Photos on Mac features an immersive, dynamic look that showcases your best photos. Find the shots you’re looking for with powerful search options. Organize your collection into albums, or keep your photos organized automatically with smart albums. Perfect your photos and videos with intuitive built-in editing tools, or use your favorite photo apps. And with iCloud Photos, you can keep all your photos and videos stored in iCloud and up to date on your Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad, and even your PC.

Iphoto App Catalina Free

When Apple executives released the new application called Photos in the spring of 2015, they left open a very short window in which iPhoto fans could download and install version 9.6.1 of iPhoto, which is the end of the line for that application. ‎PhotoSweeper is a fast, precise & super efficient tool to eliminate similar or duplicate photos even in huge photo collections. It works with Photos, iPhoto, Aperture, Capture One and Lightroom media libraries as well as photos from your hard drives and external storages. “Swift, easy to use, thoro.

A smarter way to find your favorites.

Photos intelligently declutters and curates your photos and videos — so you can easily see your best memories.

Focus on your best shots.

Photos emphasizes the best shots in your library, hiding duplicates, receipts, and screenshots. Days, Months, and Years views organize your photos by when they were taken. Your best shots are highlighted with larger previews, and Live Photos and videos play automatically, bringing your library to life. Photos also highlights important moments like birthdays, anniversaries, and trips in the Months and Years views.

Your memories. Now playing.

Memories finds your best photos and videos and weaves them together into a memorable movie — complete with theme music, titles, and cinematic transitions — that you can personalize and share. So you can enjoy a curated collection of your trips, holidays, friends, family, pets, and more. And when you use iCloud Photos, edits you make to a Memory automatically sync to your other devices.

The moment you’re looking for, always at hand.

With Search, you can look for photos based on who’s in them or what’s in them — like strawberries or sunsets. Or combine search terms, like “beach 2017.” If you’re looking for photos you imported a couple of months ago, use the expanded import history to look back at each batch in chronological order. And in the Albums section, you’ll find your videos, selfies, panoramas, and other media types automatically organized into separate albums under Media Types.

Fill your library, not your device.

iCloud Photos can help you make the most of the space on your Mac. When you choose “Optimize Mac Storage,” all your full‑resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud in their original formats, with storage-saving versions kept on your Mac as space is needed. You can also optimize storage on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, so you can access more photos and videos than ever before. You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 2TB.

Make an edit here, see it there. With iCloud Photos, when you make changes on your Mac like editing a photo, marking a Favorite, or adding to an album, they’re kept up to date on your iPhone, your iPad, and iCloud.com. And vice versa — any changes made on your iOS or iPadOS devices are automatically reflected on your Mac.

All your photos on all your devices. iCloud Photos gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slo-mo, or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photos — so it appears on your Mac, iOS and iPadOS devices, Apple TV, iCloud.com, and your PC. Even the photos and videos imported from your DSLR, GoPro, or drone to your Mac appear on all your iCloud Photos–enabled devices. And since your collection is organized the same way across your Apple devices, navigating your library always feels familiar.

Resize. Crop. Collage. Zoom. Warp. GIF. And more.

Create standout photos with a comprehensive set of powerful but easy-to-use editing tools. Instantly transform photos taken in Portrait mode with five different studio-quality lighting effects. Choose Enhance to improve your photo with just a click. Then use a filter to give it a new look. Or use Smart Sliders to quickly edit like a pro even if you’re a beginner. Markup lets you add text, shapes, sketches, or a signature to your images. And you can turn Live Photos into fun, short video loops to share. You can also make edits to photos using third-party app extensions like Pixelmator, or edit a photo in an app like Photoshop and save your changes to your Photos library.

• Light
  Brilliance, a slider in Light, automatically brightens dark areas and pulls in highlights to reveal hidden details and make your photo look richer and more vibrant.
• Color
  Make your photo stand out by adjusting saturation, color contrast, and color cast.
• Black & White
  Add some drama by taking the color out. Fine-tune intensity and tone, or add grain for a film-quality black-and-white effect.
• White Balance
  Choose between Neutral Gray, Skin Tone, and Temperature/Tint options to make colors in your photo warmer or cooler.
• Curves
  Make fine-tuned contrast and color adjustments to your photos.
• Levels
  Adjust midtones, highlights, and shadows to perfect the tonal balance in your photo.
• Definition
  Increase image clarity by adjusting the definition slider.
• Selective Color
  Want to make blues bluer or greens greener? Use Selective Color to bring out specific colors in your image.
• Vignette
  Add shading to the edges of your photo to highlight a powerful moment.
• Editing Extensions
  Download third-party editing extensions from the Mac App Store to add filters and texture effects, use retouching tools, reduce noise, and more.
• Reset Adjustments
  When you’ve made an edit, you can judge it against the original by clicking Compare. If you don’t like how it looks, you can reset your adjustments or revert to your original shot.

Bring even more life to your Live Photos. When you edit a Live Photo, the Loop effect can turn it into a continuous looping video that you can experience again and again. Try Bounce to play the action forward and backward. Or choose Long Exposure for a beautiful DSLR‑like effect to blur water or extend light trails. You can also trim, mute, and select a key photo for each Live Photo.

Add some fun filters.

With just a click, you can apply one of nine photo filters inspired by classic photography styles to your photos.

Share here, there, and everywhere.

Use the Share menu to easily share photos via Shared Albums and AirDrop. Or send photos to your favorite photo sharing destinations, such as Facebook and Twitter. You can also customize the menu and share directly to other compatible sites that offer sharing extensions.

Turn your pictures into projects.

Iphoto App Catalina Mac

Making high-quality projects and special gifts for loved ones is easier than ever with Photos. Create everything from gorgeous photo books to professionally framed gallery prints to stunning websites using third-party project extensions like Motif, Mimeo Photos, Shutterfly, ifolor, WhiteWall, Mpix, Fujifilm, and Wix.

Comments

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• Tyshawn Cormier clearly has mad skills. The elegant UI is a nice, surprising touch. Maybe next week he can tackle all the old 32-bit games. That would earn him the Nobel Prize for Software for sure.
• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

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• Tyshawn Cormier clearly has mad skills. The elegant UI is a nice, surprising touch. Maybe next week he can tackle all the old 32-bit games. That would earn him the Nobel Prize for Software for sure.

  Likely not going to happen. His method relies on the app to be mostly 64-bit already (and created using Objective-C). Works well for recently discontinued Apple apps, but not so great for anything which was only ever 32-bit.
• Would be amazing if he could bring back Dashboard too!
• '...Finder handles iPhone and iPad backups...' Could the author elaborate on this more, please?

• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  This has nothing to do with smart people in Apple. They chose to wash their hands of 32-bit apps (or ones that are partially 32-bit). They could have done this but who would accept this partial solution from Apple. They would deliver or support this.
  
• What a fabulous deep dive read into the how to do it. So clearly written; I smiled throughout at the conversational style!
• Before a virtual machine is available, Retroactive seemingly a nice trick. I always suggest Find My Friends to include more powerful functions but am disappointed by Find My... on iOS 13. Can Retroactive put Find My Friends back?

• '...Finder handles iPhone and iPad backups...' Could the author elaborate on this more, please?

  https://appleinsider.com/articles/19/06/05/how-iphones-and-ipads-back-up-synchronize-with-ios-13-and-macos-catalina
  

• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  Wait, what? So because Apple made a cognitive decision to migrate a very complex operating system to 64-bit only, and it upsets some people using obsolete software, that makes them not smart? That...that doesn’t make any sense.
  Sorry the world doesn’t give you everything you want for reasons you’re not even aware of. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of disappointment.
• Sad there was never a proper update for Aperture.
• I would have jumped on this for Aperture alone at one point in time however, I am now deeply into Capture One Pro 12 and there is no going back. Aperture was fabulous but never having been updated (let alone supported) it is now far behind the curve. The RAW support isn't there either for any new Cameras (e.g. my new full-frame Sony Alpha) and even if it were the correction algorithms are not in the same league. It's not as if the Aperture Libraries are not fully useable by Photos and Capture One. Had they not been this would definitely have been a good idea just to access old Libraries for export but it is not needed. Sad to say but it is time to let Aperture rest in peace.

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• Kudos to him! Incredible piece of work. Thankfully there are still smarter people outside of Apple than inside.

  Wait, what? So because Apple made a cognitive decision to migrate a very complex operating system to 64-bit only, and it upsets some people using obsolete software, that makes them not smart? That...that doesn’t make any sense.
  Sorry the world doesn’t give you everything you want for reasons you’re not even aware of. Prepare yourself for a lifetime of disappointment.

  Yes, you are right. However, Apple could have kept the Aperture team intact and continued the development of Aperture to be fully 64 bit and also continued to improve its capabilities. There is no reason Aperture could not have been as good or better than the likes of Capture One Pro 12 by now. The reason Apple dropped Aperture leaving many of us using it for professional work high and dry is still a mystery to me. The only explanation given was that Apple's Photos was 'going to be (over time) as good'. It's not that Photos is great for consumers but it is useless for professionals. It's one of the few things Apple has done in all the years I've used Apple gear (since 1976) that left me really pissed.

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• I have just resurrected Aperture and I am very happy. I am not a professional photographer, but I did like the interface and the quick access to adjustments...whereas in Photos, all that is so dumbed down.
  

• Yes, you are right. However, Apple could have kept the Aperture team intact and continued the development of Aperture to be fully 64 bit and also continued to improve its capabilities. There is no reason Aperture could not have been as good or better than the likes of Capture One Pro 12 by now. The reason Apple dropped Aperture leaving many of us using it for professional work high and dry is still a mystery to me. The only explanation given was that Apple's Photos was 'going to be (over time) as good'. It's not that Photos is great for consumers but it is useless for professionals. It's one of the few things Apple has done in all the years I've used Apple gear (since 1976) that left me really pissed.

  
  As I understand it, the underlying code was pretty messy, the team had largely been dismantled already, and there was no longer any 'shepherd' within the company to fight for it.
  But be sure that I don't disagree with you. I find the interface so far beyond anything else that I will continue to use it as long as possible. (I need it mainly as a cataloguer, not an image editor.) It was glorious software design that really showed how it should be done, and I've been damn bummed that Apple didn't take the pride in it that it deserved. (And despite being a decades-long Adobe fan generally, I find Lightroom just kludgy and awful by comparison.)
• Dumb ass question.. do you run this application on Aperture before or after upgrading to Catalina (or does it not matter ??)
• After Retroactive my Aperture is doesn't have all the same brushes as before. Do you have the same experience? All I get is 'Retouch'. I can add adjustments be copying them from another photo and stamp then on to the photo I'm working on but I can not add them from scratch.
  
• All I can say is 'thank you' TyShawn!!! Even Capture One Pro 20 is no match for Aperture's combined DAM and extensible photo editing.
• I am using OS Mojave with Aperture 3.6 and trying to open Fuji Raw files without success. Any suggestions?
• Do I upgrade to Catalina first before installing Retroactive? Or in Mojave?
  Please note that I have an iPhoto library of over 100,000 photos!