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Understanding the Photos for macOS editing workspace

Want to quickly enhance and repair your images with Photos for macOS? Where in the Photos for macOS interface can you find your photo edit controls? What controls do you have to affect your images? In this chapter, instructor Richard Harrington as he gives an overview of the Photos for

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Photos taking up too much space on your iPhone?

As iPhone users, we’ve had it pretty good over the years. Watching Steve Jobs take that stage to announce the very first iPhone was a mind-blowing experience. But as good as the iPhone is, 12 years later, we’re still dealing with some nagging usability issues. One of those is the

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Why switch from Apple Photos to Adobe Lightroom?

If I didn’t know much about photography and just wanted photos to easily sync up with my Mac and all my iOS devices all while being able to lightly edit photos, Apple Photos would be a grand piece of software. The option for iCloud Photo Library within the Photos app makes it

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Using Luminar with Photos for Mac

Using Luminar with Photos for Mac

In this article, I’m going to show you how to use Luminar 3 with Photos for Mac. Then you’ll have the amazing filters and presets available to use with those photographs. First, you need to be on macOS 10.11 or later. To find out what version of macOS you have, click on

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How to import folder hierarchies into Apple Photos

If you’re new and fresh into the Apple ecosystem and want to use Apple Photos to hold all your images, you’ll want to save a bit of time on re-organizing your folders of images that you may already have made. In an update to Apple Photos in High Sierra, Apple

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Photos in High Sierra

Apple updates the Photos App in macOS High Sierra!

The only constant thing in Apple is change, and thankfully– one of the biggest changes to macOS includes an update to the Photos app! There’s a lot more for us to play with now, but the biggest changes include a more logical organization, more tools to use while editing, and

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First Look: New LUCiD Plug-ins for Photos for Mac

A few years back, Apple decided to slowly kill of Aperture and iPhoto.  in their places emerged Photos for Mac.  The app left something to be desired, but has kept maturing.  One of its biggest changes was the support of Extensions (or what others would call plug-ins).  Essentially these are small,

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Moving from Apple Photos to Lightroom: The WHY and the HOW!

So you’ve decided to step up your photography game and get Adobe’s Lightroom to manage and edit your photos, eh?! This guide will help you get your photos from Apple’s Photos into Adobe Lightroom Classic. As of the date of this publication, there isn’t an everyday tool or utility that

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