Get to know Apple’s Photos app and how best to use it to import, manage, edit, sync, and share your photos in Sonoma and iOS 17/iPadOS 17! As the successor to Apple’s iPhoto and Aperture apps, Photos has a more refined interface and deeper connections to iCloud, and it runs faster. Following the expert advice of Jason Snell, publisher of Six Colors and former lead editor at Macworld, you’ll learn how to navigate Photos like a pro!
Also available: A bundle of Take Control of iPhone Photography and Take Control of Photos for just $19.
In this book, you’ll learn how to:
- Import photos from cameras, mobile devices, or memory cards
- Navigate the Photos interface, including the sidebar and icons
- View, edit, or disable Live Photos
- Organize your library by using enhanced search features, adding metadata, building albums, and creating smart albums
- Locate and remove duplicate photos
- Search for text, faces, and other objects in photos
- Edit your photos using quick fixes like cropping, applying filters, and fixing red-eye and rotation problems
- Use advanced editing techniques within Photos and edit using external apps like Photoshop
- Manage your photo collection using the Memories and People & Pets features, and get summary views
- Sync and share individual photos and videos with iCloud
- Use iCloud Shared Photos to share a separate library with up to five other people
- Work with multiple Photos libraries
- Show off your photos on an iPhone or iPad, including customizing your lock screen
- Use the Camera app in iOS/iPadOS to capture photos and videos
- View your photos on an Apple TV
- Share your photos via social media, export them out of Photos, or turn them into slideshows
- Create printed objects (such as books and calendars) from your photos using third-party services
About Jason Snell
Jason Snell has been writing about Apple since it was doomed—1994, to be exact—and was the lead editor for Macworld for more than a decade. He also oversaw editorial operations for PCWorld, TechHive, and Greenbot. He currently writes about technology at sixcolors.com, and hosts the Upgrade and Download podcasts at relay.fm, and produces and hosts many other podcasts at theincomparable.com.
Clive Huggan (verified owner) –
Like all Jason Snell’s writings I’ve read over the years, Take Control of Photos is an expert, extremely comprehensive, thoughtfully written book. I frequently recommend it to colleagues, friends and user group members.
The only reservation I have with this particular book is that when I want information about Photos on the Mac, I have to be careful that I’m not reading about Photos on iOS; sometimes I have to look back a page or so to be sure. I’d have to say that I’d prefer a Mac part separate from an iOS part — which shouldn’t be much of a problem with an electronic book; there could be cross-platform links where the reader might want to go between Mac and iOS.
But that’s a minor quiblle; it’s a book that I heartily recommend!
Arlan Smith (verified owner) –
I agree, please keep the Mac and IOS parts completely separate in future versions. Otherwise, there is lots of good stuff here if you can just keep the separate operating system versions sorted.
Joe Kissell –
@Clive, @Arlan Thanks for your feedback. Unfortunately, there’s no practical way to keep the Mac stuff separate from the iOS/iPadOS stuff, because that would require massive amounts of duplicate text. It would make the book vastly longer and even more cumbersome to navigate. Sorry, we realize it’s not ideal either way, but our current approach is the lesser of two evils. —Joe