Bournemouth — Jan 19th 2016
The views or display options in the iOS and OSX versions of Photos are quite similar but Tony highlighted and explained a few potentially confusing differences. There are also important differences in behaviour when deleting photos when viewing albums: On OSX, this merely removes the photo from the album whereas on iOS it deletes the photo completely.
This issue of deletion was again the subject of discussion in the context of Photostream. The iCloud holds photos shared by Photostream for 30 days (as long as the limit of 1000 photos is not reached). During this time, deletion of the photo on the device from which it originated will remove it from all devices. However, opinions differed on whether this remains the case after 30 days, when the photo is no longer stored on iCloud. (post meeting note: A quick test reveals that, as with many aspects of Photos, the answer to this superficially simple question has to begin "Well, it depends. . . . ."!)
Still on the subject of organisation, Tony demonstrated the addition of Keywords or text to individual or multiple pictures and showed how this metadata can be used to create Smart Albums.
As well as organisation and sharing, the various projects such as books and slideshows were also briefly reviewed as an encouragement for us to do something with our pictures.
The subject of photo editing was deliberately not covered on this occasion but was generally felt to be a good topic for a future meeting.
After a coffee break, the usual Q&A was held covering such topics as handling Word documents in Pages, which led onto Apple's scripting tool, Automator (another possible future topic). Unsurprisingly, the question of deletion of photos raised its head yet again, this time with the recommendation to try the Mac utility Image Capture to help with bulk transfer and erasure of images on iOS devices.
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