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Mac Power Users

537: The Photos Field Guide and Apple Photos

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 May 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

From the early days of iPhoto to now, with Photos.app and iCloud, Apple has offered increasingly-robust photo management tools for its users. This episode, David and Stephen walk through the features and tools you should know about.

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0:00.0

MacPowers, episode 537, the Photos Field Guide and Apple Photos.

0:07.0

Hello everyone, this is David Sparks joined by my fellow co-host the one the only

0:17.2

mr Stephen Hackett wow that was enthusiastic I kind of like that yeah I know I'm

0:22.3

feeling good today man you. You should be. You got a big week.

0:25.6

Yeah, so sometimes you do these field guys and they're easy and sometimes they're not. This one was not. Yeah, for our after show today we're

0:36.0

going to talk about the process you went through because I because you know behind

0:39.8

the scenes I feel like you and I've been talking about this one forever.

0:44.0

Yeah, I started on the outline over a year ago, so just so you know.

0:49.0

Yeah, yeah.

0:50.0

We'll get to that.

0:51.0

But yeah, we're talking about Apple photos kind of going through some of the stuff in your field guide.

0:56.0

Of course, it is an amazing piece of work. I don't know how you put these things out.

1:00.0

They're so detailed, but so easy to follow, you do such a great job.

1:04.0

But it's just so interesting that photos has become this really core element to the being in the Apple ecosystem. you know we had like I photo way back I think in

1:17.6

2002 when it was introduced and it evolved and the whole idea then was you have a digital camera and you import your

1:24.7

photos and then you can print your photos, right? And we're so far away from that now. I mean, I have

1:31.0

multiple ways to take pictures.

1:33.4

They're all connected to the internet right there's there's

1:36.3

it's so much more complex than it has been and Apple has

1:40.4

graduated from iPhoto into photos and we're going to kind of talk through that but

1:44.7

and just looking at your field guide and preparing for the episode like this is so

1:48.8

much bigger and so much more important than it's ever been.

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