I take lots of pictures and I do a fair bit of editing, but I don't have many demands. Just so you know where I'm coming from, I'm primarily an iPhoto user. Photos for OS X: Basic design and importing photos Don't lose data because you wanted to be the first to try something! It isn't worth it. If you're brave enough or dumb enough to ignore that advice, at least make sure that you have current backups of your Mac and of your photo library.
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So, obviously, don't install it on your main computer. These updates go through quite a bit of testing, and several builds are usually released before they're deemed good enough for general use. Not only is this the beta of the Photos app, but it comes ensconced inside the first beta of a new major OS X update. You've been around the block enough times to know that you shouldn't install beta software on a computer that matters to you, and that goes doubly here. Don't try this at homeīefore we begin: you're smart! You obviously have excellent taste in tech sites. We've downloaded and installed this early, emphatically non-final version of the software to evaluate how well it replaces the applications it's supposed to replace.
Rather than being available as a separate app, Photos will be downloaded and installed seamlessly on any Mac running OS X Yosemite when the final version of 10.10.3 is released later in the spring. Photos for OS X wasn't ready in time for the Yosemite launch, but today Apple released the app to developers and some members of the press as part of the first preview build of OS X 10.10.3. The app is an offshoot of the Photos app for iOS, and early demos of the app showed that it used the same icon and a similar interface. Apple announced back in June of 2014 that both the consumer-level iPhoto app and the pro-level Aperture app would be replaced by a new app called Photos for OS X (which may have begun life as iPhoto X). The writing has been on the wall for Apple's older photo editing apps for some time now.