welcome back everyone my name is Joel and today let's look at the overview of photos welcome back
everyone thanks for watching it's so wonderful to see you again let's go ahead and take a quick peek
at photos photos is the built-in software on your Mac that allows you to organize edit share and do
a variety of things with the pictures that you have so let's go ahead and open up photos on the
dock now when you open up photos it usually leaves you it usually opens up to where you last left it
and let's go ahead and make this fullscreen now we're gonna start on the left hand side and kind
of work to our right because the left hand side interface this whole sidebar this is the majority
of where all of your organization starts and it kinda is broken into three main parts you have
your library you have your albums and you have your projects so the library is where all of your
photos are stored and this is when we have that selected we can literally scroll through all of
our photographs now when we're scrolling through all of our photographs you'll notice in the top
Center of photos we have four main categories to group them either by photos moments collections
or years and this is Apple's pre-configured way to organize and help us organize our pictures or
filter them easily for us right off the bat and they're kind of what you expect if we clicked on
years it's gonna filter all of our photographs based off of year so this is essentially saying
hey this row of photos here these were all taken between the years of 2012 and 2016 same thing
with this 2017-2018 and so on and so forth and you'll even notice that it has some of cities
based off of where I took photos at and that's really really helpful because we have so many
different ways to find our photographs whether it be keywords or titles little location the
people in the photographs it's really really nice and there's a lot of things that have
behind the scenes honestly I'm I don't see a huge difference between collections and moments aside
from just breaking it down more granular to your pictures until we get down to photos which just
shows every single individual photo that you have so there's no right or wrong way it is
pretty helpful to have these these options that are already pre-configured and trying
to help us organize right off the bat but we can take it so much further so when you're in photos
across the top you have all of these different categories to start with now I'm moving down on
the left-hand side we have memories and this is kind of cool as you start to get gather and get
more photographs inside of photos Apple does it starts to take a collection of photos and
create you like these highlights and in these little videos that show you the best pictures
or your most favorite photos throughout the year or month or based off of location so it's really
kind of cool actually you know this is the best of the year 2018 and it goes through and shows me a
whole bunch of photos from that particular year so as you start to get more and more photos these are
actually really kind of cool that it kind of just does that for us now the next thing over here on
the left hand side we have our favorites and our favorites are just another way to help us organize
when we scroll through our photographs there's a little heart that pops up in the bottom left
and so if I go back to photos notice that when I put my cursor on top of a photograph it actually
gives me the little hearts and I can click that heart and now I've just marked that photo as a
favorite and when I come back to favorites that picture will now be inside of here the next thing
is people like I said before every time that you add a new photo into photos photos is actually
doing a lot behind the scenes where it scans every single photograph looks her people and then tries
to identify those people obviously this is what it looks like when you first start off because
I have not named anyone yes but it is really really cool feature extremely handy and it's
really nice to be able to search for photos based off of people we're at then where you took the
photo or when the picture was taken things like that speaking of when and where the picture were
taken the next category on the left hand side is places and this is where it shows on a map where
these photographs are actually taken so places is really really fun to play around with we can zoom
back out and we can change the the view across the top and the satellite or grid view to show
a little bit easier where those these pictures were taken so really really fun to play around
with the places then the next thing underneath the places we have our imports and this just shows you
the last things that were added to photos nice quick little reference to say oh did I review
import that or maybe you did maybe you didn't but if you've watched my previous video whenever you
connect your memory card it will automatically recognize if photos have already been imported
and you can just ignore that and import new stuff so it's kind of nice I'm gonna meet that we have
albums photos is going to break down the photos and the videos that you actually put into photos
also it'll classify selfies and panoramics so if I click on videos here I'm able to see all
of the videos that have taken and imported into photos as well as selfie photographs as well as
panoramic pictures so really kind of cool that it does a lot of organization for us the next thing
is my albums underneath that which I have not created any which we'll get to that later and then
projects as well and when you click on projects this gives you options to create books calendars
cards wall decor prints slideshows and all sorts of other stuff now full disclosure I'm really kind
of disappointed because in the previous versions of photos we could order books and calendars and
all sorts of stuff directly through Apple and it it was really easy to do now they've gotten
rid of that and you have to go to the App Store and download an extension and and get another
app and go you're a third party I'm not a huge fan of it but it is what it is we'll cover that
later as well but Apple ah bring the books back they are so easy let's go back to photos in the
top left and we have some controls in the top right and this gives us just information about
the photos this lets us share again another way to add to favorites quickly rotate as well as do
a search for some photographs underneath that we have items or what photos are showing to us and
this is kind of cool too because if we click on here right now photos is showing us all photos
every photo video panoramic selfie everything that you have within photos now if I click on
this I could click to favorites and now it's only showing me my favorites if I uncheck favorites and
do edit it it's gonna show me only the videos or photos that I have edited within photos so it's a
really quick way to quickly filter out what you're looking for and I can even do two or three so I
could say show me all videos or show me all photos that have been edited and then these are all the
photos that have been edited I could say show me all of the favorite photos that have been edited
which there's no results because there's not a favorite that I've ever did yes so pretty cool
that these quick filters are here to allow you to quickly narrow down what you're looking for
and there's also a keyword manager that allows you to associate keywords to photos so again you can
get even more detailed with the searches within your photos last but not least let's go ahead and
select a photograph and when we do that if I go ahead and double click on it the buttons in the
top relatively stay the same however now there's two additional buttons we have an auto enhance
button as well as an edit button in effect click on edit it now bumps all of the photos out from
the screen so we can focus on this one main photo and then I have all of these different sliders
and tools on the right hand side that allow me to manipulate and edit the phone and kudos to Apple
because this has gotten far better over the years now I'll only bring back the books I mean come on
now so photos you know we have all these different sliders different tools redeye retouching there's
really a lot here and then also across the top Center we have the adjustments is what we're
looking at here we have different filters so if that's your thing where you like the
you know Instagram feel or those quick one-click options to you know make your photos pop a little
bit more and they're just kind of these presets that allow you to you know play around with your
photos kind of fun the next thing is across the top we have our cropping option which allows us
to crop the photos and rotate the photos and all of that stuff as well so that is a quick overview
of photos it's a great application for for being right on your Mac so check it out and if you liked
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