Apple's has built upon the reliable foundations laid out by iPhoto and Photos for iOS to offer users like you a speedy and functional way to manage, edit, and share all their images (without any of the stress). Plus, with the, you can really get creative with your memories and make something awesome! Whether this is your first time using a photo management app, you're upgrading from iPhoto, or you're exploring a non-Aperture or Lightroom avenue, here's what you need to know about Photos for macOS! The first time you open Photos, you're shown an overview of what exactly the app will look like once you upload all your pictures, videos, and memories. You'll get a quick rundown of what you can expect.
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May 29, 2017 - By default, when you import photos inside, iPhoto operates kind of like. For example, if you ever wanted to stop using a Mac, and start using a. Manage and edit all of their photos are: iPhoto or Picasa (for those. Especially if there isn't any specific features exclusive to Lightroom that you have to have.
One option with the Photos app is being able to make physical memories, like calendars, collages, mugs, and more, but they're only available in the U.S., Canada, Japan, and certain European and Pacific Asian countries. The introduction will show you how you can organize and categorize your photos. • From here, your path diverges a bit depending on whether you're new to photo management or a former iPhoto, Aperture, or Lightroom user. If you're brand new to managing photos on your Mac Do you have folders of unorganized images glaring at you from your desktop?

Have you never used one of Apple's other Mac photo programs like iPhoto or Aperture? Photos makes it simple to get that content off your desktop and iPhone and into Photos on the Mac and in the cloud. Once you've finished the initial setup process, you can get started by uploading your pictures and videos or by taking a tour. If you are unfamiliar with Photos, then the tour is the best way to go! Once you're finished the tour, you can go ahead and either.
• Connect a camera or memory card • Drag pictures directly into Photos • Choose import from the file menu • Turn on iCloud Photo Library in Preferences. And just like that, you're good to start uploading photos! If you're upgrading from iPhoto or Aperture. Apple announced in 2014 that it would no longer continue developing for iPhoto or Aperture, its older photo storage and editing programs for the Mac. Instead, the company launched Photos. If you've been resisting the transition, but have finally decided to switch to Photos on the Mac, it isn't as painful as you might thing. If you only had a single iPhoto library on your Mac, it should upgrade automatically as soon as you open the Photos app.
Your old iPhoto library will still remain if you need to use iPhoto for whatever reason, but changes made to those older images won't automatically sync to your new Photos library. If you had multiple libraries on your machine, Photos will ask you to select which library you'd like to import. Unfortunately, you can't consolidate multiple libraries into a single Photos library — you have to pick which one you want to use. (If you need to do this, you can use Aperture first to consolidate libraries, then import that unified library into Photos.) A note for Lightroom users looking to switch If you switched to Lightroom a while ago but now want to make the move to Photos, your best bet is to load your Lightroom folders and files directly into Photos. Just note down where they're stored on your hard drive, and then import away.
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How to import images and folders into Photos After you've gotten Photos set up, the next step is to import your images. Here's what you need to know about bringing your older pictures and libraries to Photos for Mac. • Open Photos from your Dock or Applications folder. • Click on the File menu.
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• Select Import (or type command-Shift-I). • Find and select the image(s) you're looking to import. • Click Review for Import. The file will now be added to your Photos library. In the Finder, you can also simply drag and drop the images you want to import onto the Photos icon; Photos will import them. Bear in mind, though, that Photos' default behavior is not to include original images in imports. It keeps links to them, so you can use Photos to edit or catalog them but still keep them where they are.

This is a double-edged sword: It reduces the size of Photos' library but if your goal is to clean up folders and disks with lots of photos on them, it can get confusing. To put everything actually in your Photos library, make sure to modify Photos' preferences to copy imported files to your Photos library. There's another important reason to do this if you plan to share those imported images on other devices: Only items copied to Photos' library will be uploaded to iCloud Photo Library. How to copy imported files to your Photos library • With Photos open, click on the Photos. • Click Preferences. • Check Copy items to the Photos Library. How to import your iPhoto Library into Photos for macOS If you have a single iPhoto Library If you're upgrading to Photos for Mac from iPhoto and you've only ever had a single iPhoto library on your Mac, your upgrade path is easy: After you open the app for the first time, Photos will automatically import all your iPhoto images into the app.