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I think the big win for Photos.app / iCloud Photo Library is the fact that 3rd party app 'extensions' are able to provide exponential editing capabilities direc

I think the big win for Photos.app / iCloud Photo Library is the fact that 3rd party app 'extensions' are able to provide exponential editing capabilities directly to the users main library. I anticipate Photos.app on Mac gaining 'Extensions' a la iOS Extensions in the next WWDC revision/OS X release.

eridius 12y ago
OS X already has support for Extensions. Check System Preferences. The relevant category here is "Actions". The system already provides a "Markup" action that provides Preview.app's markup capabilities to other apps that embed images. On my system right now, Pixelmator also exposes one action called "Repair Tool". You can try this out by creating a new TextEdit document and dragging an image in there. In the upper-right corner of the image there's a dropdown button that shows you the available actions you can take. I certainly hope Photos.app supports Extensions. It would be a pretty obvious oversight not to do this.
- kingnight 12y ago
  Ah right, I forgot about the 'actions'. As of right now (10.0.3 beta), Photos.app does not have any available access points to "Actions", etc. Hopefully soon!
  - eridius 12y ago
    Please file a radar! I hope it's on their roadmap, but if not, better to ask for it now than wait until after the app is released. http://bugreport.apple.com http://bugreport.apple.com
Corrado 12y ago
I would like a "storage" extension that let me choose my own "iCloud' implementation. That way I could point Photos at Dropbox, Amazon S3, or my own SAN, and still use the capabilities of the product. My main concern with photos on my computer right now is how much space they take up and how to securely store them off-site somewhere. I know that iCloud could do this but I would probably need the 1TB plan with is $20/month - that's very expensive. Maybe there is a way to only store new photos in iCloud and offload the old ones to Glacier or something. :/
- kingnight 12y ago
  This is a late reply, but by default, Photos stores images inside a "Photos.photolibrary" package, which is just a special folder. Inside this, all your masters are contained in a "Masters" folder which is arranges every photo in a sub-directory hierarchy of: year > month > day > day-timestamp You could potentially symlink this folder knowing it'd have to be a one-way 'cloud' implementation because I would have to imagine modifications to anything inside here would corrupt the Photos.app library org. Alternatively, you do not have to import photos into Photos' library package and have them as referenced. These referenced files could be in Dropbox/S3-sync'd folder/SAN etc in whatever org you want... same deal though if you modify location/attributes outside of Photos.app, it may mess things up.

eridius 12y ago

OS X already has support for Extensions. Check System Preferences. The relevant category here is "Actions". The system already provides a "Markup" action that provides Preview.app's markup capabilities to other apps that embed images. On my system right now, Pixelmator also exposes one action called "Repair Tool". You can try this out by creating a new TextEdit document and dragging an image in there. In the upper-right corner of the image there's a dropdown button that shows you the available actions you can take. I certainly hope Photos.app supports Extensions. It would be a pretty obvious oversight not to do this.

kingnight 12y ago
Ah right, I forgot about the 'actions'. As of right now (10.0.3 beta), Photos.app does not have any available access points to "Actions", etc. Hopefully soon!
- eridius 12y ago
  Please file a radar! I hope it's on their roadmap, but if not, better to ask for it now than wait until after the app is released. http://bugreport.apple.com http://bugreport.apple.com

Corrado 12y ago

I would like a "storage" extension that let me choose my own "iCloud' implementation. That way I could point Photos at Dropbox, Amazon S3, or my own SAN, and still use the capabilities of the product. My main concern with photos on my computer right now is how much space they take up and how to securely store them off-site somewhere. I know that iCloud could do this but I would probably need the 1TB plan with is $20/month - that's very expensive. Maybe there is a way to only store new photos in iCloud and offload the old ones to Glacier or something. :/

kingnight 12y ago
This is a late reply, but by default, Photos stores images inside a "Photos.photolibrary" package, which is just a special folder. Inside this, all your masters are contained in a "Masters" folder which is arranges every photo in a sub-directory hierarchy of: year > month > day > day-timestamp You could potentially symlink this folder knowing it'd have to be a one-way 'cloud' implementation because I would have to imagine modifications to anything inside here would corrupt the Photos.app library org. Alternatively, you do not have to import photos into Photos' library package and have them as referenced. These referenced files could be in Dropbox/S3-sync'd folder/SAN etc in whatever org you want... same deal though if you modify location/attributes outside of Photos.app, it may mess things up.