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Also, the photos you have stored in your iCloud Photo Library no longer feel tacked on the way the My Photo Stream feature did in iPhoto and Aperture.

So is sharing them.

And if that companys been Apple, youve basically been a guinea pig in a good idea that was hastily ( and poorly ) executed.

Its the final piece in a plan that Apple unveiled last June, and one that both fixes and unifies a patchwork system it rolled out in 2011.

Its a rethink of how people manage their photo library on a Mac, something thats been iPhotos home turf for more than a decade.

Apples discontinuing that software along with Aperture (which is aimed at pro photographers), in favor bringing the tools people have on their iPhones and iPads to the Mac.

Its also been built with Apples iCloud in mind instead of an afterthought, which feels years overdue.

Familiar features have moved or changed, and in classic Apple fashion, some have also been quietly removed.

Here are some things you should be aware of now that the softwares available to everyone.

Rather than the old My Photo Stream feature, which pushed 1,000 photos (or 30 days worth of photos) across your Mac and iOS devices, everything you shoot on your iPhone will automatically get uploaded to iCloud.

When you open up Photos on your Mac, youll see everything you shot in a view thats nearly identical to what you see in iOS all your photos are organized by date and location.

You can zoom out to a year overview or zoom in and see any particular photo or video.

Apples also included the see-every-photo-as-a-microscopic-thumbnail view to navigate several hundred photos at a time.

To help make this work without taking up a ton of storage, Apple is also giving users the option to optimize storage on their devices.

Instead of locally storing every image in full resolution, you can opt to have the full images live in iCloud; smaller, optimized images that take up much less storage space will instead be displayed on your mobile devices and even on your Mac.

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At any time, you can choose to download the full-size image if youre so inclined.

Of course, if you buy into this setup, youll be trusting Apple to keep all the originals safe in iCloud.

Fortunately, you can set it up so that the Photos app on your Mac keeps all the original, full-size images stored locally if you so choose.

Youre still free to choose the optimized setting on your iOS devices to save space there.

If you have Photos set to upload everything to iCloud, itll store the original, full-size images in the cloud and sync them across your devices.

Its worth noting that Photos for OS X obfuscates the file system even more than iPhoto or Aperture do once you import photos from your camera, it seems to be impossible to locate the original file in the Finder, even if you have Photos set to store the original, full-size images on your computer rather than only keep them in iCloud.

Those who want to maintain absolute control over their images will probably want to save original files in Finder and then import the best shots into Photos for further work and sharing.

Nearly every feature included in iPhoto is present here in Photos, and Apple has finally fixed its confusing cloud-syncing solutions in favor of something much simpler and smarter.

This is eminently more lightweight than either of those two, and more familiar to iOS.

You basically get the same set of filters, controls, and effects youll find on iOS, and everything gets synced up the second its done.

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