If you use iPhoto regularly, and it pretty much does everything you need in a photo manager, I think you should be very excited about your future with Photos for Mac as a true replacement application.įrom what I’ve seen, almost everything that you probably use in iPhoto now has already been written into Photos. I've read, watched and analyzed almost all of them so I could finally form a better opinion of what iPhoto and Aperture users are going to go through if we decide to start using Photos instead.Īs I finish up writing this article - and things could change if any new developments are uncovered - here's what I think about the current state of Photos for Mac. In the meantime, journalists and bloggers from multiple websites have already put out “first look” posts and videos letting us know what we should generally expect when we load this application up for the first time. However, I am very excited to get my hands on it, so thankfully there will also be a public beta released very soon. Unfortunately, I’m not a developer, so I don’t have access to the software yet.

It’s now February of 2015, and the first version of Photos has been released into the wild as a “developers beta” for a select group to try out.