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- [Don] Hi, this is Don McAllister, and welcome to
another ScreenCastsOnline weekly tip video.
We've covered Apple Photos in depth on ScreenCastsOnline,
and there are plenty of full video tutorials
for both the Mac and for iOS, but in this short tip video,
I want to revisit how to create and manage metadata
with your photo library.
On both the Mac and iOS, Apple Photos
is getting smarter by applying machine learning
techniques to automatically categorise photos.
For instance, if I go to the Search panel
and search for sky, it brings up three categories:
sky, blue sky, and skyscraper.
If I wanted to see all the skyscraper photos,
hit Return, and there are my skyscraper photos.
Now, I haven't applied or given it
any additional information.
There were no keywords I've applied.
The categorization has been done
automatically by Apple Photos.
But there are still instances when you want to add
your own personal metadata in the form of titles,
descriptions, keywords, or location information.
Now, as far as titles are concerned, it's quite easy to
add titles to individual photos.
All you need to do ...
In fact, one quick tip is Shift + Command + T,
and that will display the existing titles.
You can see here, we have no titles,
but this concert hall in Iceland, if I click on the title,
put in its name, hit Return, that's now titled.
It's possible to view the full metadata
for this image by clicking on the image.
Using Command + I pops up this panel where it was taken.
I can add a description, add a keyword,
and the title is up here at the top.
Now, if I want to do that for multiple images,
let me just move this back across here.
For instance, this image, I hold down the Command key,
select this image, this one, and this one.
These are all of the same skyscraper, and I can add a title
for those four images over here.
It's the Burj Khalifa over in Dubai.
I can add a description for these four.
I can also add a keyword.
If I just close this panel down now,
you see these have all been titled.
Another very useful piece of metadata you can add
to photos and images are keywords,
and you can assign multiple keywords to multiple photos.
To assign keywords, there are multiple ways.
One way is to go back into the Info panel,
so Command + I.
We'll start with these four photos selected.
I could go here and say Add Keyword.
Well, these are all taken on holiday,
and that will create a new keyword for me called Holiday.
And close the Info panel down.
Another way to access, edit, and assign keywords
is via the Keyword Manager, so if I hit Command + K,
it brings up the Keyword Manager.
So again, these were taken on holiday,
so I can select multiple photos,
and I can just go ahead and click on Holiday.
Now, to see which photos have been assigned keywords,
I can go to View > Metadata.
I can actually display any of these bits of metadata,
but just let's go with keywords for now.
I can see these little tags represent keywords that have
been assigned, so if I just move this down slightly,
you'll see that I've assigned the Holiday keyword
to all of these photos.
If you want to assign a keyboard shortcut to a keyword,
all you need to do is drag the keyword
to the Quick Group.
You'll see I have a little H here indicating that
the letter H will assign that keyword,
so for these ones that haven't had keywords ...
So that's that one, that one, and that one.
If I just press H in the keyboard, that will assign
the Holiday keyword to those photos.
Now, if I want to edit my keywords,
I can actually go into Edit Keywords.
I can edit the keyword itself.
I can add additional keywords.
I can also change the keyboard shortcut,
so if I want to change the keyboard shortcut
to something differently, I can do it from here,
but I'll leave them as they are and say OK.
Now we'll close that down.
Then we close the skyscraper query down,
and let's just tag a few more.
So again, this is another holiday photo.
Command + I, go into Add Keyword,
hit H,
and it will start to autocomplete Holiday.
That's fine.
Close that down.
So now, if i go back to my main panel here,
search for Holiday,
it now comes up as a keyword.
Instead of nine photos, we have 10 photos, so we have
all those skyscrapers, plus this German photo as well.
Okay, let's go across to the iPhone and take a look
at how keywords are handled in the iPhone.
So, across over on my iPhone 7 Plus,
using Apple Photos, and it's the same iPhoto library
that I'm using on the Mac.
I'm using iCloud Photo Library synchronisation.
If I go into one of the photos that I've just given
a title to, let's say this one here,
you'll see the title appears at the top.
Unfortunately, there's no way of editing
the metadata on your photos on the iPhone or iPad
using iOS, at least not at this release, anyway.
You can still access the metadata though.
I should be able to, if I come out of here, go to Search.
If I search for Holiday ...
There we go.
Holiday keyword.
There are 10 photos.
Tap on here, and there are the same 10 photos
that I tagged using keywords across on the Mac.
So that's taking a look
at titles and keywords on Apple Photos.
We'll look at other metadata attributes
in a future tip video.