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Apr 07, 2011  Desktop PhotoframeWith computers serving as the repository for our digital lives, it's a shame that most of the time our photos remain hidden away out of sight.Desktop Photoframe solves this problem by presenting your photos in a resizable digital frame that can be placed anywhere on your Mac's desktop, for an uninterrupted view or continuous slideshow of your entire photo library. Digital picture frames for your pics Display your pics on your shelf or desk with a digital picture frame. Here are our top picks from the frames we've reviewed over the past year.

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OS X El Capitan and the newer versions of MacOS X support third-party tools that are accessible right in the Photos app. If a photo editing application offers Photo Editing extensions, you can use editing tools provided by the application from the Edit panel in Photos. Don't expect the photo editing extensions to offer the full functionality of the hosting applications. The extensions provide only a subset of the tools of the stand-alone versions, but have a much more user friendly user interface, since the extensions have been designed to offer one tool.

Below is a list of the extensions I have tried so far. To search for more extensions see:

  • Affinity Photos: If you already own the Affinity Photos application, you have access to these six extensions:
    • Edit in Affinity Photos: This extension is giving you access to the full Affinity application
    • Affinity Develop: The basic photometric adjustments of a photo - noise reduction, exposure, shadows&highlights, white balance, contrast, ..
    • Affinity Haze Removal: A very easy to use haze removal filter
    • Affinity Miniature: A depth of field effect
    • Affinity Liquify: Change the shape of regions
    • Affinity Monochrome: Turn color photos into monochrome or black&white photos
    • Affinity Retouch: A versatile retouch tool, including in-painting.
  • Aurora HDR 2018 and 2019: It provides a collection of powerful HDR presets, a great companion to Luminar 2018.
  • BeFunky: A basic set of portrait adjustments: Skin smoothing and skin tone, teeth brighten, eye brighten, HDR. All is automatic, there is not much control over the adjustments.
  • Color Filters for Photos: Color filters for a cinematic effects, and brushes to touch up selected areas with color splashes, dodge and burn, etc, very precisely.
  • DxO Optics Pro for Photos: A versatile RAW processor for Photos, fixes lens distortion, chromatic aberration, noise reduction, sharpening, .. It does not yet support many RAW formats, but the list is getting longer daily.
  • External Editors: This app extension will open any external image editor you have installed directly from Photos, and thus will give you access to the full functionality of your image editors, not just the tools provided as app extensions. It is the doorway to Photoshop, Pixelmator, Gimp, the NIK plug-ins, whatever you have installed.
  • Focus CK: Beautiful Depth of field effects
  • FX Photo Studio CK: Plenty of effects and frames
  • Graphic Converter 10: Edit with Graphic Converter 10 - essentially open the photo on Graphic Converter 10 for editing
  • Insta Beauty: Easy tools for retouching a face: Skin smoothing, Eye brightening, eye enlargement, pouch removal, teeth whitening.
  • Intensify CK: Noise reduction, HDR, intensify effects for Black&White, landscape, architecture, ..
  • Luminar: Edit in Luminar will open Luminar for editing the Photo.
  • Noiseless CK: A great noise reduction tool
  • Photolemur 3: A fully automatic image enhancer, uses artificial intelligence to recognize the important objects in the photo, like faces, the sky, vegetation, and improves them
  • Picktorial: Open the Picktorial Image editor (Have not tested it yet)
  • Pixelmator Distort: Distort the shape of regions.
  • Pixelmator Retouch: Recently added. Versatile retouching brushes - cloning, repairing by in-painting, blurring, sharpening, dodging and burning.
  • Snapheal CK: Retouching and image restauration tools
  • Super Borders: Frame the photo with borders. Most borders require an in-app purchase.
  • Tonality CK: Presets for turning color photos into monochrome photos
  • Watermarker Tool: Define watermark defaults in the stand-alone version of the application, then add them to your photos using the photo editing extension. I found the workflow not very intuitive.

If you are interested in FX Photo Studio and Focus, buy the CK versions. The versions without CK in the name do not provide the Photo Editing extension. The CK versions are directly available from MacPhun's website.

In Photos app, while playing a movie, if you select the gear in player controller appear a menu list. Selecting 'Export frame to Pictures' (or something like that) Photos should save the frame. But I can't understand where! It's not in pictures folder and not in Photo's moments so.where is it saved? Apr 29, 2017  So many Mac User keep asking me how do they find their photo after finish syncing in Photo library on Mac. So, I decide to make this video up as. Feb 23, 2017 Open the Finder in Mac OS and go to your home directory Go to the “Pictures” folder Locate the file named “Photos Library.photoslibrary” Right-click (or Control+Click) on “Photos Library.photoslibrary” and choose “Show Package Contents”. This will open a Finder window with your current Mac Photos library highlighted.NOTE: Your Mac Photos library will almost certainly be called something else; we changed the name of the file for the purposes of this tutorial. Nowhere is the secret: to export your Mac Photos library to another location, all you have to do is copy that file.

To use the photo editing extension, install the apps, launch them once, then enable the extensions in the System Preferences > Extensions. Relaunch Photos, and you can now use the extensions from the Edit panel in Photos.

Recently added Photo editing extensions that I did not yet try. These are available from the AppStore:

  • Stamp Photos Extension: it will add multiple texts or watermarks to a photo with different values of transparency or fonts.
  • Perspective Photos Extension: Straighten or deskew photos and graphics - use affine transforms or perspective correction.
  • Vintage Photos Extension: add grain or different types of paper or surface to your photos.
  • HighDR Photos Extension: HDR effects for a single photo. You can apply the effect to selected spots or the full image.
  • Edge Photos Extension: Add and design arbitrarily shaped borders, and make the borders transparent, so your photo has a custom shape.
  • Hay Photo: Custom designed filters and adjustments, turn your photo into a pencil sketch

This page explains how to use the extensions: Edit your photos using third-party extensions in Photos for OS X - Apple Support

Some extensions cannot open original files in HEIC format, important for photos taken with an iPhone 7 or newer. In that case use the 'External editors' extension to call the application and pass the images converted to TIFF or JPEG.

We take a lot of photos with our iPhones and even DSLRs and other cameras. Photos are great for capturing memories with others, or when you just want to get a snapshot of something beautiful. Photos on Mac can help you keep all of your photos in one place, and even help you organize them.

How to add pictures and videos to albums

If you have a lot of photos and videos, one of the simplest and easiest ways to start organizing everything is to make use of albums, especially when you give them good names. And if you use iCloud Photo Library, all of your albums in Photos for Mac get synced to your iOS devices too.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Click on Photos in the sidebar, under the Library section.

  3. Pick out the photos you want to add to an album, either new or existing.

    • Hold down the command key on your Mac and click to select multiple photos.
  4. Right-click on your chosen photos and videos.
  5. Move the cursor to Add to.

  6. You can choose an existing album, or create new album.

    • If making a new album, give it a good, easy-to-remember name.

Optionally, you can make a new album at any time by clicking the + button that appears in the sidebar next to My Albums. Drag-and-drop the albums in whatever order you want to rearrange them in the sidebar.

How to organize albums and folders

When you have a lot of albums, it may be better to clean it all up by organizing albums into folders, which are like collections of albums. It's easy to do.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Either right-click on My Albums in the sidebar, or hover above and then click on the + button that appears next to My Albums.

  3. Click New Folder.

  4. Give your folder a name.

  5. Drag the albums that you want into that folder.

How to use Smart Albums

Smart Albums are like regular albums, but smarter, obviously. They're great for helping you quickly organize images without the need of manually adding each one to an album because it's all automated.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Right-click on My Albums or click the + button that appears next to My Albums.

  3. Select New Smart Album.
  4. Give your Smart Album a name.

  5. Choose the parameters for your Smart Album.

  6. Click OK to confirm.

Smart Albums have a large number of different parameters, such as photos, faces, aperture, ISO, Live Photo, RAW, Portrait, and more. With all of these options, you can create many different Smart Albums to suit whatever it is you need.

If you're not satisfied with the Smart Album, you can always tweak the settings by clicking on the gear icon that's next to the Smart Album's title, then re-select the parameters you want to use.

Unfortunately, Smart Albums do not sync to your other devices through iCloud Photo Library, as they're only available on your Mac.

How to navigate Photos for Mac faster with the sidebar

The Sidebar in Photos is a great way to quickly jump between various areas in Photos quickly and easily. Plus, it helps you find albums that may otherwise be hidden, so this was a design choice made by Apple.

However, if you are running macOS Sierra and older, you can actually hide or unhide the sidebar as you wish.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.
  2. Click on View in the menu bar.
  3. Select Show Sidebar in the menu.
  4. The sidebar will appear on the left side of the screen.

  5. Follow the steps above to hide it (make sure Show Sidebar is unchecked).

How to navigate moments, collections, and year views in macOS Mojave and earlier

One of the coolest things about Photos is that it intelligently groups all of your photos and videos into moments, collections, and years.

This means that your photos appear in a timeline and are grouped by things like location, or even event. It's a great way to take a look back at your memories and relive those specific moments in time.

The Moments, Collections, and Year views are only available in macOS Mojave and older.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.
  2. Make sure that you're in the Photos view from the sidebar.

  3. Click on Photos, Moments, Collections, or Years buttons at the top of the window.

  4. Click on a section of a Year to move to that Collection, or a section of a Collection to drill down into that Moment, or an item in a Moment to view that image or video in closer detail.

  5. You can also use your keyboard's arrow keys to move between photos and videos in a Moment.

  6. A single click on an item selects it, while a double click takes you to view it.

In the Year and Collections views, thumbnails can be small. You can click-and-hold and then drag the cursor in any direction over the thumbnails to get a larger preview. Letting go will take you directly to the image that the cursor was last on.

How to navigate through Years, Months, and Days in macOS Catalina

To replace the previous Moments/Collections/Years view, Catalina changed it to Years, Months, and Days for simplicity.

  1. Launch Photos on your Mac.

  2. Make sure you're in the Photos section in the sidebar.

    Source: iMore

  3. Click the Years, Months, or Days buttons at the top of the window. The default view is All Photos.

  4. Clicking on Years lets you see each year as a block. Double-clicking the year takes you into Months.

  5. When you double-click on a Month, you'll drill down into the Days view.

How to create a new library with Photos for Mac

You can create a new library for your photos at any time with Photos for Mac. To do so, make sure that you quit Photos and reopen it with the following method to get the Library options.

  1. Hold down the Option key on your keyboard.
  2. Double-click on Photos on your Mac.
  3. Click on the Create New button in the Choose Library window.
  4. Name your Library.

  5. Click OK.

You've now created a brand new Photos Library. Unfortunately, there is no easy way to migrate over photos and video, so you will need to export the content you want, and then import it back into the new library.

How to switch between Libraries in Photos for Mac

When you create a new library, you may still want to go back to a previous library for something. Fortunately, it's easy to switch between multiple libraries.

  1. Make sure that Photos is not open (quit if it is).
  2. Hold down the Option key on your keyboard.
  3. Double-click on Photos.

  4. Click on the name of the library you want to open.

Voilá! Just make sure to repeat this process each time you want to switch to a different Photo library.

How to move your Photos library to an external hard drive

If you're low on storage space on your Mac, you can just move your Photos Library to an external hard drive. Keep in mind though, that you will need to have this external drive plugged in to access your Photos Library, even if you have iCloud Photo Library enabled. And you aren't able to create a second Photos Library that has iCloud Photo Library enabled on your Mac, so be wary.

  1. Launch a Finder window on your Mac.
  2. Click on the Mac hard drive (Macintosh HD) in the sidebar.
  3. Double-click on the Users folder.
  4. Double-click on your username.
  5. Double-click on your Pictures folder.

  6. Click on the Photos Library file and then drag it to your external hard drive in the sidebar.

This process may take a while, depending on how big your Photos library is.

A note on reference libraries

Library File Cabinet

The Photos app technically supports the management of images that aren't locally stored within its library — that is, you can keep a set of images in a folder called 'October Trip' and manage them within Photos without having to make a separate copy of them. You can do this by navigating to Photos > Preferences from the menu bar, selecting the General tab, and unchecking the 'Copy items to the Photos library' box under Importing.

That said, reference libraries won't play nicely with iCloud Photo Library users; you may run into problems when syncing, or not be able to sync at all. So if you plan on using a reference library, you'll have to opt out of iCloud Photo Library.

I also didn't have any luck getting referenced files to sync properly with Photos — I'd delete a photo, but the reference file would stay in its original location, even after deleting it from the 'Recently Deleted' folder. Not sure if that's a bug or just not how Photos wants us managing referenced photos, but worth noting.

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October 2019: Updated for macOS Catalina.

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