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Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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- 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 to photos and videos
- Adjust light, exposure, and color
- Change Photographic Styles
- 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
- Change a Portrait mode photo
- Apply a vignette
- 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
Optimize storage in Photos on Mac
If you use iCloud Photos, you can turn on Optimize Mac Storage to conserve storage space on your Mac. This option stores smaller versions of your photos on your Mac when storage space is limited, and keeps the original, full-size photos in iCloud.
Note: If you haven’t turned on iCloud Photos, see Use iCloud Photos.
Go to the Photos app
on your Mac.Choose Photos > Settings, then click iCloud.
Select the iCloud Photos checkbox, then select Optimize Mac Storage.
To restore the originals to your Mac, just select “Download Originals to this Mac.”
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