Photos for macOS Monterey and iPhone Essential Training
1h 18mGeneral2021-12-06
Authors

Derrick Story
Photographer, Writer, Teacher, Senior Contributor at Macworld
Course details
With the free Photos for macOS software from Apple, you can manage, enhance, and share photos in a variety of ways. In this course, photographer, author, and educator Derrick Story takes you on a detailed exploration of Photos for macOS. Derrick gives you a tour of the interface and the headline new features, then goes into detail on the ways you can use Live Text to transform your camera into your personal assistant. He shows you how to search for pictures by object type, copy images from messages to Photos, use Quick Notes with Photos, and automate common tasks with shortcuts. Derrick walks you through the improved importing process and gives you some useful tips on organizing and editing your pictures directly in Photos. Plus, he shows you where to find more tips and techniques for working with Photos for macOS.
Skills covered
Apple PhotosAsset ManagementApplePhotographyGraphic DesignEssential Training
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - The power of Photos in macOS Monterey and on your iPhone
- 02 - A tour of the Photos interface
- 03 - What's new in Photos for macOS Monterey
- 04 - How to use the exercise files
1. Live Text - Using Your Camera as a Personal Assistant
- 05 - Overview of Live Text on your Mac
- 06 - How to copy words in a photo and save them as text
- 07 - Looking up information based on words in a photo
- 08 - Converting screenshots into editable text
- 09 - Using Live Text on your iphone
2. Tapping the Mac's Built-In Intelligence
- 10 - Searching for pictures by object type
- 11 - Copying images from messages to Photos on your Mac
- 12 - Copying images from messages to Photos from an iPhone
- 13 - Using quick notes with Photos
- 14 - Automating common tasks with shortcuts
3. Improved Importing
- 15 - Basic workflow for adding images to your Photos library
- 16 - Import images from another Photos library in macOS Monterey
- 17 - Further enhancing capabilities with PowerPhotos
- 18 - Importing raw+jpeg pairs
4. Organizing and Editing Pictures in Photos
- 19 - Organizing your pictures using the left sidebar
- 20 - Tapping the info button for more information
- 21 - Quick edits in browsing mode
- 22 - Further image enhancement in editing mode
- 23 - Getting professional results with editing extensions
- 24 - Exporting pictures out of Photos
- 25 - Trimming and editing videos in Photos
Conclusion
- 26 - More Photos training on LinkedIn Learning
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