Photos for Mac and iOS: The Missing Manual

I used iPhoto as soon as it came out. Now on my new computer I have Photos. It's quite different and I had a hard time using it in the way I had used iPhoto in the past. I pre-ordered Photos for Mac and iOS. It turned out to be just what I needed (the Photo online help wasn't very useful). I'm now on my way back to "normal". In addition, iCloud was new to me (I was very happy with the old MobileMe photo galleries). The author explains the various ways to share photos: iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Photo Sharing and My Photo Stream. Previously it was all very mysterious to me. This book contains a wealth of info and serves as a great reference while I'm using Photos. This was money well spent.

This book has been — and no doubt will continue to be — a huge help in coming to grips with the latest iteration of Apple's photo management program. It has inspired me to take a good look at the way I am organizing my huge collection of family photos. The earliest one is dated 1881! At least now I feel I'm on the right track. And the author does it with a light-hearted spirit and sense of practicality that really resonates with me. I highly recommend this book!

I just received this manual and wow is it helpful! I bought my Mac in 2014 and learned iPhotos as best as I could by taking classes at the Apple Store. When I upgraded to Yosemite OS, it got changed to "Photos". None of the other manuals I bought were much help for learning about photos on the Mac. This one is written so you can easily learn everything you need to know about working with your photos.

I can't really say I hate this book. It's just that I bought it to help me organize photos on my new Mac computer. I now notice on previous poor reviews that the book is for an earlier version of the Photos program. Few of the menus are as described in the book at least on this one particular subject. It is useless to me and I already wasted several hours trying to figure it out. Perhaps Amazon could make it clear in the ad for the book that it isn't for all Photos versions.

Incredibly helpful. Photos was making my brain hurt. I have MANY years experience with DOS/Windows, but am a relative newcomer to the Apple world. Even with a degree in IT management, Photos just was not "clicking" for me. I tried reading all of the Apple Help for Photos...but was still mystified by many aspects of Photos.This book has been a godsend. Additional kudos to the author for confirming and even posting her own errata on the "Missing Manuals" web site. I do a fair amount of technical writing myself, and some little errors (or feature updates) always manage to sneak in, so it's good that the author is on top of that!

If you don't have the original Photos, don't waste your money. I have version 2.0 and although the menus and commands are similar, they do not match, leaving you wondering "what to do now?". I wanted something that would teach me the basics as well as answer some questions I couldn't find online. This book is helpful to learn some basics, but after that it's just frustrating following directions that don't mach what you are looking at.

I loved this manual. I was frustrated and impatient trying to figure out why Apple had to change iPhoto to a much less user friendly and intuitive program. I have to be "broken down" to buy a manual, but this was exactly the right instruction and assistance I was looking for. As loyal a Mac user as I am, I was just about to investigate Snapfish or the like to complete my project. I'm glad I didn't have to.

While this book might be a bit wordy compared to other guides (I bought 3) this one had the very best info about editing in Photos. Didn't just say 'slide the scale right or left' but actually explained why you would do it and what would happen to you picture. Lots more info given in the same manner.

This book is useless if (like me) you don't basically already know your way around a Mac. It contains lots of silly comments which I guess are meant to be witty, but no simple, straightforward instructions or directions to help you find the buttons, menus and screen to which it refers. Example: I wanted to know how to scan a photo into Photos. All I learnt from this book is that it is, apparently possible - but not how to do it. So what you get, in this instance, is two equal-length paragraphs. The first is about swarms of family historians invading the homes of their relatives and asking politely (etc) which is just waffle - it tells me nothing at all about how to scan. The second starts by telling me that most people fail to realise that it is possible to scan directly into the photos library - but it doesn't do anything to correct this situation by actually telling us how to do it. Then it says to use Apple's Image capture facility, to be found in the applications folder - but it doesn't explain how to use it. Then it says that it will do certain things, but fails to say how to get it to do these things. Finally there's a picture of a screen which I can't get the computer to display no matter what I click on. And that's it.This is just an example. I've had a similar experience with everything I've looked up so far. I get a bit more help by just Googling things, but it was because that wasn't giving me enough info that I bought this book. I wish I hadn't bothered!!{I did eventually find out from Google how to scan photos in to Photos, but I have not been able to find out from anywhere - either this book or Google - how to locate, retrieve and use them in Photos thereafter.]

Photography has just about become my foremost hobby these days, so care and management of my photos is important to me to say in the least.I am also a new convert to the Apple iMac world (one of my better decisions!), so I thought it only sensible to invest in yet another of these excellent books to learn chapter and verse re Apple's new premier photo applicationThe book is excellent - period. Not too difficult to grasp for a non-techy such as myself, but with enough detail to be really useful.I am using Photos with Adobe Lightroom for Mac, and I am already pretty organised with what is now a pretty huge catalogue of images.Very pleased so highest recommendation.

Under used so far but as with most books of this kind still does not provide for non-tech people.

A useful text but is a kittle difficult to follow in places

Great book, easy to follow and explains everything in plain language.