Apple Photos (Mac OS)

 Apple Photos (Mac OS)

• Apple Photos is the free app that comes with Mac OS. Microsoft Photos for Windows has a lot of similarity in features to Apple Photos.

• The Photos User Guide is online for your reading

• The Apple Photos screen shows a vertical pane of objects (as opposed to Microsoft Photos which presents the objects as a top pane / menu

Menu items in the Left Pane

Library

On first use, Apple Photos creates a System Photo Library. Other DAM photo software may refer to this term as a Catalog.

• There is only one SPL.

• The SPL defaults to the Pictures Folder of the Mac but can be moved.

• You can make other Libraries but they are not connected to iCloud Photos and Shared Albums.
  • You can only work with one Library at one time.

Where are your photos really stored?

• When you import photos into a Library, they are copied to the Library folder (usually Mac’s Pictures folder).

• In Settings, you can choose not to copy the photos but reference the photos in other folders.

• If you reference the photos in other folders, they will not be automatically backed up to iCloud

Objects inside a Library

Photos have EXIF metadata. Apple Photos can use that metadata to bundle the photos together.

Memories

Memories will be a timeline of when you photos.

People

Apple Photos carries out face recognition so you can choose a person and drill down to their photos

Places

Photos can have geo location metadata embedded in them, especially mobile phone photos

Recent

Imports

Albums

• Albums are a bunch of photos and videos, given a name.

• Apple Photos creates some albums automatically, you can make additional albums and add photos to them
  • Albums can be nested
  
• You can Smart Albums which automatically collect photos for you based on keywords

Projects

Projects are customised slide shows that you can make

Creations

Apple Photos offers a launch point to create several different things

Photo Editing

Apple Photos has various editing features - some are fundamental, some are more advanced than the features offered by Microsoft Photos

Adjust

• Light (Exposure Brightness)

• Colour

• Black and White (Tones)

• Retouch

• Red-Eye (elimination)

• White Balance

• Curves

• Levels

• Definition

• Selective Colour

• Noise Reduction

• Sharpen

• Vignette

Filters

Otherwise known as Colour Grading

Cropping

Sharing

Guide to Sharing with Apple Photos

When sharing to macOS, be sure to choose "Open in Photos", otherwise

https://werkjohann.github.io/how-to-share-photos/