16 fantastic features of Photos
Make fast work of browsing and editing your digital photo collection using Apple’s Photos app
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Use pinch gestures You could drag the resize slider on the toolbar, but it’s much more pleasing, if your Mac has a trackpad, to pinch to zoom. Pinch gestures also open or close the image that’s currently under the pointer.
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Edit your photos
After opening a photo, a button with three slider controls appears in the toolbar; it takes you to editing mode. Alternatively, press ® with a photo open, or selected in an album, to go straight to editing it.
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Get info Press ç+I to bring up the contextual Info window. With one image selected, it shows camera info and settings. For an album or a multiple selection, it summarizes dates, places, keywords and more.
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Browse faster With a photo from an album or the timeline open, swipe left or right on a trackpad or Magic Mouse to view adjacent images. To browse faster, click Show Thumbnails, put the pointer over them, then swipe.
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Use the sidebar Photos has five large buttons across its toolbar for its major sections. Choosing View > Show Sidebar switches to an alternative means of navigating that’s more efficient if you have many albums.
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Choose a key photo When you create a new album from several photos, the app assigns a representative thumbnail. If you’re unhappy with its choice, open the album, ≈- click an image, and choose Make Key Photo.