Hey folks today, I'm going to teach you how to copy and paste adjustments in the photos
app. This technique is especially helpful when you're dealing with a bunch of photos
that were all taken at the same time and in the same location. So you can make all of
your corrections to one photo and then deploy those changes to the rest of them.
That's coming up next on tech talk America. Hey folks, and welcome to the class. You know,
a lot of people are taking the time right now to organize and edit their old photos.
So I thought this would be a timely topic. As some of you may know. I recently relocated
to Palm Springs, California, technically still on the process. And I thought this would be
a great opportunity to show you a little bit of the area.
So I recently took a day trip to Joshua tree national park and got some pretty amazing
photos using only my iPhone 12. These are the original images that I took. And for this
example, I thought it would be really fun to remove the sky so that the only color that
you can see is everything on the ground. We're going to start by using one photo to
apply all of our base corrections. Now, if you're following along at home, I would like
to strongly encourage you to use the first photo in whatever set of photos that you're
working on. You'll see why in just a moment. So let's select this first photo and then
double-click on it. And then click edit at the top right now to
remove the sky. I'm going to click on this little arrow next to selective color, and
then I'm gonna click on the color select tool, which you'll see right here. Now I'll just
go to my image and click on the sky from here. All you need to do is drag the saturation
to zero. And there you go. No more sky. At this point,
I'm going to teach you to shortcut keys, to remember. Many of you are probably familiar
with copy and paste, which are normally command C for copy and command V for paste. Well,
when you add the shift key to that combination, suddenly it becomes copy adjustments.
Now you can also access those commands through the image menu at the very top. Now there
is a very commonly made mistake, which I would like to make you aware of one of the things
that's very strange about the photo's program is that you can only access this feature when
you are in editing mode. So for example, if I click done, which means I'm no longer editing
my image, you'll notice that if we go back to that image menu, that option is grayed
out. So just make sure when you do this, that you're
still in edit mode. When you go to copy the adjustments, you remember how earlier I recommended
that you use the first photo in the series while this is the reason why from this screen,
all you need to do is tap the right arrow key on your keyboard, and it will advance
to the next image. So now just press command shift V. And just
like that we have pasted the adjustments from the previous photo onto this photo. And if
you simply repeat those last two steps over and over again in no time flat, you'll have
that effect applied to all of your photos. Before we go, there are three quick things
that you should know first. There are certain types of corrections that
will not copy and paste. So for example, if you crop an image or if you were to add texts
from something like a third-party app, those are examples of Africans. It's where this
feature is not going to work. The second is that you should know this does work with any
of the built-in filters. So for example, let's say you're a big fan
of the film Noir look. You can simply add that to your first photo hit command shift,
C advanced to the next photo. Paste it, and you're good to go. And finally, I would like
to remind you that the photos have always holds on to the original image. So let's say
years down the road, you want to see how that photo originally looked.
Just click up here at the very top and click where it says revert to the original. You
know, I went downtown and I bought the shirt today and I didn't really realize that it
was going to read on camera as best buy blue. Thank you so much for watching everyone. If
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Class dismissed.