photos for mac 3 · capitan, you are using photos 1.x. if you are running an even earlier version...

Photos for Mac 3.0

by Ruth Davis Mac2School

WORKING WITH PHOTOS IN BATCHES 3 .............................................

UPGRADING TO THE NEW PHOTOS APP 4 ...........................................

NAVIGATING 5 ................................................................................

SELECTING PHOTOS 7 .....................................................................

ALBUMS 8 ......................................................................................

FOLDERS 10 ...................................................................................

TAGGING PHOTOS FOR FAST FINDING 10 ...........................................

FINDING PHOTOS 13 .......................................................................

MEMORIES 14 .................................................................................

PROJECTS 14 ..................................................................................

EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 3.0 15 .................................................

EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 2.0 22 .................................................

EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 1.X 24 .................................................

ADJUSTING A PHOTO’S SIZE AND RESOLUTION FOR SUBMISSIONS 25 ..

EMAILING PHOTOS WITH APPLE MAIL 26 ............................................

SAVING PHOTOS YOU’VE RECEIVED IN AN EMAIL 27 ............................

KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS 29 ...............................................................

iCLOUD PHOTO LIBRARY 30 ..............................................................

PHOTO STREAM 31 ..........................................................................

iCLOUD PHOTO SHARING 32 ............................................................

CREATING A CUSTOM SCREENSAVER 32 .............................................

MOVING YOUR PHOTOS LIBRARY TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE 34 ......

BACKING UP 36..............................................................................

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It’s easy to get overwhelmed with our photos. Where do you begin to start organizing them? Do you have to title every single picture? How will you keep up with editing all of the new photos you’re taking?

First, you need to ask yourself, “When I’m looking for a picture, do I want to find it in an album, or just search for it by keyword or title, or date? This will determine how you want to tag and group your photos. Like most things in life, it’s best to begin where you are. If you have several thousand photos, you may never get to them all, so start with what’s newest, or most important.

Here is a quick and easy way to work with your photos in batches. The specific how-to’s can be found in the pages of this e-book.

WORKING WITH PHOTOS IN BATCHES 1.Navigate through your photos to find the ones you want to work with 2.Select them all and put them in a new album 3.Use Command+Delete to permanently delete any obvious bad photos from

the album AND from your Photo Library 4.Edit and crop the good ones so they tell the best story 5.Click the Information icon so that you can add titles, keywords, or

whatever you do to tag your pics, all in one screen 6.Click back on the photo 7.Use the arrows on the keyboard to move to the next photo and repeat

When you’re done with the batch, if you want to keep these photos in this album, you’re done. Or, you can delete the album, and the photos will still be in your All Photos Library, edited and ready to share.

Consider setting a timer and working for 20-30 minutes at a time, so you don’t get overwhelmed. Enjoy the trips down memory lane!



UPGRADING TO THE NEW PHOTOS APP

If you are running the Mac OS High Sierra, 10.13+, you are using Photos 3.0 If you are running the Mac OS Sierra 10.12+, you are using Photos 2.0

If you are running an older version of the MacOS 10.10-Yosemite or 10.11-El Capitan, you are using Photos 1.x.

If you are running an even earlier version of the Mac OS, you are still using iPhoto, which is a different product completely.

To check your Mac’s OS, click on the Apple menu and choose About This Mac.

To see what version of Photos you have, in Photos, under the Photos menu, click on About Photos.

The first time you open Photos you will be asked if you want to import/convert/upgrade your current Photo Library. Say yes. And then, from now on, you’ll use this NEW PHOTOS app.(If you have several Photo Libraries, you'll have to do this with each one.)



NAVIGATING The new Photos looks more like the mobile app and not at all like the previous version of iPhoto you may be used to.

From the View menu, you can choose to see the Sidebar, showing your familiar list of Albums.

Photos as grouped by Library and Albums and, if you have Photo Sharing turned on with iCloud, you also have a Shared section. All Photos are in the Photos Library, and there are new Libraries that group photos by Memories, Favorites, People (formerly Faces), Places, Imports and Recently Deleted.

To see all of your Photos, click either on Photos at the top of the Sidebar, or on the Photos tab at the top of the window.



ALL PHOTOS ARE IN the PHOTOS LIBRARY, based on the date and location taken. The tabs across the top group them by Year, then a Collection of dates, and then by individual days/Moments.

You cannot rearrange the order of your photos here, but you can rearrange your photos that are in Albums, by dragging them where you want them.

Because Collections already group your photos by the actual date of the occasion or trip or event, this can be an easy way to find a photo, or quickly share a group of photos.

Moments shows you the individual photos, by day, that make up that Collection.

Individual Photos 1.Click on one of the photos to see it larger 2.Scroll down below this larger image and you’ll see a map of where the

picture was taken 3.Scroll further down and you’ll see Related Photos and Memories that

the Photos app has created for you, based on those photos.



SELECTING PHOTOS

• To select more than one at a time, click on the first photo, hold down the Command key while clicking on others.

• You can also select several photos in a row by clicking on the first one, holding down the Shift key, and clicking on the last in the series

Deleting Photos To delete a photo, click once on the photo and press Delete. The photo goes into the Recently Deleted album, where it will stay for 30 days.

IMPORTANT!!! All photos are in Photos, the top choice in the sidebar. If you delete a photo from an album, it is still in the Photos. If you delete it from Photos it is gone from there AND all albums.

SECRET TIP: You CAN delete a photo from an album AND also have it delete from ALL Photos. 1.In an album, Right-Click or hold down the Control key and click on a photo 2.Choose Delete, the last item in the list Now the photo is gone from all albums AND your Photo Library

If you accidentally delete a photo you can get it back 1.In the Sidebar, click on the Recently Deleted Items icon

orFrom the View menu choose Library, and slide over to choose Recently Deleted Photos are held here for 30 days and each photo will tell you how many days are left.

2.Click on the photo/s you want to keep 3.Click Recover in the top right 4.If you want to delete them right away, click Delete All



ALBUMS Albums group photos together. The new Photos app has several pre-set albums to make things easy for you to find. The Media Type folder contains several albums so you can find videos, selfies, panoramas, screen shots and more.

If you have Photo Sharing turned on, you’ll also see an Sharing album.

To see the contents of these albums, click the triangle to the left of the album icon.

If you previously used Events in iPhoto to organize things, they are still available, in a folder called iPhoto Events.

Below that are My Albums with all of your existing Albums. You can still create your own Albums to group your favorite photos together so you can find them easily, to share in an email or text, create a memory, a calendar, a book, or for displaying on your computer screen as a screen saver.

All photos in albums are COPIES of the originals that remain in Photos.



Because Photos 3.0 automatically tags and groups your pictures by date, location, even the people in them, you don’t have to do as much sorting and creating albums, if you’re only using the albums to find photos.

Albums are still a really great way to group unrelated photos together, that the app doesn’t already do.

To Create a New Album 1. Select the photos you want in the album 2. From the File menu, choose New Album with Selection

orSelect the Photos and then Right-Click and choose Add To/ New Album at the top of the list OR You can first create an empty new album and then add photos to it: 1. Hover the cursor over the words My Albums and click the + that appears and choose Album2. Title the new album3. Select and drag photos on top of this album to put them in it

Choose the cover photo for your album 1.Open the album 2.Right-click or hold down the Control key and click on the photo you want

to be the cover photo 3.Choose Make Key Photo 4.Notice the image changes on the icon of the album

Rearrange the Order of Your Albums You can drag your albums up and down the list in the Sidebar or in the Albums window to arrange them in your own order.

Rename an Album To change the name of an album 1.Click once on it 2.In the big window at the top, click on the name of the album 3.Type the new name



To Delete an Album 1. Click on My Albums in the Sidebar 2. In the right window, click on the album you want to permanently delete 3. Press Command + Delete

or 4.Right-click on the album in the Sidebar and choose Delete Album

Smart Albums Smart Albums automatically move photos into a new album based on the conditions you create. 1. From the File menu, choose New Smart Album 2. Title it 3. Choose what criteria or conditions you want to use to choose the pictures

that will go into this album

FOLDERS If you have several albums that are related, you can group them in a folder. To Create a Folder 1.From the File menu choose New Folder

orHover the cursor over the words My Albums, then click the + that appears and choose Folder

2.Title it 3.Click once on it and a white area will appear on the right side 4.Drag the albums into the white area that you want to put in this folder

TAGGING PHOTOS FOR FAST FINDING Fast Favorites When reviewing photos, you can click the Heart icon at the top to automatically add it to the Favorites album. You can also tap the period key as a keyboard shortcut. If you don’t see the heart icon when you hover over a photo, go to the View menu, choose Metadata and check Favorite

Adding Titles to Photos 1. From the View menu choose Metadata and check Titles 2. Hover in the space below the photo and click 3. The text turns to your highlight color 4. Type a title for this photo



Using Keywords Keywords are tags or labels you can use to help you easily find your photos. Photos offers a selection of keywords, and you can add your own keywords to further identify your photos, ie. all lighthouses, flowers, clouds, dogs… To assign a keyword to a photo: 1. Click once on the photo 2. Press Command + I to Get Info 3. Enter the Keyword 4. To manage the Keywords you use, click on the Window menu and choose

Keyword Manager 5. To see the Keyword for your pics, under the View menu, choose

Metadata, and choose Keywords

If you tend to search for the same keywords, you can add them to the Showing Only menu 1.From the Window menu choose Keyword Manager 2.Drag your most frequently used keywords from the bottom panel into the

top panel of this window 3.Now these Keywords will be a choice under the Showing Only menu



Adding Descriptions You can add additional text as part of the information of a photo, ie. a memory, details about the area or the person, etc.

1. Click on the photo 2. Press Command + I to Get Info 3. Type your description

TIP: You can enter all of this information in one screen by clicking on the Information icon, the circle with the lower case “i” in the middle.



FINDING PHOTOS Now that you’ve taken the time to add titles, keywords and other tags, it’s so easy to find these pics. 1.Click on the Search box in the top right of the window 2.Type in what you are looking for 3.Photos will show you all of the photos that meet the criteria, by album

name, photo title, etc

Finding Photos by Category Photos can now identify common objects so that you can search for specific things even if you haven’t titled them. Try searching for Sunset or Dog and see what Photos finds.



Seeing Which Photos You’ve Edited If you want to look at All Photos and still discern which ones you’ve already edited 1.From the View menu, choose Metadata 2.Check Edited 3.All photos that have been edited will now have little slider icon on the

photo

MEMORIES One of the coolest new features of Photos is Memories. Because of all of the auto-tagging capabilities, Photos is able to group pictures together and create slideshows of photos it thinks go together. It’s a fun way to go down memory lane.

To see what Memories Photos has created for you, click on the Memories album.

To create your own Memory, first create an album, then click on the album and click on Show as Memory across the top.

PROJECTS Photos makes it so easy to create your own cards, calendar, photo books and more.

1.Select the photos you may want to use in your project and create an album

2.Click on the + icon to create a new project 3.Choose what you want 4.Give yourself time to play and experiment with the various layouts and

choices



EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 3.0 Photos 3.0 offers many new tools to enhance, crop and edit your photos so that they tell the best stories.

Edits that you make to a photo, no matter where it is, will affect the photo in all locations.

If you want to keep the original AND make changes to a copy you can first Duplicate the photo. 1. Click on the photo you want to duplicate 2.From the Image menu, choose Duplicate or press Command +D 3. Now you can work on one image without the changes affecting the other

Even after you edit your photo, you can always undo all of your changes by clicking Reset or Cancel or Restore to Original

Editing Photos Double click on the photo you want to edit to make it bigger Notice at the bottom are all of your photos. You can now use the arrow keys on the keyboard to quickly move through the series of photos.



In addition to the Edit button, across the top are several instant fixes: Rotate (Hold down the Option key while clicking to reverse the direction) Enhance - automatically adjusts the light and color Favorite -click on the heart to add the photo to your Favorites album

To do further editing, click Edit

Editing Tools Once you are in the Edit screen, across the top you can choose to ADJUST the light, play with various FILTERS and CROP your image You’ll find a variety of tools under each. Click on the triangles under each tool for more options.

Adjust This tool allows you manually adjust the exposure, contrast, saturation and more. To see more choices for each aspect, click the triangle to reveal



Filters The tool with the three circles offers you built-in filters that will change the look and color of your photo. Play with the different choices to see what they do.



Cropping 1. Click the crop tool 2. If you will be printing the cropped photo, click ASPECT and choose the

final desired size to constrain the image to that size and maintain the proper proportions (4x6 is the same as 3:2)

3. Drag the handles on the corners of the photo to resize what’s in the frame 4. Drag in the middle of the photo to reposition what is in the cropped frame 5. Click Done when you’re done

Retouch Used to blur out unwanted things in the photo like dots, a date, etc. Adjust the size of the tool, then drag it like a paintbrush across the blemish



Zooming You can zoom into your photo for more exact editing, or to see the image more clearly, by dragging the slider that is next to the red, yellow and green circles. Zooming also works to make the Thumbnails larger or smaller when you are looking at all of your Photos.



Extensions: Markup Now you can add text right on a photo 1. Double click a photo to edit it 2. Across the top, click on the circle tool with dots in it 3. Click on Markup 4. A toolbar appears, with several new tools 5. To add text, click the Text tool, the T in a box. It will place a text box on

the photo 6. Type your text 7. To reposition the words, drag in the middle of them 8. To change the color, size, font, double click on the words to highlight

them, then click on the Format tool, the A and make your choices 9. To delete a text box, click once on it and press the Delete key 10.You can also add shapes, lines, borders and free-form drawing



Live Photos If you have an iPhone 6 or higher, in addition to video, your camera can take a LIVE photo, which is like a very mini video. You can edit these photos to select a single frame, even loop the LIVE photo for fun. To change the Playback on a Live Photo, click Adjust



EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 2.0 Photos offers many tools to enhance, crop and edit your photos so that they tell the best story.

1. Double click on the photo you want to edit to make it bigger 2. There is no longer an Edit button, but across the top right are several

new tools 3. Click the icon of three horizontal slides at the top right to enter the Edit

mode 4. Begin working with this selected photo 5. When you’re ready to edit other photos, you can find them across the

bottom 6. Use the arrow keys on the screen or your keyboard to move through the

series, or click with the cursor 7. When you are finished all editing, click Done in the upper right

To see what each icon is, hover your cursor over the tools to reveal the text labels.

Enhance Automatically adjusts the color and lighting of your photo

Rotating Click the rotate button to turn your photo Hold down the Option key while clicking to reverse the direction

Cropping 1. Click the crop tool 2. If you will be printing the cropped photo, click ASPECT and choose the

final desired size to constrain the image to that size and maintain the proper proportions

3. Drag the handles on the corners to resize what’s in the frame 4. Drag in the middle of the photo to reposition what is in the cropped size 5. Click Done when you’re done

Filters The tool with the three circles offers you built-in filters that will change the look and color of your photo. Play with the different choices to see what they do.

Adjust This tool allows you manually adjust the exposure, contrast, saturation and more. To see the choices, hover your cursor on the line you want to work



with. A large down-facing arrow will appear at the right side. A smaller arrow next to the word is there for you to reset your changes. To add more tools, click Add and choose the other adjustments you’d like to have available.


Extensions: Markup Now you can add text right on a photo. 1. Click on Extensions 2. Click on Markup 3. A toolbar appears, with several new tools 4. To add text, click the Text tool, the T in a box. It will place a text box on

the photo 5. Type your text 6. To reposition the words, drag in the middle of them 7. To change the color, size, font, double click on the words to highlight

them, then click on the Format tool, the A and make your choices 8. To delete a text box, click once on it and press the Delete key 9. You can also add shapes, lines, borders and free-form drawing

You can always undo all of your changes by clicking Reset or Cancel or Restore to Original

Edits that you make to a photo, no matter where it is, will affect the photo in all locations.



EDITING PHOTOS IN PHOTOS 1.X 1. Click once on a photo then click Edit at the bottom 2. Across the top you’ll see all of the photos in the group 3. Use the arrow keys on the screen or your keyboard to move through the

series

Rotating Click the rotate button Hold down the Option key while clicking to reverse the direction

Cropping 1. Click the crop tool 2. If you will be printing the cropped photo, click ASPECT to constrain the

image to the final print size to maintain the proper proportions 3. Drag the handles on the corners to resize what’s in the frame 4. Drag in the middle of the photo to reposition what is in the cropped

size 5. Click Done when you’re done

Enhance Automatically adjusts the color and lighting of your photo

Adjust Lets you manually adjust the exposure, contrast, saturation and more


Effects Changes a photo to sepia, black and white, antique, faded color and more

You can always undo all of your changes by clicking Reset



ADJUSTING A PHOTO’S SIZE AND RESOLUTION FOR SUBMISSIONS Many artists need to be able to send photos in a particular size and resolution. The Photos app can’t do this, but it’s easy to use Apple’s Preview app to do this. 1.Drag the photo you need to adjust to the Desktop 2.Double click to open the image and Preview will open 3.From the Tools menu, choose Adjust Size 4.Make your necessary changes to the size and resolution 5.Save the changes

This will NOT change the photo in your Photos app, but you can drag this resized photo back into Photos if you desire. Or you may want to keep it in a separate folder with other images that you have resized for submissions.



EMAILING PHOTOS WITH APPLE MAIL 1. Choose the photo/s you want to send 2. Click on the Share icon, the square with the up facing arrow 3. Choose Mail 4. If you’ve shared with this person before, their name will appear at the

bottom of the list 5. Mail will open and create the email with the photo/s attached. You can

choose what size (medium is great)



SAVING PHOTOS YOU’VE RECEIVED IN AN EMAIL (this only works if you are using Apple Mail) If someone emails you a photo that you want to keep 1.In Mail, click on the email 2.Hover on the horizontal line between the address header and the message

are 3.Click on the icon of the paper clip 4.Choose Export to Photos 5.The Photos app will bounce in the Dock when it’s done 6.Open Photos and the picture will be in your Photos Library (in date order)

as well as in the Imports Library 7.Now you can delete the email you’ve been saving



IMPORTING PHOTOS FROM A DVD OR USB FLASH DRIVE You can import photos or video files from a storage device (such as a hard disk), a CD or DVD (if you have an optical drive), or a flash drive. Imported photos will appear in the Imports album and in your Photos Library.

1.Connect the device to your Mac. 2.Drag files or folders from the Finder to the open Photos window

orDrag files or folders from the Finder on top of the Photos icon in the Dock and Photos will open and Import the pics or3. In Photos, from the File menu, choose Import. 4. Find your Device in the Sidebar. If you don’t see it, hover over the word Devices and click on Show.5. Select the photos or videos you want to import and click Review for Import.Important: Don’t eject a disc or drive while the photos are being imported.



KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS You can work more efficiently by navigating with these keyboard shortcuts.

Use the arrow keys to move through photos Space Bar to see the photo bigger Period to mark a photo as a Favorite (Period again to unmark) Return to open a photo in the Edit mode Delete to delete a photo Command + Delete to delete the item without the warning box

For a complete list of keyboard shortcuts and trackpad gestures, click on the Help menu and choose Keyboard Shortcuts.

If your Mac has a Touch Bar, you can use it to view photos, make edits, and more.



iCLOUD PHOTO LIBRARY One of the biggest benefits of iCloud is iCloud Photo Library. If you are running OS 10.11 through OS 10.13, you now have the option of storing all of your Photos on the iCloud Photo Library. If you do, all albums are available on all devices, and changes you make to a photo in one place will appear everywhere.

To set your Photos to use the iCloud Photo Library, so that all photos are accessible from all of your devices, 1.Open Photos 2.Under the Photos menu choose Preferences 3.Click the iCloud icon 4.Turn on iCloud Photo Library 5.Choose to Download Originals to Mac if your computer has enough storage

orChoose Optimize Mac Storage to place smaller photo files (lower resolution). The full-size versions will always be accessible for you to download to your Mac from iCloud, but the files on your Mac will take up less space

6.It may take a while for all of your photos to appear.



Be sure this setting is turned on in Photos on your iPhone and iPad as well. 1.On your mobile device, tap Settings 2.Tap your name at the top to access iCloud settings 3.Tap iCloud 4.Tap Photos 5.Here is where you can choose to turn iCloud Photo Library NOTE: You may need to purchase more storage space on your iCloud Drive to accommodate all of your photos.

PHOTO STREAM If you choose NOT to use iCloud Photo Library, you can use Photo Stream to automatically upload your photos from your iPhone to your Mac.

When your iPhone is connected to a wifi network, all photos on the Camera Roll are uploaded/copied to Photo Stream on iCloud. When you open the Photos app on your Mac, those photos are downloaded into Photos on your Mac for permanent access.

To set your Photos to use the iCloud Photo Stream to send your Photos to your Mac instead of storing everything in iCloud Photo Library 1.On your Mac, open Photos 2.Under the Photos menu choose Preferences 3.Click the iCloud icon 4.Turn on iCloud Photo Stream

Be sure this setting is turned on in Photos on your iPhone and iPad as well. 1.On your mobile device, tap Settings 2.Tap iCloud 3.Scroll down to Photos and tap My Photo Stream 4.Now, in Photos, when you Tap Albums, you’ll see an album called Camera

Roll that has all of the photos you’ve taken with your iPhone

If you use a different camera, or want to manually import photos from your iPhone or iPad 1.Connect the camera, or iPhone or iPad to your Mac with the charging cable 2.The Photos app will open 3.In the Sidebar, click on your phone or iPad 4.In the top right, decide if you want to delete the photos from your device

after they’re imported 5.Click Import 6.You’ll find these new photos in All Photos AND in the Imports library for

easier access



iCLOUD PHOTO SHARING iCloud Photo Sharing lets you create albums that you can share with others by giving them access to the images on iCloud. 1.Under the Photos menu, choose Preferences 2.Click on the iCloud tab 3.Click a check mark in the box next to iCloud Photo Sharing 4.Close this window

You now have a new item in the Sidebar titled Shared 5.Create a new album here 6.You’ll be asked to invite people who you want to be able to see the album

You can modify these settings at anytime: 1.Click on the Shared album 2.Click on the People icon at the top right 3.Make your changes 4.There is no Done button, so just click in an area outside of the People

window

CREATING A CUSTOM SCREENSAVER You can create an album with your favorite photos and then choose to display them when your computer screen is idle. 1.Create an album and title it Screensaver 2.Add the photos you’d like to see in your screensaver 3.From the Apple menu, choose System Preferences 4.Click on Desktop/Screensaver 5.Click on the Screensaver tab 6.In the left column, choose an effect. Experiment with the options (I prefer

Classic so I can really enjoy the photo) 7.In the right column, click on Source 8.Choose Photo Library 9.Click the triangle to reveal your Albums 10.Click on the new Screensaver album you created 11.Click Choose 12.Click if you want to shuffle the order you see the photos 13.At the bottom left, click next to Start After and choose when the

screensaver should start



Quickly Activate Screensaver If you want to see the photos without waiting for the screensaver to activate 1.In the Screensaver tab, click on Hot Corners 2.Click on one of the corners and choose Start Screensaver (the bottom left

is the best choice since you rarely click in that area) 3.Close the Screensaver window and move your cursor all the way to the

corner you chose and leave it there 4.Wait a moment and your pictures will appear



MOVING YOUR PHOTOS LIBRARY TO AN EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE If you don’t have enough hard drive storage space on your Mac and you’re not using iCloud Photo Library to store your photos, you can move your Photos Library to an external hard drive.

While you access your photos using the Photos app, the actual pictures, titles and data are actually all in one giant file, your Photos Library.

Under normal use, you never need to access this file. But if you are wanting to move your entire Photo Library to an external hard drive, this is the file you need to move.

Before you rush to move your Photos Library, know this: If you switch to another library, Photos automatically turns off all iCloud services. To use iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Photo Sharing, and My Photo Stream with a newly designated System Photo Library, you must turn them on again in the iCloud pane of Photos preferences.

When you turn on iCloud Photo Library after designating a new System Photo Library, the photos stored in iCloud are merged with those in the new System Photo Library. Once the content from the new System Photo Library is uploaded to iCloud, the libraries cannot be un-merged, so it’s a good idea to consider carefully before changing your System Photo Library.

To copy your Photos Library to an external drive 1.In Photos under the Photos menu, choose About Photos 2.Click the General tab 3.The first line shows you where your Photos Library file is located 4.Click on Show in Finder to see this file 5.Drag this Photos Library.photoslibrary file onto your external drive

Note: It will COPY the file, not move it



To Open and Use This New Library 1.Hold down the Option key while opening Photos 2.The Libraries that reside on your Mac will appear in a list 3.Click Other Library 4.Navigate to your external hard drive and find the Photos Library you just

copied there 5.Open it 6.From now on, Photos will open with this Library

Delete the original file from the Mac only after you’re sure it’s on the external drive and working properly

And be sure to get a second external drive to back up this new Photos Library.



BACKING UP Even if you use iCloud Photo Library to store all of your photos, it’s important to also have a backup on site. Be sure you have an external hard drive and Time Machine set up.

You may even want to order prints or books of your favorite precious moments.

LEARN MORE Learn more about backing up with the MAC ESSENTIALS e-book.

Learn more about working with Photos on your iPhone with the iPHONE ESSENTIALS e-book.

Both are available at www.mac2school.com/learn

Do you have more questions? Want some one-on-one help with Photos? Email me to schedule a one-on-one virtual training session!

Happy Mac-ing!

Ruth



http://www.mac2school.com/learn

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