Alfred Cawthon Yeah, the more I use this, the more I hate it, and the more I hate Apple for doing this over and over again. They fucked up iMovie, and now they want to do the same thing with photos. The new OS runs so amazingly slow ... I guess they want me to spring for a new Apple computer too ... *$#$_W&*(U$ !!!!! The main thing about iPhoto was how crappy it was ... it didn't need a new fucking facelift ... it needed to work - it needed to be fixed so it would not wreck the database and lose photos, and it would be more reliable. What is next ... they have screwed up the OS, they've screwed up iMovie, they've screwed up iPhoto .... now what?
justgivemethetruth yeah i managed to work it out - but there one problem - when you insert an sd card you were able to delete it straight from there without transferring any photos , well that was on old iphoto now on this new photos app you cannot do that- anyone managed to work that out - deleting photos straight from the sd card
David.. is the BEST! I found his classes by chance a while back and now I won't listen to any other 'tutorial'. He simplifies for us dummy's... THANKS DAVID!
iPhoto also closes when you hit the red button. It's not a bug. I'm guessing the premise is a photo app is not something that typically needs to run in the background windowless so they close it. It's not the only app that does this I have a few others but I cannot remember which ones. Great review.
hi david. thx for the tutorial. you already talked about some during iphoto class, but would be nice to have a quick update for photos concerning these points: - which pic quality remains where by doing what? and how can I identify where which data actually is? - what's your recommendation - which photos domI see on the different devices (is it all library, whats on the device itself...) - can I delete pics from device but NOT from iCloud - what does the new Album (iOS) iPhoto uses in terms of storage? is it also only cloud based, or is it a real copy on all devices? Guess that's all. thx again
QUESTION: First off, thank you for the video! I'm wondering if you have any insight on how to organize photos in albums. In iPhoto, I could review and categorize them in separate albums as I imported them. I want to be able to move batches of photos to an album, like Hawaii Vacation. But currently i have to g join to each batch, that's grouped by date, and click the + button to add them to an album. Is there an easier way? A video on organization options would be A-freaking-MAXZING. thanks again for all your hard work.
+Michael Fink I'm in the same position - I've just moved from Windows to a Mac and was used to having my photos stored in folders titled Holiday 2012 or Xmas 2013 etc. but when I add my pics to Photos they all get put into one big group and I don't understand how I am meant to easily find pictures from my holiday in 2012 amongst all the thousands of pics! Did you figure anything out?
Filius Dei oh ,oh don' try to do it yet.. I have a problem because i want to put in external drive too.now I'm getting this (Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it.---Photos does not have the necessary permissions to create a Photos library in the folder that contains your library.) iPhoto is 190GB in External Drive Lacie 3TB ,also i use it for Time Machine backups.
ChristianW1971 I fixed the permission problem.all my 190gb of photo was imported in about 40min. I right click the external hard drive, chose "get inf." sharing and permission tab. all should be read & write. then put it back the way it was after photo app is done.
From anywhere in the library use the key combination of Option-Command-Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album. Go to that album and finish the deletion immediately or let Photos do it automatically in 30 days.
I have a few questions: How do you do skin smoothing in Photos? How do you do selective sharpening and smoothing? In Aperture you had a brush where you could smooth the face and sharpen the eyes....how does one do that in Photos? I am missing the bar on top middle that says Photos/Shared/Albums/Projects. Well the bar is there but mine says MOMENTS int he centre and thats it.
Thanks for the video, i have a question. In the old iPhoto my photos took me hours and hours and days to put in albums. Since i got the new photos none of them are in their album names? How can i do this for me not to sit and do it all over again? Cheers
How do I delete ALL photos from my Foto Library in my MAC? I have the photos in 2 backup discs. But didn´t do it correctly to the iCloud and would like to DELETE everything! Thanx
Just updated my mac. Two problems with photos. I cant drag photos to other albums from last import or I dont know how. Some photos are not importing. I hit import or stop and nothing happens. Anybody help?
Please never remove this SKIP AD feature.... I dont mind letting it play and turn my face away... or muting audio..... this is my way of returning to you for such great job.... Thanks David and Crew
Very helpful and timely. As professional photographer I use Aperture and Lightroom but prefer to do books for my clients in Iphoto and have struggled with the new format. This answered some questions for me. Sidebar location was a big help.
Thank you David, I hated the new photo software until i saw this video. Now i understand it a lot better. My thoughts as i am a Pro-Am Photographer , Apple should have put all these great updates in Aperture, merge Photo's & Aperture, and eventually allow there developers to add there apps to Aperture. Being an Aperture user for years, i now have to purchase Light Room.
Slickly done. Great announcer. Lost me at "punch in" and "pull back" as I have an iMac with a Mac mouse and have no clue what that means. I am struggling with Photos. I had my photos organized by groups in iPhoto. While I can see those in 'iPhoto Events', I cannot figure out how to add to those events (organized by topic). Also, I used to be able to show individual iPhoto Events on my AppleTV, but can no longer see them, making one of the primary reasons to have an AppleTV moot.
thank you for this tutorial. It has been a great help except I don't understand to switch views from Yera, Collects or Moments. You say to punch in. What does that mean. I tried just hitting the enter key but that doesn't work. Please help. Thans
How do see your hidden photos? I've been searching the web for days. I cannot find a video that helps me find my hidden photos. All of the videos are outdated. Can you help?
What will happen to the photos which are outside cloud library? I do not want to purchase more space from Apple, I have 80 GB of photos in my hard drive, and I do not want all those on cloud.
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I just upgrade my os to a ssd drive, i need to move the photo folder to a second drive in the preferences, but i don´t see this option. Any help?
I find your videos very helpful. Can you please explain all the different ways photos can be stored with apple products? Between photostream, camera rolls, icloud, family share etc it is very confusing. Then when you throw in several iphones, a couple ipads and a macbook or two it gets crazy!
How do you copy photos on an external drive? it keeps shrinking the quality and the same problem applies when exporting in to facebook and e-mail. I need to be able to export the files in their original size.
Thank you very much! I couldn't understand how to export to my computer. Good you showing about creation of project and export! But the Name of title not deleted so easy by click. Only when I change theme to origami - it happens
Repost - As always, a good tutorial. I always use aperture. I have photo stream shut off because i do not like the way photo stream organizes projects (or events). I have a lot of photos and again do not want to use iCloud storage. Can I continue to to use just aperture and not use new photos app. Can I still use the photo and video library with iMovie or will I be forced to switch to the photo app. As always, Thanks.
I hope you would have included the Importing feature as well. I have a question:- After I import photos from my iPhone. I am not able to see the file for those photos. If I go on that photo and do Right Click, it does not show "Show Referenced file in Finder" option. I really need to know how to get those files in finder. If you could help me?
Thanks for this class David. Just a quick Q - I have over 150GB of photos on my Mac. Some organized in dedicated folder. Rest mostly unorganized. What's the best way to import them all without doubling up space usage but also organizing the unorganized ones while also keeping the organized one (in proper folders)? P.S. Photos>Preferences>General>Copy items to Photo Library (Deselected) is not true to its name. Even when I had this deselected, it still took away Gigs & gigs of free space on my Mac :(
Thanks for a great tutorial. I’m not going to automatically bash the new program yet. Whenever you get comfortable with something and something new comes along it can be a bit jarring. I’ll give it some time before I develop an opinion. I have a question though. I’ve spent the last year and a half going thru all my photos and tagging people in them, Geo Tagging them, and putting them in detailed events. Will that transfer over? If so, how?
Great Class. Learned a lot, as always. One thing that I did not hear you mention is: how do we do events? Did that change in this release...are there better options?...
Hey, great tutorial. Could you tell me how to change the default location where photos are saved??? My hard drive is full and I want all my photos to save to an external drive. Greatly appreciate it.
Just upgraded to El Capitan because I needed a new keyboard. I do NOT want all my photos on the cloud and pay for storage. I want them on my computer and back up device. Can I do that with this new photo program??????????
Thanks for the video but I'm confused about something. At 5:40 when explaining the different views you say you need to "punch in" to change between the views - what exactly does that mean?
Hello David, I am having difficulty figuring out "How to Drag-n-Drop Pictures or Videos from iMac Photo to anywhere else." When I attempt to do so, it never works and it's very frustrating. Can you tell me how to accomplish this? I cannot seem to find the answer online anywhere and I didn't see that this topic was covered within your tutorial video here. Thank you in advance for your help! All The Best, Jeremy David Wilson :-) PS....Really awesome tutorial on Apple Photo by the way, thank you for putting this together for us all!
I am having trouble organizing my huge photo file with the new Photo app. I want to insert photos into specific albums from my main photo file or from my earlier iPhoto events section and I can't figure out how to do this. Perhaps there is a better software program to organize my photo collection? I must say this new app is a blow to anyone who was using iPhoto professionally. Not that I was doing anything advanced...just relied on organizing and adjusting photos on a regular basis. Thanks of your help!!
I am trying to create a powerpoint and when I try to add a photo, the photos that have been uploaded into "photos" do not show up. The last picture to show up was imported into iphoto! Same scenario when I try to create online photo books. The program does not recognize "photos" Why...How...Where are my pictures. I want iphoto back!!!!!!
very basic question. In this new system, when you download your photos, import, I should say, and it's done. I go to rename it, but I have to select all the photos? Can you not right click like in the old system?
You are a great educator and presenter. Helped lots in understanding this new apps for PHOTOS. Have subscribed and logged into your site. Bunches of thanks
Your tutorial is fantastic, I watched it two times. But, I am now having a problem with the new Photo that I hope you can help with. When I try to scan a picture into Photo, I can't find it. What am I doing wrong?
I looked through some of the comments but there are a lot so I apologize if this already has been brought up. Can you use face recognition with photos?
Can I use photo app on Mac like picasa, where it doesn't make another copy of the photo and put it in some large folder scheme in a even harder to find (reveal contents folder). I want it so search the whole computer for photos and basically make a short cut reference to them. So I just use the photos app as a way to easily see them all in one place and if need be right click to show in finder (original location).
David. Photos is one enormous step down from iPhoto. Soon Apple will be as useless as PCs. And why the heck should we pay Apple for iCloud when they have downgraded their application? Any tutorial for managing our photos without iCloud, or is it impossible?
This. Fucking this. Bump. I hate this fucking software. I would happily be drawn and quartered before paying Apple to host my photos when I just want to work on them locally on the two thousand dollar machine I bought.
Another thought when backing up images to external drives you sometimes get a message that you cannot because of some issue. I am not sure if you don't have a properly formatted drive with Mac OS journaled or is it some other issue. What do you think the problem was? Also little video clips are also a problem as they may be saved as images rather then little movie files.
Hi David, love your tutorials! I like to have my photos with the latest ones on top but with photos I have to scroll right down to get to the latest pics. The option to sort is not available..
Great tutorial, David. Quick question: is there anyway for photos that you save from the Internet into the Photos app on the Mac to appear within the Photos app itself, or do you have to manually export the photo each and every time?
We need Lightroom classes !! Please I imported some raw files to the photos app and can't seem to figure out to transfer it to the Lightroom app :( We need Lightroom class please
David, I have a serious problem here. While trying to follow along to move all my photos to the Cloud, I ended up syncing them all to my brand new iPhone 6s and have no idea how to remove 1,750 photos from my phone PLEASE HELP!!! Or if anyone out there knows of a solution, I'm desperate for help!
This is a great tutorial. I'm searching for help managing (or merging) multiple Aperture libraries. I was told it would be better for me to take ALL of my Aperture libraries and merge all the photos and videos (more than 25K) up into my iCloud drive. But... when I open a second library, Photos app tells me that it only syncs to iCloud from one default library. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Jeff
David, I have done back up of my iphone, i have a mac, but its so full with just others (more 50%) i cant seem to import all my photos from iphone to mac, then to time machine or external HD, how can i save all my photos from iphone directly to external HDD?
Hi, David. What a GREAT class. Beautifully put together. However, you failed to address what used to be the info area where I can name photo, add keywords, description, and etc.
I don't like this. I don't need my videos on iCloud. I want them on my hard drive. I hate that I updated. Using this method will eat up my data plan. I found a way around Photo app by downloading onto a PC then transferring to my MAC. I'm with the commenters who hate this. This tutorial is good but I do not want to use the cloud. I do not have unlimited high speed internet. Hate this update
They want a monthly fee from us to store our own material...no thank you...scam...about like insurance companies...encourage bloat, discourage management (why does it take a seperate program to remove duplicates), and get us to pay monthly...for internet, internet security, software, and now storage...scam.
Not sure on this new PHOTOs for Mac. IPHOTO had a side bar that showed last import etc, I don't see that on the new PHOTO. Also I don't want to use ICLOUD. They stick you with data use. So right now I still have both IPHOTO and PHOTO on my mac book pro. Not sure what to do. --thanks!!
Question David: Once I get my photos into iCloud, do they all get put on all my devices? Also, if I delete a photo on my iPhone to make room, does it get deleted everywhere?
Originally people were told that iPhoto and Aperture were combined to create Photos, but Photos is "definitely a far cry from APERATURE." We could not agree more. David, please let Apple know. The more people speak up, the better. I already googled Apple feedback and sent an "enhancement request." The removal of Aperture is already bothering A LOT of people in the photo community who know longer have access to one of the best photo programs after upgrading to Yosemite (either that or Apple claims to discontinue the application to new customers!). Asking your customers to spend additional money for options (other software with features) they initially bought with Aperture is bad business. Please bring back Aperture or at the very least, integrate all features of Aperture in Photos. This sudden removal is affecting a lot of businesses and family computer owners, people who work in "post". Aperture provided what many of us have desired. Is this a ploy to get everyone to buy Lightroom or another software program, because it feels like it. Apple: What is your intuitive [just makes sense] plan for all of the businesses and families who use your software (Aperture) to market, advertise, etc.? The new software feels like a downgrade. It gives the impression that Apple is becoming the convenience company without the intuitive, ergonomic, and more user-friendly, caring (to customers) improvements that reflected the vision of Steve Jobs.
Great, thanks - What should I do If my old iphoto file is too large to import into photo? My mac is telling me i need an additional 230GB of space - as Im on a Macbook air thats impossible! Really appreciate your help.
QUESTION I am having big trouble with iCloud / Apple. I am forced to make a decision to either "Quit" Photos immediately or "Delete incomplete items" Q: How can get around this in future and how can I recover my lost photos now after choosing "Delete Incomplete Items"?
Thank you David. I found your tutorial so helpful (I have now subscribed and look forward to many more lessons!) I do have a question though. How do you export your images? I used to be able to export and then put them in a folder of my choice with a name of my choice. I can't see how you do that now. I've loads of photos waiting to be edited for my eBay listings and have already wasted 2 days trying to work out how to use Photos properly. And now Photoshop doesn't work...doh! Everything is against me at the moment...but you saved the day! Thank you
I've used iPhoto for some time for archival research purposes and the system made it easy for me to edit and cut/paste into powerpoint or other documents for use. But while the new system allows for "copy" I am at a loss to discover how to "paste" anywhere other than migrating things to social media or saving to a different file. How does one copy/paste one's own photos?
David, I have a question about how to make an album like iPhoto. I can see the side bar on the left and there is a section called, "iPhoto Events". When I imported photos from my iPhone, it did not import the photo into those "iPhoto Events" and I do not know how to make a new album on the same screen as iPhoto Events. I can see new photos which I just imported from iPhone on "All Photos" or "Photos" section but I can not see them on old albums I created. What I want to do is I want to see all albums I created on the same screen but not the separate window. When I click "file" and make a new album, it created under "Albums" but in order to add photos into the new album, I have to choose from all photos and it is hard to tell which photo is already on the album or not. I usually leave some photos on my iPhone and I delete the photos manually ( I don't erase them when I imported the photo automatically). I don't have duplicates but when I see photos without albums, I can not tell which photo is under albums already. On the iPhoto, I could see which photo is still new and not in the album so it was easy to make an album. Do I have to make a new album from the scratch again? If you know how to operate this software, I would be greatly appreciated if you could teach me how to solve this problem. I haven't really touched this software since I installed but now I have time and motivate myself to sort out photos... In order to start sorting out, I want to make sure if I am doing things right. Thank you very much in advance :)
Hello from Singapore! I'm struggling with PHOTOS. I have 40Gigs of photos on an external HD. All my photos were saved on this external before I upgraded my Macbook with an SSD. How do I set up PHOTOS so that it recognises my external as my pictures vault? Thanks.
Great video. I use smart albums for just about all my sorting. However the smart albums don't seem to be syncing from the Mac to the iCloud/iPhone/iPad. Am I doing something wrong or do they no longer sync?
Hi! Just checked out this video and it was very helpful. Thank you! But I have a question: When I take pictures with my phone and these upload to my iCloud and into my mac Photos, does this mean that the pictures are saved in my Mac? can I erase these pictures from my phone without deleting it at the same time from my Mac? I'm still confused as in how to handle my phone storage and not loosing my pictures from both my computer and phone if these are deleted.... If you can please explain or give a tutorial on this that would be great!
Hi David! Great video. I have one question.. How do I save (export) my entire photo library back from the cloud to local storage? It's great and convenient to have my library in the cloud, but I still want to have local copies of everything.
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HOW THE F DO YOU DELETE A PHOTO - I HATE THIS NEW SOFTWARE
Mr the penguin Yeah, they have changed most of the ways things used to work, hidden the rest of them, and just plain gotten rid of a lot of things.
I hate this POS. Bad bad job Apple.
Alfred Cawthon Yeah, the more I use this, the more I hate it, and the more I hate Apple for doing this over and over again. They fucked up iMovie, and now they want to do the same thing with photos. The new OS runs so amazingly slow ... I guess they want me to spring for a new Apple computer too ... *$#$_W&*(U$ !!!!!
The main thing about iPhoto was how crappy it was ... it didn't need a new fucking facelift ... it needed to work - it needed to be fixed so it would not wreck the database and lose photos, and it would be more reliable.
What is next ... they have screwed up the OS, they've screwed up iMovie, they've screwed up iPhoto .... now what?
justgivemethetruth yeah i managed to work it out - but there one problem - when you insert an sd card you were able to delete it straight from there without transferring any photos , well that was on old iphoto now on this new photos app you cannot do that- anyone managed to work that out - deleting photos straight from the sd card
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David.. is the BEST! I found his classes by chance a while back and now I won't listen to any other 'tutorial'. He simplifies for us dummy's... THANKS DAVID!
I HATE Photos compared to iPhotos.
How the hell do you arrange the photos by events and in any kind of order? It seems impossible.
iPhoto also closes when you hit the red button. It's not a bug. I'm guessing the premise is a photo app is not something that typically needs to run in the background windowless so they close it. It's not the only app that does this I have a few others but I cannot remember which ones. Great review.
David is a very smart guy and an exceptional teacher. I just wish they would answer questions when asked on these videos.
hi david. thx for the tutorial. you already talked about some during iphoto class, but would be nice to have a quick update for photos concerning these points:
- which pic quality remains where by doing what? and how can I identify where which data actually is?
- what's your recommendation
- which photos domI see on the different devices (is it all library, whats on the device itself...)
- can I delete pics from device but NOT from iCloud
- what does the new Album (iOS) iPhoto uses in terms of storage? is it also only cloud based, or is it a real copy on all devices?
Guess that's all. thx again
QUESTION:
First off, thank you for the video!
I'm wondering if you have any insight on how to organize photos in albums. In iPhoto, I could review and categorize them in separate albums as I imported them. I want to be able to move batches of photos to an album, like Hawaii Vacation. But currently i have to g join to each batch, that's grouped by date, and click the + button to add them to an album. Is there an easier way?
A video on organization options would be A-freaking-MAXZING.
thanks again for all your hard work.
+Michael Fink I'm in the same position - I've just moved from Windows to a Mac and was used to having my photos stored in folders titled Holiday 2012 or Xmas 2013 etc. but when I add my pics to Photos they all get put into one big group and I don't understand how I am meant to easily find pictures from my holiday in 2012 amongst all the thousands of pics! Did you figure anything out?
David, awesome class as always but for the first time you didnt clear my doubts... what if i don't want to use mi icloud storage?
Yes same here,i have tons of pictures on a external drive.. How to set up that?.
Filius Dei oh ,oh don' try to do it yet.. I have a problem because i want to put in external drive too.now I'm getting this (Photos was unable to make a copy of your library before preparing it.---Photos does not have the necessary permissions to create a Photos library in the folder that contains your library.)
iPhoto is 190GB in External Drive Lacie 3TB ,also i use it for Time Machine backups.
Filius Dei
ChristianW1971 I fixed the permission problem.all my 190gb of photo was imported in about 40min.
I right click the external hard drive, chose "get inf."
sharing and permission tab.
all should be read & write. then put it back the way it was after photo app is done.
From anywhere in the library use the key combination of Option-Command-Delete to move the photos to the Recently Deleted smart album. Go to that album and finish the deletion immediately or let Photos do it automatically in 30 days.
I have a few questions:
How do you do skin smoothing in Photos?
How do you do selective sharpening and smoothing? In Aperture you had a brush where you could smooth the face and sharpen the eyes....how does one do that in Photos?
I am missing the bar on top middle that says Photos/Shared/Albums/Projects. Well the bar is there but mine says MOMENTS int he centre and thats it.
Thanks for the video, i have a question. In the old iPhoto my photos took me hours and hours and days to put in albums. Since i got the new photos none of them are in their album names? How can i do this for me not to sit and do it all over again?
Cheers
As for moving photos on Windows. You just Copy. Drag and drop. Would take under a minuet. Yes i do have a Mac as well.
Thanks. Not impressed with the demise of Aperture but this enabled me to decide between Photos and Lightroom.
Starts with an advertisement for Microsoft! Well played, Mr. Gates. Well played.
How do I delete ALL photos from my Foto Library in my MAC? I have the photos in 2 backup discs. But didn´t do it correctly to the iCloud and would like to DELETE everything! Thanx
Can you also teach a class on, how do you merge your multiple libraries onto the iCloud?
Just updated my mac. Two problems with photos. I cant drag photos to other albums from last import or I dont know how. Some photos are not importing. I hit import or stop and nothing happens. Anybody help?
Please never remove this SKIP AD feature.... I dont mind letting it play and turn my face away... or muting audio..... this is my way of returning to you for such great job.... Thanks David and Crew
Thank you for creating tutorials for us! I sometimes forget from time to time! Do you prefer the new photos app or iPhoto/aperture?
Very helpful and timely. As professional photographer I use Aperture and Lightroom but prefer to do books for my clients in Iphoto and have struggled with the new format. This answered some questions for me. Sidebar location was a big help.
How do you pinch an pull if you don't have a trackpad but a mouse? I can't go from moments to years...
In my experience red button is Quit on Apple's pro apps, such as Aperture, and also on Lightroom.
Thank you David, I hated the new photo software until i saw this video. Now i understand it a lot better. My thoughts as i am a Pro-Am Photographer , Apple should have put all these great updates in Aperture, merge Photo's & Aperture, and eventually allow there developers to add there apps to Aperture. Being an Aperture user for years, i now have to purchase Light Room.
Can you remove backgrounds with Photos app?? What app would suggest if not?
Slickly done. Great announcer.
Lost me at "punch in" and "pull back" as I have an iMac with a Mac mouse and have no clue what that means.
I am struggling with Photos. I had my photos organized by groups in iPhoto. While I can see those in 'iPhoto Events', I cannot figure out how to add to those events (organized by topic). Also, I used to be able to show individual iPhoto Events on my AppleTV, but can no longer see them, making one of the primary reasons to have an AppleTV moot.
thank you for this tutorial. It has been a great help except I don't understand to switch views from Yera, Collects or Moments. You say to punch in. What does that mean. I tried just hitting the enter key but that doesn't work. Please help. Thans
How do see your hidden photos? I've been searching the web for days. I cannot find a video that helps me find my hidden photos. All of the videos are outdated. Can you help?
What will happen to the photos which are outside cloud library? I do not want to purchase more space from Apple, I have 80 GB of photos in my hard drive, and I do not want all those on cloud.
I just upgrade my os to a ssd drive, i need to move the photo folder to a second drive in the preferences, but i don´t see this option. Any help?
I find your videos very helpful. Can you please explain all the different ways photos can be stored with apple products? Between photostream, camera rolls, icloud, family share etc it is very confusing. Then when you throw in several iphones, a couple ipads and a macbook or two it gets crazy!
Hi David. Love your tutorials. Can you please make a video to show how to organize photos, albums, events. It was simple on iPhoto. thank you.
How do I export the entire library to another computer and then combine the two libraries into one?
How do you copy photos on an external drive? it keeps shrinking the quality and the same problem applies when exporting in to facebook and e-mail. I need to be able to export the files in their original size.
Hi David. Could you do a review on LibreOffice for Mac?
How does one eliminate duplications of photos in the library? Thanks so much.
Thank you very much! I couldn't understand how to export to my computer. Good you showing about creation of project and export! But the Name of title not deleted so easy by click. Only when I change theme to origami - it happens
Repost - As always, a good tutorial. I always use aperture. I have photo stream shut off because i do not like the way photo stream organizes projects (or events). I have a lot of photos and again do not want to use iCloud storage. Can I continue to to use just aperture and not use new photos app. Can I still use the photo and video library with iMovie or will I be forced to switch to the photo app. As always, Thanks.
I hope you would have included the Importing feature as well. I have a question:- After I import photos from my iPhone. I am not able to see the file for those photos. If I go on that photo and do Right Click, it does not show "Show Referenced file in Finder" option. I really need to know how to get those files in finder. If you could help me?
Thanks for this class David. Just a quick Q - I have over 150GB of photos on my Mac. Some organized in dedicated folder. Rest mostly unorganized. What's the best way to import them all without doubling up space usage but also organizing the unorganized ones while also keeping the organized one (in proper folders)? P.S. Photos>Preferences>General>Copy items to Photo Library (Deselected) is not true to its name. Even when I had this deselected, it still took away Gigs & gigs of free space on my Mac :(
Thanks for a great tutorial. I’m not going to automatically bash the new program yet. Whenever you get comfortable with something and something new comes along it can be a bit jarring. I’ll give it some time before I develop an opinion.
I have a question though. I’ve spent the last year and a half going thru all my photos and tagging people in them, Geo Tagging them, and putting them in detailed events. Will that transfer over? If so, how?
can I dump this and have iphoto back?
Great Class. Learned a lot, as always. One thing that I did not hear you mention is: how do we do events? Did that change in this release...are there better options?...
You mentioned putting photos on a flash drive and going to CVS/Walgreens for printing. How do you do that?
Hey, great tutorial. Could you tell me how to change the default location where photos are saved??? My hard drive is full and I want all my photos to save to an external drive. Greatly appreciate it.
Dear Mr. Cox,
There was no mention of what software to use to remove duplicates as in your iPhoto tutorial. Please advise.
Just upgraded to El Capitan because I needed a new keyboard. I do NOT want all my photos on the cloud and pay for storage. I want them on my computer and back up device. Can I do that with this new photo program??????????
OMG your eyes!!!!!! mesmerizing!
+sassy jassy
Agree! they're BEAUTIFUL!
Thanks for the video but I'm confused about something. At 5:40 when explaining the different views you say you need to "punch in" to change between the views - what exactly does that mean?
Any idea how you switch between the view modes with a mouse rather than track pads? Thanks
Hello David,
I am having difficulty figuring out "How to Drag-n-Drop Pictures or Videos from iMac Photo to anywhere else." When I attempt to do so, it never works and it's very frustrating. Can you tell me how to accomplish this? I cannot seem to find the answer online anywhere and I didn't see that this topic was covered within your tutorial video here. Thank you in advance for your help!
All The Best,
Jeremy David Wilson
:-)
PS....Really awesome tutorial on Apple Photo by the way, thank you for putting this together for us all!
I am having trouble organizing my huge photo file with the new Photo app. I want to insert photos into specific albums from my main photo file or from my earlier iPhoto events section and I can't figure out how to do this. Perhaps there is a better software program to organize my photo collection? I must say this new app is a blow to anyone who was using iPhoto professionally. Not that I was doing anything advanced...just relied on organizing and adjusting photos on a regular basis. Thanks of your help!!
Is there anyway of automatically syncing your faces on photos with your contacts, so they're automatically assigned to the contact?
As always. You are amazing. Thank you.
Hi David!
I liked pretty much your tutorial!
Would like to know how to move a pic from one album to another and how to hide a pic or an album.
I am trying to create a powerpoint and when I try to add a photo, the photos that have been uploaded into "photos" do not show up. The last picture to show up was imported into iphoto! Same scenario when I try to create online photo books. The program does not recognize "photos" Why...How...Where are my pictures. I want iphoto back!!!!!!
Question; can I delete images & videos from Macbook without affecting same images stored on iMac via cloud?
I would like to know everything about creating Albums in Photos. Have you got any video on that?
Just wondering if there is a way to have your photos in an Album appear randomly as you could with IPhoto?
How do you account for different iPhoto libraries on multiple mac computers within a family?
very basic question. In this new system, when you download your photos, import, I should say, and it's done. I go to rename it, but I have to select all the photos? Can you not right click like in the old system?
You are a great educator and presenter. Helped lots in understanding this new apps for PHOTOS. Have subscribed and logged into your site. Bunches of thanks
Your tutorial is fantastic, I watched it two times. But, I am now having a problem with the new Photo that I hope you can help with. When I try to scan a picture into Photo, I can't find it. What am I doing wrong?
I looked through some of the comments but there are a lot so I apologize if this already has been brought up. Can you use face recognition with photos?
Hi great video what happens if you have multiple iPhoto drives..
I have my separated into years due to the size...
Can I use photo app on Mac like picasa, where it doesn't make another copy of the photo and put it in some large folder scheme in a even harder to find (reveal contents folder). I want it so search the whole computer for photos and basically make a short cut reference to them. So I just use the photos app as a way to easily see them all in one place and if need be right click to show in finder (original location).
Your contents are awesome and very useful
David. Photos is one enormous step down from iPhoto. Soon Apple will be as useless as PCs. And why the heck should we pay Apple for iCloud when they have downgraded their application? Any tutorial for managing our photos without iCloud, or is it impossible?
This. Fucking this. Bump. I hate this fucking software. I would happily be drawn and quartered before paying Apple to host my photos when I just want to work on them locally on the two thousand dollar machine I bought.
How do you import a pic from an iPhone??
Another thought when backing up images to external drives you sometimes get a message that you cannot because of some issue. I am not sure if you don't have a properly formatted drive with Mac OS journaled or is it some other issue. What do you think the problem was? Also little video clips are also a problem as they may be saved as images rather then little movie files.
What if I don't want to use icloud? I bought a passport and just set it up with time machine and I prefer to use that since I have 1tb of space.
Hi David, love your tutorials! I like to have my photos with the latest ones on top but with photos I have to scroll right down to get to the latest pics. The option to sort is not available..
Is it possible to import to iCloud Photo Library certain images/events instead of all of them?
How easy is it to view a very very large image library on a mobile device and does the wifi connection play a part in this.
Great tutorial, David. Quick question: is there anyway for photos that you save from the Internet into the Photos app on the Mac to appear within the Photos app itself, or do you have to manually export the photo each and every time?
We need Lightroom classes !! Please
I imported some raw files to the photos app and can't seem to figure out to transfer it to the Lightroom app :(
We need Lightroom class please
Any idea how to add a location/places to a photo in Photos, if we didn't have GPS on when photo was taken?
David, I have a serious problem here. While trying to follow along to move all my photos to the Cloud, I ended up syncing them all to my brand new iPhone 6s and have no idea how to remove 1,750 photos from my phone PLEASE HELP!!! Or if anyone out there knows of a solution, I'm desperate for help!
Thank you. Very helpful. Really looking forward to your tutorial on how to create a book.
This is a great tutorial. I'm searching for help managing (or merging) multiple Aperture libraries. I was told it would be better for me to take ALL of my Aperture libraries and merge all the photos and videos (more than 25K) up into my iCloud drive.
But... when I open a second library, Photos app tells me that it only syncs to iCloud from one default library. Thanks for the help and suggestions. Jeff
David, I have done back up of my iphone, i have a mac, but its so full with just others (more 50%) i cant seem to import all my photos from iphone to mac, then to time machine or external HD, how can i save all my photos from iphone directly to external HDD?
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Is there a way to merge faces together. In IPhoto, if you had two faces of yourself on faces, you could drag one into the other.Thank you
Hi, David. What a GREAT class. Beautifully put together. However, you failed to address what used to be the info area where I can name photo, add keywords, description, and etc.
I don't like this. I don't need my videos on iCloud. I want them on my hard drive. I hate that I updated. Using this method will eat up my data plan. I found a way around Photo app by downloading onto a PC then transferring to my MAC. I'm with the commenters who hate this. This tutorial is good but I do not want to use the cloud. I do not have unlimited high speed internet. Hate this update
They want a monthly fee from us to store our own material...no thank you...scam...about like insurance companies...encourage bloat, discourage management (why does it take a seperate program to remove duplicates), and get us to pay monthly...for internet, internet security, software, and now storage...scam.
Not sure on this new PHOTOs for Mac. IPHOTO had a side bar that showed last import etc, I don't see that on the new PHOTO. Also I don't want to use ICLOUD. They stick you with data use. So right now I still have both IPHOTO and PHOTO on my mac book pro. Not sure what to do. --thanks!!
Question David: Once I get my photos into iCloud, do they all get put on all my devices? Also, if I delete a photo on my iPhone to make room, does it get deleted everywhere?
please could you tell me how to zoom from moments to years and collections . i can't seem to be able to get this . thank you
Originally people were told that iPhoto and Aperture were combined to create Photos, but Photos is "definitely a far cry from APERATURE." We could not agree more. David, please let Apple know. The more people speak up, the better. I already googled Apple feedback and sent an "enhancement request." The removal of Aperture is already bothering A LOT of people in the photo community who know longer have access to one of the best photo programs after upgrading to Yosemite (either that or Apple claims to discontinue the application to new customers!). Asking your customers to spend additional money for options (other software with features) they initially bought with Aperture is bad business. Please bring back Aperture or at the very least, integrate all features of Aperture in Photos. This sudden removal is affecting a lot of businesses and family computer owners, people who work in "post". Aperture provided what many of us have desired. Is this a ploy to get everyone to buy Lightroom or another software program, because it feels like it. Apple: What is your intuitive [just makes sense] plan for all of the businesses and families who use your software (Aperture) to market, advertise, etc.? The new software feels like a downgrade. It gives the impression that Apple is becoming the convenience company without the intuitive, ergonomic, and more user-friendly, caring (to customers) improvements that reflected the vision of Steve Jobs.
+James Liakos
AMEN! It's a HUGE downgrade, James.
Great, thanks - What should I do If my old iphoto file is too large to import into photo? My mac is telling me i need an additional 230GB of space - as Im on a Macbook air thats impossible! Really appreciate your help.
Is there a way to add text/watermark to multiple photos at one time?
QUESTION
I am having big trouble with iCloud / Apple. I am forced to make a decision to either "Quit" Photos immediately or "Delete incomplete items"
Q: How can get around this in future and how can I recover my lost photos now after choosing "Delete Incomplete Items"?
Thank you David. I found your tutorial so helpful (I have now subscribed and look forward to many more lessons!) I do have a question though. How do you export your images? I used to be able to export and then put them in a folder of my choice with a name of my choice. I can't see how you do that now. I've loads of photos waiting to be edited for my eBay listings and have already wasted 2 days trying to work out how to use Photos properly. And now Photoshop doesn't work...doh! Everything is against me at the moment...but you saved the day! Thank you
I've used iPhoto for some time for archival research purposes and the system made it easy for me to edit and cut/paste into powerpoint or other documents for use. But while the new system allows for "copy" I am at a loss to discover how to "paste" anywhere other than migrating things to social media or saving to a different file. How does one copy/paste one's own photos?
David, I have a question about how to make an album like iPhoto. I can see the side bar on the left and there is a section called, "iPhoto Events". When I imported photos from my iPhone, it did not import the photo into those "iPhoto Events" and I do not know how to make a new album on the same screen as iPhoto Events. I can see new photos which I just imported from iPhone on "All Photos" or "Photos" section but I can not see them on old albums I created. What I want to do is I want to see all albums I created on the same screen but not the separate window. When I click "file" and make a new album, it created under "Albums" but in order to add photos into the new album, I have to choose from all photos and it is hard to tell which photo is already on the album or not. I usually leave some photos on my iPhone and I delete the photos manually ( I don't erase them when I imported the photo automatically). I don't have duplicates but when I see photos without albums, I can not tell which photo is under albums already.
On the iPhoto, I could see which photo is still new and not in the album so it was easy to make an album.
Do I have to make a new album from the scratch again? If you know how to operate this software, I would be greatly appreciated if you could teach me how to solve this problem. I haven't really touched this software since I installed but now I have time and motivate myself to sort out photos... In order to start sorting out, I want to make sure if I am doing things right. Thank you very much in advance :)
Hello from Singapore! I'm struggling with PHOTOS. I have 40Gigs of photos on an external HD. All my photos were saved on this external before I upgraded my Macbook with an SSD. How do I set up PHOTOS so that it recognises my external as my pictures vault? Thanks.
Hi, iPhoto used to have the "events" feature which were created automatically when photos were imported. Has that feature been removed?
Great video. I use smart albums for just about all my sorting. However the smart albums don't seem to be syncing from the Mac to the iCloud/iPhone/iPad. Am I doing something wrong or do they no longer sync?
Hi! Just checked out this video and it was very helpful. Thank you! But I have a question: When I take pictures with my phone and these upload to my iCloud and into my mac Photos, does this mean that the pictures are saved in my Mac? can I erase these pictures from my phone without deleting it at the same time from my Mac? I'm still confused as in how to handle my phone storage and not loosing my pictures from both my computer and phone if these are deleted.... If you can please explain or give a tutorial on this that would be great!
After everything is in iCloud, can I delete the photos from my iPad? I am maxing out iPad memory and slowing everything else down.
Hi David! Great video. I have one question.. How do I save (export) my entire photo library back from the cloud to local storage?
It's great and convenient to have my library in the cloud, but I still want to have local copies of everything.
with iPhoto you were able to make a slide show do a shuffle of your photos. How can i do this with the new photo app??