Photos Info Pro, on the other hand offers just about everything I want in an iPad photo workflow tool, and for the very reasonable price of $4.99. After importing images using the Camera Connection Kit, fire up Photos Info Pro and load up the relevant album in your library. Automatically send photos from your phone to your Mac. Have your iPhone show the location of your photos on a map. Build your own tip calculator app. Set up a workflow to check your battery level, adjust your screen brightness, and send you a message. Workflow has over 200 available actions that you can mix and match to make your.
Oct 21, 2017 Apple Photos RAW workflow. Discussion in 'Digital Photography' started by rick987611, Jun 10, 2017. None of the edit that generated this JPEG on iOS carry over to the MacOS photos app. I use Affinity Photo and the Mac Photos to edit my photos on my mbp. AFfinity Photo is a one time purchase of about $69, I think, but I highly recommend it.
Apple's Workflow app lets you script actions on your iPhone and iPad. I wrote a tip last month about using Photos to create animated GIFs on your Mac, but if you wanna do the same thing on.
A workflow to upload photos to Google Photos if you use Apple Photos app on Mac OS. Published on July 25. So following is the workflow that works for me.
Google launched Google Photos in 2015. Since then many amateur photographers like me have been using it either as their primary or secondary photo sharing tool. One the whole, Google Photos is great! It's unlimited storage (high quality; you have to pay extra to store originals), ease of sharing and AI-powered search alone make it a useful tool.
Apple also replaced it mature but old iPhoto software with Photos.app in 2015. While it brings modern design and better performance to the table, its rough edges are still showing up such as limited photo sharing capabilities. Apple offers their own photo sharing options via iCloud photo stream and iCloud photo library, but for various reasons that you can read elsewhere they leave a lot to be desired at least as of this writing.
So like many people, I use Mac OS Photos app to keep a local copy of the photos and do some local editing and library management, and upload select pictures to Google Photos so that I can share with my friends and family. There are several problems with using photo management apps by rival companies. To name a few...
Google Photos is not in the share menu in Mac OS, so you cannot share an album easily from Photos.app to Google Photos. Even if there was a share extension, I'm not sure if we'd be limited by the arbitrary implementation snafus such as 30 photos at-a-time uploads that Flickr sharing has.
Google's photo backup utility isn't really designed for manual uploads. In typical Google fashion, it's an all or none option. It insists on automatically uploading all your photos unless you carefully restrict it to a folder.
You can't drag and drop photos from Photos.app to Google Photos website uploader. To upload photos, you have to use the upload button on photos.google.com and select the 'Photos' Media folder from the sidebar that appears in the Finder window, then select the album you want.
If you have painstakingly bothered adding Title and Description to your photos, it will be lost using the method above.
Alright. Now that you know the problems, you want to know the solution too right? You didn't read this far just to hear me complain, did you? Of course not. So following is the workflow that works for me.
The Workflow
Create an album in Photos.app. Edit away to your heart's content. I recommend using the 'description' field if you want to add some info, but if you happened to make use of 'title', fear not, I have a fix for it too.
Select all the photos you want to upload, then use the export feature of Photos app as shown in the screenshot below. Remember to create a new folder in the finder window shown in next step after you click 'Export'.
Use Google Photos website's upload feature to upload these exported photos.
Delete the folder of exported photos.
If you have 'title' for photos instead of 'description', Google Photos loses them in the upload process. Instead of manually going through each photo and copying the title to description, you can use a nifty Mac OS feature called the 'Automator'. Automator is a somewhat old tool that Apple still supports on Mac OS X to let us do some app scripting. This is awesome, as it allows us to fix many of the annoyances and bugs that Apple left behind because they didn't make the cut. It also allows us to let your computer do what it loves to do, repetitive boring tasks.
'Copy titles to description' Automator service
Fire up Automator and create a new 'Service' as shown in the screenshots below. Services are programs that can run in a given context (such as an application) and show up in the 'Services' menu of your app.
Remember to restrict the service to Photos app by selecting it in the dropdown.
Add a 'Run Applescript' action and copy-paste the Applescript code in text area. Save the service.
Launch Photos app and make sure it appears in the Services menu as shown below.
Select some photos and run the service, and behold your shiny glorious descriptions! You can use a mix of photos which have titles and ones that don't. The service will silently skip the photos without titles. On a fairly typical middle-aged MacBook Pro with solid state storage, the service took me ~ 3 minutes to run on ~ 400 photos. Your run-time may vary.
So there you go. Until Apple and Google both fix their products, hope this helps you. If you weren't familiar with Automator and Applescript, hope this opens some new doors for your weekend programming activities.
In this week’s episode of Back to the Mac, I talk about ten of my favorite apps for macOS. It doesn’t matter if you’re using an iMac Pro or a MacBook Air, all of these apps may prove to be useful in your day-to-day workflow.
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Alfred 3
Price: Free, but ~$26 PowerPack purchase increases its usefulness
In my workflow, Alfred wears many hats; it’s a TextExpander snippet replacement, it’s a Spotlight replacement, it’s my search engine interface thanks to its custom search query abilities, and it handles generating specific links that I use for affiliates. All of that, plus the ability to sync its settings via iCloud Drive, Dropbox, etc., make it a killer tool for Mac users.
Affinity Photo
Price: $49.99
Serif makes some of the best software that you’ll find for macOS or iOS. Its Affinity Photo app for Mac and iPad has been lauded for its depth, design, and ease of use. Serif’s apps also lack the annoying subscription fees associated with apps like Photoshop, which is arguably Affinity Photo’s closest competitor.
Many have been able to use Affinity Photo as an outright replacement for Photoshop, and the same thing can be said about Affinity Designer, which can replace Adobe Illustrator.
Flume Pro
Price: $10
Since Facebook has yet to create a desktop version of its Instagram app, Flume has been my go-to method for managing Instagram accounts on Mac. As someone who works primarily from the Mac, it’s annoying that I have to use my iPhone just to manage Instagram posts, respond to comments, and upload new content.
Flume makes managing Instagram from the Mac both easy and enjoyable thanks to its intuitive interface that’s tuned for a mouse and keyboard. For example, you can quickly switch between multiple Instagram accounts, upload photos, and post comments using simple keyboard shortcuts.
My favorite part of Flume, though, has to do with video uploads. Instead of having to transfer videos to my iPhone before uploading to Instagram, I can now do so directly from my Mac and I usually don’t have to worry about the format the video is encoded in.
Flume is the result of a one-man developer team, so it does take some time for new features, such as support for live streaming and Instagram Stories, to arrive. That said, Instagram Stories support is currently in development, and should be arriving in Flume sooner rather than later. If you’re looking to support an excellent independently developed Instagram app for the Mac, check out the Pro version of Flume.
Tweetbot
Price: $9.99
Tweetbot is the Twitter app that I use on iPhone and iPad, so I started using the Mac version as my default Twitter app as well. Tweetbot for Mac features timeline syncing between iOS and macOS, along with streaming that includes handy ‘pin to top’ functionality to keep the latest tweets rolling in. Advanced users can take advantage of features like keyboard shortcuts and columns for quickly managing multiple timelines and lists.
Calcbot
Price: $4.99
How To Use Workflow App
Calcbot is my go-to calculator app for both iOS and Mac. Like other apps from the Tapbots team, it features iCloud support to keep all of your favorite results in sync. I especially like its built-in conversion system, which is handy for doing data size conversions that so often come up when reporting about technology.
Pastebot
Price: $9.99
I use Pastebot as a day-to-day clipboard manager, but I also use it to paste often-used snippets that rely on particular formatting. The most outstanding Pastebot feature is its ability to sequentially paste text from the clipboard. Sequential pasting is especially useful when transcribing data from one source to another where maintaining order is important.
Yoink
Price: $6.99
Depending on your desktop window layout, moving files from one place to another in macOS can prove to be a challenge. Much of that challenge is alleviated with the help of Yoink — a utility that serves as a temporary holding area for files and apps that are moved throughout macOS.
HyperDock
Price: $9.99
HyperDock is an app that I’ve recommended before, and even though it’s been around for a long time without any substantial updates, I find that it’s just as useful as ever. Although HyperDock is capable of performing several different functions, I primarily use it for two things — app windows previews for running apps in the dock, and window snapping.
DaisyDisk
Price: $9.99
Although there are plenty of ways to go about analyzing and managing disk space in macOS, DaisyDisk, with its focus on visual representation of used and available storage space, is my favorite way to go about doing so.
iStat Menus
Price $9.99
I recently recommended iStat Menus for iMac Pro owners thanks to how it showcases realtime multicore performance. But iStat Menus, with its large array of system monitoring tools, is not just useful for iMac Pro owners. Any Mac user stands to benefit from the ability to closely monitor things like CPU and GPU usage, network usage, memory utilization, and much more. Best of all, it’s all available via an easily digestible GUI.
Photos App For Mac
Conclusion
I like macOS for a whole host of reasons, but the main reason why I prefer the Mac is because of the high quality apps that remain exclusive to the platform. Despite a concerted focus on mobile over the last several years, the desktop still plays host to a wide array of AAA apps.
What are your favorite macOS apps? Are there any on this list that you plan on trying?