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, extend, reframe, 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
Reprocess imported RAW files in Photos on Mac
If you import RAW files that were already processed by another app, the RAW processing of the photos might be out of date. The RAW processing used by Photos may also be updated when Apple releases a Digital Camera RAW Compatibility Update or an updated version of macOS. If you’re happy with how a RAW photo looks, you can leave it as is, or you can reprocess the RAW file with the most recent version of Apple’s RAW processing software.
Important: Your photos may look different after reprocessing. You can’t undo this change.
Go to the Photos app
on your Mac.
Double-click a photo to open it, then click the Edit button in the toolbar.
Choose Image > Reprocess RAW.
If the Reprocess RAW command appears dimmed in the menu, the photo’s RAW processing is up to date.