As usual, Gary, a great, fun and clearly presented video. I had no idea about the instant alpha feature in Photos! I know I'll be using that; Thank you very much.
Thanks, Gary. Your hints and tips, clearly presented, make my use of iMac and iPhone so much better. And calmer. I'm one of those people who shout at computers when they don't work like they should (or how I think they should). Best wishes
Thank you so much for clearing up that the photo will still be in the album that I put its duplicate in. I was so worried to merge because I wasn't sure how it would affect the album organization.
I'm so glad you find these hidden gems that I don't even think to look for. Once I downloaded Ventura I played with Stage Manager a bit, and otherwise that was it. Thanks Gary.
If the photo is in your Photos library, then it is in your library, not a file in the Finder (unless you changed from the default way it works). Take a step back. Why do you want to know the file path? What's your goal here?
Hi Gary! As always you solve my problems :). I am still not happy that the photo album folders are not available in 3rd party apps but at least I now know a work around. If you have any hints on that please share!!!
I just wish they'd flesh out the editing capabilities just a bit more to give better editing of the excellent 48 megapixel raw photos coming out of the 14 pro. I hate having to use an external editor when the internal tools are so close to something like LIghtroom. Every photo editor wants to use a subscription model now. I'm willing to pay a one-time reasonable fee, but not every month.
Gary, thanks a ton for the great tips. Quick question, u did mention to quit the photos app and let the mac sleep overnight to find those duplicates, does it have to be connected to power or not? Appreciate your response as i am struggling with multiple libraries that are taking ages to find the duplicates.
Yes, probably. Why would you have it sleep at night and not have it connected to power? That's a good way to use extra batter cycles and shorten the life of your battery for no reason.
@@ibs37i I don't know of any good way to do it across multiple libraries, sorry. It will be just a very hard time-consuming effort if your photos are not in the same library.
@@JohnPeterson1950 Safari if the name of your web browser. Ventura is the name of version 13 of macOS. Two different things. When you upgrade to macOS Ventura you would still be using Safari as your web browser. To get macOS Ventura, go to System Preferences, Software Update.
You can only have one iCloud Photos library. You can have other non-iCloud ones. But why would you want to divide your photos like that? It will make searching and viewing your photos very difficult. What's your goal in wanting to do this?
The cell phone pictures can have a lot of random stuff, and the other camera has my high quality landscape pics. Just thought it might be good to keep them separate if possible.
@@pritch28 You really need to consider the downsides. If you want to search for a photo, now you have to open one library, search, switch to another library, search. If you want to have some albums, you can only have photos from the current library in an album, including Shared Albums. Only one library can be your iCloud library, so the other library's photos would just be local to one Mac. You would never be able to view them on your iPhone and iPad. If it is very important that you be able to see photos from one camera or another, you can always search for that camera or set up Smart Folders for showing only images taken with that camera.
you are amazing dude. You are always come up with the best solution. Can you help me to sort out the pictures and videos on the Photos application by size please
Thank you Gary for such a good video. Im just switching back to Photos after using lightroom and photoshops for many years, Just could not see the point paying for it any longer as i don't really use it. Im on sonarma as well so i guess maybe a tweak or two since this video was made. Gary, do you know if there is a free programs that allows some basic cloning, what i can find in photos is very limiting unless you have tricks for that or have done a video in the past Thanks again
If you absolutely must have free, then try to do it in Preview on your Mac, or look for Seashore in the App Store. Otherwise, you can get a full-featured image editor with Pixelmator Pro which is what I use.
Hi again Gary, just watched a quick video of pixelmator pro and for fifty quid cant go wrong, i like that you can just buy it and be done, i hate all this subs each month or year. Thanks again for the suggestions and all the help that you have given on here @@macmost
Will duplicate also work with shared library? And whats happens when you have the same photo in your own library and in the shared library? Will it remove it from the shared library e.g.?
Your videos are a treasure trove and much appreciated... Wonderly, Gary, is it possible to show us a workaround the "no folders" issue. For example, I take pics of my products to upload to my website. I can no longer view my folders/contents. This is a huge problem for me.
@@macmost previously, when I wanted to upload photos (s) to my website, I would select the source PHOTOS and the list of my folders would appear under photos. I would select the folder that contained the products and select the ones I wanted to upload. Now, the folders are eliminated. ALL the photos appears as Ventura has eliminated folders in favor of drop and drag. As a small business owner, this is very time consuming…. I have 12000 photos, and have to browse through them to find the specific ones I need. And, drop and drag also reduces image quality. My host is WIX. If that makes sense….
@@debbihenretty5596 So I think you mean albums, not folders, right? And you mean when you click on an upload button on a website, go to choose a file, but instead choose Photos under Media. You used to be able to then choose an album to narrow your search, but now you can't. I'd send feedback to Apple that you want this function back.
@@macmost Yes, albums. Sorry. I (and many, many others) have contacted Apple. They feel the drop and drag solution is more than satisfactory. Sadly, it is not. I see you as the guru of actual users. Thanks for any help!
Thanks Gary! Can you explain a way to sort Photos by portrait vs landscape orientation? I'm trying to print photos for a collage frame made of portrait and landscape oriented frames, and the ability to sort like this would be helpful. (Lightroom can do this but not all of my iPhone pix are in my LR catalog).
I can't think of any easy way to do that. Maybe go through the photos you have selected and just use keyword tags for each, then search with those tags?
Gary, I need some help with Apple Photos on my Mac. In short, I'm trying to get my images out of the Library and into folders arranged by year/month (the way I managed it before my iMac). I don't want to export the images, as then I lose the exif data and must edit it manually for all of my nearly 10,000 images (multiple users). Apple seems determined to prevent this kind of personal preference, not even allowing us to sort the photos by the date they were taken. Can you direct me to a method or even a reliable software that can perform this for me?
I am using the newest version of Photos and the heart that displays on each photo isn't showing. The photos show under favourites but I am looking to do numerous deleting of photos from recents/downloads. BTW. I love your tutorials
Hey. I just got an iphone 14 pro, and when I dump all my videos onto my macbook pro 2013 High Sierra10.13.6, the image placeholders in the iphoto library Version 3.0 (3291.13.230) are all overexposed, and hard to see, but the videos play just fine. Another thing is that none of the newly imported videos can be edited, just played. The photos all look fine, but the videos are messed up. Any ideas what this may be, or how to fix it?
@macmostvideos Great video Gary - love the videos ! Wanted 2 see if u could help me with the terminal line to automatically change Heic to joegs u gave.been searching. Also -i have keywords - (based off people ) but how would I make it so that when I search for say a persons name it places those photos in order - tried the view option- no luck- and i think it will help me get this mess into order I am on a photo journey- with 10,500 photos - and when i pull a keyword name - they are just placed totally outta order … thank You so much ! We appreciate u
Does the duplicates matching algorithm find duplicates by identical file image data or does it use advanced image matching to find near matches? Like if a base image was slightly cropped and color adjusted and saved as a copy. Would the matching algorithm indicate those two photos were duplicates?
Advanced matching. So it will find photos that you have taken out of the app, compressed or subtly changed, and then imported back in. That's why it shows them to you and lets you decide what to do.
Great video as usual Gary thank you. I would just like the ability to add a simple border frame as I could in Photosohp Elements without using mark-up which only gives 'fancy' frames
@@macmost Fantastic!!! Thank you Gary - I have used that often to add birthday greetings etc, but never thought to use it as a frame - always something new to learn - you are an excellent teacher and communicator!
After I updated to Ventura many (but not all) videos in my library no longer have a preview, they are just black rectangles. They play fine and seem to have all the embedded info, just no preview frame. Any ideas how I can fix this? I tried repairing the library and moving them to a new library, but neither of those worked. Curiously, if I rotate the video I do get a preview image! But if I rotate it back again, it disappears.
Gary, have you noticed that Duplicates disappears when viewing Shared or Personal Library but appears when you view Both Libraries. I thought maybe it was just me but I saw it happen when you clicked on the Personal and Shared in your video. Do you know why that would be?
Makes sense, right? You'd want to find duplicates throughout, not just in one place or the other. Otherwise, you wouldn't be seeing all of your photos.
will the higher resolution always be a larger size than the lower resolution photo? because i’ve noticed that some of the pictures i have on the right are larger in size than the one on the left, which is odd because typically higher resolution pictures are larger.
File size depends on several factors. Perhaps you are dealing with HEIC vs JPG images? HEIC compresses better. Could also be the changes you made make it harder to compress.
Have you done a tutorial on batch renaming photos in the Photos app? I've looked EVERYWHERE and cannot find that this is an option. I know you can batch rename when you export, but I want to do it to the photos remaining in the app! Would really appreciate help with this from anyone!
Not sure what you mean. Photos don't really have a "name." They have file names, but you can't alter those in Photos and I'm not sure why you would want to. They have titles. Do you mean titles? What is your use case? Why do you want to apply the same title to more than one photo? What is it you are trying to DO?
@@macmost Thanks for your reply. I've always renamed the file names to something that makes sense to me--usually a description with date and a counter. I'm a previous Aperture user until Apple did away with it. It was so easy to do it then. For example a New York trip might be 2023NY-001, 2023NY-002, and so on. It's just something I have always done until I was forced to go to Apple's Photos app. Photos makes you (as far as I can figure out) export the photos to give them new file names, rather than allowing you to do it in the App without exporting.
@@karendharper Yes, I wouldn't export and then re-import just to give them new filenames you don't need. Learn how to use the organization tools in Photos and you'll see you don't need these. Each photo has a date and time, a location, and it is easy to find anything. You can add keyword tags for more and create your own albums. Faces are recognized. You can search by any of these and even objects in elements in the photos. File names like "2023NY" just aren't needed anymore.
@@davidstaller8247 OK, so you mean a Photos app extension to use to arrange and send your photos to a print service and send you back a printed book? (Not an "app"). I have tried Mimeo and Mix extensions + their services and both worked well.
Motif is a plug-in for photos that I use which gives the same (slightly improved) ability to make and order printed albums and calendars etc. They claim to be one of the printing companies that Apple outsourced to when the functionality was built-in and I have found the quality just the as good.
Hello Gary, quick question. When I take a picture with my iPhone it goes to My Photo Stream folder in the iPhone but when I open Photos in my Mac with Monterey OS, I don't see the Photo Stream folder and obviously Photos is not containing the last picture I took. How can I find My Photo Stream folder? Thank you
Not sure what you are experiencing since I haven't use Photo Stream for years. It has largely been replaced by normal iCloud Photos use. Maybe support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317 will help?
@@macmost Just found it. In Preferences went to iCloud menu and checked My Photo Stream box and now photos are syncing from my iPhone to my Photos app in Mac. Thanks for the tip
Hi Gary there is a consistent problem: When I select several photos or videos in a file and select "New folder with selection", it always mucks up. I just tried it again and had to restart the MacBook. I have the M1 I purchased last year and use external drives so the MacBook drive is not overwhelmed. Thank you.
You'll need to call Apple Support with issue like that, I'm not sure how I can help. But first have you tried repairing the library? support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967
as far as your mac finding duplicates, im getting conflicting answers as to when your mac will start scanning for duplicates. i know it says "scanning will continue when you're not using the app and your mac is connected to power" but there are many users on apple forums claiming that it will ONLY scan with photos open, but just running in the background (like having it minimized). the wording that apple provides is so ambiguous, because i feel like it can be interpreted both ways; you can have it open in the background (aka minimized), but not be actively using it, or do they actually mean quit the photos app completely? i've tried both ways and so far there havent been any photos appearing in the duplicates folder, and i know i have a ton. please advise.
@@macmostso i quit the app and left my computer on overnight and it still didn’t work. what did work eventually was locking the screen. for some reason that did the trick and it finally populated my duplicates folder.
hello I have an issue with my photos library, I hope u could explain and help me in this case. When I import files into a blank photolibrary, it changes the name of the files and it puts the files into folder like 1,2,3,etc and a,b,c etc. I would like it keeps the original names of the files and at least sorts them by date. hope I could explain it well. cheers
Do you mean inside the Photos library? Why do you need to look in there? Once they are in your Photos library, you can now manage them inside the Photos app. No need to deal with the files directly. You do have the option to change how to works and NOT import the files, but then it is up to you to maintain them in both Photos and in the Finder. Plus you can't use iCloud when you do that.
Gary my Copy Adjustmenst are turned off. I can't apply my edits to a video am I doing something wrong? I've made edits but I can't Copy/paste them to another video those options is not highlighted.
Do you mean Image, Copy Edits? Perhaps you didn't make any adjustments to the video? The option is only there if an edit has been made. Try adjusting the Brightness, for instance.
I fixed all the photos with the duplicates selection on my desktop. (about 5200 photos) I think it linked fine to iCloud but my MacBook Pro is showing 576 duplicates. Not sure why it didn't sync or stopped syncing. Any suggestions?
Maybe you have to wait for it to sync completely? Also, maybe your desktop missed some? The detection is done on the device to preserve privacy, not in iCloud.
Just do groups of them when you have time. You don't want it to do it all automatically anyway, photos are too valuable. Apple has made it pretty easy with this new feature, just take your time to review what it found.
Why don’t I have the player controls on my videos that you show quite easily. My videos are just blank and I have to hunt for the play and pause button outside of the image player in the photos app itself. I can’t go forward or back either help
@@macmost OMIGOD!!! You’re right!!! My BRAND NEW iMac running Ventura must be YEARS out of date!! I’lll scrap it right now and buy a NEW ONE!! Thanks for the pro tip!!!
@@Kayaz48 Just trying to help. No way for me to know that your Mac was brand new. Very often I get questions where the person sees something different than what is in the video because they are using an older version of macOS.
Is Photos 8 backwards compatible with photos 7? Or we will will we have to upgrade/convert our libraries and no longer be able to open them in older versions?
It is a feature-by-feature basis. Obviously Photos 7 doesn't know that a Shared iCloud Photos Library exists, so it won't see that. And if you try to use a Photos 8 feature in Photos 7, it just won't be there.
@@macmost Great. But it won’t totally upgrade your library and make it unusable to operating systems that work with version 7-You just won’t get the special new features but you will still be able to open the old library in Monterey (if you keep the Master on a hard drive and switch it between computers)?
@@SprezzaturaMolto It shouldn't be unusable on older versions. If you try it you'll see the message: "Photos and videos in the Shared Library will not be available on these devices until they're updated to the latest software." and then a list of those devices. So the personal library will be fine, but the shared library can't be seen there, naturally.
1:57 - Do you know any way to tell the thing "Hey, look this isn't a duplicate". I have one that it thinks is a duplicate but isn't. It isn't even one of those "took too many pics in succession". they're clearly not the same, but the app thinks it is. Any way to flag that? I'd rather not take one of them out of the library to stop it from showing up.
i am training to become an apple consultant. for the exams coming up i am looking for a private teacher. 2.5 years as apple care technical advisor and the study materials provided by apple resulted in a 56% grade/ failure the first time taking the test.... go figure.... does macmost have teachers? on your website there is no direct contact form. thank you!
@@Franceyou Not sure what you mean. I'm not saying to use any other image app except Photos. Select the photos you want top auto-enhance, then choose the menu Image and the menu item Auto Enhance.
@@macmost you are fully right, I meant, is there any solution to adjust more than one picture without using photo app? At the moment all the picture are in my server and I do not want to upload them in photo app. Still I would like to adjust automatically the pictures. Hoping i was able to explain better what I meant. Thank you once more time. Your video are so great!
@@Franceyou What do you mean by "all the picture are in my server" -- what sort of server do you mean? If you have stored them on a remote server somehow, you will need to get access to them to change them no matter what the solution.
I have monetary but I don’t have “Privacy” option in my Photo “General" settings like yours. What gives? I don’t even have the lock icon that asks for my password. What am I missing?
Ive got a question not related to the video but I'm trying to screen share on discord (masOS) I recently updated to ventura and all the settings are wonky discord lets me screen share but no audio comes through the screen before the update I had no problems updating, discord says I authorization on an audio capture extension, but when I go to setting privacy and scroll down to extensions I see nothing there regarding discord
Sir I'm facing an issue with file transfer: I've a 9.1GB video file in Photos on my iPad (I exported from Lumafusion). connected my pendrive (SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 256GB USB Type C Pendrive for Mobile (5Y - SDDDC3-256G-135, Black)) with iPad and tried to save that video to my pendrive. But it's showing: The operation couldn't be completed/ The file is too large. Is there any such limit for file transfer?
What is the format of your USB drive that you are trying to save to? Maybe you are using a format that has a low limit on the size of a file. FAT32, for instance, has a 4GB size limit.
@@macmost OMG😱. I had absolutely no idea about this. Yeah I have formatted my pendrive to FAT32 because only that format is supported by Android. In order to plug my pendrive to my Android phone I did this. I don't have an iPhone, have iPad only. I don't know about ipados format supporting. Then sir what should I do to transfer my that big video to some external storage? Now I understand why I couldn't export my video directly to my pendrive... Thank you sir for this information ☺.
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 Android only works with FAT32? I'm sure it must use other formats too. FAT32 was obsolete before Android even existed. Not an Android user so I can only suggest doing some research.
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 You should be able to use any Apple format (HFS, APFS) or since you can't use FAT32 you can use ExFAT (Windows). Try that. Not sure about what works with your Android device though.
If Photos had a feature to "clone" out or remove some unwanted item in the photo, I might not need any other program. Or maybe it does but I just don't realize it? Anyone? I meant the "Editing" features in Mac Photos.
It has a retouch tool, if that is all you need. th-cam.com/video/qG2xJzAmvOg/w-d-xo.html But otherwise, just use Image, Edit With and edit the photo right from the Photos app in another app. Having an image editing app can be used for more things too, and it sounds like you already have one anyway.
Hi sir, can I please ask you a question 🙋 regarding storage management: where do you permanently store all the travel videos? I'm currently running out of space 😅🥲
That's up to you. You can get an external drive if you didn't get a Mac with a large enough internal one (remember that for next time). Just create a folder on an external drive and export them from Photos to that folder and deal with them as files. You can also use iCloud Photos with "Optimize" turned on to give yourself more space. I prefer storing videos in files outside of Photos myself.
@@macmost Thank you so much sir for your such a helpful reply. Nowadays I try to upload my memory videos to TH-cam so that I can see & share them at ease (you told me this tip by the way ☺). But still those raw videos are felt so much attached to heart that it's very hard to delete them😀. Hence I asked the question for your suggestion. Sir one last question🙋: Why do you prefer external drive over cloud (google drive, iCloud, Mega) storage? Because if it is in cloud, we don't need to fear of losing, isn't it?
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 You mentioned that you were running out of space. That's why I suggested you use an external drive. But if you are willing to pay for more cloud storage space, then storing your videos there is great. The videos I store on an external drive aren't as important as the ones you mention. I tend to take pictures of my personal experiences, not video. So my videos are usually just extra things I record, not that important.
@@macmost Yeah, I'm running out of storage. That's why I asked whether I should buy an external ssd Or cloud storage. If some little occasions happen in my home, people ask me to record videos 😋, that's why I have lots of videos as well...
@@macmost Sir one last question🙋 please: What do you do with your TH-cam videos after uploading to TH-cam? Do you delete those files from your storage or where do you keep them forever? That would actually solve my problem 😊...
Does all this work for Ventura running on Intel I7? My version of Photos 8 does not show recently deleted and there is no duplicates folder in the sidebar.
Recently deleted has been around for a while.Maybe you have nothing you recently deleted? As for Duplicates, maybe you haven't waited long enough or you have no duplicates.
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Love that you feature pics from Iceland in this video. Hope you enjoyed your visit 🙂
I did!
Great video, Gary! Photos is really evolving in its editing capabilities.
As usual, Gary, a great, fun and clearly presented video. I had no idea about the instant alpha feature in Photos! I know I'll be using that; Thank you very much.
The amount of analytical capability embedded in this application is astounding.
Thanks, Gary. Your hints and tips, clearly presented, make my use of iMac and iPhone so much better. And calmer. I'm one of those people who shout at computers when they don't work like they should (or how I think they should). Best wishes
Thank you Gary. As always, an extremely informative, brilliantly presented video - clear, concise and a pleasure to view. ⭐👍
Thanks so much
Thank you so much for clearing up that the photo will still be in the album that I put its duplicate in. I was so worried to merge because I wasn't sure how it would affect the album organization.
I'm so glad you find these hidden gems that I don't even think to look for. Once I downloaded Ventura I played with Stage Manager a bit, and otherwise that was it. Thanks Gary.
Enjoyed that, I’m an amateur photographer and love using the photo app to alter and adjust my photos.
Great information Gary. Time to upgrade to Ventura.
Good to see you’ve been to NZ!
Loved it. Can't wait to go back!
Are photos in shared library also in main library ? If so, if I edit the photo in main library will it reflect in shared library? Thanks
No, you have two libraries. The photo would be in one of the two.
Thanks very much, Gary, for this extremely useful video! Just merging all my duplicate photos now!
Love your simple explanations..In Photo's is there anyway to find the path of a selected image?
If the photo is in your Photos library, then it is in your library, not a file in the Finder (unless you changed from the default way it works). Take a step back. Why do you want to know the file path? What's your goal here?
Have followed you since the early days of the podcasts. Great work mate.
Much appreciated!
Awesome, so clear and easy to understand. Thank you
Thank you Gary, for this very useful video.
As usual great video Gary, many thanks
Thanks Gary!
Very useful videos, Thank you Gary!👍
Great videos! I’m new to Mac(MacBook Pro 14”) and have been viewing your videos for tips and tricks. Thank you! Subscribed 👍🏼
I’m really liking the photos new things
Very good info here. I always learn something from your videos. Thx.
Hi Gary! As always you solve my problems :). I am still not happy that the photo album folders are not available in 3rd party apps but at least I now know a work around. If you have any hints on that please share!!!
5:50 If you click on the top right icon a photo picker will appear that allows you to select albums, people, etc.
I need to play around with this more. This is much more rich than my former Galaxy phone.
I just wish they'd flesh out the editing capabilities just a bit more to give better editing of the excellent 48 megapixel raw photos coming out of the 14 pro. I hate having to use an external editor when the internal tools are so close to something like LIghtroom. Every photo editor wants to use a subscription model now. I'm willing to pay a one-time reasonable fee, but not every month.
Gary, thanks a ton for the great tips. Quick question, u did mention to quit the photos app and let the mac sleep overnight to find those duplicates, does it have to be connected to power or not? Appreciate your response as i am struggling with multiple libraries that are taking ages to find the duplicates.
Yes, probably. Why would you have it sleep at night and not have it connected to power? That's a good way to use extra batter cycles and shorten the life of your battery for no reason.
@@macmost Thanks for the response. What is the best way to curate media across multiple libraries and find duplicates?
@@ibs37i I don't know of any good way to do it across multiple libraries, sorry. It will be just a very hard time-consuming effort if your photos are not in the same library.
Thanks bunches
You're the best.
thank you Sir❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow! I need to get a newer mac!
Cool updates. Thanks. Question. Does Apple photos have any kind of lens correction for something like barrel distortion?
A very useful and informative video tutorial today! Great topic! Thank you, Gary! 👏❤️
Thanks!
@@macmost my pleasure!
I am currently running safari how do I get ventura
@@JohnPeterson1950 Safari if the name of your web browser. Ventura is the name of version 13 of macOS. Two different things. When you upgrade to macOS Ventura you would still be using Safari as your web browser. To get macOS Ventura, go to System Preferences, Software Update.
@@JohnPeterson1950 😂😂😂 Sorry.
Thanks for another great video. Is it possible to have two different libraries? One for cell phone pics and one for a regular camera?
You can only have one iCloud Photos library. You can have other non-iCloud ones. But why would you want to divide your photos like that? It will make searching and viewing your photos very difficult. What's your goal in wanting to do this?
I guess it wouldn’t be for iCloud, but I just wanted to separate my cell phone pics from my pics from my big camera on the Photos app.
@@pritch28 But why? What makes those pictures different? Like is one work photos and the other personal photos?
The cell phone pictures can have a lot of random stuff, and the other camera has my high quality landscape pics. Just thought it might be good to keep them separate if possible.
@@pritch28 You really need to consider the downsides. If you want to search for a photo, now you have to open one library, search, switch to another library, search. If you want to have some albums, you can only have photos from the current library in an album, including Shared Albums. Only one library can be your iCloud library, so the other library's photos would just be local to one Mac. You would never be able to view them on your iPhone and iPad.
If it is very important that you be able to see photos from one camera or another, you can always search for that camera or set up Smart Folders for showing only images taken with that camera.
you are amazing dude. You are always come up with the best solution. Can you help me to sort out the pictures and videos on the Photos application by size please
There's no easy way to display or sort photos or videos in the Photos app by size.
Thank you Gary for such a good video. Im just switching back to Photos after using lightroom and photoshops for many years, Just could not see the point paying for it any longer as i don't really use it. Im on sonarma as well so i guess maybe a tweak or two since this video was made.
Gary, do you know if there is a free programs that allows some basic cloning, what i can find in photos is very limiting unless you have tricks for that or have done a video in the past
Thanks again
If you absolutely must have free, then try to do it in Preview on your Mac, or look for Seashore in the App Store. Otherwise, you can get a full-featured image editor with Pixelmator Pro which is what I use.
Thank you for the reply @@macmost
Hi again Gary, just watched a quick video of pixelmator pro and for fifty quid cant go wrong, i like that you can just buy it and be done, i hate all this subs each month or year. Thanks again for the suggestions and all the help that you have given on here @@macmost
Is there anyway to sort the photos by orientation?! Thank you!
Like vertical vs horizontal? No, not that I can think of.
Will duplicate also work with shared library? And whats happens when you have the same photo in your own library and in the shared library? Will it remove it from the shared library e.g.?
It should. You shouldn't have the same photo in both places, that kinda defeats the purpose.
Your videos are a treasure trove and much appreciated... Wonderly, Gary, is it possible to show us a workaround the "no folders" issue. For example, I take pics of my products to upload to my website. I can no longer view my folders/contents. This is a huge problem for me.
I'm not sure what you mean. No folders? Can you explain what problem you are trying to solve?
@@macmost previously, when I wanted to upload photos (s) to my website, I would select the source PHOTOS and the list of my folders would appear under photos. I would select the folder that contained the products and select the ones I wanted to upload. Now, the folders are eliminated. ALL the photos appears as Ventura has eliminated folders in favor of drop and drag. As a small business owner, this is very time consuming…. I have 12000 photos, and have to browse through them to find the specific ones I need. And, drop and drag also reduces image quality. My host is WIX. If that makes sense….
@@debbihenretty5596 So I think you mean albums, not folders, right? And you mean when you click on an upload button on a website, go to choose a file, but instead choose Photos under Media. You used to be able to then choose an album to narrow your search, but now you can't. I'd send feedback to Apple that you want this function back.
@@macmost Yes, albums. Sorry. I (and many, many others) have contacted Apple. They feel the drop and drag solution is more than satisfactory. Sadly, it is not. I see you as the guru of actual users. Thanks for any help!
Thanks Gary! Can you explain a way to sort Photos by portrait vs landscape orientation? I'm trying to print photos for a collage frame made of portrait and landscape oriented frames, and the ability to sort like this would be helpful. (Lightroom can do this but not all of my iPhone pix are in my LR catalog).
I can't think of any easy way to do that. Maybe go through the photos you have selected and just use keyword tags for each, then search with those tags?
2017 was your last vacation? Time for another! 😎
Thanks for this! Do you know if photos in the Hidden folder get saved in the cloud?
Yes. They should. Check for yourself by trying it.
Gary, I need some help with Apple Photos on my Mac. In short, I'm trying to get my images out of the Library and into folders arranged by year/month (the way I managed it before my iMac). I don't want to export the images, as then I lose the exif data and must edit it manually for all of my nearly 10,000 images (multiple users). Apple seems determined to prevent this kind of personal preference, not even allowing us to sort the photos by the date they were taken.
Can you direct me to a method or even a reliable software that can perform this for me?
Use File, Export, Export Unmodified Originals.
I am using the newest version of Photos and the heart that displays on each photo isn't showing. The photos show under favourites but I am looking to do numerous deleting of photos from recents/downloads. BTW. I love your tutorials
Make sure you have View, Metadata, Favorite checked. Then make sure you are zoomed to a level where there is room for it in the thumbnail.
Hiding deleted photo bothers me to quickly clean my iPhone before going to bed. Is there any option to disable it on the iPhone?
Not sure what you mean.
Hey.
I just got an iphone 14 pro, and when I dump all my videos onto my macbook pro 2013 High Sierra10.13.6, the image placeholders in the iphoto library Version 3.0 (3291.13.230) are all overexposed, and hard to see, but the videos play just fine.
Another thing is that none of the newly imported videos can be edited, just played. The photos all look fine, but the videos are messed up.
Any ideas what this may be, or how to fix it?
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Great video Gary - love the videos ! Wanted 2 see if u could help me with the terminal line to automatically change Heic to joegs u gave.been searching. Also -i have keywords - (based off people ) but how would I make it so that when I search for say a persons name it places those photos in order - tried the view option- no luck- and i think it will help me get this mess into order
I am on a photo journey- with 10,500 photos - and when i pull a keyword name - they are just placed totally outta order … thank You so much ! We appreciate u
Not sure what you are asking here. Maybe ask one thing at a time and state exactly what you are doing, what you expect, and what is happening instead.
Does the duplicates matching algorithm find duplicates by identical file image data or does it use advanced image matching to find near matches? Like if a base image was slightly cropped and color adjusted and saved as a copy. Would the matching algorithm indicate those two photos were duplicates?
Advanced matching. So it will find photos that you have taken out of the app, compressed or subtly changed, and then imported back in. That's why it shows them to you and lets you decide what to do.
Great video as usual Gary thank you. I would just like the ability to add a simple border frame as I could in Photosohp Elements without using mark-up which only gives 'fancy' frames
Markup can do simple borders. Make sure you have the right line style selected.
Thank you Gary for your very prompt reply - I have all their borders installed, but there is not just a plain line to edge actual photos
@@ruthjessop5636 There's not to "install." A plain border is always there. See th-cam.com/video/C9HKqOR4SZE/w-d-xo.html and I show how to do it.
@@macmost Fantastic!!! Thank you Gary - I have used that often to add birthday greetings etc, but never thought to use it as a frame - always something new to learn - you are an excellent teacher and communicator!
After I updated to Ventura many (but not all) videos in my library no longer have a preview, they are just black rectangles. They play fine and seem to have all the embedded info, just no preview frame. Any ideas how I can fix this? I tried repairing the library and moving them to a new library, but neither of those worked. Curiously, if I rotate the video I do get a preview image! But if I rotate it back again, it disappears.
What type of video files are they?
Gary, have you noticed that Duplicates disappears when viewing Shared or Personal Library but appears when you view Both Libraries. I thought maybe it was just me but I saw it happen when you clicked on the Personal and Shared in your video. Do you know why that would be?
Makes sense, right? You'd want to find duplicates throughout, not just in one place or the other. Otherwise, you wouldn't be seeing all of your photos.
will the higher resolution always be a larger size than the lower resolution photo? because i’ve noticed that some of the pictures i have on the right are larger in size than the one on the left, which is odd because typically higher resolution pictures are larger.
File size depends on several factors. Perhaps you are dealing with HEIC vs JPG images? HEIC compresses better. Could also be the changes you made make it harder to compress.
Have you done a tutorial on batch renaming photos in the Photos app? I've looked EVERYWHERE and cannot find that this is an option. I know you can batch rename when you export, but I want to do it to the photos remaining in the app! Would really appreciate help with this from anyone!
Not sure what you mean. Photos don't really have a "name." They have file names, but you can't alter those in Photos and I'm not sure why you would want to. They have titles. Do you mean titles? What is your use case? Why do you want to apply the same title to more than one photo? What is it you are trying to DO?
@@macmost Thanks for your reply. I've always renamed the file names to something that makes sense to me--usually a description with date and a counter. I'm a previous Aperture user until Apple did away with it. It was so easy to do it then. For example a New York trip might be 2023NY-001, 2023NY-002, and so on. It's just something I have always done until I was forced to go to Apple's Photos app. Photos makes you (as far as I can figure out) export the photos to give them new file names, rather than allowing you to do it in the App without exporting.
@@karendharper Yes, I wouldn't export and then re-import just to give them new filenames you don't need. Learn how to use the organization tools in Photos and you'll see you don't need these. Each photo has a date and time, a location, and it is easy to find anything. You can add keyword tags for more and create your own albums. Faces are recognized. You can search by any of these and even objects in elements in the photos. File names like "2023NY" just aren't needed anymore.
I don’t have the hidden and recently deleted aren’t on my photo app. How do I update my photo album to show the hidden album?
What version of Photos do you have?
i dont have recently deleted option in my macbook air m2
Have you deleted any photos in the last 30 days? It would only appear if you have.
Thanks Gary, what app do you recommend that works well with Photos to make Photo books?
An app? I don't know as I don't use one, sorry.
You can no longer make books with apple photos, correct or am I mistaken. It used to be there.
@@davidstaller8247 OK, so you mean a Photos app extension to use to arrange and send your photos to a print service and send you back a printed book? (Not an "app"). I have tried Mimeo and Mix extensions + their services and both worked well.
Motif is a plug-in for photos that I use which gives the same (slightly improved) ability to make and order printed albums and calendars etc. They claim to be one of the printing companies that Apple outsourced to when the functionality was built-in and I have found the quality just the as good.
Hello Gary, quick question. When I take a picture with my iPhone it goes to My Photo Stream folder in the iPhone but when I open Photos in my Mac with Monterey OS, I don't see the Photo Stream folder and obviously Photos is not containing the last picture I took. How can I find My Photo Stream folder? Thank you
Not sure what you are experiencing since I haven't use Photo Stream for years. It has largely been replaced by normal iCloud Photos use. Maybe support.apple.com/en-us/HT201317 will help?
@@macmost Just found it. In Preferences went to iCloud menu and checked My Photo Stream box and now photos are syncing from my iPhone to my Photos app in Mac. Thanks for the tip
Hi Gary there is a consistent problem: When I select several photos or videos in a file and select "New folder with selection", it always mucks up. I just tried it again and had to restart the MacBook. I have the M1 I purchased last year and use external drives so the MacBook drive is not overwhelmed. Thank you.
You'll need to call Apple Support with issue like that, I'm not sure how I can help. But first have you tried repairing the library? support.apple.com/en-us/HT204967
@@macmost oh I wasn’t expecting you to be able to help me I just thought you may find it interesting to know 🤔
as far as your mac finding duplicates, im getting conflicting answers as to when your mac will start scanning for duplicates. i know it says "scanning will continue when you're not using the app and your mac is connected to power" but there are many users on apple forums claiming that it will ONLY scan with photos open, but just running in the background (like having it minimized). the wording that apple provides is so ambiguous, because i feel like it can be interpreted both ways; you can have it open in the background (aka minimized), but not be actively using it, or do they actually mean quit the photos app completely? i've tried both ways and so far there havent been any photos appearing in the duplicates folder, and i know i have a ton. please advise.
You don’t need to have it open. Just give it time, like overnight at least.
@@macmostso i quit the app and left my computer on overnight and it still didn’t work. what did work eventually was locking the screen. for some reason that did the trick and it finally populated my duplicates folder.
hello I have an issue with my photos library, I hope u could explain and help me in this case. When I import files into a blank photolibrary, it changes the name of the files and it puts the files into folder like 1,2,3,etc and a,b,c etc. I would like it keeps the original names of the files and at least sorts them by date. hope I could explain it well. cheers
Do you mean inside the Photos library? Why do you need to look in there? Once they are in your Photos library, you can now manage them inside the Photos app. No need to deal with the files directly. You do have the option to change how to works and NOT import the files, but then it is up to you to maintain them in both Photos and in the Finder. Plus you can't use iCloud when you do that.
Gary my Copy Adjustmenst are turned off. I can't apply my edits to a video am I doing something wrong? I've made edits but I can't Copy/paste them to another video those options is not highlighted.
Do you mean Image, Copy Edits? Perhaps you didn't make any adjustments to the video? The option is only there if an edit has been made. Try adjusting the Brightness, for instance.
But how do I get "Photos" to identify persons and tagging them whenever I import new images?
it should do it automatically. you can always also go to People and then look for the option to review new identifications.
I fixed all the photos with the duplicates selection on my desktop. (about 5200 photos) I think it linked fine to iCloud but my MacBook Pro is showing 576 duplicates. Not sure why it didn't sync or stopped syncing. Any suggestions?
Maybe you have to wait for it to sync completely? Also, maybe your desktop missed some? The detection is done on the device to preserve privacy, not in iCloud.
HELP TRYING TO NAME A PERSON, when I click on the add a person it brings up a screen shot, how do I select a face, now the entire photo
Click Window, Info. Then in the Info window click Add Faces.
I’d love to see folders in photo app
Like Albums?
@@macmost albums work like filters
I've got thousands of duplicate photos. How do I remove/combine ALL duplicates w/o clicking through them all?
Just do groups of them when you have time. You don't want it to do it all automatically anyway, photos are too valuable. Apple has made it pretty easy with this new feature, just take your time to review what it found.
Why don’t I have the player controls on my videos that you show quite easily. My videos are just blank and I have to hunt for the play and pause button outside of the image player in the photos app itself. I can’t go forward or back either help
Maybe you are using an older version of macOS?
@@macmost OMIGOD!!! You’re right!!! My BRAND NEW iMac running Ventura must be YEARS out of date!! I’lll scrap it right now and buy a NEW ONE!! Thanks for the pro tip!!!
@@Kayaz48 Just trying to help. No way for me to know that your Mac was brand new. Very often I get questions where the person sees something different than what is in the video because they are using an older version of macOS.
Gary, still no new slideshow designs? That's disappointing...
I cannot get Duplicates to work. I recently add 3 years of photos back to my MBP from a remote drive and I still don’t see Duplicates in iPhotos.
Perhaps give it some time to recognize them? Or maybe you don't have any.
Is Photos 8 backwards compatible with photos 7? Or we will will we have to upgrade/convert our libraries and no longer be able to open them in older versions?
It is a feature-by-feature basis. Obviously Photos 7 doesn't know that a Shared iCloud Photos Library exists, so it won't see that. And if you try to use a Photos 8 feature in Photos 7, it just won't be there.
@@macmost Great. But it won’t totally upgrade your library and make it unusable to operating systems that work with version 7-You just won’t get the special new features but you will still be able to open the old library in Monterey (if you keep the Master on a hard drive and switch it between computers)?
@@SprezzaturaMolto It shouldn't be unusable on older versions. If you try it you'll see the message: "Photos and videos in the Shared Library will not be available on these devices until they're updated to the latest software." and then a list of those devices. So the personal library will be fine, but the shared library can't be seen there, naturally.
1:57 - Do you know any way to tell the thing "Hey, look this isn't a duplicate". I have one that it thinks is a duplicate but isn't. It isn't even one of those "took too many pics in succession". they're clearly not the same, but the app thinks it is. Any way to flag that? I'd rather not take one of them out of the library to stop it from showing up.
No, it doesn't look like there is a way. You just have to ignore it.
@@macmost That makes my OCD go haywire. :)
i am training to become an apple consultant. for the exams coming up i am looking for a private teacher. 2.5 years as apple care technical advisor and the study materials provided by apple resulted in a 56% grade/ failure the first time taking the test.... go figure.... does macmost have teachers? on your website there is no direct contact form. thank you!
No, sorry, I don't do anything like that. On my site there is both a Q&A Forum (link at the top) and a "Contact MacMost" link in the right sidebar.
Is it possible to adjust automatically a set of photos? Thanks
Sure. Select the photos you want, then choose Image, Auto Enhance.
@@macmost is it possible to do it bypassing image app? Thanks again
@@Franceyou Not sure what you mean. I'm not saying to use any other image app except Photos. Select the photos you want top auto-enhance, then choose the menu Image and the menu item Auto Enhance.
@@macmost you are fully right, I meant, is there any solution to adjust more than one picture without using photo app? At the moment all the picture are in my server and I do not want to upload them in photo app. Still I would like to adjust automatically the pictures. Hoping i was able to explain better what I meant. Thank you once more time. Your video are so great!
@@Franceyou What do you mean by "all the picture are in my server" -- what sort of server do you mean? If you have stored them on a remote server somehow, you will need to get access to them to change them no matter what the solution.
I have monetary but I don’t have “Privacy” option in my Photo “General" settings like yours. What gives? I don’t even have the lock icon that asks for my password. What am I missing?
Are you updated to macOS Ventura?
@@macmost I'm on Monetary. It says it’s up to date.
@@sailorforlifebestti3366 perhaps you Mac doesn’t support Ventura? I’m showing Venture features in this video.
@@macmost Yes. I just looked it up. Ventura is only supported for MacBooks 2017 or newer. Mine is 2015. Bummer! Thanks anyways!
The hidden option isn't visible for me, the recently deleted is.
It won't be there until you hide at least 1 photo.
@@macmost cool thanks.
@@macmost I've hidden a photo and it's still not appearing, nor can I find the hidden album. hmm
@@iflotaichi Go to View, Show Hidden Photo Album (I show that in the video at 0:40)
@@macmost ah sorry thanks.
Ive got a question not related to the video but I'm trying to screen share on discord (masOS) I recently updated to ventura and all the settings are wonky discord lets me screen share but no audio comes through the screen before the update I had no problems updating, discord says I authorization on an audio capture extension, but when I go to setting privacy and scroll down to extensions I see nothing there regarding discord
You'll need to contact the developer for support with that particular app.
@@macmost thank you!
Sir I'm facing an issue with file transfer: I've a 9.1GB video file in Photos on my iPad (I exported from Lumafusion). connected my pendrive (SanDisk Ultra Dual Drive Go 256GB USB Type C Pendrive for Mobile (5Y - SDDDC3-256G-135, Black)) with iPad and tried to save that video to my pendrive. But it's showing: The operation couldn't be completed/ The file is too large.
Is there any such limit for file transfer?
What is the format of your USB drive that you are trying to save to? Maybe you are using a format that has a low limit on the size of a file. FAT32, for instance, has a 4GB size limit.
@@macmost OMG😱. I had absolutely no idea about this. Yeah I have formatted my pendrive to FAT32 because only that format is supported by Android. In order to plug my pendrive to my Android phone I did this. I don't have an iPhone, have iPad only. I don't know about ipados format supporting.
Then sir what should I do to transfer my that big video to some external storage?
Now I understand why I couldn't export my video directly to my pendrive... Thank you sir for this information ☺.
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 Android only works with FAT32? I'm sure it must use other formats too. FAT32 was obsolete before Android even existed. Not an Android user so I can only suggest doing some research.
@@macmost Sir please say what format I should need to convert my pendrive so that I can transfer that big file from my iPad to the pendrive?
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 You should be able to use any Apple format (HFS, APFS) or since you can't use FAT32 you can use ExFAT (Windows). Try that. Not sure about what works with your Android device though.
If Photos had a feature to "clone" out or remove some unwanted item in the photo, I might not need any other program. Or maybe it does but I just don't realize it? Anyone? I meant the "Editing" features in Mac Photos.
It has a retouch tool, if that is all you need. th-cam.com/video/qG2xJzAmvOg/w-d-xo.html But otherwise, just use Image, Edit With and edit the photo right from the Photos app in another app. Having an image editing app can be used for more things too, and it sounds like you already have one anyway.
@@macmost I was just using Photoshop Elements, and I hadn't noticed the Retouch tool in Mac Photos Editing. Somehow I missed it before. Thanks Gary!
I do wish they would stop trying to make a toy out of computer. Photoshop/bridge & Capture One are miles ahead.
Which of these features do you think is making a toy out of a computer? These all seem to be doing the opposite.
Hi sir, can I please ask you a question 🙋 regarding storage management: where do you permanently store all the travel videos? I'm currently running out of space 😅🥲
That's up to you. You can get an external drive if you didn't get a Mac with a large enough internal one (remember that for next time). Just create a folder on an external drive and export them from Photos to that folder and deal with them as files. You can also use iCloud Photos with "Optimize" turned on to give yourself more space. I prefer storing videos in files outside of Photos myself.
@@macmost Thank you so much sir for your such a helpful reply. Nowadays I try to upload my memory videos to TH-cam so that I can see & share them at ease (you told me this tip by the way ☺). But still those raw videos are felt so much attached to heart that it's very hard to delete them😀. Hence I asked the question for your suggestion.
Sir one last question🙋: Why do you prefer external drive over cloud (google drive, iCloud, Mega) storage? Because if it is in cloud, we don't need to fear of losing, isn't it?
@@anindyabhattacharya2001 You mentioned that you were running out of space. That's why I suggested you use an external drive. But if you are willing to pay for more cloud storage space, then storing your videos there is great. The videos I store on an external drive aren't as important as the ones you mention. I tend to take pictures of my personal experiences, not video. So my videos are usually just extra things I record, not that important.
@@macmost Yeah, I'm running out of storage. That's why I asked whether I should buy an external ssd Or cloud storage. If some little occasions happen in my home, people ask me to record videos 😋, that's why I have lots of videos as well...
@@macmost Sir one last question🙋 please: What do you do with your TH-cam videos after uploading to TH-cam?
Do you delete those files from your storage or where do you keep them forever?
That would actually solve my problem 😊...
Does all this work for Ventura running on Intel I7? My version of Photos 8 does not show recently deleted and there is no duplicates folder in the sidebar.
Recently deleted has been around for a while.Maybe you have nothing you recently deleted? As for Duplicates, maybe you haven't waited long enough or you have no duplicates.
@@macmost Many Thanks. I'll check this out.