iPhoto app, “Photos” your new Apple photo library

The new iPhoto app is an intuitive library

With the end of the development of Apple’s consumer photo library, iPhoto, and the professional photo editing suite, Aperture, Apple has finally announced the replacement. The new iPhoto app is a cleaner version of its predecessor with cloud storage. The transition to the iPhoto app is simple, and users have an option of keeping both Aperture and iPhoto. The Apple photo album is much more organized, and offers lightning speed.

Clean library with cloud backup solution

The Photos will first be released as Photos beta version for the public, and then followed by the final product, which will be available to the public by spring as a software update. The iPhoto app is an intuitive library that is backed by a good cloud backup and powerful editing tools. The iPhoto app is easy to navigate for all iOS users, and migrating your pictures on to the Apple iPhoto’s book is just as easy. The best part about the new Photos is that it is fast, even when you store a large number of images in the library. The app has four tabs, where all the photos are in chronological order. The four tabs in Apple iPhoto’s book are Shared, Albums, Projects, and Slideshow.

Photos library has four tabs

The shared tab has all the shared photo streams, along with the activity feed and all comments in those streams. The next tab in the iPhoto app has albums that the user has created themselves. The album view has a lot of tricks, like automatically highlighting photos from last import and favorites. It can also store images in various buckets, such as panoramas, slow-motion videos, time lapses, etc. The Apple photo album also has a storing slideshow. The last tab is Projects, which is actually the storefront of Apple’s printed products. Most products, like cards, books, calendars, and so on, can be printed now in panoramic photos too.

iCloud support is an additional feature

The best feature that solves most people’s storage problems is the iCloud backup. The Apple photo album library lets you store the first 5GB pictures free of cost, after which users will need to pay. The prices are $0.99 a month for 20GB, following which 1TB, for a month, comes for $19.99. This is different from the My Photo stream, which lets you store 1000 photos exists independently of this. The Apple photo album is great in its features, but the photos are siloed. If you want your photos from Facebook or any other networking site, the photos do not automatically get added to the library. Hence, the users will need to download them. However, iCloud, when connected to an iPhone, offers powerful synchronization between the devices. The photos clicked by the users on an iPhone or any other iOS device turn up 30 seconds later, and the edits made reflect instantly. There is also a search feature that lets users look for images and search with the image names, where and when the pictures were taken, and also by who was in those photos.

The new iPhoto app by Apple is, all in all, a great step forward, as it gives best and powerful editing options, along with an organized photo album and a great iCloud backup. But most of all, it is a lightning-fast app that was slightly overdue from Apple.