 So I'm Brian. I work here at the San Francisco main library as part of the bridge or literacy and learning department and Michael. Hello. Also longtime library employee and also here at the bridge at main. So this class I'll bring up a slide in a second, but we did this class because we previously did a class using Mac photos. And so many things came up that I went and did some more research and hopefully there's some new information to share. And a few things that this is just going to be relaxed and conversational. We're going to show some basic tips on using photos. We're going to do this in real time. So I think it's been an honest experience and some things will go right. Some things will go wrong, but you'll you'll see it in real time. It's not from slides. And if you're interested in such things, I'm using one of the newest MacBook Pros. And it's running the latest operating system OS 12.1. So sometimes features if you're using it older computer may not be exactly the same. At the very end of the presentation, I'll show some slides of additional resources, including LinkedIn learning, which is free from the library and which I did use for some of the research for this. So once again, I'm going to do this in real time. And I'll try to also slow down a bit. So as I said, photos is a free application and app that comes with your Macintosh computer. And I'll show you where you would find applications on your computer. So I have the dock hidden down here so I can have more desktop space. And then when I bring the mouse down to it, it pops up. And in case you're interested, I'll just show you how to do that. I'm going to go to system preferences. So you went to the Apple, can everybody see my like the cursor there and system preferences. And then let me see where it dock is. Here we go. Sorry, dock and menu bar. And I wonder if I can move this out of the way a bit. Can't. Okay. Dock and menu bar and automatically hide and show the dock. So if I uncheck that, the dock is always there, which is less confusing and handy. It's always there for you. But I do that so that I have more usable screen space. And then if you want to bring it back up, you just bring the cursor down and let it rest for a second. And now I'm going to hopefully click that. Okay. So now I am going to go to... Oh, and then I was going to show you where applications live. So down here is the finder. I'm going to click on it once and brings up a bunch of things, but I'm going to click on applications, which I actually had moved to the top of the sidebar right over there, right over here. And then it has all the applications and also some of the utilities that are included on your Mac computer. So in this case, photos is right over here, but it's already in my dock. If you need to move something into the dock, all you would do is grab it. So here I'm going to grab photos and start bringing it down. And when I bring it to the dock, then I could find a spot where I'd like to place it in between two other icons and drop it and then it'll live there. I've already done that, so I'm not going to do it now. One of the things with photos is you can have multiple libraries, collections of photos. They call them libraries. So while I have the cursor on the icon, I'm going to hold down the option key, which is on the bottom left of the keyboard. And when I click, I'm going to get this menu, which gives me some choices. So there's already the standard library, which was automatically created, but you can create additional ones so that you can basically move them around or keep things organized. You might want to have one for work, one for home, family, or whatever. So in this case, I'm going to create a brand new one. So I'm going to go down to create new and I'm going to call it O snap to and I'm going to go V2 for version two. So I created one earlier. And it's automatically going to save it in the pictures folder. So I'm going to click OK. And now we have a brand new library. So now we have a brand new fresh library with no information in it. So I'm going to show a few ways of bringing images in for the first time. So I'm mostly going to make this window a little smaller so I can control it. Now notice it says connect a camera or memory card. Drag pictures directly into it. You can import using the file menu and you can also use iCloud. We're not going to use iCloud today, but I'll show the other three ways of bringing in photos. So here is a camera. In this case, it's a really nice Fuji camera. And it uses a memory card to store photos. So if I open this latch, normally there would be a memory card in there. I've already taken it out. I guess I'll put it back in to show you the experience. So here it is. I'm going to open it. And very often with the cameras, you'll click and that'll semi eject the cards that you can grab it. So I usually find that's the easiest way to get photos from a camera into the computer. And then if depending on what computer you have, some of them have a slot built into it already where you can insert the card and then bring the photos in. I'll show you an older MacBook over here. And this one has the slot right there on the side where you can insert right there where you can insert a memory card. There are also external devices such as this, which will read various memory cards right there. And I don't know if I can show you this. I have one a dongle attached to this computer, which lets me plug in the keyboard I have as well as memory cards. Another thing about memory cards. So this is a standard SD card, kind of a nice, fast one. Notice it's all one piece. These days there's a lot of, I guess, are they micro SD cards? I believe they're called. They're super small. So here I'm going to bring it up to the camera as best I can. And then you either have to put them in a slot in an adapter or you use this adapter, which is that standard size. And then you can bring it into the computer either through once again through a slot in the computer or through some adapter. I am going to place this card into an adapter right now and I'm going to minimize this again. And we'll see that it's looking to bring in all these photos. I'm going to close it. I'm just doing that so you can see how that works. And see on the desktop of the computer, it shows that this drive has been attached. I'm going to right click and eject it. But that's one way to make these visible onto your computer. I've already brought a few photos in and put them on the desktop. And I will now go back to photos. And I'm going to bring a few photos in. Okay. So once again, showed how you could connect a memory card. You can also, with some cameras, attach a cable and bring it in directly from the camera. I am going to bring in a sunrise from August 2020. And I'm just going to drag it in there. And it goes right up. I'm also going to bring in this folder, which says Christmas Tree Civic Center. I'm going to open the folder in this case. I double clicked. And I can see the photo. The same thing. I'm going to drag it and release it onto the actual program onto, and it's now in the library of the Photos app. Now I am going to go to File and Import. And now I'm going to click on the desktop where all these folders are. And I'm going to go for, well, I don't know, this time is going to be the fire boat. I double clicked and then it brought in a photo of the fire boat. If I go back to my library, I should be able to see. In this case, it's given me a choice to think about it. Like I might have opened up a folder with a 10, 20 photos. I may not want them all. But I do want this. And if I had multiple photos, then these import selected would actually be highlighted. It would be active. And I could select different photos and bring them in. So right now I'm going to click on Import New Photo. And so now that is in the library. Now I'm going to show you something else, which can come very much in handy. I'm going to show another way to bring photos and other items into your computer. And here is my iPhone. And I am going to pick a photo. I'm going to pick one that I took this morning of sunrise in San Francisco. And there is a little icon on the bottom that looks like a square with an arrow. I am going to hit that. And that's the universal for the Mac share button. So I did that. And now I'm going to hit the AirDrop icon down there. And we're going to see that icon again. And now it's going to look for other Apple devices, which also have AirDrop activated. And the name of this computer is Bridges Mac Pro. So it popped up. Photo, share, AirDrop, MacBook Pro. There we go. So and when you have this, you can actually decline because maybe someone is reaching out to you with whom you don't want to connect. You can decline it or you can click on Accept and then you have options. You can save it to the Downloads folder or you can open it directly into photos. So in this case, I'm going to open it up directly in photos and click Open in Photos. And let's see. And then now we have a new sunrise photo right there that was taken this morning. Those are some ways of bringing photos into photos. Now I'm going to minimize this for a second. One of the things I picked up in doing this research, one of the instructors on LinkedIn Learning said that you should really have a, as minimally distracting a space as possible when you're doing photo editing. But he's pretty serious about stuff. He was talking about having gray walls and things like that. But he mentioned the desktop and that having lots of colors on the desktop could skew how you adjust your photos. So I'm going to show you how to change the desktop background, which is a handy thing to know how to do anyway. So I'm going to right click on the desktop. And then one of my options is Change Desktop Background. And here we are on desktop. And I'm going to go down to the one over here where it has colors. And I'm going to pick this kind of darkish gray, like a middle gray, I think. And now I'm just going to close that. So now instead of having that rather beautiful and colorful background, I have a non-distracting gray background. I often do that with my computer anyway, and maybe just have a fun picture kind of in the center. And go back to photos. Okay. So we have some photos in here. And I think I'm also going to drag another thing in. I'm going to drag pizza in. Okay. So I'm going back to the library. Okay. So, Brian, on your screen, you have a label that says JPEG and RAW. They're showing as a label. Can you kind of explain that? And does that kind of mean that there are two copies of this photo in your library, one in each format? Yes. And when we get to editing, we're going to do a little bit more with that. But a JPEG is the perhaps the most popular common format for images and for particularly photos. And one of the things that's nice about it, Cypher and being universal, is that it also is very compact. And it basically gets rid of a lot of information, basically the things that your eye can't see. So, for the most part, we wouldn't notice it. But a RAW file has a lot more information. It's much larger file, but it hasn't thrown that information away. It's captured a whole bunch. So when it comes time to editing a photo, having a RAW file is much handier. And when we get into the editing, I'm going to move back and forth between a JPEG and a RAW and see if we can see some differences in that. Okay. So we're in the library. And part of the way also that this program works is there are albums and there are folders. And basically folders are just where you can store albums. And I'll show that. Well here, I'm going to create an album. I'm going to go over here and notice I hit that little triangle. And I have my albums. I'm going to click and create a new one. Or rather, I'm going to click and it's going to meet some options. So the first one I'm going to do is album. And I'm going to call it sunrises. And I'm going to go back to library. And I'm going to drag this one in there and this one in there. So now they both are in there. So it's a way of me keeping track of things by creating an album. If I wanted to create a folder, I'm going to go up to file and do new folder. And I'm just going to click that. I'm going to call it one test. Now under, I'm going to go back to library. And just so you know, if I were to drag this photo into the test folder, it's going, it should have created an album out of that. So folders are designed to help you organize your albums. And so you're going to always have an album within the folder if you're working with a folder. Now, another thing about organization, this is creating a smart album. So I'm going to, I'm going to do a click over here. And I'm now going to create a smart album. And this is something where you can give it criteria and it can sort for you and be able to organize. So I'm going to call this one favorite sunsets. So first thing is there's all this search criteria. So I'm going to go photo is a favorite. Now I'm going to click the plus sign over here. And I'm going to give it a different criteria. Photo is raw, say, which is that special format. And I'm going to do another one and say camera model is, and it should know the cameras that I've been using through the metadata that came in there. So I'm going to say in this case from the Fuji, which is X100F. So now I'm going to click okay. And now let's see if there's anything in there. So nothing. So now I'm going to go back to sunrises folder and I'm going to make this one a favorite. So now if I go back to favorite sunsets, it has something in there because it hit that criteria. Now if I go back to favorite sunsets and do edit and change it from camera model is the iPhone and click okay. Then that goes away because I don't have one that meets all that criteria. So I'm going to go back to sunrises and I'm going to make this one a favorite. This one I took with my phone this morning. And now if we go back to favorite sunsets, okay sunrises. Oh and I said sunsets. I meant to say sunrises, right? Okay. Favorite sunrises. So what did I not do right with this one? So I'm going to go back to favorite sunrises. Now I'm going to edit and I'm going to check the criteria and see where I went wrong. So it's a favorite. Ah, it's not a raw file because I took it on my iPhone which is not set for that. So I'm going to say photo is a live photo because it probably is which is a photo generally has taken with your iPhone that has a few seconds of video in the front and the end of it. So let's see if it is that. And I'm going to click on favorite sunrises. Nope. So I'm going to go back to favorite sunrises edit smart album again and I'm going to pick a criteria that is going to meet. So I am going to make it. I'm going to, I'm going to take that criteria away. So now with photo is a favorite and the camera model is an iPhone 12 pro. Now I'm going to click okay and let's see if that worked. Okay. So now it hit the right criteria for it to be in the smart album. So I hope that makes sense. It's a way for you to be able to create specific albums based on criteria. I'm going to go back to library. Let's do a little editing. So I am going to pick this one. Okay. So I double clicked on it to get into an editing screen or to view it full size rather. If I want to do editing specifically, if I click on the edit button, all of a sudden we have tons of options. So I thought what we do is go through some of this and see how it affects a photo. Now we were talking about jpeg and raw earlier. Notice how it does say up here jpeg and raw. If I right click using the mouse, I can tell it to use either the raw file in this case as the original that we'll be working on or it can use the jpeg as the original. So it is the jpeg at the moment because it's giving me the option to choose raw. So I'm going to go to use raw as original. So this is the version that should have the most information in it and should be the most editable. Now I'm going to go through some of the options we have along the top here. First one is being able to zoom in and out. So that can be super handy, right? If you're making fine, if you want to make sure that you're keeping say detail in there or you want to do some retouching and you want to make sure that you're being accurate. So you zoom in so you're working in a closer space. Filters. So built into photos are a bunch of filters. I'm going to go back to normal size and I'm going to hit each one and you can just see how it affects it. So this is the original one. So here and this by the way is a sunrise once again in San Francisco looking out towards the East Bay, not towards Oakland area. So I'm going to click on vivid now. Let's see what it does to it. Now here's a really handy thing I picked up in one of the online courses I was looking at is if you hold the M key down, it toggles back and forth between the master original copy and the version where you're making edits now. So if I hold the M key down, this is the way the original file looks and now it is showing it with the vivid filter applied. You can also go up here on the upper left and hold that down to do it. So you can either use the mouse to do it this way or the M key on your keyboard to toggle back and forth to see how you're doing. So now I'm going to go to vivid warm. You can also adjust. I think this is fairly new. I think the older filters didn't have this option but you can actually adjust, you can dial in each filter's effectiveness. So I'm going to go all the way back to 100 and now I'm going to go back to 50% and then maybe 25% just to see the effect. So it's just the M key on your keyboard. It's a simple thing. No, you don't have to hold down any kind of modifier key or anything. Just holding down the M key will toggle back and forth between the original, the master image, and the version you're working on currently. And it's the same thing over here on the upper left where you have these two screen images. And there I'm doing it again. And now I'm going to go to vivid cool. And basically we're just going to spin through this and you can on your own go through all these settings yourself and see what you like and get a sense for what your taste is in doing this. Another very important part of this is Apple Photos is what they call non-destructive. They keep an original copy effectively. They have all the original data of the file that you bring in. So you can always click to this one over here. See I says revert to original. So if I click on that, it goes back to the original one. And you can also always export from Apple Photos the original file if you like. So you can go to town and not really worry. You can always go back to the original. Sometimes you'll want to work from a copy because then you can see multiple versions next to each other and you don't have to revert to the original. You can keep working on the copy version. And since it's doing it all by software trickery, it doesn't take up a lot of space. If you create a copy, it's not making another huge file. It's basically referencing the original one and making those changes and viewing it to you. So I hope that's clear here. Okay, vivid cool. And now I'm just going to use the arrow key on my keyboard to go down. Well, okay, that was not a good idea. I'm going to go back to, I thought that would work, but that actually moved me to another photo. So I am now going to click on done and go back here and go back to this one again. Here we go. So I am now going to click on edit again to bring up all these choices. And I'm going to go back to filters. And I'm going to quickly click, not use the down arrow, which would bring me to another photo. Okay, dramatic warm. Actually, that looks kind of nice. And I'm going to dial it down a bit. Dramatic cool. Mono. So this now made it a black and white photo. Silver tone. And noir. As in film noir, I guess. Something that will come up often is cropping. So I'm going to click over here on crop. Sometimes you'll have a photo, say that you took it in, it's at an odd angle, say it's like that. So when you're in the crop, you can grab this little triangle over here, and you can start adjusting it and getting it to where it is to your liking. And I'm going to basically bring it back to where it was. You can grab from the top and change, you can change all sorts of proportions on it. Now, by default, it uses free form, which lets you create this custom image the way you feel it should be. But that can get you in trouble if, say, you are going to go and then make a print of it, like a five by seven or eight by 10. The proportions may not be right. Or you're going to use it in an online news article or something. And that might not be the proportions that they want. So I'm going to click over here and go back to original. And I'm going to click square, like say you're doing a passport photo or something. This might be the proportions that you need. Or you're going to print it, like I said, you're going to make a five by seven print. So this is the proportion you want. Now that means a lot of my photo is not in that. So if you were going to do that, you would want to make sure you have it laid out the way you would like it. Also, sometimes image comes in and it's upside down or not the right way. So you can also flip it. So I'm going to click here. Oh, this way it's flipping it kind of left to right, like mirror image. So I'm going to go and move that back. I don't know if you can see my cursor over here. This is the one for flipping it like horizontal to vertical and keep going around. So sometimes you'll need to do that with a photo. So that's basically cropping. And I'm going to do refer to original. And now I am going to go to... I'm going to click done. And I am going to click edit again. And I'm going to click adjust. And now when you have it on adjust, this is where there's like kind of the payload of lots and lots of controls. So one thing that they tend to get recommended is that you use the auto enhance button. So it makes the computer is best guess at how the image should look. So I'm going to click on it and see what it did. So I am going to hit the M key again and go back. And I actually prefer the original in this case myself. I think you made it too light. But there's a slider here. So I can adjust it. And I can also turn it off. And it still holds that setting so I could come back to it and say, oh yeah. And I could also click auto here for it to make its best guess. I'm going to go to revert to original again. Now I'm going to go through these controls here, brilliance exposure, etc. And we'll see what kind of effects it has on the image. So I'm going to start to the right, increasing the brilliance. And then I'm going to start going down to the other side and see how much darker it's getting. Exposure, sometimes something just needs a little bit, you know, more brightened up a little bit or darkened a bit. Highlights, this can come in handy. So it's going to affect like that area right there in the center, primarily. And in this case, bringing down the highlights, I think works pretty well because it was a little blown out over here. So I'm going to click revert to original again. And we'll see that. So I'm going to do highlights and bringing that down a bit. Shadows, I've used that a lot sometimes in photos taken kind of indoors. I just need a little brightening up. Here we go. I'm going to go quickly through the sliders. And once again, once you see these are here, you can play around yourself and see what effects and dial it in the way you like. Like I said, they recommend often that you use the auto enhanced tool first. And you can see it makes all these adjustments. And you can see them here. And then you can dial it in yourself. So it gets you on the ballpark. But I'm going to click back to a virtual original. I'm now going to go to the color. Let's see what we got on this. Slide it back and forth so I could remove all the color effectively making it black and white. I'm going to turn that off and click a virtual original black and white. So I've done that a lot with photos. Some photos really look beautiful when they've transformed to black and white. These looks actually quite nice. So I'm going to turn that off. Retouch. I don't think we're going to have to retouch anything in this one. Maybe I'll see that on another photo. There's a red eye thing here. If you take photos and you use flash, very often you'll see there's, you know, in the center of the pupil of the eye, there's a red eye. If you just click on that, it'll automatically find it and change it. And if it doesn't do that, then you can click on the brush over here and go and just brush it in yourself. The curve is kind of tricky. You can adjust the overall character of the photo through this. I'm going to turn that off again. Same. And then with the, this one with the levels, you can change the kind of the ratio of like light to dark. That's the best way I understand it. But just a subtle thing like this can improve the photo. And this one, this is interesting, the selective color. You can actually use a dropper and sample something and then make the changes to that. So I tried to sample this part of the sunrise. And now I'm going to click on saturation. And it should increase it there. So let's see if that worked. And I'm going to hit the M and see if that made it out the difference. Yeah. So I'm going to go revert to original. And I'm going to try that again. I'm going to use the dropper, do that. And now I'm going to go to saturation. So I think I want to bring it down a little bit. Let's see. And I'm going to check back with the original. It looks actually very similar. The small difference. Very small difference, huh? Yeah. So click there. I'm going to go luminescence again. Yeah, in this case, well, yeah, it's subtle, but actually it gets blown out a bit. So I think bringing it down, let's see. Now I'm going to go hit the M key again. Yeah, it's subtle, but there's a little more detail. And then if I want to zoom in a bit, we can see. Let's say I'm going to... So I basically use the slider to zoom in and then I grabbed it to move it up. And now we're going to... It might be zoom in even a little bit more. And let's see what the difference is. Okay. It's small, but it makes a difference. Okay. And I'm going to go revert to original again and bring it back down. Okay. I'm going to click done for this. So this is general editing of the photo. Like I said, you can spend time on your own now that you know where the things are going around with that. I'm also going to give you information on some of the tutorials you can do online. I'm going to click done, which is going to take me back out. And I'm in the library. And now as I can use the arrow keys now to go back and forth between these photos. Now, another thing that can be really handy in organizing is making something a favor. So say you're someone you've got, you know, hundreds and hundreds of photos, but hopefully it is not... Well, you know, like it's hopefully they're all great photos that you want to make favorites. But you probably want to have narrow some downs saying, oh, these are the key photos that I might want to print or I want to work on. And an easy way to do that is as you're moving through them and kind of scanning them and doing kind of what they call like triage, you can... I'm using the arrow key to move to the pizza shot. If you hit the period, it'll make it a favorite. So do you see down here in the bottom left, there's a little heart. So you can either click on that and you can make it a favorite. You can de-favor it or make it a favorite. And you can also do that with the period. That's all this, the period key, just like the M key, the period key. And that could be really great if you're moving through lots of photos. So I'm going to make this a favorite. I'm going to make this a favorite. They're all favorites. I love them all. Well, there's another trick. I'm going to go back into a photo. I'm going to go into this one, the tugboat with a rainbow. I'm going to go to edit and let's see if this works. I'm on brilliance. So it goes to there to one point. If I hold the option key, yep, if I hold the option key down, it actually gives you more choices. And you go beyond. It's like a spinal tap and going to 11, but for real. So if you're using the sliders and you're just not getting enough of an effect, you can hold down once again the option key and then you'll have an increased range above and under. So now I'm going to click revert to original and done. That's one worth also making a note of. I'm going to go back to this photo again and I'm going to make some adjustments and click edit again. This is something, another thing that I came across that seems handy. Like say, I'm going to just make some changes to this and decide that this is the way I like it. That this is a great adjustment for this. And I have several other photos that are similar and I would like to have the same adjustments by one. I could do it painstakingly each time. You can right click. So once again, you know, using I'm using a mouse. So I'm using the right click button. And one of your options is copy adjustments. So now I'm going to click done. I'm going to go back to the library and I'm going to apply it to this one. So I'm going to go into edit and I'm going to paste adjustments. So it didn't make much of a change. I'm going to hit the M key, but it made some change. So it's something that can be handy, but you obviously wouldn't, you know, use it on lots of different types of photos that you wouldn't want the same adjustments for. So I'm going to now go back to revert to original, click done and go back. I think I want to make sure this one goes revert to original also. So you can also do it from here. I'm right clicking and I'm going to do revert to original right there. Question that came up in the previous class was, can you do selective editing like you can, like in Photoshop or something like that? And you can't really work on separate and have different areas within photos. There's a lot of adjustments in here, but not that you can make some adjustments to the tonal values in different sections using the, these ones like the curves and levels. I think you can have a little, you can be a little selective in some of the areas, but overall you can't just pick an area and work only on that. That's just one feature it doesn't have. But there are programs and this is worth noting that do have those features. You can actually get plugins, but you'd have to pay money for them that will increase the abilities of photos, but you'll still be working within photos and be able to use its organizational tools and still be able to do, say, use iCloud to do backups. So there is a lot of benefit to keeping things within photos if you like working in this world. Vert original and and let me find where we can get to that. Oh, there's nothing I didn't mention. There is an information area and you can have that and keep that on and keep it up over here and then you'll know all this detailed information about the photo, you know, the exposure, the f-stop, what camera was used, etc. The other thing which I neglected to mention is using the help menu. So here, so say I'm going to go to help search. I'm going to actually go to photos help and this guide is actually pretty impressive. They have a lot of information in here and you can open up in your browser and you can search for lots of detail. Now I was going to show something else in the preview app that might be interesting. So I'm going to close photos for a minute, quit photos and I am going to go to the pizza photo again and I'm going to open it up generally when you're on your Mac and you double click on an image it'll open up preview and so here's something I'm going to make this a little smaller so I can move it to me so I can move it over here. If you click on the icon over here for markup, I think it is right, and you get a new choice over here on the left, one of which is smart lasso. So I am now going to trace along the edges of this and I'm going to be able to copy it and make it an outline of it. So here I'm going to start over here and the idea is that you do your best to keep along the edges. Now one thing about this is it does an okay job, it's not perfect. Some of the other programs like if you're using Photoshop or the plugins from some of the other apps because I saw a demonstration of that where they get it perfect but notice I'm just basically going along trying to get all the edges of the pizza and I'm in smart lasso not regular lasso so I know I missed a little edge there. So here we go and this can come in handy and can be fun so here we go. So I completed it now you can see I didn't get it quite perfect but you know close I'm going to go to edit and copy. So now it's in the clipboard, the memory of the computer. I'm going to go file new from clipboard and now I have an image of it just isolated and I'm just going to go and I'm going to save that and go pizza. I'm going to save it on the desktop but once you have that like say I don't know so let's see I'm going to go and go to the Christmas tree. I should be able to edit and paste it in there and also be able to grab it. I'm grabbing it by the corner so that when I reduce the size it stays in proportion. So I don't know you might come up with some hijinks where you're going to copy someone's head or you know get a drink or something and and put it somewhere in a photo but that is one way that you could use the free preview app on your Mac to do such a thing. So the other example would be I'm going to open up the Bernie with Mittens folder. So everybody imagine remembers that when that was you know a meme and all over the place but basically that is you know they just did a better version of that so I'm going to go do that with Bernie now from this photo I got from the web. So I am going to I'm going to make him a little smaller so I can get it all on the screen well enough for myself. Here we go okay and I'm clicking on this icon over here which brought up this icon over here and I'm going to go to smart lasso and I tried it earlier and it missed the hair up here but we'll see I'm going to try it. It's basically I think looking for things that are sharp delineations and color and texture so but I'm going to go I'm going to go a little fast so don't bore you and get most of the chair we don't need to get all of it. I'm going to go sweep right around there okay so once again this isn't going to be perfect but this is just an example of how you could do your own Bernie one so I'm going to go edit copy and now I'm going to see this I'm going to get rid of that one watch I'm moving over here and see if Bernie is going to go and visit us here at Civic Center so anyway so a little little fun a little hijinks but you and also if you didn't know you can use the preview app to create your own signature that you can use for like when you're doing online PDF documents and the like. Another thing you can do easily in preview and you can also do it in photos is you can add text to something and that comes up handy sometimes so I'm going to go to tools, annotate and I'm going to go to text and it's hard to see but it put a text box right here and I'm going to go Bernie in Mittens and I'm going to put the cursor back over it and hope that can get it to where it turns into a hand and then I can move it around and in this case black text on white works if you double click you should be able to see um you can oh if I go over here I can also make different choices in font and color and size of the font so that also can come in handy sometimes you may need to annotate a photo or if you're a photographer you may want to put you know photo by in the bottom or if you want to once again create your own meme so you you have something funny to say to go along with an image this is how you could do it and then you'd go you know file and save and then it would be in part of that image okay and I'm going to go back to photos and also show how you can add text there since that might come up for you so edit and over here where the three dots are one of them is markup and then there's some new choices in here one of which is text I'm going to try it on a different image just to see if there's something about this one click done and go over here I guess we'll go to pizza and I'm going to go to edit the three dots so go to this box over here with the a that creates a text box and then you can go tasty pizza and then I think if I want to change it that's where I'll find the adjustments so now I can make it you know I don't know green and larger so okay so if for any reason you want to be able to put text boxes in your photos while in photos this is how you could do it okay I'm going to close that photos quit so here is a an example of a free class that you can take online through San Francisco Public Library on LinkedIn learning it used to be called Linda.com but now it's LinkedIn learning you can just go to our website you go in with your library card and pin and you can immediately start searching for and taking classes on a lot of different subjects so I found this one if I click on it it should open up the actual class here we go so here's just a little sample of someone who is a true expert in this subject with so much detail so if you're really interested in learning at the most out of photos I would suggest taking this class and also you can do a lot of other searching on YouTube but here I'm just gonna play a few seconds so you get a sense of what it's like. In order to make the most effective adjustments to your images it's a good idea to have a proper working environment now we're on a set today with a lot okay and notice there's lots of different subjects as you choose to work with images there's really a big highlights as well as contrast see you see that and one of the benefits of this is you can just um you take your time you move at your own pace you can pause you can rewind so I think this would be an excellent follow-up to our class today this one is from Udemy so Udemy is another free service from the library tons of great free video classes or classes taught virtually by video didn't find a lot for the Mac Photos app when you search for Mac photos you get all sorts of things including like Photoshop and other things but I noticed that in this one they had this subsection on what is Mac photos and in a whole editing section so it's a larger lecture 24 hours but they have a section on using Mac photos so that's Udemy also free San Francisco Public Library you do need to have a I think a Gmail or a Microsoft account that Udemy needs that for it to work you don't need that for LinkedIn and then also here is just a screenshot of having done a search in YouTube for different courses on that and there is a lot of great information there by different people this guy Joel Feld seemed to do quite a good job very understandable well thank you everybody I hope that was helpful it was interesting for me