User Tip Photo Editing Extensions for Photos for Mac
Photo Editing Extensions for Photos for MacOS X El Capitan supports third-party tools that are accessible right in the Photos app. If a photo editing application offers Photo Editing extensions, you can use editing tools provided by the application from the Ed...view more
User Tip Photos: Available Photo Book Sizes & Themes
Photos: Available Photo Book Sizes & ThemesPhotos app on Mac allows for creation and printing of Photo Books. This guide summarizes all book sizes and themes available in Photos v. 1.5 (US). Photo books can be laid out in Classic (rectangular) and Squa...view more
Script: Batch Change the DescriptionsPhotos 1.1 on Yosemite does not support to change several descriptions at once. In Photos on El Capitan or newer versions you can simply batch change the description of multiple selected photos at once by openin...view more
User Tip Script: Find all Photos for "On This Day" - an AppleScript
Script: Find all Photos for "On This Day" - an AppleScriptSee this discussion "On This Day" Feature for mac Photos, does it exist? started by Solamanzi. How to find all photos taken on a certain date through all years, for example, all photos taken on any of yo...view more
User Tip Script: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed Date
Script: Batch Change the Date and Time to a Fixed DateiPhoto had the very convenient Batch Change tool to set the date and time of all selected photos to a fixed date, with a time increment added between successive photos. This was very convenient for older photos,...view more
User Tip Script: Batch Changing the Title to the Capture Date
Script: Batch Changing the Title to the Capture DateIf you want to be able to display the date below the thumbnails of your photos, consider to batch change the titles to the capture date using an Apple Script. This simple script will read the dates from select...view more
User Tip Script: Batch Change the Titles to a Given String
Script: Batch Change the Titles to a Given StringCurrently (April 2015) does Photos not yet support batch changing of titles and descriptions. I wrote two very simply Apple Scripts, that can be used to add a title and a description to several selected photos...view more
User Tip Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/Extension
Script: Batch Changing the Titles to the Filename w/ExtensionIn iPhoto the filenames have been as used as default titles and shown below the thumbnails in the browser. Photos does not show the filenames as titles, and if a photo has no title, there is no identification vi...view more
User Tip Script: How to find photos without any keywords
Script: How to find photos without any keywordsPhotos 1.5 has no option to search for photos that have not yet have any keywords assigned, like we could in Aperture or iPhoto. There is no search rule "Keyword is none" for the smart albums. The Apple Script b...view more
User Tip Append Keywords to Title Field - Léonie's Script
Append Keywords to Title Field - Léonie's ScriptThe following Applescript by léonie will append the keywords, separated by commas, assigned to an image to the contents of the Title field for that image. I made 3 changes to loonie's original script (sho...view more
Notes on Merging Photos LibrariesWhen merging two photo libraries we usually want a lossless merge: The original photos and the edited versions should be merged into the merged library as master-version pairs, so it will be possible to revert edited...view more
User Tip Bug: Locations not showing in the Year View
Bug: Locations not showing in the Year ViewAs observed by several forum members, occasionally the locations will not be showing in the Year View of the library. There seems to be a limit of seven countries. If there are more countries or locations outside coun...view more
User Tip Import Folders of Image Files into Library as Albums
Import Folders of Image Files into Library as AlbumsThis Applescript was created by user code!z and published at Github: ImportPhotoFolders where you can download an already compiled and saved Applescript file. With his permission I'm publishing the script here. ...view more
Photo Book Formats and FeaturesPhotos for Mac has a rich selection of templates for the photo books, but when browsing the templates it it hard to tell, which page layouts will be available. Here is a list of features for the templates in t...view more
User Tip How to Rebuild Thumbnails in a Photos Library
How to Rebuild Thumbnails in a Photos LibraryOccasionally the thumbnails in the Browser may not correspond to the enlarged image, or the thumbnails may appear to be corrupted, but the enlarged image is fine. While iPhoto and Aperture have a tool to recreate the ...view more