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00:00 Intro
00:40 10. Light and Color Adjustment Tools
01:33 9. Retouching
02:00 8. Non-Destructive Editing
02:23 7. You Can Use External Editors
03:11 6. Organize With Albums and Keywords
04:00 5. Photos Automatically Recognizes People
04:40 4. Photos Recognizes Objects and More
04:59 3. Automatic Organization
05:39 2. It Is Easy To Share Photos Online
06:25 1. Automatic Syncing With iCloud Photos
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Thanks Gary for this useful information. By the way, I’m curious about how to make an sticker (to be used in other apps like WhatsApp or Telegram) directly from any photo, using the iOS 16 (also in MacOS, iPadOS) feature of removing background by dragging the main subject away from a photo to paste in Mac Apps (but in big/original size. That could be an interesting tutorial.
I like having all my photos (including Raw files) backed up in hard drives and may delete old ones from photos. If I export a photo from the photos app for backup, then later copy it again into photos, is anything lost (quality, edits, metadata, location, etc)?
Gary, when you are talking about iCloud photo storage I would love to see a video where 2 or more persons are sharing an iCloud account. The goal is to share the storage but keeping the libraries separate.
11: everything you said about photos is true for videos
Gary, great list … here's a suggestion to cover as well – for those of us who have thousands of non-digital-native scanned slides and photos, I've found the Photos app to be adequate if not preferred for importing scanned photos and then allowing you to edit the metadata for date (of photo taken, not the scanned date) as well as location. The location aspect that drives me CRAZY though is why Apple doesn't provide a way to see the GPS coordinates within the app … so far as I know, you have to export the photo(s), then use Finder Preview to see that GPS Info. This plus your previous video regarding different ways to preview/view photos within MacOs are indispensable aids for photographers.
Great video again. Thank you. But note that the sharing through iCloud only works on Apple devices. I got the message that I need to open the invitation in the Mail app, which I do not use. Why is that? Seems like the typical Apple ecosystem problems. Seems quite limited. If you want to share without problems and over multiple platforms (e.g. Windows), you should use another method. For instance Microsoft Onedrive or Google Photo's. Both are much better in that respect.
Outstanding video on the Photo App! Thanks, George Rubin
One big missing option is how to share my library original with family so they can edit also
Thanks. Have Apple fixed the RAW image problem? Using an M1 iMac I got an iPhone 14 Pro to take advantage of the extra details of RAW photos but they suffered repeated problems in Photos after any editing of the images, showing out of focus. Apple told me the solution was to turn off RAW on the phone.
Photos is good but you are still unable to adjust part of an image, you have to have a pro app.
Thank you so muchGary for this very informative video 👏🏾.
I notice that some of my pictures disappear from the app after a while. Any idea what I’m doing wrong? Thanks!!
I use Photos heavy, with many, many libraries. All in spite of one huge drawback – Apple is insanely slow to add RAW compatibility for new cameras. It has.been six months now since I got my Fuji X-t5 – no update for RAW compatibility in all that time. Otherwise, I find it much handier than Lightroom for my filing – mostly "referenced".
Another great video. Thank you confirming that the Photos library contains the photo once even though it may be in many different folders. Similar to contact cards in Contacts. I've seen quite a few folks confused by this concept and so your clarity helps.
Try using Photos with a library that's larger than a terabyte. It's not so quick and easy then, and who subscribes to more than a terabyte of iCloud storage? Just sayin' … it has it's limits and frequent backups of library(s) are a must too! I've had Photos crashes that made ALL photos & videos un-recoverable.
Thanks bunches. I so enjoy your video a bit ago and using the search function..
Holy Color Correction Batman I never knew about linking and the extensions! Good tip!
I have used Apple Photos ever since the untimely demise of Aperture, and it now has developed a remarkable feature set. The main thing that is still missing is Aperture's robust metadata editing features. Photo's metadata editing simply is anemic by comparison. I have yet to find a metadata editor that is both as convenient as as robust as the editor in Aperture. Any suggestions would be welcome.
I have Pixelmator, Affinity and Photoshop on my Mac, but I end up editing probably 80% of my photos right in Photos. It's significantly more powerful than most people give it credit for. Especially useful are the little sliders at the top of each section (with the photo previews background). Just a few quick adjustments of the Light and Color main sliders is all many photos need.
How do you decouple raw and jpg files. Should be simple yet deleting the raw also seems to delete the jpg?
Facial recognition seems weak and frustrating in Photos (could be user error). You have to click on a face to see if there are additional photos to confirm. Why not a confirm addition photos button that shows all faces with additional photos to confirm? Is this user error or Apple Photo weakness?
Yes Gary Mac Photos is excellent but you did not talk about the feature I just started using – iCloud Shared Photo Library.
But to get there you have to first upload all of your photos/videos to iCloud.
This process took me 7 days, 24 hours per day to upload my photos/videos to iCloud. I ran Amphetamine to keep my Mac awake.
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1:35 Why does Gary from MacMostVideo look like the comedian Dave Attell in this picture? 😂
I don’t use it as if I have 1gb photos in computer then this app also becomes one gb.
Totally 2gb automatically
Coming from Windows before Cloud solutions existed and matured to what they offer today, I was fixated on ensuring I had all my photos (and other media like videos and music) on my primary computer … and then backing up everything. Once I convinced myself that iCloud was worth its cost, life became so much simpler. Now I try to convince everyone to liberate themselves from manual file management misery and use iCloud and Apple’s solutions the integrate with it.
Informative as always Gary. Another cool thing about photos I use is capturing a photo in my videos. It’s pretty cool to take a video of my dog flying around the park and capture a video frame of her in mid air and make it a picture to edit. You are my number one source for all things Apple!
Fantastic summary, I became a Photos user too, mostly to quickly edit things as the light/shadow/brightness/temperature/etc editing became quite easy to use, out of laziness of either going to a computer (directly on the phone) or not wanting to bother to open up something else, it’s already there ready to go.
That said, I had no clue that photos edited on a separate app through Photos (the Affinity Photo example) also supports the ‘revert to original’ functionality :O, that’s actually great.
I find the Places feature an extremely useful search feature. You can view photos by country, town or even down to a specific house/address. Also very useful in finding the historical date of an event if you have a photo from that event.
I have been tempted by the lovely integration between my Apple devices offered by the Photos app, but I simply can't make use of it for several reasons:
1. My current media storage from multiple cameras is currently 3.5Tb. This would make iCloud very expensive, and currently there appears to be a 2Tb limit!
2. Photos stores media somewhere mysterious (I assume in a database), so there is no way to see individual media files like HEIC, CR3, MOV, MP4 on a macOS file system. This limits backup options, since all the media is backed up as a "blob", so (more importantly) restoring a particular file or group of files appears to be impossible.
3. Further to #2, if at some point the user decides that Photos is no longer doing the job for them, I don't see any way to migrate the media to a third-party photo management app.
I realize my perspective is likely in the minority of users, but perhaps you could do a follow-up video reviewing the best options for media management who are "serious" photographers & videographers.
My problem with the photos app was,
Raw files from various cameras, that i used in the past did not show up
The amount of photos that i added crashed the app.
The photos app is ok for your iphone photos, but not for semipro dslr and mirrorless shooters
Thank you for all the usefuly videos and Turkish language.👍
I used >iPhoto< to organize my photos until Apple stuffed it up by creating >Photos<, now I’m reluctant to trust them with my collection.
I try and I try and I try… to like Photos, but… occasionally, I can't find images, it is slow, or doesn't sync with iCloud and the killer for me is, I can't resize or save images in different formats or locations. Thankfully there is also Preview, but its fiddly when it should be intuitive. Thanks though Gary.
new to mac, can you use photos app without using icloud for storage of photos?
I have been using photos with faces on my Mac for years but it doesn't seem to update all of the information to my iPhone. ex: if I have 100 identified photos of a face on my Mac I may only get 40 or 50 on my Phone. Why is this?
I tend to be a silent viewer, mostly because I don't have any questions because you are so precise with your directions. Although I use .75 speed, so my slow mind hears all you have to say. My question is can I load up a digital photo regardless of its origin, i.e., my cannon or photos scanned into digital.
These are great tips! Thank you for sharing them. I am a huge fan of Photos, but you have increased my appreciation for the software even more.
Perfect and clear info! Thks
Thanks Gary for all the information given here. I am using the photo app for over 2 years and I find it great. However, now that I have accumulated a large ammount of photos I would like to store to an external disc a part of them. Is there an option to split a library? I can't find a way around of it.
When I have pictures organized in folders and decide to import them in Photos, will I have these pictures twice on my MacBook?
One thing I think is a huge missing piece to iPhotos is resizing. Sure you can save your photos out toa. JPG that will be a smaller size then re import and delete the larger one but if you have 1000's of photos that is not a simple task. With how big photos are these days you will be forced to the highest tier of iCloud really quick. I have some in iPhoto but also have some local to my disk. The my Iphoto file is 148 GB right now and many of these files have been puled from my iphone, reduced from 3-8 MB down to a few Kb and that's STIll 148GB used. This also increases really quick when you edit the photo because it keeps multiple copies of that file. So you can undo, or revert back. So edit a file and it will take up a lot more space. This is probably more an issue with the iPhone needing such high resolution in photos. I don't know what we keep getting so big? If you don't print them or do professional editing and really need to zoom in those huge file sizes are a waste of space. What is the 2TB iCloud storage costing now? $10 a month and will go up every year or so. So your looking a pretty big subscription forever? I really want to justify iCloud and iPhoto but I'm having a hard time. If someone knows something I'm missing I'd love to hear it.
Hi Gary, there is a feature that I need in iPhoto, that is a quick and easy way to reduce the size of the image file. How can you reduce the image file size in a Photo album? All cropping and editing can always be revert back, so iPhoto is maintaining the original image and size no matter how you crop it. I even use Preview app to reduce the file size and Preview says it is reduced significantly (like one tenth of the size) then I save it. But I don’t see the file image size changes in the Photo app of the image file. This is confusing. How do you effectively reduce the file size in Photo app?
Didn't see GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) in your "edit with" external editors list. I use this free, open source cross-platform image editor quite often – especially since I'm relegated to using Windblows at work. What are your thoughts, Gary?
This tutorial is fantastic! I've discovered the iCloud copy link feature on the iPhone and iPad's Photo app. It's incredibly convenient for sharing photos and videos through WhatsApp without cluttering up the app or duplicating photos. I do wish there was a similar feature in the desktop photo application, but unfortunately, I haven't been able to find one. The album sharing option you showed seems to do the trick, although it's not as straightforward as the one on the iPhone or iPad. Am I missing something here? Thanks!
Gary, I also agree that the Automatic sync with iCloud Photos is the best feature and also my favorite. From time to time I notice it might take minutes or dozens of minutes for the sync to complete. During those times I begin to question if I have done anything wrong to cause the delay.