With cameras so readily available, it’s easy to accumulate more photos than you know what to do with. You probably take dozens of pictures when you go out, meet up with friends, or go on vacation. And while taking photos is fun, organizing them is work. But it doesn't have to be that way. In this article, we’ll show you how to organize photos on your Mac in three easy steps:
- Merge your photo libraries in the Photos app
- Delete unwanted photos
- Group pictures using Smart Albums in Photos
Mar 18, 2020 Use these steps on your Mac to combine photos and videos from separate Photos libraries into one library. To combine Photos libraries, open the source library and export the photos and videos that you want to keep.
Step 1. Consolidate all your photos in the Photos app for Mac
How to Combine Multiple Photos Libraries Into a Single Library Saturday, July 1st, 2017 Author: Tom Nelson. If you’ve been working with the Mac’s Photos app (or even the older iPhoto or Aperture apps) for any length of time, there’s a good chance you have multiple image libraries to. A better way to do this is to use ImageMagick's montage command: montage +frame +shadow +label -tile 2x1 left.jpg right.jpg merged.jpg This will merge the two images at full resolution into a new image called merged.jpg.And, if you have a large image broken up into a lot of tiles, you can use montage to combine any grid of images. Just update the -tile argument to the grid size (e.g. Actually, there is a much simpler way to combine two photos into one page (one pdf) on a Mac. Open a new powerpoint file, open the photos you want to join or save into one PDF, use the Crop command (Shift+Control+Command+4) to crop the images one by one and paste them in the powerpoint file. Adjust the size of photos and placement on the slide. Apr 22, 2015 How to use multiple photo libraries with Photos for Mac. Photos for Mac lets you work with multiple libraries. Learn how to choose a default library, open another library, and merge multiple. Jan 18, 2017 How to create a 3D Terrain with Google Maps and height maps in Photoshop - 3D Map Generator Terrain - Duration: 20:32. Orange Box Ceo 7,519,651 views.
When macOS Yosemite was released in 2014, the Photos app finally came to Macs, replacing outdated iPhoto. Now with Photos, you’ve got more organization tools, including the ability to switch between libraries and merge them.
To start with, let’s get all of your photos from different places onto your Mac. Here’s what you should do:
- Use iCloud Photo Library to ensure that everything you take on an iOS device is synced automatically with your Mac. Alternatively, AirDrop photos from your iPhone and/or iPad to your Mac.
- Import photos from external drives to the Photos app on your Mac
- Import photos from your camera
- If you have several libraries in the Photos app, merge them into one
Once everything is on your Mac and in one library, it’s easier to get organized. Let’s take a look at a few questions most people have when they juggle several Photos libraries.
How do I switch libraries in Photos?
Libraries in Photos can come from a few different sources, including external devices such as cameras and iPhones. If you were using iPhoto prior to Photos, each device and source will have a Systems Photo Library. You can switch between them, and here is how you do that:
- Go to Launchpad
- Hold down the Option key, and then double-click on the Photos app to see the libraries you have on this device
- Now you can move easily from one photo library to another and open the one you want by double-clicking it
How to create a new Photo library on Mac?
Creating a new library is easy. If Photos is open, you’ll need to quit and reopen to create a new library:
- Hold down the Option key
- Double-click on the Photos apps
- Click the Create New button, then choose Library
- Give your new library a name and click OK
How to merge two or more Photos libraries?
At present, there is no native macOS tool for merging libraries in Photos. Essentially, what you’ll be doing is moving all pics to one new library. So, create one as described above, and then follow these steps:
- Launch Photos holding down the Option key and select one the libraries you want to merge
- In the menu bar, click Edit > Select All
- Again in the menu bar, select File > Export. Now you’ve got the following options:
- Export Unmodified Original. This will export every image in these libraries, excluding any edits or changes made to them.
- Export [number of photos you want to export] Photos, which gives you the option to pick a format and select Full Size. That will export your photos as they are, with any edits you’ve made, in TIFF, PNG, or JPEG formats.
- Pick where they’re going (this could be a folder on your Mac or a connected external drive, for example)
- Repeat these steps for the other libraries you want merged
- Now close Photos and re-open using Option to select the library you are merging these photos into
- Either use File > Import or drag the exported photos into the library
How do I delete a Photo library from my Mac?
Delete mail file library mac. If you want to delete a library, it’s super easy. You just navigate to the Pictures folder on your Mac, locate the library you want gone, and move it to the Trash. However, you’ll want to make sure you’ve got all the images and videos out of it first. Export them like we described in the previous section, and then trash the library.
Step 2. Remove duplicates and other useless photos
Now that you've merged libraries — which can take a while if you’ve got a lot of photos scattered across different locations — you’ve probably got a whole load of duplicates and similar images. Chances are, you had the same photo on an external HDD and on your Mac and now it’s duplicated, or you had a dozen slightly different variations of the same shot. Sure, you might want to keep one or two, but do you really need the other 11 wasting space on your Mac? Probably not. Here is how you delete redundant photos from a Mac without it taking all evening.
Aug 11, 2017 This triggers the automatic “Repair Library” feature of the Photos app. Click Repair on that prompt, and then enter your admin account user name and password to continue. After entering your account details, click Repair again. The Photos app will now attempt to repair your library. Jul 26, 2018 Apparently Apple has seen this happen before, because the company has a hidden Photos library repair tool. Here’s how you can use it to fix issues with Photos, including a library refusing to open or showing errors when copying. Photos for OS X has a lot going for it, especially in speed. But it’s also a ground-up rewrite of our Mac photo experience, and some pieces are missing (some permanently), some moved, and some. Rebuild the iPhoto Library. I wish I knew about that when iPhoto pooped out on me a few weeks back. I thought it was strange considering I have less than 100 photos stored in the application. Anyway, I ended up removing the library file. IPhoto rebuilt the library on the next restart and it started working again. Before opening the PhotosApp, repair the photo library. You can take a backup of all the important data stored on Mac. Use Time Machine to backup photos. Solution 2: Repair Photos Library on Mac from the Photos App Step 1: Check whether the photos app is running or not by clicking Photos app icon on Dock. If already Photos app is open and running, close the app on your Mac. Mac photo library management.
How to delete duplicates in Photos
- Download Gemini 2 for Mac and launch it
- Click Scan for Duplicates
- It will scan every photo, album and folder on your Mac, including those on any connected external hard drives and imported from the iCloud Photo Library. Once complete, click Review Results.
- Gemini has a photo preview mode, so you can see every image, including metadata. Your duplicates are grouped under Exact Duplicates > Images, and similar photos will be under Similar > Images. Use the icon at the top to see a grid view, making it easier to identify which copy you want to delete.<
- Tick the box next to each image you want to delete, then click Remove
Gemini places these in a separate folder in Photos (Gemini Duplicates), giving you a possibility to look through the images once again before deleting them for good. For more information, this article is well worth a read.
Step 3. Use Smart Albums in Photos to organize your pics
After merging your libraries and clearing out duplicates and similar images, take photo organizing one step further and group the remaining pics with Smart Albums. Let’s take a look at how to use this fantastic feature of the Photos app to your advantage.
What are Smart Albums in Mac’s Photos app?
Smart Albums are a way of grouping images by the parameters you set. Maybe you’ll want an album to contain photos taken last Christmas, or you’d rather group all the pics of your kid together. All that and more can be done with a Smart Album. As is the case with a regular Photos album, you can edit and delete it.
How to make a new Smart Album in Photos
Creating a new Smart Album is simple:
- Launch Photos
- Click the + button next to My Albums in the sidebar
- Select Smart Album<
- Give your Smart Album a name
- Choose the Parameters, e.g. “kids,” “days out,” “Holiday 2018.” You can modify these at any time.
- Click OK to create
By developing a system (e.g., photos are grouped into albums by date taken) and using Smart Albums, you’ll make sure your photo library is easy to navigate, even if it contains thousands of photos from 2001 and up until now.
That’s it, hope this short guide helps you cope with your photo overload. And remember: the best way to organize photos on your Mac is to keep your library lean and manageable — free from clutter and useless copies. Gemini 2 will gladly help with that.
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Won't this reduce the quality of the image parts, because the size of the images as displayed on a monitor is likely to be a fair few pixels smaller in size than the original image files? When you take a snapshot of the side-by-side display, the combined image will be of much lower resolution. Not only that, but the PDF will get converted to JPG again, so losing more quality (a little).
Perhaps this is fine for having merged photos for viewing on the computer.
However, when you're using this process to merge high resolution photos such as photos that are 300dpi and print out at 4'x6' (i.e. 1200x1800 pixels), there is now way that a screen capture of your computer screen will capture all that resolution.
Of course, I guess people who really care about putting two photos together and keeping the quality and proper dpi would just take the two photos into apps like Photoshop and would not even use the screenshot approach anyway.
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However, when you're using this process to merge high resolution photos such as photos that are 300dpi and print out at 4'x6' (i.e. 1200x1800 pixels), there is now way that a screen capture of your computer screen will capture all that resolution.
Of course, I guess people who really care about putting two photos together and keeping the quality and proper dpi would just take the two photos into apps like Photoshop and would not even use the screenshot approach anyway.
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A better way to do this is to use ImageMagick's montage command:This will merge the two images at full resolution into a new image called merged.jpg. And, if you have a large image broken up into a lot of tiles, you can use montage to combine any grid of images. Just update the -tile argument to the grid size (e.g. 8x6 for 8 across and 6 down), and then list all the files, with the output filename last.
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