I know what's out here to-do list it's been on my to-do list and probably your to-do list from last
year in the year before good time everyone's to-do list let's organize your photos welcome
back everyone it's so nice to see you again today we're gonna take a look at organizing our photos
with albums inside of photos for this example here I've not organized anything at all this is
starting from scratch so when I open up photos I'm brought to all of my individual photos here
and I do have the pre built-in organization from Apple with the moments and the collections and the
years options that we have up here but for the moment let's just break it down and take it one
step further what we're here on the left hand side we have this my albums selection and to the right
of it we have this little plus sign so if we click this little plus sign this allows us to give three
different choices we can either create an album a smart album or a folder so let's just start
with a regular album now when I do regular album the first thing is asking me is what do I want
to call that album so for me I'm gonna go ahead and type in ice castles 2019 and press return
on the keyboard so essentially I have to kind of think about how I want to organize my pictures so
I'm creating an album to further categorize the photos that I already have and so when I'm going
through all of my photos if I go back to here now first and foremost if I ever want to know
how many photos I have if I scroll all the way down towards the bottom of photos it will tell me
there's 735 photos and 19 videos so it's kind of nice to know how much you have but through those
seven hundred and seventy or 735 photos I want to quickly be able to narrow down the pictures that
I'm looking for so I created this ice castles 2019 album so that I can quickly organize these
pictures now really really easy way to get them in there is we just select them and drag them so if
I click and hold on one picture I can go over and you'll notice as I hover over that album I get a
little plus sign with a green circle I let go and now when I select that album there's that picture
if I go back to photos I can select multiple pictures I can select this one and hold down
command on the keyboard and select an additional one and this one and this one so really quick
whenever you're selecting multiple photographs there's always multiple ways to do it if I want
to pick and choose this picture in that picture in this picture in a non sequential order I need
to command the computer to do that so I'm gonna hold down the command key on the computer and as I
do that I can now be a selective about the photos that I want to select in my selection so then when
I click and hold now and drag I am able to drag all four of those photographs over into that album
I let go when I click on that album there they are now if I go back to photos if I want to do a whole
range of pictures so let's say I want every single picture from this first one down to the last one
if I click on the first one or the last it doesn't matter I need to hold down shift on the keyboard
so if I hold down shift on the keyboard I see I've selected the first one I then go select
the last one and it does a sequential order of everything between those two points so that's
really nice also to then just be able to click hold and drag and put those photographs into that
album now you'll notice when I do that if you've already put a photo in your album that you weren't
quite sure that you already did it or not it's not going to keep on adding that same picture to
the album because it are he knows it's there same thing if I delete a picture out of the album it's
not gonna give me any warning because I haven't actually deleted the photograph I've just removed
it from the album so if I go back to photos where those pictures actually live here are those two
pictures I can then re select them and add them back into that album now there's other ways to
add photographs to there as well I find this the easiest way to add to an album but let's say that
I wanted to start with a selection of photos first instead of creating an album first so right about
these ice castle pictures we have this concert and I want to add all of these photographs to this
concert so I'm gonna select the first one hold down shift on the keyboard select the last one
and if I go to the menu bar I can go up to file and you'll notice that it gives me a few different
choices I can do a new album with the selection of these 30 photos as well as a new smart album or
a new folder so I'm just gonna do new album with selection and right off the bat it automatically
creates that new album for me and it just wants me to retitle it so i'ma say Zoe the band and
there's that album for us so really really quick to create those albums something cool about the
albums too is when you when you have this this organization it makes it really really easy to
showcase them to family or friends it gives you options at the top here to do show as memory and
it kind of groups them all into a memory for us or if I go back to the album again so if we click on
slideshow it gives me options for these different types of themes of how the slideshow would look
and you can kind of play around with these also just a nice way that it showcased these photos
if you're sitting there with Grandma or mom or dad or brother sister whoever it may be and a
really nice way to showcase to someone they have these different themes as well as music that you
can either choose from iTunes or you can do the pre-selected theme songs as well now the ton of
choices but hey it's better than nothing now as we move along the other options that we saw we're
smart albums and folders now I'll come back to smart album in a moment let me go ahead and do
folder first so a folder this is where you kind of have to think about how you want to organize your
pictures and I've seen it done so many different ways over the years it really depends on what
works best for you and how you want to do it I have seen it where some people create a folder
based off of the year so you have the folder labeled 2019 and we could do that and instead of
doing the ice castles and naming that album 2019 I could just label it ice castles delete 2019 and I
can drag this album into this folder because let's assume that I go to the ice castles every single
year so I could have a folder based off of year and then put the albums as they were like events
or things that I did adventures whatever it may be inside of that folder and then respectively I
would have the kind of a same folder every single year I could do that for holidays or birthdays
whatever makes sense to you there's no right or wrong answer so 2019 we could do ice castles
I could also go back to the photos and let's say let's see okay here are some winter pictures of my
boys a side note here you'll see a lot of pictures that I do I do a lot of photography on the side
and mostly you'll see a lot of my two boys they're kind of my guinea pigs they're my mini models and
they're really a lot of fun to work with and as you can see they are definitely not camera shy so
you're gonna see a lot of them here but let's say that I want to put these these boys my two boys
here these kind of Christmas winter themed photos into an a folder now I'm gonna go ahead and do a
folder and we'll just say winter now if I go back to photos and I select these photographs I want
you to see what happens when I drag these pictures into that winter folder notice what it does it
creates an album not it doesn't put the pictures in the folder so just keep that in mind photos are
organized and albums album albums are organized in folders you can't actually put a picture inside
of a folder it just doesn't work and we have to retrain our minds to of how photos wants us to
think because when you're working with all of your documents and everything outside of photos
we store everything inside of folders so it's a little bit different when you're working inside of
here but always know that your pictures are stored within albums and those albums get organized into
the folders to create more depth of organization so here I could do winter 2019 and I could have
another album that says winter 2020 or winter 2018 so as far as the example actually I would
do something like that so everything that I put in this folder is winter and then here's everything
from 2019 or I say these are winter pictures and instead of putting this album inside of this
folder I would put it in the 2019 folder because these were taken during 2019 so there's no right
or wrong way it's whatever makes sense to you so just know that albums go into folders and folders
are kind of the top hierarchy of your organization now we can also take this folder and put it inside
of the folder so now we can nest a folder within a folder and then it gets super organizational
chaos and I mean if you want to do that by all means me that's a lot of work and I just now
there's there's so many other tools that allow me to organize right off the bat that I don't
necessarily get that granular with my photos but you certainly can it's there if you need it now
the last option here for albums is smart albums and smart albums are really kind of cool they're
going to automatically pull in photographs based off of the criteria that you set here so here
one thing that I like to do is create an album of photos I've retouched wherever you are I've edited
so I could say edited pictures so I can go through these categories and as I go through here I could
say okay the photo is or is not and here it gives me all sorts of different choices and I can say
edit it so now notice it says five items matched so it tells me that there's five photographs and I
can click OK and so now you'll notice on the left hand side it has this little gear option because
I can't just drag photos into that that smart album the smart album is automatically going to
pull based off of the criteria that I've set so if I click on edited photos here those pictures
that I have now let's go ahead and show how this works if I go back up to photos and I went let's
say I just open up see let's take let's take this picture and let's say we want to change the black
and white so I can go ahead and do edits and we can just go to the black and white settings and
I can play with the slider here and I have further options and I can play around with this also but I
just want to show you that as soon as I chose done here and I go back over to my evident photos in my
albums that picture is now going to appear in that smart album so the smart album is always going to
automatically pull based off of the criteria if you ever want to change that criteria of
what you set for it you can either right click on that album and do edit smart album or you can go
through the menu bar here and you can do file edit smart album also and that you two go ahead and
change those parameters that you set before now let's go ahead and create another smart album and
as you look here there's so many different options I could say maybe I want to pull in all of the the
photos that were taken with my iPhone this is kind of helpful because as the years go on you know you
may get a new iPhone every year every other year so you want to say show me all of the pictures
that I took with my iPhone 6 and that could've been three years ago so we could go to camera
model and we could say you know either includes or does not includes or is and when you go through
the the options here it's gonna show you every single photo that was that has a camera associated
to it now unless these pictures were scanned in from a scan or something like that you're not
gonna have the camera associated to it because it was scanned in the the computer has no idea what
camera took that photograph but for me shows my Canon camera as well as my iPhone 8 and this is
probably my drone is my guess for the FC 300 model so let's do first and foremost iPhone so you'll
notice as soon as I say camera model is iPhone 8 it's gonna pull every single photo from my eye
that was taken with an iPhone 8 not necessarily my iPhone aids but if someone else sent me a picture
it would have that information also associated but now I can label that smart album iPhone 8
pictures and we'll notice that there's 75 matched items with that I click ok and now over here on
the left hand side I have my new smart album with iPhone 8 pictures and now it makes it very
very easy to find every single photograph that was taken with my iPhone 8 so smart albums are
really really cool it makes it really really nice to further organize all of the photos that have
on top of all of the other photos and memories and favorites and and organization that photos
comes with so overall that is albums on your Mac thank you so much for watching I hope you enjoyed
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