On my laptop, I have it set to “manage storage” so it only downloads low-resolution versions until the higher ones are needed, and then it gets the higher resolution one automatically, unlike Mylio where you have to do this manually.īut there’s another great thing that Photos does, that’s often overlooked. I know that some people have had issues with this in the past, but I have found it rock solid in recent releases. For a start, it seamlessly syncs to my other devices and computers without any input from me. It’s not as fast or as slick as Mylio but it has a number of big advantages. While I don’t use photos for much initial editing of images, it’s actually ok for managing finished Jpegs. Even so, it’s a handy, “set it and forget it” solution. So if you’re in a hurry to get your images into Photos, you may be better manually importing them. Because it works in the background and doesn’t want to use all your system resources, It is a little slow to complete though. This works in the background, and you don’t have to worry about it. I also have it set to automatically create a Jpeg version of any screenshot I take.įor the purposes of working with Photos, I simply have it watch the same folders that I use for Mylio and import any new Jpegs into Photos. You can set up some complex rules and actions with it, and I use it for lots of things, from automatically cleaning up my downloads folder, to filing receipts and so on. The easiest way to explain it is to think of email rules, only working on folders instead of email messages. Hazel watches folders and performs actions on the contents when new items are added. You could set up an Automator action on a folder to do this, but I use a great little utility called “Hazel” from noodlesoft. To import automatically into Photos, you need to use some additional tools. For the moment I’m just using new images, and not trying to import the whole legacy library. It started as an experiment, but I want to see if this will work as a full replacement for Mylio. So now, I have Photos set to import any new pictures that I’m creating. A much easier solution would be if my images were already in Photos. If I want to send images to Instagram for example, I would have to manually set it to a higher resolution version, wait for it to download, then export it to the camera roll on my phone, and then go to Instagram. It insists on trying to download low-resolution versions of everything to your phone (based on the settings you set) and if you have thousands of images, just doing an initial sync can be almost impossible as it stops working in the background after a short period. For a start, Mylio’s mobile application is problematic. There are some limitations of this though. When processing out of Capture One, I have a similar set-up, with a processing recipe set to export full resolution Jpegs to a folder which is watched and then gets imported into Mylio. When I’m using Lightroom, I have a smart folder set up in the “hard drive” publishing service, which is set to export 5-star images to a folder which then gets imported into Mylio. In Mylio, you can set up watched folders, so it will automatically add any image that it detects being added to those folders to its library. It’s much faster than trying to do this in Lightroom. I have 50,000 Images in the library, and there’s no problem zipping through it to look at images or find them. I have my whole legacy library (of 5-star images) in Mylio, and it manages it fine. It’s a great application for managing a large number of files, and it backs up to cloud services, so its great for that. I started using one but found that it isn’t filling all my needs, so now I’m trying the other also. I currently have two ways of doing this, one using Mylio, and the other using Apple Photos.įirst of all, the reason that I’m using two methods is quite simple. I like to keep a single library with exported Jpegs of everything, so that if anything happens I have a backup, but also so that I can easily use the files online, on social media, or easily find images for a project or client. This leads to the obvious conundrum of how to manage the final images. As anyone who has followed my blog for a while knows, I often use lots of different applications for processing my photos.
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