The Basics Of Editing in The Photos App On Your Mac
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- macmost.com/e-... The Photos app on your Mac has a set of adjustment and editing tools. Get familiar with how these work by experimenting with them.
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I have never subscribed to a RUclips producer's videos. You are the first for me - I just subscribed. The knowledge you share is invaluable.
Awesome! Thank you!
Thanks Gary, well explained. I never realised half of this stuff was sitting here in the program. You're a life saver. Thanks for making these videos.
No fancy multimedia intro? - no jump-cut and/or pop-in, pop-out video editing? - no loud background music? - No ads? Why am I watching videos like these? (Great production, well done!)
Great informative video. Certainly makes one think about the cost of Adobe Lightroom and photoshop. I think where you win with your videos is that they aren’t too long. A perfect length to keep people interested and amount to absorb. Enjoy them a lot. 👍🏻🤗🕸
I've always been a fan of the built in media editing tools that come with devices these days. I love to take a good photo so that I don't require extensive manipulation to it... I feel that it detracts from the capture perspective intended.
Good stuff Gary! I didn't know I could edit live photos!! Keep it up!!
I use Photos for my basic Post work and you just unlocked some great features namely Noise Reduction and Long Exposure. Thanks heaps mate✌️🌻🇦🇺
Thank you for this tutorial! I'm new to the Mac world and I'm glad this software is available. I could use free software but they require personal information like your address. I don't feel comfortable sharing this information as you don't know who they will sell it to. Thanks again!!!❤
Tons of apps in the App Store you can get that doesn't require any information. Some free, some paid.
Great video, I had no idea Photos could do so much.
Thank you. These are great. I know absolutely nothing about this stuff, and I find you really helpful.
Wow..who knew! Thanks so much Gary..I was so tired of editing in preview. Great vid.
SO blessed to have stumbled upon this video this is a game-changer! Thank you, Gary!
You are awesome! What would I do without youtube. FANTASTIC INFO!!!!!!! A+
Very cool. Thanks for taking the time to make this video.
You have a gift for explaining tech. So much info in such a short video. Thank you!
Thanks Gary! You're a wizard.... and your tutorials are amazing.
Gary is the Mac power user to Mac power users.
Very well done. Straightforward and helpful. Thanks.
This is a great video! Thank you!
Thanks! Extremely informative and useful video. I will tell my photo buddies about it, as many were looking for a good editing program that wasn't Adobe based.
Brilliant! Thank you so much for posting this!
I use Photo edit all the time but I only knew half this stuff. Thanks so much!
Thanks for posting. This is very useful and helps me out a lot.
I learned so much in such a short time, thank you
Thank you very much! Always a pleasure to watch your tutorials!! How about helping with superscripts/Unicode, like "1st Street". Keep up the good work Gary!
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thanks a lot !! :)
SO COOL!! I only ever used the crop tool :)
Monterey, the latest iMac system has different editing tools! Do you have a You Tube video using Monterey?
Amazing video ! Very well explained, thank you !!!!!
simple and straight great way of teaching love it
👍, Gary! Another great learn today that I never really knew was there. Again my friend, Thank You!
thanks for sharing. this is helpful and straight forward
You explained this so well! Thank you!
Thanks, Gary, great job.
How do I assign a location to the photo. I did not have gps when the photo was taken. Went to iPhoto, tapped info icon and went to the bottom to assign location but timeframe given to change it was too quick
so we need to move the photos from the outside file folder to photos app in mac to edit it?
Just fab Gary.
Thank you
Thank U Sir!!
Well Explained.. Thank you Gary
👌👌👌👍. You really are the real deal. Excellent as always.
Very nice tutorials, please keep on your good work.
A few programs like fast raw review claim many post processing programs use a jpeg like file to cull. When I load my Sony a1 files from mem cards (I shoot raw slot 1 and jpeg on 2) onto a Mac mini using calibrated BenQ SW231 do i get the full raw file which I love to cull with? The jpeg files look very similar.
Thankyou!
Thank you!!!!
The keyboard shortcut for comparing your changes to the original is "M".
very informative and thanks a lot!
Can I add test ?
That's really fabulous, but my question is that I am a beginner photographer and heading to buy Mack brook pro 2. I am wondering how many programs or apps free can I use to adjust and improve quality of my pictures on that laptop?
You mean besides Photos itself? There are a few little photo editors out there, but you can get ones like Pixelmator Pro, Affinity Photo or Acorn for pretty cheap and have a ton of power.
That’s great
I am heading to buy MacBook Air 15” with memory 8 and 512gb hopefully will give more opportunity to do and download apps to work on pictures and videos
I do appreciate your help and advice
Super Helpful Thank you Sir
You only showing editing colors, but can you select section from picture and paste it like in windows paint?
For that, use the External Editor function and use another app to edit directly from Photos. Something like Pixelmator Pro, Affinity Photo or Photoshop, etc. There are even free ones if you really want that. ruclips.net/video/is7L1nrQT4w/видео.html
@@macmost nevermind works in preview right from the box select and paste, that's what I need it, still it has only square selection, but I just wanted to move a price
Thank You, Gary!!!
Fabulous. One thing, I'm scanning decades of slides for my family. If I retouch them in photos and export it to a flash drive to give to the family, do they get the retouched version or the original untouched version?
Go to File, Export and you'll see you get the option to do either.
Thanks....so helpful on details
very well explained video
How do you find editing and organising photos/videos using MacOS compared to iOS? I have so far just been using iMovie on my iPhone 12 Pro Max and am on the fence between buying an iPad Pro 12.9 inch or a MacBook Pro / Mac Mini / Mac Studio. From watching your video, looks like the photos app in MacOS has more extensive editing options (plus of course keyboard and mouse interface should be easier). Thanks
It is a very subjective thing and hard to know what you personally will like better. I definitely like Mac better, but there are many over in the iPad camp now too. Maybe try them at a store when you get a chance.
Terrific tutorial. Thank you! Can you do a video about app extensions? You seem to have a lot of them installed. And are the extensions just for photo editing, or do any extensions provide more UI functionality, such as adding album photo counts to the sidebar?
They are for editing. You usually get them when you add an app that also includes a Photos extension. Try searching the Mac App Store for some.
But what about the background in a picture, if you want to lighten just the background? How do you do it
That requires pixel editing and/or layers. You'd need to use an image editing app for that (Photoshop, Pixelmator, Affinity, Acorn, etc).
How do you save your photo so that you can't revert?
Gary - I am shooting 5 or more pictures of the night sky. Is there a way to apply the same setting/edit I use in editing the first shot---to the remaining 4 before I export them to a stacking-program? Thank you for revealing the hidden edit tools!!!
Yes. Image, Copy Adjustments and Image, Paste Adjustments.
Does the Mac Photos app access the same photos which are in the iOS Photos app on your iPhone and iPad? If so, then presumably any edits to photos and videos on your Mac would be replicated on your other Apple devices via iCloud? Thanks
If you are using iCloud Photos, then yes. Yes, changes would be seen on all. But note that editing in Photos is non-destructive. You can always revert to the original.
@@macmost thanks, that is useful to know. My logic is that if I can delete, edit or crop videos in the photos app itself then I could reduce the storage space taken up on iCloud to keep it under the 2TB limit.
@@TheKayakCrew Oh, no, that wouldn't do it. Since the original is always there, then it won't reduce the file size at all. You have more than 2TB of photos? Or are some videos? Maybe do what I do and don't store videos in iCloud Photos. I just put them in a folder (well-named) on an external archive drive. I don't have them available in iCloud, but I save a ton of space. I rarely look at my old videos, but I look at my old photos often.
@@macmost according to my settings, I currently have about 795GB of the 2TB storage used up. The bulk of my usage is ‘Photos’ which presumably includes videos. I did not realise that videos and photos still used your iCloud storage up even though you have deleted them or cut the size of a video down. That is a bit worrying because I am taking a lot of video these days. If the videos will still take up iCloud storage despite their deletion or cutting down in size then I will have to save the videos to hard disks and delete from the camera roll I guess (as you suggest)
Hi Gary, I learn a lot from your videos. I noticed I have two adjustments on my iphone that I do not have in Photos on my Mac. On my iPhone and can rotate around the vertical axis or the horizontal axis. These come in handy when I take a picture with the phone not completely parallel with the object. Are these adjustments available in Photos and I just cannot find them? Or are they only available on the iPhone? Thx
Right. Those are in the Photos app on iOS for some reason but not Mac. But you can always do it with just about any decent external editor like Acorn. Pixelmator, Affinity, etc.
Helpful! Question: after retouching
I click done. But then the image shows up blank in my photos. How do I recover the retouched image not reverting to original, so as not to lose all the retouch.
If you have exited editing, all you can do now is revert to the original and start again.
Hey I love your videos they are very helpful and appreciate what you’re doing ….I want to ask if there is any app I can use for my studio to do instant edit for group of photo at the same time just to give it more deep or to give it more professional effect Or maybe doing the live action on the photo on my pc or tablet while I’m making the photo shoot instead of working on each photo by itself …..is there any app can do this action? Thanks
I'm not sure what type of edit you are trying to do here. If you can do it in the Photos app then you can always copy the adjustments and paste the adjustments to other images easily. That is in the Image menu.
Excellent, can we edit raw photos
Sure. Photos works with RAW photos. Try it and see.
can;t find a paint bucket option. anyone know how I can do something similar?
Great video as usual. A fountain of knowledge! This is just a side question: What app do you run that displays as cursive "L" in your menu bar? Just curious.
That's Little Ipsum (Mac App Store) for quickly generating same text for demos.
@@macmost Thank you!
How come if I use the retouch button to remove some dust in the sky it leaves a "blind" spot"? What am I doing wrong?
Hard to say without knowing the exact situation. Maybe too close to the edge? Or there are other things too close to that spot?
No, it's clear blue sky above a mountain. I am trying to remove a dust particle and once the dust is retouched, I am left with a blind spot in the sky. I am exchanging a dark spot for a blind and very obvious spot. I read other people have the same problem.
any tips to better quality while exporting the images edited? please haha
What do you mean by "quality" exactly?
@@macmost I can only export them by converting to jpeg or tiff, right? That way the quality decreases, no?
@@Foto_gui Unless you are using RAW or doing something unusual, they are jpeg right now. That's how most people store their photos. That is how most cameras capture. When you export you can choose a jpeg quality setting.
Thanks Gary. Your videos have been a lifesaver!! Question...I edited several photos. I have them saved in my photos app on my Macbook. I want to share them on facebook. However, when I go to facebook to do so, I see the originals, but not the edited ones. When I back out and go to the photos app, the edited photos are there. Hmmmmm
Use drag-and-drop. Drag right from Photos into the Facebook post in Safari.
@@macmost whoop whoop...it worked! Thank you!!
Hi Gary it seems like the extra controls you are talking about(on Mac) while taking a picture in a portrait mode appears only when picture is clicked(on portrait mode) from the front facing camera n not frm the back camera?? Why is it so???
It depends on the type of portrait. Some iPhones have different sets of cameras on the front and back and take portrait mode photos in a different way. Also may depend on HEIC vs JPEG. I haven't looked into it deeply.
You seem to move a lil bit faster. i can't get to understand how you get to the "edit" icon in your vids. The "Tools" file doesn't appear on mine at all! Please help.
Basically you just select the photo, double-click it do you are just viewing that one photo, not your library or an album. Then you should see the Edit button at the top right. If you don't, it could be that this is a Shared Album you are viewing, and not one of your own photos.
@@macmost If the particular photo must not be in the album or in the library, where, then, must it be located to enable editing?
@@omarceesay2695 Every photo you see in the Photos app is "in the Library." That the same thing as "in the Photos app." That's the focus of this tutorial. If you want to use these tools, you need to import the photo if it isn't in there already. Otherwise, you can always use a third-party tool like Photoshop or an equivalent.
@@macmost understood now, thanks.
Hello Gary! I can't find the way to get my edited images. I need help!! 😅
Get them? Not sure what you mean by that.
i found it, i thoguht they were automatically saved like in "iphoto", but you need to export them. thanks for paying attention to the comments 🤘 @@macmost
Excellent ....
how would you compare this to the adobe Lightroom? im just learning to do photo editing and Idk if getting the Lightroom worth it.
Similar types of apps. Photos is free and comes with your Mac. For most people it is all they need. Try it.
Most of us have multiple small videos that we want to combine with photo's app. Is there a quick option or iMovie is the only solution?
Do you mean merge the videos, so several short videos become one longer video? You can use QuickTime Player for that. ruclips.net/video/xEeego6rrJw/видео.html
@@macmost yes.. but will loose all the location and date info on that video. Was checking if there is any easy way in photo app
@@RaghuH You can then set the location and date in Photos when done.
I can't seem to use any of these great tips on my late 2014 Mac. (Sierra 10.12.6) Right?
Can't remember which of these would be there. That's a pretty old version of macOS. You can update to something much newer with a 2014.
@@macmost I think this is the latest update allowed on this machine. The "software update" does not indicate anything newer OS available.
@@kurtinastclair You should be able to go to Big Sur if that is an iMac or MacBook. See macmost.com/macos-system-requirements-list.html
@@macmost Thank you. I was able to install Big Sur. I guess the "software update" from "about" only refers to the IOS one is currently using.
@@kurtinastclair Yes. It is an update for Sierra, not an upgrade to a new system.
What if the edit button is grayed out?
Not sure why that would be. Check the photo to see how it may be different than others.
May even be better than Elements!
HOW CAN YOU SAVE YOUR EDITS AS PRESETS IN IPHOTO ALL OF THESE ADJUSTMENTS MEAN NOTHING IF WE CANT CREATE CONSISTENT LOOKS FOR OUIR PHOTOS
Even raw photos ?
What about raw photos? What are you asking?
Am still looking for an aperture substitute... too bad photos is such a dumbed down app
What features is Photos missing that you require?
macmostvideo tethered, external Edit, watermarks to name a few.
@@lemd49 Not sure what you mean by "tethered" but you can certainly use external editors in Photos (ruclips.net/video/OwFrTblplG4/видео.html) and you can add watermarks with markup (ruclips.net/video/IbN03q7sAFw/видео.html) or App Store extensions.
hello, people who used Aperture migrated to one of the TOP 3 RAW converters, in alphabetical order:
- Capture One Pro by Phase One
- Lightroom by Adobe
- PhotoLab ELITE by DxO
Why don't you just continue using Aperture? It's still working, you know...
Loved the video! Can you make a video on autoRetouch? It is an AI powered photo editing platform. It is offering a one month free trial as well!
Can it edit raw?
Yes.
@@macmost wow thanks
Can't type the first letter anywhere
You talk about a program that is great but you do not show what it looks like or the name where to open it cannot find it, so basic Gary you give such great presentation but leave out simple details that take seconds and leaves me looking for for it and having to go to other video just to find the program in question
The whole video is about the Photos app. That's right in the title.
very sad you can't add text to your image !!!
You can. Use the Markup Tool. See ruclips.net/video/mVF4AlHUIRw/видео.html
The "edit" button isn't there
Make sure you are viewing the photo (not at the list level). Make sure the photo is one you can edit (not something shared by someone else).
@@macmost I right clicked and opened the file in photos. I wrestled with it for 10 minutes before giving up. I was able to do it in my phone in seconds. Also very easy in Paint. Thanks, I'd love to figure it out because these things frustrate me, especially when I see people in the comments saying that it works fine. I have a programming background, I build my own PCs, these things aren't new to me. But for some reason I have to go to RUclips to try to figure out how to crop a pic in the Photo app. It should not be this difficult.
@@TonyStone3000 It shouldn't. Sounds like you imported the photo and them immediately tried to edit it. The normal path is to go to your library view (or album, or years/months), view the photo from your library, then click Edit.
@@macmost I imported the pic, but I still need help to edit it. I right-click on the pic and select the "Edit with" option. The "Photos" app is greyed out and cannot be selected, which makes sense because I'm already in the Photos app. I go to "edit" on the top menu dropdown, but there isn't an option to edit the pic. I'd love to figure it out, but it should not be this difficult.
@@TonyStone3000 "Edit With..." INSIDE the Photos app? That is for editing in an external editor. Instead double-click the picture to view it. Once you are viewing it, look for the Edit button.
Photos app is a waste of space on my computer. Loved Aperture, but photos and the whole iCloud eco system is rubbish. Still like most of your videos though.
Why photos looks nothing like that....
Perhaps you are using an older version?
Wasn't useful cause you didn't even show how to get the image on there.
Very useful Thank you Sir!
Thank you~!