I also have about12,000 photos on my computer and I am very upset that the newest 10.13.2 has made the photos worse instead of better.

Please, please, fix this ASAP. It is not acceptable.

The issue does seem to be prevalent among many users. If Apple cannot devise a fix for these things (quickly) then some recourse should be offered to those who have followed Apple's recommendation to upgrade! I, too, am most frustrated by the launch of these products without fully testing their software.

My computer, too, is 2011. My issues seem to be mainly with RAW photos, which I mostly shoot.

Rob

The issue does seem to be prevalent among many users. If Apple cannot devise a fix for these things (quickly) then some recourse should be offered to those who have followed Apple's recommendation to upgrade! I, too, am most frustrated by the launch of these products without fully testing their software.

My computer, too, is 2011. My issues seem to be mainly with RAW photos, which I mostly shoot.

I am on 10.3.3 and a 2015 iMac w24GB of RAM and a fusion drive so no APFS. My wife tried editing photos last night and Photos consistently stalled and crashed 3 times. This is unacceptable. This problem has been going on since Sierra. I have not tried doing a clean install and I should not have to. My wife is asking if we can move to another solution. I will give Apple feedback( did submit crash reports) but I have problems in other areas as well. Not sure this helps anyone but me. Very frustrating.