It is really is good for what it is meant for, which to provide convenience to those who want their special moments safe with them at all times. Images you take on an iPhone upload right away to the iCloud Photo Library, same with images you import into the Photos App on the Mac. The option for iCloud Photo Library within the Photos App, makes it super easy and hassle-free to have your photos synchronized to a remote server (iCloud), and consequently other Macs, iPads and iPhones that have that feature turned on - pretty awesome because if you lose your device, you at least know your pictures are safe on other devices and in the iCloud Photo Library. If I didn’t know much about photography and just wanted photos to easily sync up with my Mac and all my iOS devices all while being able to lightly edit photos, this would be a grand piece of software.

There are a load of resources here on that can help with that! This works for Apple Mac’s that run OS X 10.10 – 10.11, and macOS 10.13 Why switch from Apple Photos to Adobe Lightroom? While this gets your images into Lightroom, this, however, does not go over editing within Lightroom. As of the date of this publication, there isn’t an everyday tool or utility that transfers an Apple Photos Library to Lightroom Classic, like there is an Apple Aperture Library to Lightroom Classic tool. So you’ve decided to step up your photography game and get Adobe’s Lightroom to manage and edit your photos, eh?! This guide will help you get your photos from Apple’s Photos into Adobe Lightroom Classic.

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