Tag: photos
How to find the large files in your photo library.
My Apple photo library was way bigger than it should be. It turned out I had some very large videos in it. There’s no way of arranging your photos by size from within the Apple photos app. There is a way to browse these files outside of Apple Photos and arrange them by size. Here’s…
Can’t transfer photos from an iPhone to your Macbook wirelessly!
I have an iPhone 13 and a new model 14inch m1 MacBook Pro. I’d love to copy the photo’s from my iPhone to my MacBook Pro. I can’t find a way to do it easily. The only option seems to be using a lightning to USB cable, but even then the processes painfully slow. There…
How to remove duplicate photos from your Apple photo library.
Here’s how to remove duplicates from your Apple Photo Library. 1. Download a free app called ‘Duplicate File Finder Remover’ Any app like this will do that finds duplicate files in the finder. 2. Find your Photos Library. It’s in your home user folder in a folder called ‘Pictures.’ Control-click on it and select ‘Show…
Help my iCloud is full!
I just received this email form Apple telling me that my iCloud is full.
How to import photos from a Pixel phone with OS X Mojave
How to delete photos on your iPhone or iPad
There’s no simple obvious way to delete all the photos off your iPhone. Digital Camera’s usually have a ‘delete all photos’ option but the iPhone doesn’t. If you don’t delete them when you sync them to iPhoto, it’s hard to get rid of them. Here’s two ways to do it.
How to import photos from an SD card
Someone recently handed me some photos on an SD card. Importing them was easy – the macbook has an SD card port that I had not even noticed before. I could plug the SD-card straight in!
How to access your old iPhoto library without iPhoto
Here’s how to access an individual photo from an old iPhoto library without having to upgrade the entire iPhoto library.
How to forward photos in Apple mail and keep the high quality
I just noticed than if you ‘forward’ an email containing photos Apple mail will reduce the quality and size of the photos. I noticed this when I forwarded some photos to myself from one computer to another and they shrank to about 1/10 of the size! Thankfully there is a way to change this to…
3 things you need to know about iCloud Photo syncing
Apple has updated their iPhoto app to ‘Photos’ and included some pretty cool iCloud syncing. All your photos are available everywhere all the time. It keeps smaller copies of the photos on your iOS device while allowing the larger original ones to stay in the Cloud and it can download the larger files to…
iphoto prints now available in Australia.
I’m not sure how long this has been available, but I just noticed that if you go to ‘order prints’ in iphoto it now works in Australia. You can even order calendars, hardcover books, and cards from within iphoto.