Photo Manager Programs For Mac

Best photo manager apps for Mac to tame your photo chaos Tweet Sep 24, 2018 — Managing a huge gallery and organizing photos is a tricky business, even if you’re generally tidy, so it’s always a good idea to use some help. Good photo management software will read files quickly to let you focus on the task at hand instead of watching a 'Loading' wheel spin. Is it easy to use? Right alongside responsiveness, ease of use is a major concern for a photo organizer.

Photos: This is Apple's replacement for iPhoto. You can take a look at my to get an idea of the capabilities of the new app.

I think Photos will be a pretty good replacement for iPhoto users; Aperture users, not so much.: Aperture and Lightroom have long been the top professional photo management apps for the Mac. Many photographers have built their photo workflow using one or the other as the key image management app in their businesses. Lightroom may be a logical direction to move in, but first Adobe will need to come up with a graceful and easy way to migrate Aperture libraries, as well as offer equivalent workflow utilities. Lightroom is available for $119.88 with a one-year subscription that includes Photoshop CC; a demo is available.

ICloud Photos. One convenient home for all your photos and videos. ICloud Photos gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slo-mo, or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photos — so it appears on your Mac, your iOS devices, Apple TV, iCloud.com, and your PC.

Even the photos and videos imported from your DSLR, GoPro, or drone to your Mac appear on all your iCloud Photos–enabled devices. And since your collection is organized the same way across your Apple devices, navigating your library always feels familiar. Fill your library, not your device. ICloud Photos can help you make the most of the space on your Mac. When you choose “Optimize Mac Storage,” all your full‑resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud in their original formats, with storage-saving versions kept on your Mac as space is needed. You can also optimize storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, so you can access more photos and videos than ever before.

You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 2TB. Quickly find what you’re looking for with the always‑on sidebar. You can go right to your favorites, or view your library organized by people or places. There are albums that automatically collect your videos, selfies, panoramas, and other media types. You’ll find all the albums you create in My Albums. Moving your content around is as simple as dragging and dropping, with a handy selection counter that shows you how many items you’ve selected.

And you can filter by criteria like favorites, edited, videos, and keywords. Perfect your best shots with powerful editing tools.

Melting cheese for mac and cheese. Create standout photos with a comprehensive set of powerful but easy-to-use editing tools. Instantly transform photos taken in Portrait mode with five different studio-quality lighting effects. Choose Enhance to improve your photo with just a click. Use a filter to give it a new look.

Or use Smart Sliders to quickly edit like a pro even if you’re a beginner. With Markup, you can add text, shapes, sketches, or a signature to your images. You can turn Live Photos into fun, short video loops to share. And you can make edits to photos using apps like Photoshop and Pixelmator, and your changes will automatically be saved back to your Photos library.