Sounds promising for sure, but does Mylio deliver? Find out after the jump. Mylio’s interface looks very polished on both the desktop and mobile apps. Once you’ve set up the program on your computer (we’ll touch on this in more detail when we go over Mylio’s ease of use), you can begin importing your images stored on your hard drives and SD cards, as well as online services such as Facebook, Flickr, and Google Photos/Picasa. ![]() The imported images are organized within Mylio’s “Life Calendar,” which is basically the program’s name for its visual timeline. ![]() “Map” organizes your photos by location provided your images are geotagged.“Calendar” sorts your images by decade, year, month, and date.You can browse your images using a number of different views: “Folders” works similar to “Albums” but creates folders within your storage vault.“Albums” allows you to create virtual photo albums within Mylio to organize your photos into.Mylio’s face detection AI is generally fairly competent, although you will notice some occasional detection mishaps that can be rather hilarious.) (This works similarly to photo tagging on Facebook and requires you to go through all of your images and tagging all of the faces Mylio detects. This is where imported files reside, as well as where you can find the XMP sidecar files if you do any photo editing within Mylio. Navigating to a particular image will display the image’s corresponding metadata. Access to sliders for adjusting the exposure, white balance, contrast, highlights, vibrance, saturation, sharpening, noise reduction, etc.The ability to switch between color and black & white.The ability to apply some basic presets.Opening up an image within Mylio gives you the option to apply ratings and face tags, share it through a variety of options, as well as the ability to do some simple editing using Mylio’s built-in photo editing tools. Mylio’s photo editing chops are rudimentary at best and will surely leave seasoned professionals accustomed to working in Capture One Pro or Lightroom wanting. For hobbyists photographers and laypeople, know that Mylio is standard, and a way’s away from changing the game. To get started, install Mylio on your computer, and make sure you have at least one drive large enough to create what Mylio calls a Vault. This is where Mylio will store a copy of all the images that are imported. ![]() While you can setup Mylio without setting up a Vault, this isn’t advised as it prevents Mylio from saving a copy of your original files. In fact, Mylio recommends having at least two vaults for data redundancy purposes. During the initial setup process, you can also sync your calendar with Mylio so that photos will be automatically sorted into corresponding events.
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