Copy and paste

Transfer multiple adjustments in a moment

One advantage macOS Photos has over the iOS version is the ability to transfer adjustments from one photo to another. After you’ve spent a while in the Edit workspace using various panels and sliders to change a photo’s colours and tones, go to Image > Copy Adjustments. Find another photo, bring it into the edit workspace and choose Image > Paste Adjustments. This instantly alters the position of the appropriate panels’ sliders to transfer the creative look you created earlier to the new photo. In iOS Photos, you have to manually adjust every image.

Thanks to iCloud Photos any picture that you snap on the iPhone will appear in the Photos Library of your iPad and Mac, so you can edit your images on whatever device you fancy. Although the macOS version of Photos boasts a few extra tools and panels you can still make effective photo fixes and produce creative looks using the iOS version.

This makes your iPhone a ‘one stop shop’, as you can use it to capture, edit and share your pictures quickly and conveniently without needing to access a desk-bound Mac. iOS Photos even has tools that are absent in macOS Photos, such as the ability to straighten converging vertical lines caused by perspectival distortion.

1 Converging walls Here we’ve snapped a tall building from a low angle. The tower’s vertical walls are converging inwards towards the top of the frame. 2 Lens distortion Thanks to the iPhone 13 Pro Max’s Ultra Wide lens, the boy in the image is distorted to look taller and thinner than he actually is. 3 Vertical walls The iOS version of Photos has extra tools in the Crop panel. Here we’ve counteracted the converging walls so they run vertically. 3 In proportion By warping the image to counteract the perspectival distortion, we’ve also reduced the Ultra Wide lens’s stretched look. 1 2 4 3