EDIT YOUR IMAGES ON MAC

Improve photos and video using the Photos app’s tools. Plus, go further with third-party apps and extensions.

On the whole the iPhone excels at capturing detail in both shadows and highlights. It can also reproduce accurate colors in various lighting conditions. However you may still run into exposure problems in contrasting light, leading to shots where the sky is over-exposed or the shadows are under-exposed. As different light sources produce different coluor temperatures your photos may suffer from cold or warm color casts as well as green/magenta tints. You may also notice unwanted objects or annoyingly tilted horizons when perusing your pictures. Fortunately Apple’s free Photos app has most of the tools you’ll need to overcome typical picture problems and create better looking shots. You may also want to apply filters to your shots to make them stand out in your social media feeds. As you’d expect, the macOS version of Photos has more tools than the iOS version (though the iPhone version boasts a unique perspective distortion correction tool that has yet to appear in the desktop version). In this spread we’ll show you how to use the macOS version of Photos to counteract common problems with color, tone and composition, as well as produce more creative looks. You can expand Photo’s functionality by adding third-party extensions to the app. After downloading an app that provides a Photos extension (such as Luminar AI) go to Apple > System Prefs > Extensions. Go to Photos Editing and select the extension apps that you want to access in Photos. In Photo’s Edit workspace click the Extensions icon

(…) at the top. Click to launch an extension. You can then use the extra tools provided by the extension, save the results, then continue working with the edited image in Photos.

Photos lacks the ability to composite images on multiple layers so we’ll also suggest some third-party apps that enable you to perform more creative edits such as sky replacements.