I came back to the Mac after 5 years away. I got back up to speed thanks to Gary. I decided to sign up for Patreon because I wanted to say thanks for enhancing my productivity.
Great collection of tips! I've used Photos for years and years, and it was only in watching this tutorial that I learned about exporting contact sheet PDFs! I always learn something new from your videos-thanks, Gary!
I’ve been watching all your videos. And they are very informative. Regarding photos app have questions -1. After editing how do I share the edited version through WhatsApp ? I couldn’t find the saved location. 2. I have photos in the my local drive arranged into a way I prefer, do I transfer all of them to photos app?
I don't use WhatsApp, but I'm sure there is a way to select a photo inside of that app. Look and see. It is up to you if you want to move your photos into the Photos app.
This video is the BEST! One problem I'm having is when an app like Mail, Keynote or iMovie open Photos to select content, it can take 4 - 10 minutes to load for browsing pictures. My Photos library file is 192 GB. I was considering creating 2 separate libraries - a 'Complete' and a 'Recent' where I've deleted all the older photos - just to speed up opening from within another app. Any ideas?
Splitting your library will make things more difficult to find, which may be a bigger problem. My library isn't that much smaller and it comes up in about 1 second. Do you have a lot of videos in your library? Maybe consider storing videos outside of your library and leaving the Photos library for just photos. That's what I do. Otherwise, maybe just have your Photos app open and drag and drop from there instead of using the Insert Photo function. I never use that.
@@macmost Wow! Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I have 1200 videos. I often just keep the Photos app open and just copy/paste or drag and drop - when I get tired of waiting for the "Insert Photo" preview to load. I really don't want multiple libraries as it introduces complexity. I'll try your suggestion and store videos outside the Photo's library.
Those photos tips were great! Do you have a separate video just on how the whole Photos and Files work in combination? Like that weird folder name photos.library or something. Many things to learn there, I believe. Huge fan of your work! Just found you yesterday. Appreciate it!
A .photoslibrary file is your Photos library. There's nothing you need to do with it. Interact with your library in the Photos app. Don't mess with the .photoslibrary file as it is not meant to be accessed directly.
@@macmost I'm just worried of having copies of my photos in the Photos app and in Finder. So I was wondering if that file is like a pointer. I haven't messed with the file itself. I do a lot of editing; videos and photos, and I just switched to Mac.. so I'm learning..
Most photos should be about the same size, unless you have some that are RAW. Instead, maybe focus on exporting and archiving video files. They can be huge. See ua-cam.com/video/6xTfI0cw70I/v-deo.html
I would love to use Apple Photos, Gary. It makes so much sense to be able to access my photos and videos from all my devices. However, there's a huge drawback that I take issue with. In a word, 'STORAGE". Apple allows a measly 15 gigabytes of storage and I have found, they are constantly pushing you to purchase monthly subscription storage. 15 gigabytes, when it comes to Photo and Video storage is miniscule. I wouldn't class myself as a prolific photographer but already, not even half way through the year, and my photos library is on 85 gigabytes. I would like to use it on my iMac, which is where I do my editing and cataloguing, and though I have searched, I can't see where I can check my storage. Before I know it, they would be advising me I need more storage and how much it will cost me. It's a shame Apple haven't addressed this differently. I have a contract with Amazon, for instance, that gives me unlimited storage space for my photos, as well as all the other benefits I get for less than £10 or $12 a month. The downside of cloud storage is, unless someone else has access to your account, once you leave, you lose your storage and all the library you have stored there. External Hard Drives, even the Solid State type, which are more reliable and faster, are so much cheaper these days and can, of course, be used on any computer. And they can be passed on to family or friends after your demise.
Gary, Thanks for making these videos. I'm not able to find an answer for this in apple support. if you think there is a solution pls help. 1) I import photos from HDD (as a referenced file, coz my mac's internal memory is very less and don't want to sync using iCloud) 2) So in this situation, if I delete multiple files from the HDD which is referenced here on photos, Photos app shows an icon to indicate that's missing, but is there any way to remove those thumbnails in one go, right now I have to delete each of them one by one.
You can bring them into Keynote and do it (ua-cam.com/video/sUyMC05Veug/v-deo.html) or use GIFBrewery or a similar app (ua-cam.com/video/57D7JnHFQOk/v-deo.html) or you can create a Shortcut to do it in macOS Monterey.
Great video, Gary! I have a ? is there a way to pause the Raw photos from syncing to my iPhone & iPad when I am editing them from a DSLR? I would like to do my edits on Apple Photos and then when I'm done export them in a JPEG format. The RAW files can be 50-75mb each
Hey Gary, I am trying to follow you but from the start, my photo display doesn't look like yours. All my pictures are 'together' with no white space between them. I have tried to change many features, but none will 'spread' the individual pictures apart. What am I doing differently? Thanks -
@@macmost Thank you for your reply. I'm afraid I was misunderstood. Many of my pictures were taken in raw-only format. I imported these into Photos. I wanted to ask if these can be converted to jpeg directly in Photos? (Without the need to export and re-import them as jpegs).
@@adaoko Oh, so you want to delete the RAW versions to save space? That's tricky. Typically you want to process the RAW version to apply things like exposure, contrast, etc. to create a jpeg which has those things baked-in. So I'm not sure of the best way to proceed. I've always just left them as RAW in Photos so I always have the original photo forever instead of a compressed baked-in version. I suppose you could use the adjustments in the Photos app to get the image like you want, then export as jpeg, and then import the jpeg. That's what I would do (or wouldn't do, actually). I'm not an expert at processing RAW though. Maybe ask an expert at RAW for advice before doing this.
I’m wanting to edit and delete 100s of photos, maybe thousands!! Is there a way to increase the size of my thumbnail images. I’m finding the stock images too small to quickly edit “keepers” from crap. For instance…20 photos of the same group of people…it’s hard to determine by thumbnail size just who’s eyes are open without clicking on every image then back to thumbnails so I can “batch delete”
In your Photos library? Just look through your library. Duplicates should be side-by-side since they have the same time. But more importantly figure out what you are doing that is creating those duplicates and change your behavior so it doesn't happen again.
@@macmost Thanks again for your prompt response! Oh am sorry! I forgot to mention that the duplicate picture issue isn’t in my Library, it exists in regular folders in my MacBook, those are older pictures I have from different cameras and Windows PCs. Any recommendations?
@@patkav I'd use List or Column view in the Finder with View, Show Preview turned on so you can arrow-key through them. Maybe try sorting by name or size or whatever will put the same photo next to the duplicate. Of course that assumes they are all in the same folder. Otherwise, you just have to come up with a strategy based on how they are arranged in folders right now.
@@macmost Thanks 🙏 I tried the columns view with preview, it’s a hell of a task which requires a super brain 🧠 memory and great eyesight. 😳🥸 lol. Just for your information I am talking about 3 to 4 thousand pictures that somehow have been duplicated times 30 to 36 each. Don’t even know how is happened. I guess all the different PC, laptops, Android phones and since 7 years switched over to MacBook and iPhone. All those years didn’t do any order with my photos. My fold. I know I did screw it up. I guess i will have to use a picture duplicate finder app
@@patkav You can. I wouldn't. I would not trust an app to make the decision for me when it comes to something important like photos. Even if it gets it right, they won't be organized like you want in the end. How about just dumping them all into the same folder, sorting by file name so identical files are together, then you can easily go through them looking at a group of files with the exact same name, checking to make sure they actually are the same image, and then deleting all in that group by one. Do it 15 minutes at a time over some days and organize as you go.
@@macmost I've put my photos in the photo finder folder. but gallery app doesn't detect people, place and time. nothing appears in the people and places folder.
@@abdivespa Are you using Photos, or are these files in the Finder? (You mention both). Not sure what you mean by "gallery app." Perhaps the best thing is to schedule a session at the Genius Bar to figure this out.
The most bizarre thing is that if you drag a photo to preview (because you want to PDF if) it takes the lower resolution photo, not the original photo. Bizarre.
You may have already made this video, and I'll search for it in just a minute, but I would like to know the best way to automatically delete all duplicate photos at once.
Hey Gary: Thanks for showing Markup under the ... P.S. "Revert to Original" is a wonderful feature, but it necessitates two files. On edited videos, that adds up fast, so I am happy to see the Mac Photos app has the option to save the edited video as a new video, THEN I can delete the original video when I'm satisfied.
I just took a couple of photos from my iPhone and I can't open them on my iMac even though they're there. I recently upgraded the storage on iCloud but I still can't open them?
Nice tips. Do you know of a way to rate images in this app? Using numbers, 1,2,3... etc? If you're familiar with Apple Aperture, it was a way to quickly edit down a batch of photos.
Use keyword tags. You can do 1 Star, 2 Stars, etc. But since keywords can be anything, you can do better like "scenic," "colorful" or "for submission" and so on. Depends what your goal is here in doing this.
I use a small Handheld camera taking pictures while riding a motorcycle. When I get home I pull the SD Card and with a Reader on my MacBook Pro I can open up and see the photos and also copy them from the SD Card but I only seem to have two option, Download folder or my Library. Can I create a TEMP Folder to place them as I generally discard them anyway after Uploading them to my Flickr Account.
Is there a way to clean up your library and separate screenshots and pictures saved from the web and whatnot from your actual photos? Probably worth a video tutorial… I think a lot of iOS users struggle with huge libraries now that have so much in them, but cleaning it up is a monumentous task.
I am using MacBook Ventura 13.0.1 version. I want to insert photos from my Pictures folder - photos library but when I do so, the photo library icon just greyed out and I cannot insert pictures from the photos library. This problem is encountered when I tried to use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc. When I went to the Systems settings> Privacy & Security > Photos>., I did not see any apps appearing like those under the microphone or camera. The Apple Consultants I spoke with (including Senior Consultants) could not explain. Instead , they attributed this to be the problem with 3rd party apps. Please advise if this abnormal.
When importing into another app, look in the left sidebar of the Open dialog, at the bottom you should see Media or Photos. Click that and then you should be able to browse your photos. Otherwise, you can just drag and drop from the Photos app into Word or whatever else. If that doesn't get you want you want, then you can always export a photo from the Photos app and then import that exported file.
Depends on what you want to do exactly. Preview on the Mac will do some things (viewing, crop, resize, export, markup). If you want something more look into these apps in the App Store: Seashore, Pixelmator, Acorn. See ua-cam.com/video/fGgBcnFCnFk/v-deo.html
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So, I have my smart albums set up within a yearly range like in the video, but recently I added some pics and videos from my snap memories into my camera roll, but they don't register as pics or videos in the algorithm. Why is this?
One of the slickest tricks in Photos is the ability to enter Edit, correct an exposure, copy the corrections. and use the arrow keys to move to similar exposures and paste the corrections. This saves me a lot of time over a long shoot with a large number of exposures - especially if indoors without flash.
Wow !! That was crazy useful and clear. I’ve been blown away with the cameras on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and so have been using it more and more rather than my mirrorless SLR. So I’ve been playing around more and more with this App. Your video has really inspired me - various things that I never realised as my mindset of the apple photo app is from a ‘historic’ version. Thanks so much 😊
Using another library, not synced, for work stuff is a great idea. I have a work phone that I can use for unlimited personal use, but don't want to mix my work and personal photos up. Fantastic, thanks Gary.
Another great video from you Gary 👏🏾 Any idea if the Photos app will preserve the metadata of the photos in case of exporting to Google Photos? I hope I will not have to reorganize my photos from scratch then! #BigFan ✌🏽
@@macmost Thanks❗️I have never had a Mac of any kind and I do everything on my iPad Pros but I do subscribe to your UA-cam channel and I do pickup tips that make me search deeper into iPad OS to find workarounds and while I have been able to find many new ways of doing things on my iPad I am hoping Apple gives us a little more flexibility for the iPad with iPad OS15. You have a 👍Great Channel ✅
Helpful tips - Thanks! I’m in the process of creating reference files that I don’t want in iCloud (to save iCloud storage). I thought I would need two libraries. I’m glad to learn I can use the same library I use for iCloud on my Mac.
Photos native MacOs app only allows All thumbnail previews of photos what's inside the MacBook. Is there a way to preview photos by their thumbnails in external SSDs? Or can you suggest a MacOS third party app for this purpose.
Do you mean a library on an external? Or do you mean a photo imported with "Copy items to the Photos library" turned off? You should see it as a thumbnail in the Photos app either way.
@@macmost I must have stated it differently. I have an SSD with raw and JPEG photos in it. The Photos app can't display these in thumbnails as it can with pictures residing in MacBook. Is there a 3rd party app like Photos that can preview photos in external SSDs in thumbnails? I'm a newbie with regards to MacOS.
@@macmost Now I get it. Thanks for the link. But how I wish Photos app can preview photos residing in external SSDs as well like Windows do. It was the first app I went to in my new M2 MacBook Air to preview photos in my external SSDs. Lo and behold, it can't. I guess MacOS does things differently. Coming from Windows, I want to learn MacOS by knowing what corresponds to what in keys, apps, etc. in Windows. Again, thank you for your help.
I am new to Mac, and I absolutely rely on your videos to learn everything that is computer is capable of. Thank you
I have had Macs since 1988 and there was new stuff in there for me!!
I came back to the Mac after 5 years away. I got back up to speed thanks to Gary. I decided to sign up for Patreon because I wanted to say thanks for enhancing my productivity.
I've been a mac user since 1989 and STILL learn tons everytime I watch these videos.
Great collection of tips! I've used Photos for years and years, and it was only in watching this tutorial that I learned about exporting contact sheet PDFs! I always learn something new from your videos-thanks, Gary!
Every one of your videos is a fantastic learning experience. I was unaware just how sophisticated Photos had become.
All that good information in 11 minutes. Thanks that was very helpful!
The contact sheet idea is good
Thanks, Gary. Another excellent video by an excellent instructor.
How did I just find this channel. Huge mac user and use photo all the time and didn't know any of this. You just got a new subscriber.
I’ve been watching all your videos. And they are very informative. Regarding photos app have questions -1. After editing how do I share the edited version through WhatsApp ? I couldn’t find the saved location.
2. I have photos in the my local drive arranged into a way I prefer, do I transfer all of them to photos app?
I don't use WhatsApp, but I'm sure there is a way to select a photo inside of that app. Look and see. It is up to you if you want to move your photos into the Photos app.
you are a brilliant person - thank you...
Amazing versatility. I had no idea. Thanks for this video!
Excellent tutorial, Gary! Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge.👍🏻
I like your videos. Good information without complicating things.
Love your videos Gary, thank you once again.
Any tools to make skin better for a head shot, like a clarity slider?
Yes. In Adjustments you have the retouch tool. You can also use Noise Reduction, Sharpen and others.
Amazing. I learned so much even being a long time max user. Well done!
Superb channel! The missing Mac handbook!
Love your work. Great tutorials !
Awesome video. Thank you so much. :)
Great! I use iPhoto (and now Photos) since 2002, a lot has changed since then, but I heard some things now that I didn't know! Thanks, Gary!
Great - thanks 👍
thanks a lot for the information, we really appreciated.
This video is the BEST! One problem I'm having is when an app like Mail, Keynote or iMovie open Photos to select content, it can take 4 - 10 minutes to load for browsing pictures. My Photos library file is 192 GB. I was considering creating 2 separate libraries - a 'Complete' and a 'Recent' where I've deleted all the older photos - just to speed up opening from within another app. Any ideas?
Splitting your library will make things more difficult to find, which may be a bigger problem. My library isn't that much smaller and it comes up in about 1 second. Do you have a lot of videos in your library? Maybe consider storing videos outside of your library and leaving the Photos library for just photos. That's what I do. Otherwise, maybe just have your Photos app open and drag and drop from there instead of using the Insert Photo function. I never use that.
@@macmost Wow! Thanks for the quick response. Yes, I have 1200 videos. I often just keep the Photos app open and just copy/paste or drag and drop - when I get tired of waiting for the "Insert Photo" preview to load. I really don't want multiple libraries as it introduces complexity. I'll try your suggestion and store videos outside the Photo's library.
Thanks for the videos. Can photos fix lens distortion like barrel distortion form a wide lens?
No, there's no tool for that in Photos.
@@macmost thx. That’s too bad. 😩
Those photos tips were great! Do you have a separate video just on how the whole Photos and Files work in combination? Like that weird folder name photos.library or something. Many things to learn there, I believe. Huge fan of your work! Just found you yesterday. Appreciate it!
A .photoslibrary file is your Photos library. There's nothing you need to do with it. Interact with your library in the Photos app. Don't mess with the .photoslibrary file as it is not meant to be accessed directly.
@@macmost I'm just worried of having copies of my photos in the Photos app and in Finder. So I was wondering if that file is like a pointer. I haven't messed with the file itself. I do a lot of editing; videos and photos, and I just switched to Mac.. so I'm learning..
@@Muhammed.Yaseen It depends on your settings and what you are doing to bring photos into the Photos app.
Thank you, dear creator
That was great, thanks Gary
Hi
What is the best and safest way to sort Photos content by size? (Videos and photos)
I would like to free some space out of my iCloud storage
Most photos should be about the same size, unless you have some that are RAW. Instead, maybe focus on exporting and archiving video files. They can be huge. See ua-cam.com/video/6xTfI0cw70I/v-deo.html
I knew nothing , but I learned a lot! Thank you, Gary! ❤️👍🏻
I would love to use Apple Photos, Gary. It makes so much sense to be able to access my photos and videos from all my devices. However, there's a huge drawback that I take issue with. In a word, 'STORAGE". Apple allows a measly 15 gigabytes of storage and I have found, they are constantly pushing you to purchase monthly subscription storage. 15 gigabytes, when it comes to Photo and Video storage is miniscule. I wouldn't class myself as a prolific photographer but already, not even half way through the year, and my photos library is on 85 gigabytes. I would like to use it on my iMac, which is where I do my editing and cataloguing, and though I have searched, I can't see where I can check my storage. Before I know it, they would be advising me I need more storage and how much it will cost me.
It's a shame Apple haven't addressed this differently. I have a contract with Amazon, for instance, that gives me unlimited storage space for my photos, as well as all the other benefits I get for less than £10 or $12 a month. The downside of cloud storage is, unless someone else has access to your account, once you leave, you lose your storage and all the library you have stored there. External Hard Drives, even the Solid State type, which are more reliable and faster, are so much cheaper these days and can, of course, be used on any computer. And they can be passed on to family or friends after your demise.
Photo app for IPad doesn’t have many options, unless I am wrong. Please verify. Thanks
Gary, Thanks for making these videos.
I'm not able to find an answer for this in apple support. if you think there is a solution pls help.
1) I import photos from HDD (as a referenced file, coz my mac's internal memory is very less and don't want to sync using iCloud)
2) So in this situation, if I delete multiple files from the HDD which is referenced here on photos, Photos app shows an icon to indicate that's missing, but is there any way to remove those thumbnails in one go, right now I have to delete each of them one by one.
Hi, is there a way to do a sequential batch rename in "Photos App"?
Not really, no.
How can I make a gif with multiple stills in iPhoto, either on iPhone or MacBook Pro? Thx!
You can bring them into Keynote and do it (ua-cam.com/video/sUyMC05Veug/v-deo.html) or use GIFBrewery or a similar app (ua-cam.com/video/57D7JnHFQOk/v-deo.html) or you can create a Shortcut to do it in macOS Monterey.
in my photo app and under adjust I do not see the option for portrait in order to change the depth of field why please? Thank you!
Great video, Gary! I have a ? is there a way to pause the Raw photos from syncing to my iPhone & iPad when I am editing them from a DSLR? I would like to do my edits on Apple Photos and then when I'm done export them in a JPEG format. The RAW files can be 50-75mb each
If you are using "Optimize" on those devices then all that should "sync" is the thumbnail unless you view the full photo or edit it on that device.
@@macmost Ok, I'll check that out Gary. Thanks for the reply
Hey Gary, I am trying to follow you but from the start, my photo display doesn't look like yours. All my pictures are 'together' with no white space between them. I have tried to change many features, but none will 'spread' the individual pictures apart. What am I doing differently? Thanks -
theres a button to switch between modes at the top left.
@@macmost That did it! Thanks so much.
Would you be so kind as to tell me how you handle raw images? Do you know a good way to convert raw images to jpeg directly in the Photos app?
The Photos app handles RAW images. When you export, you can export as jpeg.
@@macmost Thank you for your reply. I'm afraid I was misunderstood. Many of my pictures were taken in raw-only format. I imported these into Photos. I wanted to ask if these can be converted to jpeg directly in Photos? (Without the need to export and re-import them as jpegs).
@@adaoko Oh, so you want to delete the RAW versions to save space? That's tricky. Typically you want to process the RAW version to apply things like exposure, contrast, etc. to create a jpeg which has those things baked-in. So I'm not sure of the best way to proceed. I've always just left them as RAW in Photos so I always have the original photo forever instead of a compressed baked-in version. I suppose you could use the adjustments in the Photos app to get the image like you want, then export as jpeg, and then import the jpeg. That's what I would do (or wouldn't do, actually). I'm not an expert at processing RAW though. Maybe ask an expert at RAW for advice before doing this.
@@macmost Thank you for the advice!
Give me drag&drop MOVE of pictures between albums with the option key etc! I know about cut&paste but it is not very Mac-like.
I’m wanting to edit and delete 100s of photos, maybe thousands!! Is there a way to increase the size of my thumbnail images. I’m finding the stock images too small to quickly edit “keepers” from crap. For instance…20 photos of the same group of people…it’s hard to determine by thumbnail size just who’s eyes are open without clicking on every image then back to thumbnails so I can “batch delete”
Depends on which view. In most views there is a slider at the top.
Any recommendation how to find duplicate pictures in my MacBook Pro?
thanks
In your Photos library? Just look through your library. Duplicates should be side-by-side since they have the same time. But more importantly figure out what you are doing that is creating those duplicates and change your behavior so it doesn't happen again.
@@macmost Thanks again for your prompt response!
Oh am sorry! I forgot to mention that the duplicate picture issue isn’t in my Library, it exists in regular folders in my MacBook, those are older pictures I have from different cameras and Windows PCs.
Any recommendations?
@@patkav I'd use List or Column view in the Finder with View, Show Preview turned on so you can arrow-key through them. Maybe try sorting by name or size or whatever will put the same photo next to the duplicate. Of course that assumes they are all in the same folder. Otherwise, you just have to come up with a strategy based on how they are arranged in folders right now.
@@macmost Thanks 🙏
I tried the columns view with preview, it’s a hell of a task which requires a super brain 🧠 memory and great eyesight. 😳🥸 lol.
Just for your information I am talking about 3 to 4 thousand pictures that somehow have been duplicated times 30 to 36 each.
Don’t even know how is happened. I guess all the different PC, laptops, Android phones and since 7 years switched over to MacBook and iPhone.
All those years didn’t do any order with my photos. My fold.
I know I did screw it up.
I guess i will have to use a picture duplicate finder app
@@patkav You can. I wouldn't. I would not trust an app to make the decision for me when it comes to something important like photos. Even if it gets it right, they won't be organized like you want in the end. How about just dumping them all into the same folder, sorting by file name so identical files are together, then you can easily go through them looking at a group of files with the exact same name, checking to make sure they actually are the same image, and then deleting all in that group by one. Do it 15 minutes at a time over some days and organize as you go.
hi sir, how to enable automatic detection of people folder, time and place in macbook gallery?
Not sure what you mean, sorry. People detection is always on.
@@macmost I've put my photos in the photo finder folder. but gallery app doesn't detect people, place and time. nothing appears in the people and places folder.
@@abdivespa Are you using Photos, or are these files in the Finder? (You mention both). Not sure what you mean by "gallery app." Perhaps the best thing is to schedule a session at the Genius Bar to figure this out.
@@macmost yes, I save all the files in finder.
but it doesn't show people detection and location detection
hi can I delete the file name "Photos Library.photoslibrary" in the pictues folders?
That's your Photos library. If you delete that, you delete ALL OF YOUR PHOTOS.
@@macmost thanks.. just new to macbook and mac os.. 👍🏻👍🏻
I keep seeing - MacMoist...
The most bizarre thing is that if you drag a photo to preview (because you want to PDF if) it takes the lower resolution photo, not the original photo. Bizarre.
You may have already made this video, and I'll search for it in just a minute, but I would like to know the best way to automatically delete all duplicate photos at once.
See macmost.com/forum/how-do-i-delete-duplicate-photos-in-catalina.html
I just removed an ugly electrical wire hanging in the front of a shot with the retouch tool thanks to seeing your video!! Thank you very much.
OMG, Gary: such a wealth of information. I'm looking at Photos in a whole new light. THANKS.
Hey Gary: Thanks for showing Markup under the ...
P.S. "Revert to Original" is a wonderful feature, but it necessitates two files. On edited videos, that adds up fast, so I am happy to see the Mac Photos app has the option to save the edited video as a new video, THEN I can delete the original video when I'm satisfied.
10:03 I seriously did not know this! I was always doubling the storage space needed or having to delete the original files.
Hi Gary How do I import old Aperture projects files from a hard drive to photos? Thanks Jc.
I just took a couple of photos from my iPhone and I can't open them on my iMac even though they're there. I recently upgraded the storage on iCloud but I still can't open them?
Can it edit raw file? Thank
For some photos I have a lot of copies, like 80 or so for every of those photos. How to fix this bullshit?
Learned stuff I didn’t know…☺️.
Nice tips. Do you know of a way to rate images in this app? Using numbers, 1,2,3... etc? If you're familiar with Apple Aperture, it was a way to quickly edit down a batch of photos.
Use keyword tags. You can do 1 Star, 2 Stars, etc. But since keywords can be anything, you can do better like "scenic," "colorful" or "for submission" and so on. Depends what your goal is here in doing this.
Outstanding Gary. You are an excellent teacher and mentor. Thank you,
I use a small Handheld camera taking pictures while riding a motorcycle. When I get home I pull the SD Card and with a Reader on my MacBook Pro I can open up and see the photos and also copy them from the SD Card but I only seem to have two option, Download folder or my Library. Can I create a TEMP Folder to place them as I generally discard them anyway after Uploading them to my Flickr Account.
So are you importing them into Photos, or copying over the files to a folder in the Finder?
i have lots of duplicates any way to get just one of everything
This is so helpful. Thank you for your unbelievably good videos!
Is there a way to clean up your library and separate screenshots and pictures saved from the web and whatnot from your actual photos? Probably worth a video tutorial… I think a lot of iOS users struggle with huge libraries now that have so much in them, but cleaning it up is a monumentous task.
Excellent, very well explained, delivered, and informative.
I am using MacBook Ventura 13.0.1 version. I want to insert photos from my Pictures folder - photos library but when I do so, the photo library icon just greyed out and I cannot insert pictures from the photos library. This problem is encountered when I tried to use Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, Whatsapp, Telegram, etc.
When I went to the Systems settings> Privacy & Security > Photos>., I did not see any apps appearing like those under the microphone or camera. The Apple Consultants I spoke with (including Senior Consultants) could not explain. Instead , they attributed this to be the problem with 3rd party apps. Please advise if this abnormal.
When importing into another app, look in the left sidebar of the Open dialog, at the bottom you should see Media or Photos. Click that and then you should be able to browse your photos. Otherwise, you can just drag and drop from the Photos app into Word or whatever else. If that doesn't get you want you want, then you can always export a photo from the Photos app and then import that exported file.
Wow! I did not realize how many functions this app has. Thanks!
I can't stop watching your video's! They are so educational. Thank you so much!
I love photos app. I don't even bother with PS
When I make albums, I need to move the order of the pictures. I notice that when I move a picture by dragging. when I do the other photos get jumbled.
If it is a regular album you should be able to drag and move the order. Not sure what you mean by jumbled.
Everything is awesome I have a question that bothers me so much. Is there app on a Mac equivalent like MS Paint?
Depends on what you want to do exactly. Preview on the Mac will do some things (viewing, crop, resize, export, markup). If you want something more look into these apps in the App Store: Seashore, Pixelmator, Acorn. See ua-cam.com/video/fGgBcnFCnFk/v-deo.html
So, I have my smart albums set up within a yearly range like in the video, but recently I added some pics and videos from my snap memories into my camera roll, but they don't register as pics or videos in the algorithm. Why is this?
Hard to say. Have you checked the info for these pics and compared them to the Smart Album settings? That is where you will find the answer.
Great stuff!
Excellent! Thanks.
Please could you make a video showing how you can put a face on one photo to the body on another photo in the Photo section on the mac? Thanks
You would edit the photo in an External Editor to do that. You can do it in Preview if you have nothing else. ua-cam.com/video/hRNToJv78g0/v-deo.html
One of the slickest tricks in Photos is the ability to enter Edit, correct an exposure, copy the corrections. and use the arrow keys to move to similar exposures and paste the corrections. This saves me a lot of time over a long shoot with a large number of exposures - especially if indoors without flash.
How do you copy the corrections?
Thanks! You are The Man!!!
Wow !!
That was crazy useful and clear.
I’ve been blown away with the cameras on my iPhone 15 Pro Max and so have been using it more and more rather than my mirrorless SLR. So I’ve been playing around more and more with this App.
Your video has really inspired me - various things that I never realised as my mindset of the apple photo app is from a ‘historic’ version.
Thanks so much 😊
Thanks that was great info
Using another library, not synced, for work stuff is a great idea. I have a work phone that I can use for unlimited personal use, but don't want to mix my work and personal photos up. Fantastic, thanks Gary.
Another great video from you Gary 👏🏾
Any idea if the Photos app will preserve the metadata of the photos in case of exporting to Google Photos?
I hope I will not have to reorganize my photos from scratch then!
#BigFan ✌🏽
It is probably up to Google Photos, but I can't see why not. Try one and see.
You are an Apple treasure
good job done.
Great video Gary❗️ Will this work with my Photo’s App on my iPad Pro, I do not have any Computer all I have is 2018 iPad Pro.
Well, this is specific to the Mac Photos app. Some of these features are in the iPad app, but the steps would be very different.
@@macmost Thanks❗️I have never had a Mac of any kind and I do everything on my iPad Pros but I do subscribe to your UA-cam channel and I do pickup tips that make me search deeper into iPad OS to find workarounds and while I have been able to find many new ways of doing things on my iPad I am hoping Apple gives us a little more flexibility for the iPad with iPad OS15. You have a 👍Great Channel ✅
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I love this.
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Well done! Very useful!
Do you import all of your photos into (Apple) Photos?
Me, personally? Yes.
I recently upgraded to Big Sur 11.4, how can I stop duplicate photos from importing into photos now?
This is Wild!!
Thankyou brk
gold mine!
🙏 this is a very informative post, thank YOU!!!
Helpful tips - Thanks! I’m in the process of creating reference files that I don’t want in iCloud (to save iCloud storage). I thought I would need two libraries. I’m glad to learn I can use the same library I use for iCloud on my Mac.
So if you have a second (or more) photo library(ies)... that's not backed up to iCloud?
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I can't see "Media types" where I have the options for spot remover or portraits adjustments
Great info, Gary!!! Just what I need to know right now. THANK you.
Can you use Lightroom and photoshop as external editors without messing up LRC catalog system?
Good show, I'm new at Big Sur and I want to go through and edit some wedding pics for prints. Your video a Big help, Great timing.
Brilliant as always. Just edited 4300 photos and labelled them. They all look great. Took a while.
Photos native MacOs app only allows All thumbnail previews of photos what's inside the MacBook. Is there a way to preview photos by their thumbnails in external SSDs? Or can you suggest a MacOS third party app for this purpose.
Do you mean a library on an external? Or do you mean a photo imported with "Copy items to the Photos library" turned off? You should see it as a thumbnail in the Photos app either way.
@@macmost I must have stated it differently. I have an SSD with raw and JPEG photos in it. The Photos app can't display these in thumbnails as it can with pictures residing in MacBook. Is there a 3rd party app like Photos that can preview photos in external SSDs in thumbnails? I'm a newbie with regards to MacOS.
@@butchgo6130 If all you want to do is preview the photos, just do that in a Finder window. ua-cam.com/video/Y-SMfAvOKZM/v-deo.html
@@macmost Now I get it. Thanks for the link. But how I wish Photos app can preview photos residing in external SSDs as well like Windows do. It was the first app I went to in my new M2 MacBook Air to preview photos in my external SSDs. Lo and behold, it can't. I guess MacOS does things differently. Coming from Windows, I want to learn MacOS by knowing what corresponds to what in keys, apps, etc. in Windows. Again, thank you for your help.
WOW, that was very helpful... some of the things I knew but many were new to me.... well done