How to access photo files in Finder?

either select the photos in Photos and export the unmodified originals or is you are positive that you are done with Photos right click on the Photos library and show Package contents and copy the masters folder and impor to LightRoom

LN

Thank you Larry - and Terence for chiming in too! That was just what I was looking for…I am interested in the original Masters more than the edits I made in Photos, since I will be starting fresh with Lightroom. I will plan on creating folders on an external hard drive and copying over the masters files to those before I import them into Lightroom.

I'll be sure to check out the Adobe forums before I transfer as well.

Thank you again!

Elissa

I will plan on creating folders on an external hard drive and copying over the masters files to those before I import them into Lightroom.

Lr is a lot more powerful than Photos and can do that for you.

Using the Lr importer will preserve any metadata you have added.

There are hundreds of videos online full of tips for Lr. I found those very useful when I made the transition.

You highlight just one of the many reasons I tried and gave up on the crippleware that Photos is. I too often use the Reveal In Finder function of iPhoto to drag original media into video or graphics apps, and would have to have to Export each item I needed to do that to, then import into the other apps. Photos is still a giant step back from iPhoto, which, I am deciding to stick to versus this weak app Photos.

Good news is that I had only imported 9 videos from an iPhone into Photos. They were easy enough to find right now with the Show Package Contents to reveal the files at

/Volumes/4TB SSD/IMRAN_Videos.photoslibrary/Masters/2017/07/06/20170706-215314

I am just copying them to the desktop before I delete and get rid of Photos library. Maybe in a few years it will have the functionality iPhoto offered for years.

One suggestion is to check out the Photos version of iPhoto Library Manager, which often can do things better than Apple's own team can, and has been impressive to see in use. I can't be sure but they may have some capability to reveal things in finder. Of course, that is not a free app, and I do not have any connection to them.

It is funny (and sad) to see some Mac users, though trying to be helpful, telling you that you do not need a basic functionality that you not only need, but already use in existing APPLE products, AND know how to use safely. Others give convoluted 12 step processes like Windows users of the past used to give to do what we MacUsers could do with one click, and that we laughed at them for. Now it is a step backwards for us, as if Apple has been hiring fired Windows UX designers and product managers.

Good luck.

I.

Photos is not crippleware. As any unbiased research will tell you it is, in fact, far more powerful at editing, includes the whole iCloud Library and the seamless syncing across devices that us utterly absent from iPhoto. I used iPhoto from v1 and can count on my fingers the number of times I used the Reveal In Finder option. It is still possible to have it in Photos too, in a referenced Library. But most importantly, the fact that it's missing a feature that you prefer is no reason to carry on these inaccurate editorial posts. Use the Feedback mechanism.

Just because you did not use a feature (Reveal In Finder) in iPhoto does not make you the authority on why that feature would not be regularly used by others or be of great importance to others

And the opposite is true. Just because you used it sometimes does not mean that it's of great importance to any significant number of users. But what is undoubtedly true is that the feature is available in Referenced Mode. So, stop saying it's not there. It's unfair to other users of the forum to be inaccurate.

Photos is supposedly such a great (and better?) replacement

There is no argument about this. It's a much better editor in itself. it's interoperability with other editors is far better than iPhoto - you're not restricted to one. It has the ability to manage and seamlessly sync your photos across all your MacOS and iOS devices. It's just a more powerful app for less - it's free.

What part of

...the feature is available in Referenced Mode

is unclear? Is it that you don't understand what Referenced Mode is? Is that the problem?

So, let's be unambiguous: The feature you want is present in Referenced Mode. Stop saying it isn't. If you want that feature run in Referenced. Problem Solved. But stop posting inaccurate information, please.

But the media browser is the same in Photos.

IMO, best solution would be to create a new album > export, which lets you choose a place to save the images. You can then get to your individual photos.

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Sorry LarryHN, Colm_moynihan was right; it worked for me. Also, you were waaaaaaay incorrect about not being able to access "Photo" files in finder. Check out jonnybgoode's answer above. Smh

You are welcome

LN

Okay thanks!

iMovie should be perfect for your project. I have made several quite successful mixes of photos, videos and music using iMovie.