Perform advanced edits in Photos

Use the tools in macOS Photos to adjust your images in more creative ways

Both macOS and iOS Photos help you organise your shots and fix common problems with exposure and composition.

However, the macOS version of Photos has a few extra tools up its sleeve when it comes to altering images in more creative ways. The Retouch tool enables you to remove unwanted objects that can spoil a photo. You can also target and tweak the hue, brightness and saturation of individual colours for creative looks. There’s even a dedicated Black & White panel that selectively lightens or darkens greyscale tones based on the shot’s original colours, so you can draw attention to particular subjects.

Here’s how to get more from the desktop version of Photos…

1 Going manual Instead of slapping on a filter you can produce a range of creative (and unique) looks by adjusting a range of image properties manually. 2 Selective Colour This powerful panel is not available in the Photos app on iOS. It enables you to selectively lighten a specific colour or change its hue. 3 Sample If you’re not sure what colour match to click on, grab the Eyedropper and click on a particular area to sample it. You can adjust the colour. 3 Toggle To see how your creative editing in a particular panel is shaping up, tick the tick icon to see a before and after version of the image. 1 3 2 4