Get to know Apple’s Photos app and how best to use it to import, manage, edit, sync, and share your photos in Monterey and iOS 15/iPadOS 15! 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 Your Digital Photos and Take Control of Photos for just $20.
In this book, you’ll learn how to:
- Import photos from cameras, mobile devices, or memory cards
- Use multiple Photos libraries
- 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
- 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 features, and get summary views
- Sync and share your photos with iCloud
- 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
Jason also covers new sharing and search options, an improved Memories feature (in iOS 15 and iPadOS 15; coming soon to Monterey), importing other Photos libraries, and more.
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.
What's New in Version 2.2
In macOS 12 Monterey, iOS 15, and iPadOS 15, Photos has grown and changed. Here are the highlights of the biggest changes in the new versions of Photos.
Revamped Memories
Apple has completely updated the Memories feature for iOS and iPadOS 15. There are more animations and transitions, and a wider range of music. See “Relive Moments with Memories.” (The new Memories are coming to macOS Monterey with a software update in late 2021 or early 2022.)
Sharing and Search Options
The new Shared With You concept brings images out of Messages and into your Photos Library. You can also add images from Messages to your Photos Library with a single tap. Get all the details in See “Photos Shared by Others.”
Better Search Intelligence
Apple has upgraded its photo scanning engine to recognize more kinds of subjects. Some objects are even annotated with links from the Web. (See “Identify Objects in Your Images.”) You can now use Spotlight to search your photos in detail. See “Search in Spotlight and Siri.”
Import a Photos Library
Mac users can now import the contents of one Photos library into another. Original and edited photos come over, but other metadata does not. For the details, see “Combine Your Photos Libraries. ”
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!