Photos replaces iphoto as Mac built-in picture application

Apple has released the latest OS X 10.10.3 to Mac's Test developers, and the biggest change is that the new picture application photos replaces the past iphoto as the underlying default application.

Photos refactoring the way Mac users manage, edit, and share pictures and videos, bringing Iphone,ipad's built-in "photo" ideas to the Mac. Photos and icloud highly integrated, and the iphoto improved a lot of editing tools, can be based on photo time, location of automatic classification of photos, easy to manage.

Photos compared to iphoto most intuitive change is the use of the OS X Yosemite fitting design style, the navigation bar from the bottom to the top, leaving more space for the picture. The overall idea of photos functional design is similar to the Phone,ipad built-in "photo" application, so if you have an Apple device with an iOS 8 system, use photos to "seamlessly connect."
Like iOS devices, photos content can be automatically backed up to icloud. It also means that iOS users with Macs will be free to access more pictures in the future.

Iphotos is often criticized for the lack of large-volume image management, Apple's introduction to the photos highlighted the improvement of this part of the function. According to the hands-on experience, photos use is very fluent, users can roam in thousands of photos, and quickly labeled "like" pictures. Supports all operation gestures on the MacBook Touchpad.

In addition, photos also built-in powerful image editing tools. Apple halted the update of iphoto's professional picture-editing suite aperture last year when it announced a halt to iphoto updates. Now it seems that photos integrates aperture's image editing capabilities, enabling users to add filter effects, adjust brightness saturation, and edit and modify the details.

According to official sources, photos will meet with Mac this spring.