![]() ![]() PSD support is coming soon.) I was also disappointed that there wasn’t a clear way to import image files one by one. I was disappointed though that Mylio refused to import my. You can also add existing Lightroom, Aperture, and iPhoto folders into Mylio as well. I tried a smattering of folders from over the years from various jobs, assignments, and reviews and the service did a bang-up job of quickly importing JPEGs and Raw image files from my various external drives. Most newbies to Mylio, like me, will just start plucking folders of images from here and there to get a feel for how the interface works. You can set up a folder of images on your computer for Mylio to monitor, creating a sort of automated way to manage your digital archive. Following some advice from a Mylio tutorial video, I went with Add Folder, since I didn’t want to go copying and moving my current file structure around. Rather than a simple “Add photos” tool, you’re given the choice of Copy Folder, Move Folder, or Add Folder. While Mylio is fairly intuitive to use, there’s room for improvement with Import. The Mylio software has a clean, Lightroom-like interface and I quickly found the all-important Import function and got started. If you’re interested in this service, do yourself a favor and assess whether the Standard setup will be enough. The $250-per-year Advanced plan is really for hardcore Mylio users only, and the benefits of having the workflow integration that simulates what you may have in place already, the multi-location access, and support for all those images and devices, is likely more than what most photographers need. I used my home iMac as my starting point, downloading the software there first and signing up for the Advanced plan for test purposes. (And believe me, once you try Mylio, it will be hard to quit this addictive organizer.) All the software is free, basically serving as the “gateway drug” to the Mylio management service. The Mylio computer software is Mac and Windows compatible, but the mobile apps, at the time of this writing, were only available for iPhone and iPads, though the company says Android versions were on the way. Mylio is a subscription-based service and, at the time of my testing, it came in three flavors: Mylio Trial Plan (Free): JPEG and Raw support, full editing, maximum of three devices, up to 1,000 images Mylio Standard ($100/year): JPEG and Raw support, full editing, maximum of five devices, up to 100,000 images Mylio Advanced ($250/year): JPEG and Raw support, full editing, maximum of 12 devices, multi-location access, workflow integration, up to 500,000 images. That’s where Mylio came in last fall, with a mission to achieve four important goals: 1) collect photos from where they’re hidden: desktop computer folders, social networking sites, photo sharing sites, and hard drives 2) automatically replicate photos onto your phone, laptop, and tablet so you can view or edit them wherever you are, even when there’s no Internet access 3) protect and back up your images so they’re safe: either on the cloud or independently 4) do all this quickly and simply so you can get to your photos, including Raw files, and edit them in a fast and easy interface.Īfter seeing all the hoopla about Mylio at PhotoPlus, including quite a few impressive demos from Mylio evangelist photographers, I got a chance to try the service out on my own archive of digital images and here’s what I thought. ![]() More serious photographers with our 14-frames-per-second-shooting digital SLRs and our multiple external hard drives, and our online photo sharing services, and our Facebook, oh yes, who can forget about Facebook, where we upload and share every digital image and video of our lives? How could we possibly get a handle on all these files, let alone access them quickly wherever we are so we can show them off to friends, relatives, and, most importantly, to potential clients? Even non-photographers like, for instance, my mom, capture way too many photos on cameras and smartphones and iPads, which they have no idea what do with or how to find. Spearheaded by former Microsoft Chief Technical Officer David Vaskevitch, Mylio stands for “My Life Is Organized,” which is a cute way of saying that most of our lives are really a complete digital mess. The multi-device image management service known as Mylio made quite a splash when it launched at the PhotoPlus Expo show last fall. ![]()
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