 So this is what's in store, okay? It's going to be a relaxed conversational format. We're going to show some basic tips on using the photos and preview apps on a Macintosh computer. We're also going to, if we have time, we'll also show the photo booth app where you can do some fun snaps using filters and things kind of like as if you were at a photo booth at a carnival. We'll do this in real time in a user profile that we created on a MacBook Pro laptop. That's what's right in front of me. And it's running the latest operating system, I believe, of 12.01 Monterey, if that matters to you. And at the very end, we're also going to show slides with just some additional resources. And I'm going to talk to you once again very conversational during this. I'm going to do everything in real time. And now I am going to go to the Photos app. So the Photos app comes built into any MacBook or iMac or basically Macintosh computer that you purchase. It's a way to organize your photos, manipulate them, crop them, make them better. And I'm going to show some ways that we can bring some photos in. And then we'll mess around with them a bit. I put some folders on the desktop with some photos. So here, notice I also open Photos again just so it's clear. So I'm going to quit Photos. And then I'm going to go down. I have it set so that the dock hides if I'm not using it so that it I have more screen real estate. So if I put the cursor on it, it'll pop up. If you're interested, I'll show you how to do that might be a handy thing. If you go to the Apple menu up here and go to system preferences, one of the things in there is dock and menu bar. And over here, you can control it. So I have it set to so I said it to be at the bottom of the screen. And to automatically this one here, if you can see the my cursor to automatically hide and show the dock. So I find it handy. Some people find it annoying if they don't see the dock all the time. So I'm not going to close that. I'm going to go down, rest the cursor here. And then I'm going to go find I'm going to move this out of the way so you can see it. And I'm going to find the photos out. So that's it there and see when you rest the cursor there for a second actually shows you the text as well. So I'm going to click on it. And I'm going to move this bar out of the way. And notice that it tells you right away. And this is a brand new profile. I think I've only added one photo into it, but you can bring photos in like from a device like an iPad or an iPhone. You can bring it in like with using a I give you have a memory card in a your camera. You can put that memory card into a device like this and then put it attached to the computer. They come in different shapes. You also might have photos on a flash drive. Here's what one flash drive looks like. And in this case, I would put it in. I kind of use these little cables, these little dongles to make it easier to plug into the computer. In this case, it's got a USB, traditional USB connector. Some of the newer if you have a new Mac, it might be using what they call USB C, which is a different type of connector. And that's what this laptop has. And I have some adapters so that I can bring a normal USB flash drive, a storage device. I can pop it into this and then plug that into the computer. So those are some ways you can bring photos into your computer. In this case, I am going to demonstrate just dropping one into photos. So we're going to have photos open. I have this window here. I have a screenshot that I took. So I took basically a snapshot of an image on the computer and I'm going to just grab it and drop it right in there. And there it is. And I'm going to double click on it so I can see it larger. I'm going to double click again. Actually, now I minimized it. A little tip, which I only learned in preparing for this class, if you're resting on an image, if you hold the space bar down, it'll bring it up for you. It'll make it larger. So that's a little just, I guess, can save you a little effort. I'm still kind of used to clicking and double clicking. Also, when you're looking at a large version of the image, you can use this arrow over here to bring it back down to see all the things in the library. So that was a simple drag and drop. And now that image is in the photos application. I am now going to bring in some by going to file and import. Does everybody see that? I'll do it again. I'm going to go up to file. And there's a lot of options there. One of them is import. So I'm going to click on it. And I'm going to go hunt down a folder that has some images in it. In this case, I'm going to click, I tend to leave things on my desktop often so I can get at it easily. So I'm going to go over here on the left side. I'm going to click on desktop. And I happen to name something earlier today. Osnap images, that's the name of the class Osnap. I'm going to click on it. And I'm going to click on review for import. Let's see how this goes. So it brought everything in rather quickly. I just grabbed an array of pictures I thought might be interesting and also some that we can use to make a meme at the end of the class if you're interested. So right now they're in this kind of review mode. I'm going to click on import all new photos and it's going to bring them in. So now they're actually in the photos app. And if I click on library, I will see them all in there. I am now going to edit a photo. So I am going to go to this one over here. I'm going to double click on it. So this was when Mayor Breed came to the library to as part of an earthquake preparedness exercise and to also thank the library employees for being disaster service workers during the pandemic. And I'm going to show a few just editing things here. So I am going to go over here where it says edit and that's going to bring up a bunch of controls. So here I go. And the first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go to crop. And here we go. Now when you're in this crop mode, you can grab it by the side here and change the orientation in case something just is a little off. Right now I think I'm going to try and line up the grid with the windows over here. So that would be just a little bit different. And I'm now going to grab it by the sides and bring it in a bit, make it tighter. Get rid of these distracting elements up top, but keep in the banners behind them. And now just a little bit closer. Now when you do it this way, I'm kind of freehand cropping. And that is great for me if I'm just going to put it on like say Facebook or something like that, but it was going to be printed. I would want it to conform to a ratio that would maybe be a four by six print or an eight by 10 or whatever the situation that you're going to be using it for. So I'm going to click over here to aspect. And so I'm going to click on original. So it's going to bring it back to that was the I guess the dimensions that it had before. And say this was well, I'm going to say we're going to make it into a five by seven print, take it down to Walgreens never printed. So that would be the ratio. So we wouldn't have things accidentally cropped out of it that we wanted. And then I'm going to move it around a little bit within this framework to make it the best that I can for printing. Now say I just want to grab a few people in this, I am going to go back to free form. And I am going to go past Mary Ellen Carroll, who is the head of disaster service management, go over to the police officer. I'm going to go right in on Mayor Breed and bring in Michael Lambert, who is the San Francisco City Librarian. And maybe I could want to bring it up here, keep the city seal in it. But you can see this is how you can crop. If you crop too closely or too severely, and the image doesn't have enough information in it or isn't sharp enough, then you might see some flaws might be softer or grainy. So be careful in cropping. That's why it's also great when you're in photography, when you get as close as possible to the subject, as opposed to being far back and then needing to crop, then you lose quality. So this is, and so now say I get all befuddled, I'm unhappy with what I did, I just want to get back to where I was, I'm going to click down here on reset. And now I'm back to the way it was originally. I'm going to go to adjust and I am going to play around with some of the settings here. So you can tell it to automatically work on the lighting by clicking that and do auto. It's going to do some corrections for you. I'm going to turn that off. If you click over here, and I'm just going to show some basics, and then later on on your own, later on on your own, you can play around with these controls because there's a lot of adjustments that you can make. Now by my clicking on the auto before, I think I actually made some adjustments. You can see these sliding bars, brilliance exposure, highlight, they're all moved over a little bit. So I am going to go to reset adjustments. So now it's back to the way it was. And we're going to play with a few things. I'm going to bring out highlights. Let's see if that helps us a bit. If you go too severely, sometimes it might look good at one part that you are there, but it also might look awful in another part of the photo. So when you're making these changes, take a look at the overall picture. So here I'm going to go to brightness. I could think of use a little brightness. I don't know if it needs contrast. So say I wanted to make it black and white, I can click over here. And it's made it black and white automatically. And one of the great things in using the photos application program is they call it non-destructive. So you can make all these changes, but you can always, always go back to the original. So here I'm going to reset adjustments. We're back. If you have a photo that has red eye in it, like, you know, from a flash or something, you can click on it to automatically change it in the eyes, but you can also grab this little tool and you can touch on the eyes and it will remove the red eye. We don't have that in this case. It was just natural light. So there's no red eye for me to correct. So anyway, so you can see there's a ton of different adjustments here. Once again, that can really help save a photo. I've noticed in the past, I've used brilliance and shadows a lot to bring out the, if I have a photo that's a little too dark, I've used a little bit of this to bring it out. So I'm going to go to reset adjustments. And now I'm going to click, oh, let's take a look at filters. And I think one thing that's changed with, so we're going to go to, let's go to vivid warm. Okay. So it automatically did that a new thing they've added is these filters are adjustable by the slider. So I could put this vivid warm on and then just say, oh, maybe just, you know, maybe just 11% of that is what I'm looking for or all the way. So I'm going to just now go back to not using any of it. Here I'm going to try, this is a black and white one. Fill noir, I imagine it's going to be sepia tone. No, it's just, but let's see. Here we go. Then we go back to having color and here it's going black and white. So I'm going to click done. And let's see if I can revert to the original somewhere. Edit, reset adjustments. Oh, that's interesting. So, oh, here we're on the upper left. That's where revert to original is. So you might want to remember that. If I click on it, then we're back to the way it was when we brought it in. I'm going to click done. And then I'm going to use this arrow over here to the left. And now we're back at the main screen. Let me see what else would be interesting to show you with it. So this is not a photo, but it's an image. And same thing, you can click on edit and make whatever changes you would like, including cropping or say it came in and it was the wrong orientation. Say it was landscape and it was upside down. So then you could click this to make it the right position. And if you want to know information about the photo, there's a little information button here. And it has the name, which is the title I gave it earlier. There's no information about it about a camera because it's just an image that we got from the library for one of our, this is from one of our summer reading programs. So I am going to click done again and go back here. And I'm going to find something that was taken with a camera. So this was from our veterans film festival a few years ago, two filmmakers speaking with the audience. And I'm going to click on information. Let's see. So it's saying it was taken with an iPhone 11 is telling us what aperture, what speed, the resolution, a lot of information there and also where it was taken right here in San Francisco by me as it so happens. And once again, if I wanted to use this as maybe a part of a postcard of promoting an event or whatever, I might click on edit and then crop. And I might bring it in a little tighter. All depends on what you're going to do with the image. It's also a little, I guess the tone is a little yellow. Let's see. We'll play around with a little of adjustments and click on adjust. And I'm going to go down to white balance. Let's see. I'm going to tell it to automatically make an adjustment. And I'm going to think, I think that's a little too warm for me. I'm going to turn it off. I'm going to go from here so you can see how you can change it just by using the sliders. And there are, I think there are additional adjustments like this one's neutral gray. We can adjust skin tone and we can adjust temperature overall of the image. So here's the question. Can these adjustments be made to just one select the area of the photo rather than the whole area? You might have to use like another like software like Photoshop or like some online photo editing platforms to kind of edit certain areas of your photo. Yeah, like so this is kind of like, you know, like the simple version, like, like it doesn't do as much as Photoshop, but it does most of the things one needs. In the other app, the preview app, there is, I know they have a form of a selector where you can get rid of some of the background. And I don't know if you could kind of use that to then change parts of, separate parts of it. Once again, there's just a lot of adjustments in here. Let me see if there's anything nice about selected color. I'll do further research on that or maybe we'll do a photos advanced at some point, because we were keeping this kind of basics. If you're someone who does know how to do Photoshop, things like that, then you might use like these kind of curves. I personally don't know too much about it, but you can play around with it. And like you see, it can go horribly wrong or someplace truly interesting and creative, but you can always do revert to original and get back and retouch. I'll show you the retouch thing in a minute also. Okay, so that's what I have for, I think this part right now. I'm going to click done and go over here. And I'll show you a retouch in one of these. Let's see. Okay, this is a cartoon character, the tick who I find, oh no, actually we'll do it with the Veterans Film Festival logo. So this is a logo and we needed to use it again this year, but we needed it to have either no year or say 2021. So what I did is I clicked on edit, I clicked on the retouch, and I brought the size down to something that seemed controllable. And then I went across it like this a few times, and then I waited and then it was almost gone. Here we go. So it's blending it in to fit with the barrier that's around it. So this can come in handy if you need to erase something. Sometimes you can see something's been erased and it looks more disturbing than having that in there. But here's a case where this was really handy. And now I'm going to click done. And I can show you when we get to the preview app, what we did is we basically then added a text box and said 2021. So hopefully that's a handy thing to know how to do. Another thing one can do is when you're using this, there are different ways of finding information. So in this case, this is all new information, these are all new images in here, so I don't have years of photos in there where we'd be broken down by that. The memories part of the library will automatically create for you like groupings of photos based on a time or a location or event. So you might have taken a bunch of photos at a holiday party and they might be grouped together. You can also create those yourself. The people, one will scan the images and look for faces and it's pretty good at it. And it'll ask you to identify folks and then you can put someone's name. Let me see if we can work this. Photo scan, view people. So it's not, I'm not quite sure how to continue scanning first because we're not using your app. Okay, so it's going to do it later on, but it can scan for photos and then you can name people and then you can search for individual folks. Like say you need to do a birthday card and you want to use a photo of someone and you're not sure where they are amongst your thousand photos. That's one way you could find someone. Places, oh and here it's great. So it has, it shows you photos by location. So if I click on this, it'll show me hopefully all the photos from this area. Let me see if we click on San Francisco. And I guess there's only one for this, okay. Recents, these are all kind of recent because they just came in import. So I think it'll treat it as an import. So this one, okay, because I use the import function as opposed to dragging it over, it considers this an import. And once again, and this just so you know is a screenshot of Canopy, which is a free service from the library. So you get to, I think it's either 15 or 20 now, but you can watch incredible art house films, old movies, documentaries, and it's all free. You can stream it on your computer, your phone, your tablet, Roku's, Apple TV's, Google Chrome. So anyway, so that's just a little bonus there. One thing that we're going to do when we move over to the preview app, which I'll show you why that's a little different is I took some of these photos. I got them from the web and I grabbed a local burrito and some local tacos. And I put them together and I did what they called a screenshot. But I created this image. And then I exported it and I opened it in preview. And then I added these text boxes. And so this was an example of a meme, something you might put out on social media to be humorous or to convey some opinion you have, you probably see them all the time. And sometimes people do something like this. They'll stay in the opinion and say burritos are better than tacos. And then they'll say, change my mind or fight me or something like that. So that, and I'll show you how to do that. But the first part for me was creating the image that I wanted, which was two things together. This may or may not be interesting too, but as I was looking for photos and things that could make memes, I was looking up Humphrey Bogart and Casablanca, which has such great quotes. And these are actually the lifts that Humphrey Bogart needed to wear during the filming of Casablanca. So he would be taller than Ingrid Bergman. So I thought that was quite interesting to find. I imagine he would crop this photo and get rid of the straps. Media types, some see. Shared albums is also, this is something that's built into photos and lets you create an album of photos and then share it with other Apple users. And then they can access it through their photos app. Or you can, for folks who are not Apple users, you can put it up on the web as a, as kind of like a little photo album, just living there on the web. And so anyone can see it if you give them permission. And I don't think we have, yeah, we haven't created any albums yet. I'll create one now. I'm on my albums. I'm going to click the plus sign. I'm going to play a new album. And I'm going to call it Bogey for Humphrey Bogart. So now I'm going to go back to the library. And I'm going to click. And then I'm going to hold the command key down. This is worth knowing or remembering. If I hold the command key down, I can then click on different images and they'll all be linked together, including you could do something you can skip several images and still have them linked. So I'm going to unclick the burrito because that's not a bogey image. Now I'm going to let go. And I'm going to drag that into Bogey. So now it's in an album. When it's in an album, it's, it still lives in the library here, but it's just also kind of, it's included in this. You can delete something from an album and it won't delete it from the library. So you might say, oh, I don't want this picture in this grouping. And I could click it and hit the delete key. And it's gone from the album. But if I click the library, the image is still there. So that means you can create, like if you're, you're working on a few different projects or family events, you want to have different photos there, you can create a bunch of different albums, but you can, but you can edit them kind of at will. Okay. Now here's something I haven't done in a long time. I'm going to do shared albums. So this one, oh, I cannot create a shared album. I'm sorry. I went to actually give me, I'm sorry, meant to do something else. Smart album. Okay. I'm going to go up to, and I think the reason I can't do a shared album is this account is new and it's not linked to any iCloud account. So I believe that's the reason I can't do the shared albums because we're not connected. I am going to go up to file and do new smart album right over here, new smart album. And a smart album has criteria so you can narrow things down. I'm going to go bogey best. Okay. So I'm going to say photo and here's the criteria you can use for this album. And I'm going to go photo is, I'm going to go album is, so this is the first criteria is bogey. I only have one album this point. I'm going to click the plus sign here and I'm going to go photo is a favorite. Now we haven't shown favorites yet, but I'll show that now. So I'm going to click okay. And I believe this smart album will be empty. So let's see. Okay. Bogey best is empty because it's pulling from the bogey album, but there are no favorites in there. So a favorite is basically saying that you like a photo and it's a great way to group things like say, oh, I love that photo of myself or someone else. I'm going to say this one is a favorite because I think the lighting on it looks better than this one. So I'm going to make that a favorite and then that famous speech at the airport. I'm going to do that. So these are both favorites. Another way to make something a favorite is while you're on it, you can hold the period key. Do you see how that little heart turned on and off? I'm hitting the period key and that's turning it on and off. So now I'm going to click on bogey best and we have two images in there. If I go back to bogey and I decide I only want the one with him drinking and all sorrowful I'm going to uncheck that and now bogey best only has one image. Another great thing about favorites is it's over here right here on the left side. So if you click on that, you'll see all the images that are favorites. So I'm going to go back to library and I'm going to decide that, well, I don't know, Mayor Breed is a favorite and Bugs is a favorite and now if I click on favorites, I will see these three. But in bogey best, I'm only going to see Bogart because it's pulling from the bogey folder. I am going to now export a few items from here. So I hope this is clear that you can bring photos in multiple ways. Well, actually I'm going to do something else so you can see. I have an iPad here and it has a photo library in it. It has a regular USB connector, but I have an adapter over here which you cannot see, which has a USB connector and I'm going to now plug this in and I am going to log in and I guess it's treating it a little. So here it's automatically bringing in everything from this library. So the photos library that's on this iPad. So I'm going to click this image from a class we taught a long time ago with two colleagues I like an awful lot and I am going to see up at the top here says import one selected. That's because I selected one image. If I uncheck it, there's nothing. So I'm going to do it again and one thing to be careful as if you do this is that you don't accidentally do import all new items. So it's up there and then I would be bringing in several hundred images. So I'm going to go import one selected and now it's here and I can double click on it and this image is now in here and now I am going to close that for a second. I'm going to detach this right now. I hope that won't cause any coneptions. Okay and bring back my photos out. Here we go. So that is another way to bring an image into your photos library. Another thing you may want to know about is AirDrop. In fact, I didn't know about that until a few years ago when we did a class and some folks kept us to it. So it's a way to share things between Apple devices. It's particularly handy if someone is sharing like a large video or something and you just want to be able to get it from one device to another. So I'm going to do that really well hopefully really quickly. I'm going to find an image on this device. So bear with me. I'm going to go to photos and I'm going to find an image. Let's see. Okay and you may not be able to see it but there's the universal kind of share symbol on the Apple devices which is a square with an arrow at the top. So I am going to hit that and then it gives me what's going to be able to see it but gives me a bunch of choices of how I want to share it and I'm going to choose AirDrop and it sees this device. It appears so I'm going to click on that and you see now it's popping up over here. AirDrop and so we'd like to share a photo. So I'm going to click accept. Now when you do that you haven't find it. I don't see it. Oh it's not showing? Yeah. Okay sometimes the things that go behind the scenes don't show up when you're sharing things. But basically I'm going to just continue on with it but this device sent that photo to photos and it's giving me an image a pop-up window that says AirDrop would like to share a photo. So I'm going to click it gives me two choices. I can save it to downloads or open in photos. I'm going to open in photos so hopefully you'll at least see that. So take my on faith that pop-up windows have occurred and hopefully we're going to see a new image and here it is. So that's just another way of bringing things into your device and in this case into photos. So I think we covered a lot of ways of getting things into photos. So once again from the desktop by dragging it by choosing import and bringing it in by using some kind of device that will bring your memory card in or plugging your camera in directly plugging in an iPhone or an iPad or like I said or using a flash drive which is basically a storage device and plugging that in and then you can bring the photos into photos. So I'm going to go over here. So now I'm going to export maybe two images. I am going to export Humphrey Bogart so I clicked on the image and I'm going to go to file and export. Now here you have some choices. If you have a really fancy camera you might take photos in a few different formats including this one called raw and you would be able to then send it out the same way it came in or just whatever format it was in and size you can say just send it back out the way it came in. Don't make any changes in photos just give me that image. In this case I'm going to go export one photo and I have options on how I want to save it, what quality, what format. JPEG is super popular common format, smaller size images, they take a hit on a kind of equality in compression and stuff to make it smaller. I'm going to click on it. TIFF is a larger higher quality format. PNG is pretty popular. I've been saving most of my images in that format because it is compressed a bit but the quality is very high so I'm going to choose to do that but the image that came in was probably a JPEG but it's going to go out as a PNG and now I'm going to click on export and then whenever you're saving anything on your computer you have an option you know it's you can you're in control you can tell it to I want to save it here or there by default very often they go into the downloads folder or the documents folder. In this case I'm clicking on desktop and then now I'm going to go export. I could also create a new folder in fact I'll do that just so you see what it's like so I have the option to create a new folder now I'm going to call it photos exports and click create and now I'm going to click export so this image is now in that folder on the desktop as a PNG format. I'm going to download one other image let's see what I'm going to do. I guess maybe uh Daffy Duck I'm going to go to file export export one photo I'm going to do the same thing PNG if I chose JPEG I should get some additional options let's see yeah um uh actually might have been let me try there we go so that was something I neglected to do I didn't click this and when I click it it gives me more choices so I can pick um you know the color profile but the biggest thing is size and what quality you want so in this case I'm going to say full size and I'm going to export and automatically it's looking to take us to that folder we just last used export. So Ryan yes so you're exporting one photo but then you have the options of exporting the photos into different resolutions right? That is correct um so we'll we'll go we'll do that again um so I'm going to go to library I'm going to do this photo of Mayor Breed I'm going to I'm going to export it two different ways so I'm going to go to um so this was taken with an iPhone my iPhone so it's probably in a whole different format which is I think HEIC which is a high I forget a high quality um compression uh versions one of I think Apple's Apple has a specific version of it so I'm going to go to file export so I'm going to export unmodified original and that's really all the choices I have when I do that so I'm going to export it and make sure I put it in uh the photos exports folder and now I'm also going to do the same photo I'm going to export one photo now in this case I can do PNG and these are the these are the choices I have like no small medium large full size under custom I haven't used that before so here it is we could there there is some other additional controls so we can we can play with the um the height and resolution there so Brian can you export it to like a different location like a flash drive yes and I will plug in so here is a flash drive connected with a usbc adapter I'm going to plug it into the adapter I have here so I'm going to click cancel so I'm going to go file export one photo I'm going to leave it as PNG full size export and I'm looking over here it's not showing there I'm going to click on over here let me see make sure that the uh the drive is actually showing I forget what I named that drive but uh so I'm going to uh export let me take a look at the uh I'm going to go over here and see if it showed up here it is oh snap so now I'm going to uh let me see if I can get back excuse me moving this around a bit photos and I'm going to go to file export export one photo PNG export and when I get to this window on the left side this is what I was looking for you'll see it has an icon that shows that it's an external drive and it has the name so I'm going to click on it and I'm going to click export and so in this case it's now going onto that drive um you could also just save it into a folder on the desktop and just drag it over later but yes you can you can export to um to a connected drive I'm still going to export this one photo make sure it goes into the um so now see now it's automatically going to the old snap into the uh the flash drive but now I'm going to click on desktop pro I'm going to get to the desktop and then we have the photos exports and I'm going to export it into there just to make sure it's there also because we're going to use it to um perhaps make a meme okay so now I'm going to quit photos we can come back to it if we need to um oh the other thing I didn't mention is there is this tool up here um the auto in hand so basically um the mac is going to make its best guess at what is right and wrong with the photo and give give you an updated version um like lighting color so let's see I'm going to click it once see so you see it brightened it quite a bit and I can do it again you can use it you can do it multiple times so and if one needs to one can undo auto enhance undo auto enhance uh oh if I go to edit yes so if you go to edit then I can go to revert to original and that takes care of any of these changes I made in this other screen okay so now I'm going to quit photos okay okay once again so that's the photos app now another thing that comes built in is the um the preview app and that comes in handy um let me show you also where applications live in case you want to be able to put them in the desk into the um the dock yourself so I'm going over here to the finder which is on the left side of that dock I'm going to click on it once and then up here our application so all the programs that are loaded into your computer there including some helpful things in utilities so this is where I found the preview app over here and basically I grabbed it I brought it down to the dock I waited for the dock to kind of pop up and then notice how you know you can get little spaces in between the programs and then I let it go in there I'm not going to do that now because it's already in the dock so so so in case that's helpful so now I'm going to go um and I'm going to I'm going to open a program and it's going to I'm going to open up a file and it's going to open up preview so I am going to go to oh snap PDFs after I move this down to the bottom and so we have a few PDFs and basically a PDF is kind of a a frozen slightly frozen document so that when you you share it it looks roughly the way it left you when the other person opens it up so you know people can use special software to edit them but by and large if you say create a document in Microsoft Word like say your resume you can save it as a PDF and send it to them and then when they look it on the screen the formatting should be okay and it should print well there's all there are other PDFs too which are not created from documents um but uh anyway but that's the I think the most common PDF and I'll open up one we did a cat video class some years ago and um so this was a Microsoft Word document that we saved we know we we we laid it out all the way that we liked it um we also included live links to sites in it um but let me show you what you can do like say someone sends you a PDF and you don't have Adobe Acrobat or something you want to be able to open it and maybe make um add to it so we'll do something with this one um I'm going to once again double click on this um first page and I'm going to do a word balloon say I'm going to go to tools and annotate and I'm going to go for a speech bubble okay click okay so it gave me a speech bubble and I am going to I'm not going to worry about making it look perfect what I'm going to say this cat wanted to say something um let's see so if I so I click twice to get in there um and I'm going to say you know howdy say you know but this is once again how one could create a meme or or or make a note on something so I'm going to click howdy uh and I'm going to I double click just to get a get a hold of the text and if I go up here I don't know if you see in the toolbar here it has a thing that shows uh text so I can change things so right now the color is red so if I click on it I can make it black um if I want to make it uh if I want to get wordier and I need more room I could make the text say I know a 16 point I could also drag this and move it around so here we go so howdy um this is an example of adding a speech balloon and once again you can manipulate it you can grab it so okay so that's one thing you can do um sometimes you you might come across a pdf or you've created a pdf and it has pages on it that you don't want or you need to add a page I'll just show you that when you tell it to show the thumbnails which I'm going to show I'm going to go up here I'm going to go to view and I'm turn off thumbnails so depending on how theoretically I'm turning off I'm going to hide the sidebar okay so in this case I had to do hide the sidebar to get rid of the thumbnails um but so when I do this I just see a continuous two pages but say I need to get rid of one of those pages I had to sign a document it was two pages but I only need to send them one what I would do is I would click up here in file and I would duplicate so I would create a whole new version of it then I would go to file and save and give it um a name like say one page I'm changing it to cat videos ocean view one page and I'm going to click save now I'm going to go to view and I am going to click on thumbnails and now thumbnails are back and so I'm going to click on the second page and I'm going to say okay I just want this to be one page I'm going to hit the delete key and that is gone and I'm going to click on file and save but say it was a terrible mistake and I didn't want to get rid of that page since I save the original I can go over here and I can go view thumbnails and let's see if I can I'm going to grab it and I'm going to pop it over there and now I'm going to close this document um so um once again this can come in handy if you have to deal with PDFs we've used it many times here to add pages to remove um so uh let me show you how to also and say it a few other ways I'm going to close this one and I'm going to open up uh free stuff for free another class we did last year and I'm going to go to view and I'm going to hide the sidebar so now in here we added some arrows so there may be some situation where you've created um a document and you want to point something out and say no this is I want you to sign here or pay attention to this image so that's what we did for for these um as you can see right here we put um a basically a rectangular box around uh the browse button and we put a little arrow in there and as I hold the cursor over it it also shows the um the the URL so we put a live link in it um and we'll be doing these again uh in our future classes we'll come up with some new handouts that we can email to you and with live links so um would you like me to show you should I add uh that I'm going to go up to tools annotate and in this case I'm going to pick um annotate I'm going to pick a rectangle and so it automatically came out black because I think that's what we I just changed something to and I'm going to put it around um okay Burton and Taylor and I'm going to grab it by the sides notice how you know um the the cursor is a contextual tool it's kind of smart enough to know what it should be depending on where it is so in this case it's turning from a pointer to this little thing where I can grab it and resize it so I'm going to get right in on their names and I'm going to I think this will change it I'm going to go up here and I'm going to make it uh I don't know bright green I'm going to make it green let's see if it changes okay oh so that was actually for inside the box so here's another thing to always remember that there is an undo um in these programs so if you make a mistake don't panic don't keep hitting things stop pause and then say ah hit the undo and then that part is undone is done so I think it's over here and now I'm going to try to see if this yep so it was over here with the box and when I hit that I was able to change the color of that box if I want to do arrows I can go to tools annotate arrow and it creates one and you can see how it's now a hand if it's that I can grab it and move it around you can also grab it and make it smaller you can change the angle like like that so that was very handy for these handouts so we can say okay go here and these are and then follow these arrows and some people also create signatures using their computer you can do that in in preview you it can talk you through um um signing your using the mouse touchpad and then it'll save it and then you can add it to documents in um to digital documents so I'm going to click preview okay I'm going to close that I'm going to show you one other program going down to the dock and this is a kind of fun thing that's built in uh photo booth so now it's a picture of me in photo booth I'm going to see if I can move this up I'm going to make myself look ridiculous so for your pleasure I'm going to click the one over here that is four so it will take four images one two three four kind of like a photo booth thing this is a particular filter there are tons of filters built into it view show effects here we go okay so here's multiple effects and you can like this might be fun particularly with kids you know uh grandkids uh whatever um and as you move in and out of the camera the things change I am going to um excuse me okay oh yeah so here's the effects button so I click on it and yeah so then and then there are arrows here so you can click along and see the wide array of of effects so I am going to uh pick uh maybe I'll pick mirror no no it's too much I don't know what I I certainly don't um but we'll just take this one it's goofy and I'm going to click on the camera icon here and it's going to take pictures four times and there's a countdown usually um let me see okay I don't think I hit it here we go so three two one and then there'll be another one oh I have to okay so I wasn't on the four I guess so here we go well any case that's how it works earlier when I did it when I clicked on it and I was on the four one that took four photos in a row um so anyway so that's the photo booth thing and then I'll show you where it lives so I'm going to click where the images live if you go to the finder and in this case I have pictures showing here on the left side the way you can add or remove something from this this favorite side bar here is going up to a finder going up to finder going to preferences and then all along here you can turn things on and off so I turned pictures on earlier um if I I'm going to turn on something else I'll turn on music and then that'll be one of the choices that show up here so now it shows music so under pictures which I already had added to there there are two libraries if you open up the photo booth library then we should be able to see the the photos show photo yeah so there I did show photo and that's the one that we took earlier okay so okay so uh let's get to questions the first question is uh can you show how to like merge multiple photo libraries into like a single library what is the second question like how to organize like a library like uh how or why to create more than one library and how to bring like one library from one computer to another I may be able to answer that to some degree okay so so I'm going to go back to finder and pictures and this is the current uh photos library now you may have um I'm just going to be like you may have photos from another computer that you want to bring over um and once again I'm not an expert on this I've done it before for myself I've taken the photos library from one computer copied it over to a flash drive and that or hard drive rather because it was so so much and you can drag it in here I don't have iCloud set up so some things may not work but here I'm going to go back to um photos in a second here's one thing uh that I meant to show also the help function in photos so let's say add um um library okay okay that's very helpful no results found what I had looked up yesterday was um they said if you have an iCloud um uh iCloud set up so iCloud which we didn't talk about um basically is the sharing service with Apple so if you have iCloud on you can have um your images and some of the preferences uploaded to their servers living in the cloud and it's particularly helpful for like phones and uh and tablets uh you can have so if you lose it um uh you can back up from it and then also you can see photos um across devices including um the your actual computer so what was the second question Michael was organizing yeah so how to like organize like your library and how to create more than one or organize the photos and albums well in this case we don't have a lot of images in here um um to do it some things automatically happen like you will have um uh if we had multiple people in here it it will scan um it automatically has um it creates albums for you to be able to search by different criteria are ready but you could do something like um whatever just new album right so I have my albums you click this and album and it is you know it becomes family you can click and then you know uh you know whatever new album and then friends and you can you can drag things in there um you can search uh which is interesting by um I don't know if this is gonna work you can not only search by location so I'm gonna say I'm gonna search San Francisco we should get that one image let me see so I'm not quite sure why you know that isn't working but theoretically when I type in San Francisco we I should be able to find a grouping from that or they said you can actually search for things like food and it shows up so um but in this case it's it's it's not happening so I I sorry I can't say more than that it's interesting it is finding titles frank france wild years but um by and large when you have a larger library you have also there's there's um there's albums built in or um or that kind of populate um so I'm sorry I don't have a better answer for both those things but you can bring um like bring in a library over and then bring it into your current library and merge them into it once you do that they're merged together um so you you wouldn't be able to remove those easily it was my understanding unless you um um you did it by you know by hand so brian there's another question when you were doing edits to your photo before when you do the edits do they automatically create like a new photo is there like original version of it so it always saves the original and so they always said they call it non-destructive um so you can make whatever changes you want and um you can always do revert to the original you can also make if you wanted to you could also duplicate a photo if you were really worried about that like this I just right clicked on the burrito and duplicate one photo and then we have another copy of it and you could work from that but basically here I'm going to go in here and I'm going to click edit I'm going to crop it it like that um and I'm going to adjust and I'm going to go over I'm going to move this over so I can see it and I'm going to make it super bright and brilliant and bright and I'm going to make it black and white so I'm going to click done and go back so there it is I've made all these changes to it if I double click on it and I go to edit it and click revert to original then it goes back to that and also when you export something if you um you may have seen earlier you have a choice to export the original and then it will be the the actual file that came in will go back out so can you make edits to one photo and have the edits in one photo and have the original photo as another photo the two photos total one original and one with the edits not that I'm aware other than making a duplicate of it and then working from that so um working from another copy of it I haven't seen to the best of my knowledge you know you you have that one and you can like sit revert or whatever but you don't see different versions of it other than like I said you can export the original and the current jpeg or pdf copy so is there a feature where you could kind of combine two photos into one or would that be something more advanced to where you have to go to like a different platform to use a platform to combine two photos into one photo what I know from this is when you do burst photos which um they um they sometimes combine multiple ones into one image when when you upload it and you have a choice of saving them as burst or combine that's the only combined one that I of which I'm aware so there's like another platform online it's kind of like a photo editing platform it's called pixlr and there's like an advanced version and like a beginner's version and you can kind of use that to kind of combine more than one photo into into one so you have two photos you use the platform to combine it into one and it's called a pixlr so when you create an album is it possible to like print the album from there or do you have to use something else to print the album you can uh one thing is you can definitely make slide shows of albums oh here's something I should mentioned earlier remember what I meant when I did the uh the smart album uh when you have a smart album uh if you delete a photo from there it actually does delete it from the library so once again if you create an album you can delete an image from it and it won't leave the whole library but if you're in a smart album and do it apparently according to two different things I read it'll remove it from the library and you would lose that photo so if you play around with smart albums uh be careful about what you delete now I'm going to go back to an album let me see so I'm going to click done um so we're going to do family okay let's do bogey best bogey um well you can click slideshow so make it print so yeah you can make a unless things have changed you can um like almost do like a contact sheet and you can print if that's the kind of the question you can go to file and print I don't have a printer set up on this but let's see what we get I hope this is addressing question so we were in an album it had uh what three images so we can do it so it's fitting the full right here the us letter is the size that we're going for um fit or fill um we can do five by seven or a contact sheet and when you're in the contact sheet you can play around with it a bit like the size and and how many columns you have so that um so I don't know but that you can print and we have done that in the past where we we played around with a bit um when I've had to print multiple things I've usually brought it into Microsoft Word and laid them out myself it seemed I like having that extra control but but this is the setting um for just for printing is that answer to the question that you have multiple when you get to the print dialogue box you have you have options and also there was like a suggestion where if you want to print like large album you might use like a third party like company and they could like actually print it for you yeah Apple used to do it directly themselves I don't think they are anymore there's plugins that you wind up doing when you when you do that for a printed album so uh but yeah from what I read that you know you can then you know you can export these and send it to whatever Costco Walgreens and there's some um online services there's a few different ones that I think Apple recommends and then you can I think they have a plugin that goes in with that so Brian there was a question about can you kind of briefly go over what AirDrop is again does like everyone have that feature or is it very specific to like newer devices or older devices okay so um I'm going to show the um the photo book option right now just to complete that so under file and create there's a bunch of different options so I'm going to go to uh book and then you see it takes us to the app store where they would probably give us options of a few vendors that they um that they trust that would be a way of directly from there um printing a book or a calendar or something like that um I think it used to be simpler I think it was all done through Apple years ago um so AirDrop is in all um to my best my knowledge all well relatively recent Mac so I know I'm using a I was using an eight-year-old computer and it's in there so I think any any um Apple Mac device you're using unless it's super ancient even then it might but it's it's built into um probably anything you're currently using um and you want me to go through um sending something again is that right yes okay I'm gonna go back over here to the library okay so here's all the images we happen to have in here I am going to log into my uh to this iPad and this is also I think like an eight-year-old iPad okay so I'm gonna look for some photos oh I think I see a sunset or sunrise I see a nice sunrise okay here it is and I'm gonna try and get close to the camera I don't see it but there is an icon that's a square with um uh with an arrow and that's on all the Apple devices that's the icon they use for sharing so I'm gonna click on that and then it pops up um and it shows me some options for how I could share it by sending it by mail by a text message but airdrop is the first one in this particular case so I'm gonna click on airdrop and then it's going to look for the devices around the Apple devices that have airdrop turned on you can have it off you can have it discoverable by everyone or discoverable by contact people who are in your contacts um when I've been out in the field dealing with this more often than not that the reason it doesn't work is someone has that turned off and as soon as they turn it on to discoverable by everyone then you can then you can communicate and if you want to then you can turn it off after you've completed the transfer so here it says bridge is MacBook Pro that's what this one that's the name of this one named for the bridge where we work clicking on it and now it has shown up here and I am going to click accept and in this case I'm going to save it to downloads and my um my iPad says it's sent so I can click done and I can close it here and I'm going to say that's a pretty little sunset I'm going to make it a favorite by hitting the little heart okay so now I am going to go over I'm going to close the photos and close this and I'm going to go to finder which once again in the dock on the left side over here click on finder bring it up here and I'm going to go to downloads and there is the photo so once again you can put it directly into the photos app or you can have it in the downloads folder and if I double click on it it opens up in preview so usually when you double click an image that's where it goes and you have to kind of bring something into photos to work on it there and once you're in preview you can make once again some very quick edits here you can you can crop and do all sorts of things within this and you can also change format so in this case it's a jpeg I can go to file and export and it gives me some choices and so in this case I can do PNG this HEIC is the Apple kind of super high quality compression format and I'm going to see what happens if I make it a pdf okay okay and I'm going to let me see as so I see it as a pdf I'm going to click on where I'm going to click on desktop and then click save and so now this version of it is not a jpeg like this is it is a pdf so I'm going to open up this jpeg again and I'm in the preview app and I'm going to go to file and down this long list is export and there's also one specifically for export as a pdf because that happens that it's a common thing so I'm going to click on export and then you have some choices including renaming it so and you so I'm going to go make sure it's saved on the desktop I'm going to say I don't know again and in this case I'm going to save it as an HEIC and in this case it gives me a slider for the quality and I'm going to have it go all the way to loss list which means it would be less destructive and I'm going to click on save and when you have like a list of like photos is there a way to kind of sort through like your photos like by name or by like certain order I don't have like it populated with lots of like in my other computer I have lots of different albums and sort of different ways but okay we can go by years okay and sometimes it's incorrect this this was not from 2021 but that's when I probably made the the conversion of it whatever months days and all photos you can do once again right now since it doesn't have many things it's not showing at all but we can do by people places definitely by by by making something a favorite and once again you can always create more albums and if you and also there's no videos in here but if there was a video in there it would also show a category an album that was videos in fact I'll do that right now I'm going to import and I'm going to click on desktop and then you click on videos and here's a video of a local musician Dave Mahali performing and I'm going to import new video and so now we have a whole another category over here media types and has videos and if we play it so so I know it didn't that didn't offer much in terms of organization let me see one thing I neglected to mention is google photos so when you're using apple photos and then you're using say if you are using iCloud you get five gigabytes included and that goes away very very quickly like you know right your phones these days are coming 64 gigabyte 128 256 so you want to paying apple you know a monthly fee depending on what you're saving up there so google photos is it 15 gigabytes of giving for free now michael yes yeah so that's another option for backing up your photos on my work computer here I have both going on so a lot of things are backed up in google photos and they have a pretty easy way to share your photos from there and a lot of folks use gmail accounts so a lot of ways it might be the it's an easy way to share your photos with other people