What Do You Want to See in Photos?
Now that Photos is officially shipping, we can all get our hands on it and see what is – and isn't – there. It's a powerful little app that has some great features for the everyman, but not for the pro. So let's NOT focus on the pro features that would make it an Aperture replacement. Apple knows there's about 1,000 things missing and they may or may not focus on those. We do know that Apple is making this, at least for now, for the everyman—not for the pro. So what features are missing at that consumer/prosumer level that you'd like to see?
Don't include things that are clearly pro-targeted, like tethering, or the insanely awesome and deep metadata search, or even open in editor (which might come but I think it's more likely to be hooked in via Extensions). We all know that Extensions will eventually allow a plug-in style architecture, so we can leave that off the list.
But little things, like reverse chronological order sorting, or UI that'd make it easier to find/understand what's happening. If you think of a feature you'd like, and you could see why your non-pro-photographer spouse might like it too, put it on the list. If you think of a feature and can only justify it for advanced/pro users, then let's leave that off for now.
In the comments… go!
Comments
on April 13, 2015 - 4:10pm
Lynne: good ideas.
on April 13, 2015 - 5:40pm
A majority of the new comments here are getting off topic, and, respectfully, I wonder if there is another thread where we can share and discuss our opinions about Apple’s wisdom with this new direction. These comments don’t seem relevant to Joseph’s original question, and they’re not what I’m subscribed to, and browse, this thread for.
Just a friendly inquiry from someone with a busy inbox.
on April 16, 2015 - 2:09am
As a photo app developer (Macphun), for sure I’d like to see the Extensions SDK sooner rather than later! ;-)
Kevin La Rue, Skylum
on April 16, 2015 - 3:20am
We might see that soon… June 8 soon..
Having the power of Noiseless and Snapheal combined with Photos would really make a difference to the JBOP (just a bunch of photos) nature of the current iteration of Photos app.
SKR Imaging
https://skrimaging.wordpress.com
on April 16, 2015 - 3:52am
Hear hear
on April 16, 2015 - 3:55am
Hey… I’m *with* you guys! Let us FLY, Apple!! ;-)
Kevin La Rue, Skylum
on April 23, 2015 - 12:35am
Captions and the ability to view multiple photos on screen at the same time
on July 5, 2015 - 5:54pm
I’d like for Photos’ keyword feature to write the keyword data into the individual photo’s metadata. I’d like for my keywords to be transferrable to other applications on a photo by photo basis, and not be stored inside the Photos local database, or however it’s currently being handled. I’ve done some tests with Lightroom and Picasa and Exiftool, and see that when I add keywords to a photo and check the photos metadata, the keywords are actually stored in the file. Photos does not do this.
I’d like for Faces to be handled in the same way - when I find faces in my photos, for this data to be stored in the individual photo file’s metadata.
I’d like for the organization of the Masters folder inside the photo library package to be different. I think folder names should be organized by year as they currently are, but inside those folders the subfolders should be named by Event Name. This would allow photo files along with their organizational structure to be transferrable to other systems more easily.
I’d like to see the ability to automatically upload files as they are taken to Flickr or Google Photos, and see some two-way synchronization of keywords, so that this type of organizational work could be done anywhere, with the work done in other applications to be preserved when coming back to Photos.
I think the pricing of photo storage is too high in iCloud, especially when you consider that Flickr is offering 1TB for free, and Google Photos is unlimited (within certain resolution restrictions). I’d like to see plans offered where you get 1TB of additional storage for a reasonable fee. Increments of 100GB per price tier are too small, and lead to plans that simply cost too much to buy into for a lifetime - which is what I want. I’d like for Apple to manage all my photos for the rest of my life, with the ability to share my photos in batches to Facebook, Flickr, Google and whatever social platforms may arise in the future. Writing key information into the individual files, and synchronizing this information between platforms is key to my adoption of the Apple platform forever.
It would be a great feature if Apple could also consolidate all comments from other platforms into their platform, but I think it would be too much to try to store this metadata all in the files themselves. Perhaps Apple could extend the metadata format somehow, so a photoID could have an associated batch of data - notes, comments and additional information, easily linked to the photo itself.
on July 5, 2015 - 6:07pm
In smart albums the opportunity to specify a year without having to type in Jan 1 to Dec 31.
jcraig
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