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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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 TH-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 ✅
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.
Great series of videos. One thing Gary missed out, or maybe this is new, is that you can search for text in photos. Take a picture of a signpost/conference title/bar name when you get to a place, later search for that string and voila. Also works for photos of non-digital business cards etc
great information! you have taught me so much about photo apple app. lately I get a error code 3306 after working with photos for a while? is it the camera? camera card? photos app is broken? its been said to start another library which I did and it worked for awhile but started getting the error code 3306 again?
haven't called yet been on support site and have tried different methods! updates, repair apple photo library, rebuild library, and disk utility still get 3306
@@macmost haven't called support yet been on the website and tried different methods of repair and read other peoples comments about the 3306 error and nothing works photo app was working so well with external edits then all of a sudden about a week ago I get 3306 error
@@macmost on the website of apple I talked to the community and one said topaz sharpen needed access permission one I did that it works with out the error 3306 so far?
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.
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..
Putting your photos on a NAS will make Photos much much slower. Data access from your Internal drive is an order of magnitude faster. So flipping through your photos when they are on a NAS will be painful.
@@macmost thanks for getting back to me - i am making my way through your catelog since I was a long term windows user, turned mac user. lots of great informative videos! Regarding this question, what should a user do then when they have a lot of photos that they want to flip through quickly, but the mac air hdd is not so big. hosting my videos and photos library on my mac hdd will nearly exhaust it (250gb)
@@casualuserish First, make a note to get a larger internal drive next time, since you need it. But until then, consider using iCloud Photos with "Optimize" turned on. Also, consider keeping videos on an external drive outside of your Photos library as they probably take up most of the space.
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/6xTfI0cw70I/w-d-xo.html
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 th-cam.com/video/fGgBcnFCnFk/w-d-xo.html
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 ✌🏽
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
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.
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.
@@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.
Hi Gary, Thanks so much for your reply. All your videos have helped me so much. I signed up for your emails. The Apple products have so much depth and power to them that it takes time to learn everything we want to learn. You make a BIG DIFFERENCE! Thanks again! Jeanie
Thanks for the video. I'd like to ask if Photos can run slide shows as flexibly as Aperture could? If not, what do you recommend as a substitute for that feature?
I can't remember what old Aperture did for slideshows, but you can easily test out the Photos app slideshows for yourself and see if that is what you need. You can also create much more versatile and interesting slideshows on your Mac in iMovie and Keynote. See th-cam.com/video/t4EkasGn-M4/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/vV6QicmYTZE/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost Thank you for the links. Certainly Keynote and iMovie have many features which allow users to put together a polished slideshow for presentational purposes. By flexible in reference to Aperture I meant the ability to select a folder of photos and simply get them to play in a random order without text or music and using the simplest of transitions. That's how my family enjoys looking back at old photos. I see that if you run a slideshow in Photos there is no way to randomize the order the photos appear and so for the purpose I seek it would quickly become boring. Perhaps you or other subscribers know of a nifty hack?
Gary, it's working well. Am I right in thinking you can't select a folder held within Photos/Aperture and have to export photos to a separate location so that Screensaver knows what to draw on? Thanks for all you help.
Thank you for the great info I have a question when I go to photos and select View Metadata Titles I don't see any titles. I have turned all metadata off and only selected title I still don't get the photo title or number ?? What am I missing?? Thank you in advance
@@macmost thank you I figured it out, the square button to the left of the slider was turned off for albums. The square works independently for each area, My Albums, Media Types and Library. It was on for the library but not for the others I now know I need to toggle it on or off for each area. Thank you
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?
I'm a new subscriber that needed some Quicktime advice and I came across this video and holy shit I had no idea you could do any of these things. Ill be going through your whole videography so I can learn all about these subjects. Thanks for all you hard work! Cheers from New Zealand!
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.
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.
I knew nothing , but I learned a lot! Thank you, Gary! ❤️👍🏻
I can't stop watching your video's! They are so educational. Thank you so much!
OMG, Gary: such a wealth of information. I'm looking at Photos in a whole new light. THANKS.
All that good information in 11 minutes. Thanks that was very helpful!
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.
Outstanding Gary. You are an excellent teacher and mentor. Thank you,
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.
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.
Wow! I did not realize how many functions this app has. Thanks!
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.
Excellent, very well explained, delivered, and informative.
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.
you are a brilliant person - thank you...
What a treasure trove! Many thanks
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?
Excellent! Thanks.
Brilliant as always. Just edited 4300 photos and labelled them. They all look great. Took a while.
I like your videos. Good information without complicating things.
Well done! Very useful!
Thanks, Gary. Another excellent video by an excellent instructor.
Amazing versatility. I had no idea. Thanks for this video!
Thanks that was great info
Great stuff!
This is so helpful. Thank you for your unbelievably good videos!
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.
Love your work. Great tutorials !
Superb channel! The missing Mac handbook!
I had no idea - what a revelation!
Love your videos Gary, thank you once again.
Amazing. I learned so much even being a long time max user. Well done!
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.
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. 😩
WOW, that was very helpful... some of the things I knew but many were new to me.... well done
Thank you for doing this video as it was very helpful to your written help.
The contact sheet idea is good
This was super useful. Incredible what you can do with the Photo app now, glad I found this video as didn’t know any of it!
thanks a lot for the information, we really appreciated.
Nice. Thanks
Tim Roth, you are the best mactuber
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.
10:03 I seriously did not know this! I was always doubling the storage space needed or having to delete the original files.
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 TH-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 ✅
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.
Great series of videos. One thing Gary missed out, or maybe this is new, is that you can search for text in photos. Take a picture of a signpost/conference title/bar name when you get to a place, later search for that string and voila. Also works for photos of non-digital business cards etc
That's a much newer feature than this video. And yes, it is awesome!
This is Wild!!
Thanks! You are The Man!!!
great information! you have taught me so much about photo apple app. lately I get a error code 3306 after working with photos for a while? is it the camera? camera card? photos app is broken? its been said to start another library which I did and it worked for awhile but started getting the error code 3306 again?
No idea about that error. Have you called Apple Support?
haven't called yet been on support site and have tried different methods! updates, repair apple photo library, rebuild library, and disk utility still get 3306
@@macmost haven't called support yet been on the website and tried different methods of repair and read other peoples comments about the 3306 error and nothing works photo app was working so well with external edits then all of a sudden about a week ago I get 3306 error
@@macmost on the website of apple I talked to the community and one said topaz sharpen needed access permission one I did that it works with out the error 3306 so far?
You’re such a good teacher!
Is there one of this for the music app? 🙏🏽
I've done a few videos on the Music app, but no "X Things" video. It depends a lot on if you are using Apple Music. Two different worlds.
Great - thanks 👍
Great info, Gary!!! Just what I need to know right now. THANK you.
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 tutorial, Gary! Thanks for sharing your extensive knowledge.👍🏻
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 Gary! this is super useful!
It's a shame icloud can't deal with multiple libraries
🙏 this is a very informative post, thank YOU!!!
Really useful. Thanks Gary.
Hi Gary How do I import old Aperture projects files from a hard drive to photos? Thanks Jc.
does the folder containing the photos need to be on the mac hdd, or can it be on an external drive or a NAS?
Putting your photos on a NAS will make Photos much much slower. Data access from your Internal drive is an order of magnitude faster. So flipping through your photos when they are on a NAS will be painful.
@@macmost thanks for getting back to me - i am making my way through your catelog since I was a long term windows user, turned mac user. lots of great informative videos!
Regarding this question, what should a user do then when they have a lot of photos that they want to flip through quickly, but the mac air hdd is not so big. hosting my videos and photos library on my mac hdd will nearly exhaust it (250gb)
@@casualuserish First, make a note to get a larger internal drive next time, since you need it. But until then, consider using iCloud Photos with "Optimize" turned on. Also, consider keeping videos on an external drive outside of your Photos library as they probably take up most of the space.
I love 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.
So are you importing them into Photos, or copying over the files to a folder in the Finder?
Awesome video. Thank you so much. :)
Best of your already great video series.
thanks a lot.you always hav something new for me
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 th-cam.com/video/6xTfI0cw70I/w-d-xo.html
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 th-cam.com/video/fGgBcnFCnFk/w-d-xo.html
Thanks dude . I have been learning great info from your channel:)
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.
Thanks for the video.
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!
Can you use Lightroom and photoshop as external editors without messing up LRC catalog system?
good job done.
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
I wish there was a Macmost audio podcast.
Can it edit raw file? Thank
Wonderful yet again . . .
Thank you, dear creator
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. th-cam.com/video/hRNToJv78g0/w-d-xo.html
Hi, is there a way to do a sequential batch rename in "Photos App"?
Not really, no.
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.
That was great, thanks Gary
Very interesting and helpful
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!
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. th-cam.com/video/Y-SMfAvOKZM/w-d-xo.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.
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!
Gary, how many photos can the Photos app hold?
I don't believe there is a limit. So it would be your hard drive space (if local) or your iCloud storage plan.
Hi Gary, Thanks so much for your reply. All your videos have helped me so much. I signed up for your emails. The Apple products have so much depth and power to them that it takes time to learn everything we want to learn. You make a BIG DIFFERENCE! Thanks again! Jeanie
Very useful 🙏
Thanks for the video. I'd like to ask if Photos can run slide shows as flexibly as Aperture could? If not, what do you recommend as a substitute for that feature?
I can't remember what old Aperture did for slideshows, but you can easily test out the Photos app slideshows for yourself and see if that is what you need. You can also create much more versatile and interesting slideshows on your Mac in iMovie and Keynote. See th-cam.com/video/t4EkasGn-M4/w-d-xo.html and th-cam.com/video/vV6QicmYTZE/w-d-xo.html
@@macmost Thank you for the links. Certainly Keynote and iMovie have many features which allow users to put together a polished slideshow for presentational purposes.
By flexible in reference to Aperture I meant the ability to select a folder of photos and simply get them to play in a random order without text or music and using the simplest of transitions. That's how my family enjoys looking back at old photos.
I see that if you run a slideshow in Photos there is no way to randomize the order the photos appear and so for the purpose I seek it would quickly become boring. Perhaps you or other subscribers know of a nifty hack?
@@wilpercyjpn You could always use the Mac's screen saver for that.
That’s a thought. I’ll look at setting that up. Thank you.
Gary, it's working well. Am I right in thinking you can't select a folder held within Photos/Aperture and have to export photos to a separate location so that Screensaver knows what to draw on?
Thanks for all you help.
Thank you for the great info I have a question when I go to photos and select View Metadata Titles I don't see any titles. I have turned all metadata off and only selected title I still don't get the photo title or number ?? What am I missing?? Thank you in advance
Maybe you have square thumbnails turned on? Try clicking the button at the top (to the left of the zoom slider) or using Option+T to toggle that.
@@macmost thanks I can see the image file # in library but not in the library is this how it is supposed to function ??
@@macmost thank you I can see the file # in library but not in albums is this by design?
@@photographybymadeline Not sure what you mean. If you have titles turned on, and you are viewing them the same way, you should see them.
@@macmost thank you I figured it out, the square button to the left of the slider was turned off for albums. The square works independently for each area, My Albums, Media Types and Library. It was on for the library but not for the others I now know I need to toggle it on or off for each area. Thank you
Great Video, Thanks Gary
Thanks Gary, i thought i knew photos, looks like i didnt
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?
I'm a new subscriber that needed some Quicktime advice and I came across this video and holy shit I had no idea you could do any of these things. Ill be going through your whole videography so I can learn all about these subjects. Thanks for all you hard work! Cheers from New Zealand!
Your welcome Bru
I do not get the portrait options while trying to edit photos with a portrait photo taken with iPhone XS.
great vid
Learned stuff I didn’t know…☺️.