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CNET News - iOS 7 gets revamped photos app

2013-06-10
next let's talk about the camera so now your camera and iOS 7 is for cameras in one you can just swipe from your video camera to your photo camera to your square cropped camera to your pano camera and when you're taking stills you now have access to live photo filters from some gorgeous black and whites to some classic color filters as well so with your great new camera want to give you a great new way to manage your photos and it's the new Photos app you know for many users this is what their photo organization looks like an endless unorganized stream of their camera roll we've all been there but you know it doesn't have to be this way there's great information in those photos iOS knows where you took the photos and when you took them and that provides inherent structure that we can use to organize those photos and now in photos in iOS 7 we do we organize them into moments I'd like to give you a demo of that right now so let's take a look now at the Photos app so here you see some photos that were taken in San Francisco and you see nothing was done to organize these photos explicitly and yet they have these labels like the palace of fine arts baker beach lombard street it provides this natural organization for appreciating the photos we can go up two more trips at more time in San Francisco Golden Gate San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf but then you see we have home we have photos taken at home and photos taken at the elementary school and around that area and now if you want to zoom back out to get a more of a bird's-eye view of your collection we draw these moments intelligently together into collections so see here how that multiple day trip around San Francisco is collected sorry about that got a little excited there in two it's a very exciting interface into a multi-day trip in San Francisco and that time at home and around the school well that's one moment that's one collection as well it's a really great way to browse your photos you can even go all the way out to the year level look across your whole photo collection and looking at we pull out the interesting places that you went in that year like 2011 was colorado and hawaii 2012 went to South America you may not remember when you did it but iOS does it's right there and you know with this retina display you can even kind of make out patterns of photos and when different occasions are and of course we found like we had the urge that we wanted to just tap in right from here and so now in fact you can you can just tap and scrub and find the photo you're looking for just like that it's really just amazing so I can just pick a photo here whichever one I want it's kind of cute and now we can edit it because we have photo filter so I can go into the filters here I can try different color effects and if I find one I like maybe a nice black and white can do it just like that I apply it save that photo away we also have great new ways to share your photos in the photos apps let's bring up sharing we have a airdrop right here if any of you were running iOS 7 i'd see you it looks like it didn't leak so that's good you're not in there right now but you have airdrop you have access to other photos you can share them from right here just really handy great photo sharing option is iCloud photo sharing I'm going to tap on that now it's going to iCloud photo sharing and from here I can select the photo streams that I want to share too so I'm on family photos now but I'm going to drill in and I can see other photo streams I've set up and now other people can share into my photo stream as well so these are shared photo streams I'll just select a photo stream here and type a little message will post that photo so we made it really easy to share and we've also made it a really great experience to experience the photos you and others have shared with this new shared tab at the bottom so I'm going to go in here see my photo with a comment I can see the comments of other people and the photos that they've shared and now we even support sharing video via iCloud photo sharing and we have a great way to just browse those shared photos I just tilt the device into landscape I can scroll through it like this and just look at how beautiful that is what a great way to experience your photos so that's the new Photos app in iOS 7
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