MANAGING DIGITAL PHOTOSWhittier Area Macintosh User Group • January 18, 2014

ICLOUD PHOTO SHARING

Free account is 5GB

Paid accounts available at 10GB $20, 20GB $40, 50GB $100

Create a Photo Stream

LIVE DEMO

Invite who you want

LIVE DEMO

Easily add photos

LIVE DEMO

ICLOUD & PHOTO STREAM

System Requirements (support.apple.com/kb/HT4759?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US)

Free 5GB Accounts

Photos in Camera Roll backed up by iCloud backup will be included in this storage pool

Photos in Photo Stream and Shared Photo Stream are not included

Photos added via iOS or manually in iPhoto or Aperture

Kept for 30 days or until a maximum of 1,000 photos in Photo Stream

Older photos will be deleted from your Photo Stream

SHARED PHOTO STREAM LIMITS

Accessible via iPhoto and Aperture, via iOS devices, via Apple TV, via the web LIVE DEMO

Theoretical maximum of 500,000 photos and videos shared for FREE (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858)

Single Shared Photo Stream can hold 5,000 photos or videos

You can have up to 100 Shared Photo Streams

The math: 5,000 photos/stream x 100 streams = 500,000 photos total

Share with anyone via iOS or the web, add comments, add or download images

Shared Photo Streams don't count towards your iCloud storage or expire

iCloud: My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing limits (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858)

PHOTO STREAM LIMITS

My Photo Stream upload limits are as follows:

Uploads to My Photo Stream per hour: 1,000 photos

Uploads to My Photo Stream per day: 10,000 photos

Uploads to My Photo Stream per month: 25,000 photos

If limits exceeded uploads to My Photo Stream will be paused temporarily

May see a notification message on your device.

Uploads resume automatically after one of the limits is no longer exceeded

iCloud: My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing limits (http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858)

PHOTO STORAGE OPTIONS

Apple’s Time Machine

Backs up photos on hard drive/SSD automatically

Use Time Capsule or third-party drive

Automatic services LIVE DEMO

Dropbox

External back up service like CrashPlan, BackBlaze, and others

DEVELOPING A WORKFLOW

iPhone 4 created a problem … good enough camera to replace digital camera for “day use”

Photos added to camera roll automatically

Assume backups happen

Take control of importing, backup, organizing, and sharing your photos

IPHONE IMAGES

Dropbox Camera Uploads LIVE DEMO

Free 2GB, 100GB $100/year (20,000 photos)

You get an extra 3GB for the first 3GB of media you upload

Good holding place for photos; can manage from your smartphone and not wait to get to your Mac

Naming convention: 2014-01-18 12.27.40

Connect iPhone, upload to Dropbox, delete from Camera Roll LIVE DEMO

Use Image Capture (FREE, included with your Mac operating system) to import and delete photos when your iPhone is connected

Alternative iPhone app is Camera Sync which can be set for location based uploading LIVE DEMO

Spouse’s iPhone photos? Use shared “Invite to Folder” in DropBox LIVE DEMO

ORGANIZING YOUR IMAGES

Top level folders by years: 2009, 2010 … 2014

Inside year folder are folders for months: 2014-01 (use leading zeros)

Also inside are folders for special events: 2013-06 Disneyland

2013 > 2013-06 > 2013-06-12 11.15.45.jpg

2013 > 2013-06 > 2013-06 Disneyland

2013-06 Disneyland

BACKING UP YOUR PHOTOS

Onsite backup:

Time Machine/Time Capsule (FIRST Backup) (Use any external drive; get one double the size of your main hard drive)

Incremental backups every hour; can use to restore a dead internal hard drive

External drive; automatic backups with ChronoSync, SuperDuper!, or Carbon Copy Cloner (SECOND Backup)

Offsite backup:

iCloud Storage (5GB free; up to 50GB additional $100 (

Dropbox 100 GB Premium Plan $100/year (THIRD Backup sort of)

CrashPlan $59.99 unlimited storage (FOURTH Backup)

Can backup external drives

USB Drives (Available now in 32GB $39 at Fry’s Electronics; larger sizes available)

Export from iPhoto to external storage and back those up

SHARING YOUR PHOTOS

Local copy of photos

Shared Photo Streams

Cloud services:

Everpix (defunct)

Picture Life (https://picturelife.com) 5GB free, 300GB $15/month; auto syncing with iPhoto and Aperture; desktop, iPhone, iPad apps available

Loom (https://loom.com) 10GB free; 100GB $90/year

Flickr (linked to iPhoto and Aperture) (Every member gets 1 terabyte storage)

MINIMUM WORKFLOW

Import using Image Capture

Clear your Camera Roll

Backup photos somewhere (preferably Crashplan)