Overview of Photos for macOS - Apple Photos Tutorial

- [Instructor] Photos has a lovely clean interface and I feel like it got even prettier with MacOS Big Sur which is what we're looking at right now. This is the Big Sur version of Photos. I want to just give you the lay of the land here, just so we are comfortable when we start doing actual techniques. Let's start on the left side. This is an organizational area. So this is looking at our whole library here but you have different categories. For instance, if you have images that are geo-tagged they'll show up on the places map. Recent shots that you've brought into the library, imports, all that stuff is over here under Photos on the left-hand side. Now below that we have Media Types. And we have all sorts of different Media Types and I love these. I just think it's so handy. I want to look at all my videos. Want to look at my Selfies, Live Photos, the shots I made in Portrait mode on the iPhone right here, okay. Panoramas, Slo-mo, all that good stuff is right here under Media Types, and sometimes it's faster to find what you're looking for by just going to, "Hey, I want to find that slow-mo shot that I captured at the beach." It might be easier over here than it would be searching on beach or something like that because you're going to have probably fewer slow-mo movies than you would have beach shots, if you know what I'm saying. Below that, if you share albums with other Photos users, that's managed here and you can create your own albums and your own organization although I don't think it's necessary. I used to do more of that in the earlier day of Photos, but it's become so smart, I don't need to do that as much now. And then if you create a project such as a slideshow or something like that, that is stored over there. So that's what's happening on the left side. On the top here, let's go back to Library. I'm having it show as rectangular photos. You know, basically the proportions that they were captured at but if you like the square look, the tiled square look, that's kind of neat, isn't it? It's pretty. And I do some days, some days I go this way. Some days I go back, but you control that right here. The size of the thumbnails right there. Alrighty. Now, if you double tap on an image, it gets big. If you double tap again, it goes back to a thumbnail but you can also use the back arrow that now appears when you're browsing it big, alrighty? So this is contextual up here, it changes a little bit, depending on what you're doing. We're looking at all photos right now but we can look at them via years. So this isn't actually a movie. This is a live photo. You can see how it's kind of looping there and they show us the motion of it when they show years even though I took it as a still photo. So you have years, months, days. I like all photos though. I just think it's easier to manage the library in this mode. So this is what I use most of the time. And then finally, if I click on an image and I go to I which I do a lot, because I like the info area, it helps me understand more information about it, what camera I took it with, when I took it, you know, some of the details. And then if there are geo tags, the location will show up here too. So I like I a lot. This is for sharing. So you can share your images, all sorts of different ways. If you want to mark it as a favorite, you can do that right here. And then if you want to rotate it, you can do that right here. And a little trick on that is, if you hold down the option key, it'll rotate the other way. And then finally you have search here and you can just search for categories, for things such as flower right? You don't have to have the exact name or the keyword. This application is so smart. It can find things for you. We'll talk more about that. And then finally you have another filter here in this dropdown. So if you want to look at all your edited shots, for example, you can do that. And you can add to this list, let's say shots with a specific keyword or something like that. So that's kind of nice there. Let's go back to all items. So that is a look at photos. A lot of times, the way that I use it, I will just double click on an image check it out, double click again, use the arrow keys. In this case, the right arrow key to navigate. It's very intuitive. You're going to be comfortable very fast. You're probably comfortable right now but I just wanted to make sure that we all kind of had the same terminology before we dig even deeper into this application.