Mikey Campbell
Hours after Apple released OS X 10.8.2 Mountain Lion and iOS 6 on Wednesday, the company rolled out updates for the consumer level iPhoto and the professional grade Aperture image organization and editing apps, granting both apps access to Shared Photo Streams.
Aperture
Beyond the usual stability and performance enhancements, Apple's pro-level photo editing tool adds support for Shared Photo Streams, the iCloud-based service that allows users to share photos with any iOS, OS X or PC user. Shared Photo Streams offers support for comments and notifications as well as a web-based client.
Aperture users now have the option to open a file in iPhoto if they so choose.
From the release notes:
Aperture 3.4What's New in Version 3.4
- Adds support for Shared Photo Streams on OS X Mountain Lion
- A new File menu command can be used to open the current photo library in iPhoto
- Includes performance and stability improvements
Aperture 3.4 comes in at 551MB and can be download through the Mac App Store or Software Update.
Source: AppleiPhoto 9.4
iPhoto version 9.4 also includes stability and performance enhancements, while adding new card and calendar themes as well as a menu option to open an image in Aperture for more intensive editing.
From the release notes:
About iPhoto 9.4What's New in Version 9.4
- Adds support for Shared Photo Streams on OS X Mountain Lion
- Comments can now be added to photos after publishing them to Facebook
- New card and calendar themes have been added
- A new File menu command can be used to open the current photo library in Aperture (if installed)
- Includes performance and stability improvements
iPhoto 9.4 weighs in at 757.61MB and can be downloaded via Software Update, the Mac App Store and Apple's Support Downloads webpage.
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shared photo streams are nice, except that they only allow the creator of the stream to add to them. as the creator, i'd like to be able to specify which members have add/view and which have view-only. guess i'm off to http://apple.com/feedback to request the functionality.
I've been waiting for this feature for a long time - we'd resorted to sharing a single iCloud account across the family, but now we can just each create shared streams and subscribe to each other's. Now we can each have our own iCloud account. In reality the limitation won't impact us much - the grandmas/pas want to see the tots so we're basically pushing most of the pix.
So a shared stream's pictures can all be saved to a common iPhoto library? Does this really solve the family iOS devices problem with iPhoto?
shared photo streams are nice, except that they only allow the creator of the stream to add to them. as the creator, i'd like to be able to specify which members have add/view and which have view-only. guess i'm off to http://apple.com/feedback to request the functionality.
I agree! I wish shared photo stream allowed ALL my photos to be shared to particular users :|
So how does it do journals that can be posted to the cloud like the iOS version of iPhoto?