Photos for macOS Ventura and iPhone Essential Training

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 how to use Photos for macOS Ventura and iOS.

Derrick gives you a tour of the interface and the headline new features, then covers all 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 and built-in Mac intelligence. Get an update on some of the recent improvements to the importing process with useful tips on organizing and editing your pictures directly in the library. Upon completing this course, you’ll be equipped with new tricks and techniques for working more effectively with Photos for macOS Ventura and iOS.

Concepts

Introduction

The power of Photos in macOS Ventura and on your iPhone
A tour of the Photos interface
What's new in Photos for macOS Ventura
How to use the exercise files
System requirements for macOS Monterey and Ventura

Live Text - Using Your Camera as a Personal Assistant

Overview of Live Text on your Mac
How to copy words in a photo and save them as text
Looking up information based on words in a photo
Converting screenshots into editable text
Using Live Text on your iPhone

Tapping the Mac's Built-In Intelligence

Searching for pictures by object type
Copying images from messages to Photos on your Mac
Copying images from messages to Photos from an iPhone
Using Quick Notes with Photos
Automating common tasks with shortcuts
Setting up the iCloud Shared Photo Library in macOS Ventura
Disabling Memories in macOS Ventura

Improved Importing

Basic workflow for adding images to your Photos library
Import images from another Photos library
Further enhancing capabilities with PowerPhotos
Importing RAW and JPEG pairs

Organizing and Editing Pictures in Photos

Organizing your pictures using the left sidebar
Identifying duplicates in your Photo Library in macOS Ventura
Quick edits in browsing mode
Further image enhancement in editing mode
Getting professional results with editing extensions
Exporting pictures out of Photos
Trimming and editing videos in Photos
Copy and paste edits in macOS Ventura
Unlocking Hidden and Recently Deleted albums in macOS Ventura
Lifting a subject from an image and adding it to another in macOS Ventura

Conclusion

Next steps with Photos for macOS Monterey and Ventura