
Even though we are in 2024, this course is still relevant and will guide you through all the features of Photos and everything you need to know to master it!
Learn how to save photos from messages directly into your Mac's Photos library by right-clicking the image and selecting add to photo library, then locate it under recent.
Learn how the Photos app now detects and highlights text in images across macOS Monterey, Ventura, and Sonoma, with translate, dictionary lookup, search, copy, and share options.
Explore the macOS photos app on Catalina with version 5.0, keeping the familiar library layout while highlighting under the hood updates, AI search, and sorting by days, months, and years.
Explore the new photos app interface, including library, albums, projects, and iCloud photos, and edit with selective color, curves, retouch, white balance, filters, and crop.
Unzip the exercise files, open the exercise photos library with over 100 photos, and use the folder for importing photos from a folder in upcoming steps.
Convert old Aperture and iPhoto libraries to the new Photos in macOS Catalina, with a caution: updating cannot be undone. Learn about library merging, self-contained files, and optional external backups.
Create separate photos libraries to organize work and personal images, and learn to switch between them while understanding system versus work libraries and iCloud backup.
Import images from an external folder into the photos library using drag-and-drop or the file menu, review or select, and optionally create a new album.
Import photos from a digital camera or SD card into your Mac using either a direct camera connection or a card reader, then organize them into albums.
Connect your iPhone to the Mac, trust the computer, and import selected photos into the Photos app; create a new album like 'Japan trip' and manage duplicates.
Learn to enable iCloud photo library, sign in across devices, and choose between download originals or optimized storage to sync photos across Mac, iPhone, and iPad.
Enable my photo stream as an alternative to iCloud library across devices. Learn the 30-day and up to 1000-picture limits, and that it’s a free service up to five gigabytes.
Import images from a browser into your photo library by dragging and dropping or saving from the browser, and manage duplicates with Fotos.
Import photos from an SD card into Photos, with options to import to the library or an album, and support for JPEG and RAW formats.
Import photos from a USB stick into the Mac Photos library by locating the USB drive in Finder, then File > Import and review for import to manage duplicates.
Import photos to your Mac library using AirDrop from iPhone, then import from downloads via file > import or drag-and-drop, with imports shown sorted by date.
Import photos into your Mac library with iCloud, enabling iCloud Photos to sync across devices; choose download originals or optimize Mac storage, and explore shared albums.
Explore symbols in photos, including keywords, edits, hdr, portrait mode, geo tagging, jpeg and raw images, and learn to view details via the eye button or right-click to manage favorites.
Discover how photos for mac 2024 introduces four top views, days, months, years, and all items, where machine learning selects the best shots, enables map view, and creates auto-play slideshows.
Navigate photos preferences to configure the general and iCloud tabs, set the library location, show in Finder, link iCloud to your main library, and adjust memories, importing, and geotagging options.
Explore photos for Mac by viewing as moments, collections, or years, and navigate with keyboard—open with double click or spacebar, and use thumbnails and the explore map feature.
Explore the photos app sidebar to navigate library, moments, memories, favorites, people, and places with maps and 3D views, then organize with albums, folders, and iCloud photo stream.
Explore the macOS photos toolbar, learning to view photo info, share in multiple ways, mark favorites, rotate one or multiple photos, and use AI-powered search with keywords and filtering.
Explore major iPadOS photo updates, including machine learning‑driven album organization, enhanced editing tools, and a comprehensive set of adjustments, all syncing across iPod and Mac.
Explore the updated iPod photos layout, with albums, for you memories, and a machine learning search that curates slideshows.
Learn to markup photos on macOS using the edit and markup tools to add text, arrows, shapes, and measurements, with color, font, and magnifier options, saved non-destructively.
Explore how iPad photos editing expands video work beyond Mac's trim, enabling trimming, cropping, rotating, straightening, perspective changes, and advanced adjustments like exposure, saturation, and auto enhancements.
Trim and straighten time-lapse videos with crop and straightening tools, save as a copy to preserve the original, and apply non-destructive edits and filters across Mac and iPod.
Crop and straighten videos using the crop tools, drag the four corners, and apply presets like 16 by 9 or portrait while maintaining non-destructive edits that can revert to original.
Explore how to use the filtering system in photos to show favorites, edited items, stills, and videos, and apply filters within albums for precise organization.
Create and apply your own filters by using the keyword manager, add custom keywords like dark pictures, assign shortcuts (D), and quickly filter your library and albums to locate edits.
Create and manage smart albums in Photos on Mac by defining keyword criteria like 'dark' or 'three star' to auto-populate, reorder with drag and drop, and delete when needed.
Mark photos with three-star keywords, filter by three stars in the keyword manager, then favorite with the heart icon to graduate top picks into your favorites.
Delete photos quickly with backspace or right-click, select multiple photos with the command key, and recover items within 30 days from recently deleted.
Explore photo metadata, view date, camera and lens details, ISO, aperture, and shutter speed, and learn to rename, add keywords, and edit locations and descriptions.
Rename photos by editing titles for multiple images at once, add descriptions and keywords via metadata, and assign a location by searching maps for the selected photos.
Learn to edit date, time, and location metadata in Photos for Mac using the info window, adjust date and time, and batch-select photos to apply changes.
If you have a Mac computer and you love taking photos with your iPhone or digital camera, this course will answer all your questions.
Whether you want to learn how to Edit your photos to look professional or whether you just want to tidy up thousands of photos and videos in your library, this course will cover all the aspects of this powerful yet easy to use application.
Photos come free with all Mac computers and the new version, offers powerful tools to Edit, Organise and Share your lovely memories and make them stand out!
You don't need any technical knowledge about photography, as I will cover all that you need to know about managing your photos.
What will you learn?
How to Import from your camera and from any other source
How to Organise your photos and videos so that you can easily find them
How to edit with basic adjustment tools and professional tools as well
What are the best practices to edit your photos
All the different ways you can save and share your images
How to create different libraries for different usage
Understanding iPadOS layout
How to edit videos on iPad
And much more
What editing tools will you learn?
Lighting
Colour
Black and White
White Balance
Retouch and Clone
Red-eye
Levels
Curves
Definition
Selective colour
Noise Reduction
Vignette
Extensions such as Affinity Photo and Photoshop
What skills will you gain out of this course?
Be completely comfortable using the Photos app
Know how to import media into your library from whatever source
Be able to easily organise your photos by Albums, Folders and other methods available in the Photos app
You'll be able to edit your photos with ease making them look professional and stand out
Understand iCloud and how you can manage your photos across different devices such as iPhones, iPads, Macs and PCs.
Create amazing Books, Calendars, Cards, Slideshows and Prints
Be able to export images for printing and further editing
Be able to create different libraries for Personal, Business and other purposes
Why should you take this course?
Whatever version of Photos you have, this course will cover every aspect of managing and dealing with Images.
If you have a previous version of Photos (iPhoto), you can still follow through and learn how to transition to the new version or deal with your images in your current version.
You have direct access to me so I can help you with whatever query you might have in regards to Photos.
I will provide you with a Free Photo library you can use to follow the lessons and replicate what I am doing on screen, so you are free to use it if you wish.
You also have 30-Day money back Guarantee, so you are free to try the course, see if you like it. So you have nothing to lose and everything to gain!
I have have been using mac apps for almost 2 decades and saw all changes and nuances of the mac software and I am passionate about helping people master their skills and become confident with their products and software. I am here for the students.
I can't wait to see you on the other side so Click the Enrol Button Now!
Have a meaningful day!
Frank