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In my carefully curated photo library, I have nearly 40,000 pictures, so I know a thing or
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two about keeping it all organized. Here are my top five tips in the Photos app
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Number one, tag the faces of people you know. Finding great pictures of friends and family
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is so much easier if your phone knows all their names and can look them up for you
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On a Mac, click on the People album in the sidebar. You'll probably find a few faces
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in there already. Hover the cursor over their little picture here, click and type in a name
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If you're on an iPhone, just go to Albums, People, tap on a face and type in a name at the top. Try
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and match it to a contact if you can. Now you'll want to scroll down or tap the three dots menu
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and hit Confirm Additional Photos. This will scan your photo library for pictures it might
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think are of the same person and it'll ask you to confirm. As you're browsing through your pictures
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you can click View, Show Face Names to turn on labels for faces in the pictures. This makes it
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really easy to run through your library and tag all the faces as you go. On an iPhone, swipe up
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on a picture and you'll see tiny faces shown in the bottom left. Tap on each of these to see if
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it's already been matched to a name. This might seem like a lot of work, but it's really useful
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for number two, smarter search. In the search field, you can find a specific photo by combining
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date, location, business name, objects in the photo, and yes, specific people in the photo
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For example, I can search California 2022 Griffin Tim Cook to bring up this picture
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which has not been edited in any way, shape, or form. And yes, you can search for objects
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inside pictures like keyboard, comma, cat. Number three, copy and paste edits. So if you do a whole
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photo shoot with your iPhone, they'll all be of the same subject, probably all have similar lighting
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conditions. If you want to make any edits to those pictures, you might get all caught up in thinking
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you have to do the same thing for all dozens of pictures you have. On any photo, tap Edit
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and you're going to make all your adjustments to brightness, contrast, noise reduction, saturation
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white point. Before you tap Done, tap the three dots menu in the top right, and you're going to
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tap Copy Edits. Then you can just swipe to the next picture over, tap the same button, and hit
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Paste Edits. Or you can select a whole range of photos and hit Paste Edits and apply them to all
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of them at once. It's super fast. Even if you plan on touching these up in Lightroom later, it's a
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great way to fast forward the editing process and get a bunch of basic stuff done just with a few
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taps on your phone. Number four, live photo effects. So if you take all your pictures with the iPhone
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camera and you leave live photos turned on, there's a bunch of cool effects you can apply on
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them. Just tap the Live button in the corner and you have a whole list of effects you can pick from
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Loop will play it repeatedly like a GIF. Bounce will play it forwards and then rewind it and play
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it again repeatedly. And Long Exposure will turn any movement into a beautiful motion blur. If you
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ever take a picture of a river or a waterfall, you are legally required to use the Long Exposure
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effect. Number five, make sure you're sharing the full quality video before you send it to someone
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One of the most infuriating choices Apple ever made is they decided that if you want to send
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somebody a picture or especially a video over iMessage or AirDrop, it'll just lower the resolution
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so you won't have the same crisp quality and detail. So after you tap the Share button
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tap Options and check All Photos Data. You'll want to do this every time because it doesn't stay on
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I don't know why. And make sure that when you used your phone to take a group picture of your
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friends and you go to share it with everybody, they're actually getting the full quality picture
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So those are all five of my tips today. I have further reading if you're interested on how to
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turn on Shared Photo Library, how to remove duplicates in your photos
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all in links in the video description. I'm Diegerfin Jones with Cult of Mac
