Keep in mind Apple stopped supporting and updating iPhoto (and Aperture) back in 2014. While I use Lighroom/Photoshop for my photography, Photos is actually a bit better than iPhoto. How to migrate photo libraries from iPhoto to Photos. If you bought a new Mac with OS X Yosemite or later pre-installed, or performed a clean OS X install on your machine, you won’t see the iPhoto app. IPhoto will, however, continue to live alongside Photos only after upgrading from a prior OS X version to OS X Yosemite or later.

Apple is discontinuing its Photo Print Products service, which has been integrated into iPhoto since its launch in 2002. The service expanded from simple prints, to albums, photo books, and calendars. It stayed around on the Mac when iPhoto was replaced with the Photos app a couple of years ago, but the service never made the leap to iOS.

Later this year, Apple will stop offering the service altogether. A new message in macOS 10.13.6 Photos app says that final orders for Apple’s built-in service must be placed by September 30, 2018.

In macOS Mojave, Photos already does not include any references to Apple’s integrated Photo Print Products service.

Apple’s recommendation is that customers download a third-party app that includes a Photos Projects extension. This API was introduced in High Sierra, and allows photo services to integrate photo printing UI inside the Apple Photos app. Payment processing and printing is all handled by the third-party.

Services that support Photos Projects include Mimeo Photos, Wix, GoodTimes, WhiteWall and Shutterfly. If you are running Mojave, the new Mac App Store is featuring some of these apps in an editorial story.

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Photos vs. iPhoto and Aperture

When you compare the features of Photos to those of iPhoto, it’s easy to see that, in most ways, Photos is a reincarnation of iPhoto. A few organizational features have been lost, the interface is more refined, deep connections to iCloud have been added, and the entire app feels faster.

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But not long after introducing Photos, Apple announced that it also was ceasing development of its professional photography app, Aperture, and that Photos would be a suitable replacement ① (see my Macworld article). Based on the initial version of Photos, however, this doesn’t seem to be the case. Photo hobbyists who used Aperture despite not needing most of its features might not mind the omissions, but professional users should probably start considering other options, such as Adobe’s Lightroom.

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Coming from iPhoto

If you’re used to iPhoto, Photos won’t be that jarring. Photos can import your iPhoto library (see Import from iPhoto into Photos) and retains most, but not all, of the features of iPhoto. Star ratings have been demoted to keyword status, flagged items are now Favorites, and iPhoto Events are now just another kind of photo album. But with the optional sidebar displayed in Photos, you’d think you were using a slick new version of iPhoto.

There are new features, to be sure, including modified and expanded editing tools and more direct integration with iCloud, but with a little time, iPhoto users should be able to settle in comfortably.

Coming from Aperture

I’m not much of an Aperture user. I use it mostly to capture images on the fly directly from my Canon DSLR . I’ve built an entire workflow around shooting Apple events: resizing the images to Web resolutions, applying a watermark, and saving the result out as JPEGs to be uploaded to a server.

Could I do that same task in Photos? It doesn’t support tethered shooting, exporting multiple versions with different image-quality levels, or watermarks. And the differences certainly don’t end there. Photos doesn’t support the concept of separate projects inside a single library. And star ratings and color labels are imported as keywords.

Photos also doesn’t support plug-ins or editing in an external editor—both key features of Aperture. And Photos’ editing features, while solid, don’t match Aperture’s. For example, Photos doesn’t offer an adjustment brush to selectively apply an edit to the image.

If you use Aperture because it’s more than iPhoto, but haven’t availed yourself of most of its features, you may find Photos sufficient (see Import from Aperture into Photos). But if you rely on any Aperture features that Photos doesn’t support, prepare for disappointment.

Now the good news: Some Aperture features (like the Split view, which I use all the time) are available in Photos ②. And Photos will import your Aperture libraries, though your projects will turn into folders in the Albums section.

② Split view in Photos is similar to what you’d see in Aperture, but not quite the same.

If you try Photos and decide it’s not for you, your Aperture libraries will still be there, unharmed. So there’s no risk in giving Photos a spin.

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