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    Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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        - Browse your photo library
- Browse photo collections
- View photos and videos
- View photo bursts
- See photo and video information
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        - Find photos and videos by date
- Find and name people and pets
- Find group photos and videos
- Find photos and videos by location
- View photos and videos you recently saved
- Find your travel photos and videos
- Find receipts, documents, recently edited photos, and more
- Find screenshots, Live Photos, and more by media type
 
- Use Live Text to interact with text in a photo
- Use Visual Look Up to learn more about a photo
- Isolate and share a photo’s subject
- Delete photos and videos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos and videos from view
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Add keywords
 
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        - Editing basics
- Crop and straighten photos and videos
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        - Add filters
- Adjust light, exposure, and color
- Remove distractions and imperfections
- Remove red-eye
- Adjust white balance
- Apply curves adjustments
- Apply levels adjustments
- Adjust definition
- Adjust specific colors
- Reduce noise
- Sharpen a photo
- Apply a vignette
- Change Photographic Styles
- Change a Portrait mode photo
 
- Write or draw on a photo
- Use other apps when editing in Photos
- Change a Live Photo
- Change a video
- Edit a Cinematic mode video
 
- Photos settings
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright and trademarks

Isolate and share a photo’s subject on Mac
You can use Photos to isolate the subject of a photo from the photo background and then share it in other documents and apps.
You can also use this feature in Safari, Quick Look, Mail, and more.
- Go to the Photos app  on your Mac. on your Mac.
- Open a photo, Control-click the photo, then choose one of the following: - Copy Subject: Copy just the subject with the background removed, then paste the subject into a document, email, text message, or note. 
- Share Subject: Send just the subject, with the background removed, in a text, email, and more. 
 
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