hi welcome back my name is Joel and today's lesson is learning how to give photos into your computer
alright thanks for joining me today it's great to see your wonderful smiling faces now today we're
going to discuss about giving and importing photographs from various places to your Apple
computer and specifically to start with photos and there's so many ways to do this but I want
to keep it simple and we're gonna discuss getting photos maybe you have them on a flash drive maybe
someone gave them to you or maybe you have a CD that you want to import from because someone gave
it to you I don't know why or a memory card from a camera and there's multiple ways to do this but
no matter which way you do it the process is relatively the same so let's go ahead and walk
through some of that now I don't have a camera here next to me because I'm using it to record
so I do have the memory card from the camera and depending on the memory card that you use your
Mac may have an SD card slot in it if it doesn't I would highly recommend to find and purchase a
SD card or a memory card reader a lot of times it has multiple slots in there for various different
media you might have compact flash you may have a Sony camera you may have an SD card so I'll pick
up one of these you can get them for you know 20 bucks on Amazon but let's go ahead and get started
so first and foremost when we go into photos we're gonna open this up and if you've never
been to photos before and this is essentially what you're gonna see the very very first time
so welcome to photos to get started with photos do any of the following get connect a camera or
a memory card drag pictures directly into photos choose import from the file menu or turn on iCloud
photos and preferences now today we're going to discuss mostly these three choices here
iCloud photos is a whole nother beast and we'll cross that bridge when we get there now let's go
ahead and start with your handed the old school probably what you won't be accustomed to that to
that often that's good old fashioned CD now a lot of the newer Apple computers don't even have CD
players anymore our optical drives so I have one of the Apple Super drives here which allows me
to connect and we're gonna toss the CD in just like that and whenever you connect an external
hard drive or a camera or memory card or a CD and you plug it into your computer nine times
out of ten it should show up on your desktop so in a moment here we should see a pop up on the
screen and here it is now if we go ahead and double click on the icon we're gonna see all
of the photos that are on that disk and it's kind of slow so it'll take a moment for it to actually
show the thumbnails here but like photo said we can go ahead and drag the pictures directly
into photos and there's multiple ways to do that I'm gonna just do a keyboard shortcut I'm gonna
click on one of these photos in here to let the computer know that I'm selected in here I can do
the keyboard shortcut command a I could click and hold and drag my cursor and do a marquee
selection multiple ways to actually do selection that's covered in a whole nother video but for the
moment would do command a and I'm just gonna move this window to the side here and we're gonna drag
these photographs right into photos and as we do that will pop back over here it'll be a moment
for it to recognize the pictures and if we click on imports over here this is where it's going to
show us the photographs being imported now there's a little progress bar or a little indicator in the
top left that has a little circle that says importing and this could take a few minutes
depending on how many photos there are how big the files are there's a it could take a couple
moments so we're just gonna go ahead and wait now as they start importing they're gonna all go into
the library of photos and that's pretty much it if you're looking to import photos from a disk
you can literally just open it up and drag and drop it in to photos and that is going to copy
them into your photos library alright so you notice that photos successfully imported 24
files it gives us a little notification letting us know that it's completed from the disk so let's go
ahead and do the flash drive so we plugged in our flash drive we go ahead and double click
on that on the desktop and again we can just select a few photos here we don't have to do
them all and we can just drag them into photos now what's cool about this is if it's the same
exact photo it will actually recognize and use the metadata all of the information about that
photo to let you know if one already exists so on this example I had the same or some of the
same photos on that CD as the as well as the the flash drive so as I drag that in it says hey hold
up it's already recognizing some of these photos do I want to import this duplicate photo or don't
import so for this I'm gonna say nope I don't want to import that and then it's gonna ignore that one
photo from the flash drive and there it is and again another notification saying it's imported
and it's done now another cool thing is I don't even have to open up photos in order to drag it
there first and what I mean by that is if I go ahead and close out of photos and quit it if I
open up the finder here and I still have my flash drive if I select again some of these photographs
I can actually just drag them down to photos on the dock and it will actually do the importing
for me now when I do that it gives up it gives a little bit different menu here it says okay hey
you have one photo already imported and we're not gonna want to import that but it says you
have nine new photos so we can ignore that one and we can just focus on the nine new photos
and in the top right that says import all new photos now there's some other options along here
too we can import directly into the big giant photo library or we can import directly into a
particular album which is which is kind of nice for organization right off the bat we'll get to
that later as we cover the organization but this is all for importing so right now we're
gonna leave it as library and we're gonna do import all new photos and then the same process
it goes through and now it's gonna import those photographs into the main photo library and voila
it's done now one last thing we'll cover with the memory card and as you guessed it the process is
going to look almost identical first we will eject both of these CD and flash drive so on the finder
here if I scroll down I can actually click the little eject button on the left hand side in the
side bar or I can right click on the flash drive here and do eject or another way I can actually
drag this down to the trash can and notice how it turns into an eject symbol so trash can if I drag
this down it changes it to eject and that also allows me to eject it and it's really important
especially for flash drives to eject because if you just pull the plug on it you have potential
to corrupt and lose information on the flash drive and we don't want that to happen especially with
your memory card so let's do the same thing I have my memory card here and I'll go ahead and
plug in my memory card reader we'll plug this in and because photos is already open and it
recognizes that it's a digital memory card again it pulls up the device in the left hand side so
it says hey it looks like you have a memory card from a Canon camera and it's selected on the left
hand side and it shows me hey there's 2360 new items on this flash drive and another option
that popped up because the computer sees this as a memory card it says hey do you want to open photos
for this device and what that means is every time I plug this same exact memory card in this is a
preference that will automatically launch photos for me so that they don't have to manually do it
every single time so I'm gonna go ahead and check that to do that and again we're gonna
do it into the library and here you know I have a lot of different photos on here from multiple
events really so here for example is a trip to Duluth and I can go in and I can individually
select photographs to import I don't necessarily have to do everything because there may be some
pictures that I don't want to import so as you can see as I go through and click some of these
photographs it's putting that little check box or that little blue circle on the bottom right
to indicate that I have imported or I'm wanting to import these photographs now as I scroll down
farther you know clicking one at a time can get kind of tedious so you're able to do a multiple
selection so let's go down to an another event here still Duluth and but if you haven't met to
Duluth it's amazing I mean go there it's a nice little getaway it's cold right you know Minnesota
as we scroll down here's some more photographs from here's a concert that I have videotaped and
took some photos at so let's say that's I want to do multiple photos of this so instead of clicking
every single one I can actually select multiple photos to different ways I can click and hold
outside of the folder or full up photo and make what's called a marquee selection so it's creating
this little box and anything that box touches is going to be selected so that's option number one
to select multiple photos option number two is if I click on the first one hold down shift on
the keyboard and then click on the end one it does everything in between so holding down shift does
a sequential order of selecting photographs and those techniques have been across the computer
everywhere so if you're dealing with files in your finder or other applications this is
the keyboard shortcuts and those those tricks are essentially the same so as I scroll down
elected all of the photos that I want here's will just add a few more from the ice castles
and with these I'll just go ahead and click on them as well individually because maybe I don't
want them all and so now in the top right I have a few different options instead of import all new
items it now gives me the option to import the 48 selected items that way I'm picking and choosing
what I want to currently bring into photos and I can always go back and re import the ones I
didn't do at a later point in time now it also gives us a little checkbox to delete items after
import my preference and recommendation would be not to check that just leave it alone I wish
they didn't even have it I always like to have a safety net and if something were to go wrong
during the import process or something happened in the computer as it was importing the last thing
I wanted to do is have an error and then also delete it on the memory card and then just we
just don't want that so don't even think about checking that it's not worth it so we're gonna
go ahead and do import 40s paint selected items and again in the top left really quick it's gonna
show us a little progress bar of it importing and whenever you're importing from a memory card or a
flash drive it goes really fast the CD drive goes super super slow so just just keep that in mind
but you probably won't be doing this too often you'll most likely be doing it from the camcorder
or a memory card or flash drive or a hard drive something like that so essentially that is the
process of importing photos into photos and as we go through here I can scroll through them and I
can see all of the photos and what's cool also is it'll actually split up the photos based off the
date and we'll get more into that about the the organization of your photos when we do another
video for organizing the albums and and all of that but just know that it's pulling the date from
the camera that took the photo so if the date your camera is wrong you're gonna have pictures sorted
automatically wrong based off of date so thanks for watching I hope this tutorial was helpful
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