
How to apply filters to images in Photos for Mac
Filters became popular, back in the olden days of camera phones, as a way to make bad photos look less, well, poopy.
Filters became popular, back in the olden days of camera phones, as a way to make bad photos look less, well, poopy.
Histogram, sharpen, definition, noise reduction, vignette, white balance, and levels can all be added to your photo adjustment options!
From magic wand, to basic color, light, and black & white tweaks, or full, granular control over exposure, saturation, intensity, and more.
A picture may be worth a thousand words but adding just a few more, namely a title, description, and keywords, can help you find it even faster. While dumping pictures and videos is certainly the fastest way to get them into Photos for Mac, the time you save up-front can be more than offset by the time you spend later trying to find a specific picture and video. If you take just a few...
Finding and enjoying your pictures and videos is great, but for the super organized, seeing and editing all the data about them can be just as rewarding. Photos for Mac lets you bring up an info pane that shows, if available, the title, file name, date and time stamp, EXIF (exchangeable image file format — aperture, shutter speed, focal length, metering mode, and ISO speed, resolution...
Need to find a group of pictures quickly? Hook yourself up with Photos for Mac's smart albums. Smart albums have long been a great way to quickly organize your images without the hassle of having to manually add each individual photo. Photos for OS Mac, like iPhoto before it, has an easy and quick way to build a Smart Album — read on for a quick tutorial! How to create a smart album...
Rather than scrolling through all your pictures and videos, search can be a quick way to find just exactly what you want! You can use search in Photos for Mac almost like Spotlight to filter through your library based on the year, month, and/or day a picture or video was taken, the place it was taken in, who appears in it (if you're using faces), and the text that appears in the...
Photos may be a great upgrade for iPhoto and casual Aperture users but, after you migrate, you might need some help finding your old pictures. Anything previously organized into events in iPhoto or stacks, projects, or events in Aperture gets brought over to Photos during setup, of course. The stacks, projects, or events themselves, however, are converted into folders. That means they'...
If you have a lot of photos on your Mac, you'll want to organize them into albums and folders That way, whether it's an album of vacation pictures and videos, or a folder for a special project, you'll always no just where exactly in Photos for Mac you'll need to go to find them. Better yet, if you're using iCloud Photo Library, those newly organized albums and folders will also show...
Where you took a photo or video can be just as important to you as when you took it. While Photos for OS X lets you easily navigate between moments, collections, and years, it also lets you navigate the world. That is, it lets you see all the photos and videos you took all laid out on a map. So, if you remember where you took a photo or video, you can use that to find it. Or, if you...