Dorchester — Aug 8th 2017

After our Q&A slot, Mick explained how the Photos apps on both Mac OS and IOS work together with iCloud with its options: iCloud Photo Library, Photo Stream and Photo Sharing.

Using iCloud Photo Library ensures that every photo or video“taken on each connected device is uploaded to iCloud Library in the full original format including Camera Raw files. Devices with iCloud Photo library turned on have access to all files but downloads to IOS devices are made in a smaller, more suitable file size. Any changes made to files are updated in iCloud Library and so are available to all devices. The full library is also available on any web browser via iCloud and also to Apple TV 4 and later. iCloud Photo Library uses up your iCloud storage allowance and will soon use up the basic free 5Gb. Extra storage can be purchased, e.g. 50Gb £0.79 per month.

Photo Stream does not use up your iCloud allowance. It does store photos (but not ‘Live’ photos, videos nor Camera Raw Files), for 30 days or a maximum of 1,000 photos. While these disappear from the Cloud after 30 days they are not deleted from devices; in the case of MacOS, Photos Cloud Preferences “Download originals to this Mac” must be selected. Note that edits on one device are not shared with others via Photo Stream. On setting up a new device only the last 30 day’s / 1,000 images will be loaded to the PhotoStream album.

iCloud Photo Sharing allows you to create albums to share with other people, or to subscribe to other people’s shared albums. Photo Sharing use up your iCloud storage allowance.

David discussed the various camera functions and settings on IOS cameras including Live Photos (available on 6S upwards and SE phones). He showed how you can chose one or more photos from a burst and delete the rest. Georgia pointed out that when using the timer the camera shoots in burst mode. David then quickly ran through the editing options in IOS Photos.

After the break, Euan covered the editing options included in mac OS as well as those in iOS mentioned by David — but with a wider range of adjustments. Look for the “Add Option” at the top of the Adjustments list. Third party extensions can be added to the Extensions menu. Euan’ showed us various Affinity Photo adjustments which work as if part of the Photos App. It is also possible to open the image directly in other full photo editing programs. But in that case the the photo will be exported from the Photos App. Naturally Euan used Affinity Photo! If the edited photo is to be re-imported into Photos, it must first be exported from the editing app in a suitable format JEG, TIFF or PNG. Euan finished with a short video showing just what can be achieved using Affinity Photo for those of us not blessed with the latest iPhone dual camera.

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