Getting started with Apple Photos - HOW TO add and IMPORT pictures into APPLE PHOTOS
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- Опубліковано 25 лют 2019
- Just got your first Mac? Do you love to organize and edit your photos? Looking for a way to get started with your pictures on your Apple Computer? This videos provides a walk through of importing pictures into Apple Photos from a CD, flash drive, or memory card and camera.
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thank you. I just got my first mac. and was a little intimidated by the need to import every photo to view it. your explanation makes it understandable.
Joel, Bro as a former professional radio DJ for a major network take my word for it. We all know that you can't see our faces. However, you're learning.
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Really appreciate your information. Nicely done!
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Thank you for this video ❤
really helpful - thank you
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After I subscribed, this is the first vid to watch. Feel like to learn again Photos from the beginning.
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Irreconcilable differences with my Windows 10 system have resulted in a parting of the ways, and I am expecting my new 27" iMac to arrive momentarily. Will the Apple migration tool successfully pull over all my pictures or should I wait and import directly from an external hard drive that I have cleverly filled with my documents and pictures?
So far I am really enjoying your videos - very clear and task-oriented approach to teaching as opposed to "here are 10 best tips" or "here is my superior way to do things".
Thanks for the kind words Richard! I hope to have so many more videos coming as I battle the clock to create!
I have used the Apple Migration Assistant a handful of times throughout my use and it has some quarks to it. My personal preference is to migrate everything manually from a Windows environment to a new Mac, but others my say to use it.
Copy the important files files from your documents, pictures, desktop and whatever else to an external drive and then move files as you need necessary.
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I found your channel by accident and subscribed immediately. Being a retired IT guy, I know my way around a computer reasonably well and have been using Apple products since I retired. One thing that has always confused me is Apple's Photos app. Before Apple, I used Windows machines and did a fair amount of work in Photoshop and Lightroom so my photos are in a Lightroom library. I have never been sure about the purpose of the Apple Photo app. Your video shows how to get photos into the Photo library on my Mac but what next. Is this app supposed to be another photo editor? I don't really need another one. What I am hoping to do is have the ability to move photos back and forth from my computer to my iPhone. I may have photos in my Lightroom library that have been edited and I want to move them to my phone, and vice versa. I cannot find a way to do that. Am I trying to do something the Photos app was not intended to do? If you know the answer, great; or if you know a place where I can learn how to do that, even better. Thanks!
Your videos are great! My iMac photo libraries are good, finally. I have my photos on an external Harddrive and when I attach it to my MacBook Pro, it shows up but it says it can’t be used by my MacBook Pro ? My MacBook Pro needs replacing bc it’s almost out of memory storage, but I thought I’d still b able to use it and do some editing on LR and use the external Harddrive? Any thoughts? Thank you
Hi @NancyK94!
So the most important thing when it comes to hard drives is how the drive is formatted. Think of it as each format is a different language and different devices like Apple and Windows speak different languages.
When you typically purchase an external hard drive, it's often formatted as "NTFS" or "ExFat" or "MS-DOS". These are all windows based formats (languages). When plugged into an Apple computer, it can see the drive, but it can't use it based off the format.
Mac formats are usually "Mac OS Extended" or "APFS". There's pros and cons to all formats.
Usually the first best thing to do when you get any drive is to format to a language of the device that you're using. Do you know if you formatted that external drive?
I hope that makes sense and sorry for the delayed response! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate your kind words and support!
Thanks
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I've tried to move library file to onedrive, but it's failed. Do you have any idea ?
Question: am a photographer and I take over 1,000 photos a shoot. Most photos are exactly the same with very minor differences like a small branch in the way or a fly in the picture. I want to be able to view the photo full screen before import. Is that possible? I'm using mac
with the photos imported, where the date is given as a title, is there a way to also give that date a name, like iPhoto used to let you do?
You can always user the Inspector to view all meta data and information about any photo selected. Click the little "i" in the top right of the interface, or really the only other option is to display meta data under each photo, which is usually the name that the camera assigns each photos. You would turn that on in the menu bar: View > Metadata > Titles
Thanks for watching and I hope that helps!
Good morning Joel. Question; is it possible to have my iPad connected to the Cloud, and cherry pick what photos get shared, or put on to my Mac Book Pro? In other words my iPad has several hundred pictures on it, but I only want about 1/3 of them on my Mac. I would also like to use my iPad as a camera, and have those sent to my Mac. Thanks for any opinions, or help you may offer.
Hi @Greg! So if you're using iCloud, it's designed to sync all content. You really can't pick and choose...however, here are a couple ideas that come to mind.
If you fully have iCloud Photos turned on in your iPad, but not on your Mac, you could share selected photos by either manually syncing through Finder, Airdrop wirelessly when nearby, or I my best suggestion would be to use Shared iCloud Photo Albums.
If you used Shared iCloud Photo Albums, you could either share a link or just access the shared album directly in Photos.
Hope this helps! Thanks so much for watching and I appreciate the support!
@@Learnwithjoel Thank you so much for this. I appreciate you taking the time to help me.
Joel, nice presentation. I want to take photos from many old SD cards and get them on my iCloud storage as well as on an external hard drive. Will iCloud automatically upload from my computer before I store it on an external drive? I want to delete from the computer after storing on both locations. Will icloud delete photos if I remove from laptop?
Lots of questions. Thx
Thank you! First you want to make sure that you're dealing with one Photos library that is the "System Photo Library". While in Photos go to: Photos > Preferences > General and make sure that the library you're using is the System Photo Library. Otherwise it doesn't sync with your iCloud Photos.
Second, you can store that library locally or on your external drive. It doesn't matter where it's at. You can really add and import the photos from the SD card at any point. I would say that if your main goal is to keep the Photos library on the external, then move the external photo library there first and then start importing all of your old photos. If you're copying the library to the external and then making that the system library, you're able to then delete it locally from your Mac.
Keep in mind, depending on the amount of photos, it could take days maybe weeks to fully sync, so be patient.
Please keep in mind that to fully utilize the iCloud syncing, you'll need the equal amount or greater storage in iCloud to make sure everything syncs. And yes if you delete out of that library it will delete from iCloud and all of your devices. iCloud is designed to keep all of your devices in sync and on the same page.
I hope this helps and if you have any other questions, don't hesitate to ask!
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Joel,
Thank you for this help.
If I understand you, I can make the external drive the "System Photo Library". Then I can import photos from the SD cards direct to the external drive. If I keep it plugged in ICloud will sync with the photos on the external drive. ( I paid the extra and have plenty of space on iCloud). This will be a slow process.
I'm assuming photos will still sync from my iPhone. ???
I'm not sure if the photos will sync from my other laptop. Can there be only one "System Photo Library"?
I appreciate your help.
Again,
Thanks,
John Jam
Happy to help!
So first off, yes, there can only be one System Photo Library per computer account. If you have two macs, both Photo libraries will sync as each will have their own System Photo Library. You can keep this library on your external drive. I would recommend that you just use a dedicated drive for this. If you have an external drive that you use for Time Machine Backup, do not use it as sometimes the permissions can cause issues.
Once you have your main System Photo Library to your external, import all your photos and keep the Photos App open and just let it do its thing. This could take days if not weeks depending on the photos. Once finished, it will then update and be in sync with your iPhone, iPad and any other Apple Device that you're syncing with.
To give you perspective, I have about 30,000 photos in my Photos library and when it finally finished syncing, it took almost two weeks for all my devices to get on the same page, so be patient. :-)
Hope this helps!
@@Learnwithjoel Now I don't feel so bad.
30,000 photos is a lot. Hope you have a good way to locate the ones you want. So you can access all 30k photos from your iPhone? Wow!
I do use a separate hard drive for Time Machine.
I'll give it a try.
I was just watching an Apple video on the iPhone 12 Pro camera. Pretty impressive video and still features for a price.
Again, Thanks, john jam
@John Flemming
LOL, Yeah 30K is getting up there, and it doesn't even include all of my photo projects from all my shoots that i've done over the years.
It's not to bad locating anything as I primarily search by people, location or date to find something. But yes it is nice to have access to all photos on my iPhone.
I'm hoping the bring the RAW format to the iPhone 11 Pro. I couldn't justify upgrading to the 12!
Thank you Joel , I always got new information from your videos .. I have question for you .. when I try to open one of my library I got error msg said : The library could not be opened, Photos was unable to open the library "iPhoto Library" ( 4302 ) .. Have you ever see same this msg ? Do you know how to open this library ?
Thanks for watching as always!
Have you recently upgraded your Mac to a new OSX? I have seen this error before and it's usually because of jumping up a few Operating systems and not updating the Photos Library as you go along.
I would first try repairing the Photos library. You can do this by holding down "option + command" on the keyboard and then opening up Photos. It should then prompt you to "repair" the library.
Try this first and it could take a while depending on how big your library is!
@@Learnwithjoel Thank you too for answering always I really appreciate your kind help
My Mac is the latest one ( Chip Apple M1 ) running macOS Big Sur , I upgraded to this before one month , but the library wasn't work also with the old Mac
I did what you wrote and its repairing now , it will take long time I know
thank you again and I will back to you of what happen
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Mr. Fell, I’ve looked at a number of your videos and some other presenters as well, but don’t find what I’m looking for help on. I don’t use a Mac. I do have a Windows 10 machine, but don’t do much in iCloud with it. I primarily use my iPad (256 GB, lots of free space) and an iPhone (64GB, with 13GB free). I use Photo Stream so I can pick and choose what photos get saved to the respective devices; mostly iPhone to iPad as I take very few photos with my iPad. Since Photo Stream is going away, I’ve decide to start using Apple Photos. What I’m not clear on is what will happen when I turn off Photo Stream, turn on, Apple Photos. Will I wind up with a ton duplicates as my two devices upload photos to iCloud - many of the photos on my iPad are duplicates of those on my iPhone, some not? I also want to keep local copies of photos on both devices? What impact if any will this have on my Albums on my respective devices? How does the Recently Deleted folders work on the respective devices? Thanks for any help you can give me.
Sorry about the name misspelling, Mr. Feld
One thing I don’t understand is how to avoid having loads of photos in your import folder? Is this avoidable? I noticed if I delete from imports even after putting them into a folder they delete from the entire MacBook.
I’m new to MacBook and own the 2021 m1 pro .. when I import the images to Mac I put them in photos app .. but later when I want to import them to Lightroom photoshop etc I can’t do that I can’t find photos there .. even I can export images form Lightroom to photos app, why ?
how to get pics to the desktop after editing.. it just wont let me? after decades of doing this
I have found that Photos does not maintain the shot order of pictures when they are imported or when pictures are copied from one album to another. How can I get Photos to keep the same order. I never had these problems when using iPhoto.
I hear ya @Bob Kuest!
There's a few options and settings they seemed to removed from the new Apple Photos.
However you should still be able to sort and view each album individually. The main library is automatically sorted by date so you can't change that, and the import as well, but everything else you can change.
I still think there's lots of improvements @Apple could do with Apple Photos. They had an amazing photos app called Aperture that was so good. If they where to incorporate that into Apple Photos, it would be amazing!
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Now I imported photos on my new Mac book how can I create an album for the first time and add thank you please help
Hi @Virgilio Abellon! I have a whole video dedicated to albums that may be helpful!
Check out the following videos if you haven't already!
Organizing pictures and videos in depth in Apple Photos
ua-cam.com/video/c6XgL4dVvDY/v-deo.html
iCloud Photo SHARED ALBUMS - GET STARTED with sharing photos with ANYONE on ANY DEVICE!
ua-cam.com/video/vU0MRfm2utI/v-deo.html
CREATING PHOTO ALBUMS and FOLDERS in your iPAD PHOTOS APP! - GUIDE TO GETTING STARTED!
ua-cam.com/video/u_m6uvxuKNQ/v-deo.html
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If I already have a album made in my flash drive (vacation photos for example ) can I drop albums from my flash drive into a empty folder that I made in apple photos ? Can I copy folders over to apple photos or do I have to re organize them?
Kenneth Gray
Hey Kenneth! Yes there is a check box to have you keep your organization if the folders and will transfer offer the majority of your previous organization.
When your drag the main parent folder in that contains all your other folders, make sure you click the box in the top right to “keep folder organization”
Now depending how you have your Photo library set, photos can either be imported and saved into a Photos Library or the pictures can be referenced to your flash drive or hard drive. I’ll make another video on that topic and the reasoning behind it.
Thanks for watching!
Joel
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Thanks @Vedran Kovač! Yeah...audio hasn't been my forte with my earlier videos, but i'm slowly trying to improve!
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Hi Joel and anyone here
Maybe you can help me to solve my problem. 3 days already, l couldn't open my ios photos and videos on my iphone 8+.I did not back up all the videos and photos on my pc and not all saved in my Icloud. Really important moment, my daughter with her grandma before her grandma passed away and with our beloved Father who also passed away. I thought my iphone will be ok so l kept all in my iphone without back up l was so stupi. I tried to use iTunes transfer to my PC but it is still not working it's show my iphone is empty. If I try to open my photos in my iphone it only shows a blank white screen. I went to Amac, called Apple support but still no solution to all the options we tried but still the same did not solved. Please help me..
Thank you in advance
Hi @Familie Indo-Belanda! I'm so sorry to hear about your grandma, and father. I know how important family is and especially in today's world it's even more critical. Prayers for you, your little one and friends and family.
Ok, so a few things...did you ever use iCloud or we're you ever signed into an iCloud account on your iPhone? If so, have you looked on icloud.com the website?
When you say that you couldn't open the photos and videos on the iPhone 8+, are you saying that the Photos App itself just doesn't open, or when you open it, there's nothing there?
Do you have any other Apple Devices? Have you tried connecting it to another a Mac instead of a Windows machine? Windows and iTunes don't always play the best together.
Also just for clarification, you've turned off your iPhone and turned it back on and also updated the iOS software to the latest version?
It's hard to tell if the photos are still on there or not. You said that when you open up photos the App, it's only shows blank or white screen...what happens if you try to access the photos from another App on your iPhone? For example in text messages or email? Do you see the photos there?
If the photos truly aren't on the device and you have no backup at all, your best and only option is some type of data recovery software like the one i'll list below:
www.imyfone.com/iphone-data-recovery/
The software is available for Windows computer, but again, it's used to recover deleted content. This would be a last resort if you've done everything up above.
Let me know if this all makes sense. Thank you for watching and I look forward to hearing from you.
The modern Apple = you have to buy multiple adapters. Bummer
I hear ya @cobar53! If I had a dollar for every dongle and adapter! I hear though that the rumors for the new MBP 14" and 16" that they're bringing back ports like HDMI and SD cards and MagSafe power! We shall see!
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