Apple’s Photos App is Pretty Nice
This morning I have nothing to do at The Shop, and so I decided to catch up on all the Faces work I needed to do in Apple's Photos app. It's getting to match the iOS Photos app a lot more, and while there are a few things to get used to, it's not bad, and if you just give it a few minutes, you're likely to find what you need right there in the app.
For example, setting the 'default' picture in a Faces collection used to be a scrolling and selecting deal - could be hard with a lot of faces, but now you look at all the pictures for a given face, and then right-click to set the one you want. Very simple. Very easy.
It's really a great little app.
I wanted to make a head-shot for my brother, and Faces had picked out a nice one, but it didn't allow me to set it as the contact. But it did allow me to duplicate the one picture... crop it... save it... and then the Contacts app allowed me to use that from the Faces for this contact. I mean it's just super simple.
At the same time, I have a somewhat unique problem in that two of my kids are trans. This means their names have changed - and not just a little. Once I got all the pictures under one name, then I simply clicked on the name in the Faces view, and changed it. Simple. And for me, that's a lot of pictures. So much easier than having to do each picture.
Finally, the camera metadata. Wow! I looked a a picture we all took a while back. It had all the metadata - not just the geolocation tags, but also the camera, the conditions... it's crazy what a camera will stuff into the metadata, and Photos accurately stores all that.
Very slick tool. Very. Thanks, Apple.