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Want Apple TV tips? If you want to learn how to get the very best out of your Apple TV, please visit my Apple TV website. Google+? If you use social media and happen to be a Google+ user, why not join AppleHolic's Kool Aid Corner community and join the conversation as we pursue the spirit of the New Model Apple? In a wider sense, you should add metadata to all your most important pictures, but for best results keep it simple, confining it to people, places and events, as this avoids you ending up with too many keywords to search through. This also means you can assign star ratings in this format to make sure your best images are gathered together. Smart albums now looks for those keywords. Star ratings may be gone in Photos, but do you add metadata to your images? You should - if you have imported images with star ratings from iPhoto into Photos you’ll find Apple has given each rated image a keyword like 2 star or 3 star (or even 5 star). Do not copy images from one library to a copy of itself as this may corrupt your collection(s). Now you can drag-&-drop images from one collection to the one in which you wish to consolidate your pictures.A second Photos app will open, in which you can select a different image Library.Type the following command and hold the Option key immediately after pressing Enter to execute it:.Open the image collection you want in Photos using the Options key to select the library you need.Perhaps you have multiple image libraries? Sadly, Photos only lets you open one collection at a time and doesn’t provide an easy way to merge collections, but it’s still possible using Terminal. You may end up with some duplication and the process can devour bandwidth, so run the process when you’re not going to be online for a while. Apple does a poor job explaining that when you enable the cloud library on multiple Macs and iOS devices each with their own independent library, all that happens is the libraries are merged and the combined collection made available across all your devices.
One thing that stops many Mac users enabling iCloud Photo Library is fear of ending up with duplicate or missing images. Select that image while depressing the Option key, drag-&-drop that image to your Desktopīoth the still image (.JPG) and video (.MOV) versions of the picture should be there for use.
Now in the Photos Menu bar select Image and look for Copy Adjustments, which will be an available command if you have applied any adjustments to that image. It works like this: When you are pleased with the Edit in one image you should Save it, then reopen that image’s Edit dialog (or select the image and hit Return to open it in Edit view). That’s great, but did you know you can save adjustments you have applied to one image for use in another? These let you adjust lights and exposure, apply filters and use Extensions ( below). I’m sure you know Photos has a range of image editing tools. I’m collecting Photos tips and queries at present, but here are five useful tips you may need.
Apple’s image management and editing application, Photos, is an essential component of any Mac and iPhone owner’s digital life, but some of the things it can do are both hard to find and essential.