I'll start off by saying that I LOVE Photos - the automatic and seamless (by and large) sync between mobile devices, plus the clean and simple interface is fantastic.
I'm now trying to organise my photos, and wondering about the best way to manage events in particular..
At a root level, I have (for quick access):
- Events (renamed from iPhoto Events)
- A smart album
- An album with sub folders for my wedding day
- An album for my dog
- Plus of course the enforced folders (like panoramas)
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Within the Events folder, are albums for each event (with a couple of folders for grouping some events, like sets of photos from multiple people for the same event)
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to automatically order the albums by date of the photos they contain (like iPhoto used to), so I am labelling them "MM-YY Event Name", and manually ordering them as needed.
This leads to the annoying situation that if I want to add a new album (from the Moments area), the "Add New Album" button is at the bottom of the entire list - and there's no way to quickly scroll to the bottom. With 297 albums that's a lot of scrolling to add a new one!!
So, I'm actually discouraged to add new events.. (I appreciate you can kind of look at them in Moments, but I like to make sure that holidays - which span over multiple days - are all in one album, and by using albums you can also search based on the album name)
What do you think - any tips?
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Another area of confusion is Family Sharing - I don't have Family Sharing turned on, but do have a Shared Album with my wife.
(With iPhoto, we just used a shared database between logins on the same laptop, but probably best to use iCloud Photos the way it's intended, with separate Apple IDs)
Annoyingly though to share and combine photos of an event, the process seems to be:
- She goes to Moments, selects photos, and adds to shared album
- I then have to select those exact same photos, and save them to my iCloud Photos
- Then somehow find those newly saved photos and select them again, and add them to an album (along with my own)
Seems like a very cumbersome process!! The same set of photos have to be selected three times - once by my wife, twice by me - any tips?
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Minor issues:
- Smart album finds results on MBP, but not MBA, and shame there are no smart albums on mobile
- One folder-within-a-folder shows correctly on both laptops and iPad, but empty on iPhone..
- Hidden folder shows on iPhone, but not on any other device (despite being imported from iPhoto on the desktop)
- How can I turn off the automatic folders? I don't care about panoramas specifically for example, only within the context of going away on holiday
I'm now trying to organise my photos, and wondering about the best way to manage events in particular..
At a root level, I have (for quick access):
- Events (renamed from iPhoto Events)
- A smart album
- An album with sub folders for my wedding day
- An album for my dog
- Plus of course the enforced folders (like panoramas)
=============
Within the Events folder, are albums for each event (with a couple of folders for grouping some events, like sets of photos from multiple people for the same event)
As far as I can tell, it's not possible to automatically order the albums by date of the photos they contain (like iPhoto used to), so I am labelling them "MM-YY Event Name", and manually ordering them as needed.
This leads to the annoying situation that if I want to add a new album (from the Moments area), the "Add New Album" button is at the bottom of the entire list - and there's no way to quickly scroll to the bottom. With 297 albums that's a lot of scrolling to add a new one!!
So, I'm actually discouraged to add new events.. (I appreciate you can kind of look at them in Moments, but I like to make sure that holidays - which span over multiple days - are all in one album, and by using albums you can also search based on the album name)
What do you think - any tips?
=============
Another area of confusion is Family Sharing - I don't have Family Sharing turned on, but do have a Shared Album with my wife.
(With iPhoto, we just used a shared database between logins on the same laptop, but probably best to use iCloud Photos the way it's intended, with separate Apple IDs)
Annoyingly though to share and combine photos of an event, the process seems to be:
- She goes to Moments, selects photos, and adds to shared album
- I then have to select those exact same photos, and save them to my iCloud Photos
- Then somehow find those newly saved photos and select them again, and add them to an album (along with my own)
Seems like a very cumbersome process!! The same set of photos have to be selected three times - once by my wife, twice by me - any tips?
=============
Minor issues:
- Smart album finds results on MBP, but not MBA, and shame there are no smart albums on mobile
- One folder-within-a-folder shows correctly on both laptops and iPad, but empty on iPhone..
- Hidden folder shows on iPhone, but not on any other device (despite being imported from iPhoto on the desktop)
- How can I turn off the automatic folders? I don't care about panoramas specifically for example, only within the context of going away on holiday
