Albums | photos’ lifeblod

>>> Photos organizes your images into Albums. Unlike a folder, images aren’t actually stored in an album; it’s just a tagging system, so you can have one image in several albums without clogging up your hard drive with duplicate files.

If you want to browse through all your images, click All Photos at the top of the Album list at the left of the screen. Below is a collection of albums that are created automatically depending upon how the images were captured, “Selfies,” for example, contains all the images shot using your iPhone’s frontfacing camera.

The People album is one of the most useful because it enables you to find the shots of the people you care about most. Photos searches automatically for faces within images and puts these into the People album. It also groups images that it thinks are of the same person and allows you to add name tags.

As you begin to type a name under the image, a selectable list of potential subjects appears. If there’s already an album with that person’s name, you’re given the option to merge the two albums instead.

Images with a GPS tag are automatically sorted into the Places album. Open this to reveal a map of your shooting locations. As you zoom in, more shooting locations and images become visible. Click the thumbnail to see other images taken around the same area.

It’s also possible to create albums yourself by clicking the + at the top right of the Library view and selecting the option. Any selected images will be put into the new Album. Once the Album is created you can drag additional images into it.

Alternatively, Smart Albums can be created which will group images using specific criteria, such as only those taken within a certain date range. You can alter these criteria at any time and the contents of the Smart Album will automatically update to reflect the changes. It’s a very useful feature.