Chapter 5

Looking at Photos

IN THIS CHAPTER

Bullet Seeing how digital photography works

Bullet Getting your digital images onto your Mac

Bullet Organizing your images

Bullet Taking photos with Photo Booth

Bullet Editing your images in Photos

Bullet Sharing photos with family and friends

More people are taking photos than ever before with digital cameras and mobile phones, and then using websites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter to share every moment and morsel. Of course, before you share your immortalized antics, you may want to edit the evidence with an image-editing app to make the subject or scene look better than it did in real life.

You can use Photos, which comes with macOS, not only for image editing but also for managing (an important part of digital photography because it’s so easy to accumulate hundreds, if not thousands, of photos in a short time) and sharing your photos. From start to finish, Photos can ...

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