July 2015
Beginner
336 pages
11h 44m
English
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Foreword
If you’re not a fan of change, a word of advice: Don’t get involved with Apple.
Apple loves introducing a technology, singing its praises, wooing us to use it—and then abandoning it when a better technology comes along. The list of inventions that Apple has celebrated and then junked is longer than most companies’ entire product histories: The floppy drive. The CD burner. The ADB port. The SCSI port. The FireWire port. The 30-pin iPhone connector. The MagSafe connector. The original Final Cut. The original iMovie.
And now, iPhoto.
Apple has put its aging photo-management/editing program for the Mac onto an ice floe and pushed it gently out to sea.
In iPhoto’s place, Apple offers a completely new, free Mac program called Photos. In every possible way, it’s meant to look and work like the Photos app on the iPhone and iPad (that is, on iOS). Learn Photos on your phone, and you’ve pretty much mastered it on your iPad and Mac, too. And vice versa.
If you’re now using iPhoto—or the professional photo-management program Aperture, which Apple will also abandon—then this is big news indeed. You’ve probably got a few questions. You might wonder, for example, what will happen to your existing photo collections, what features you’ll gain, which ones you’ll lose, what will happen to iPhoto and Aperture, and how to convert your photo library to Photos format.
Above all, you might wonder why Apple is asking you to switch to Photos, especially considering that it has fewer features. Yes, you ...
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