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Using Live Photos

Using Live Photos - Apple Photos Tutorial

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Using Live Photos

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- [Tutor] Live Photo is a terrific feature that has lots of potential later on when we're editing in Photos for macOS. But first, let me show you a bit how it works. So this image in Hawaii in Maui was captured with Live Photo turned on. And what happens is not only do you get the still photo, but you get a little movie with it. And if I tap and press on it, see that little movie? It's cute, isn't it? So you just get a little bit of action around the still photo. And sometimes that is really neat to have. The other thing about it, though, is that we can do some magic with that movie in Photos for macOS. I'm going to show you that in an upcoming movie while we're editing a live photo, but right now I want to make sure that you have your camera set up to capture it when you want. So let's go to the camera itself. So right now, Live Photo is turned off. How do I know that? Look in the upper right-hand corner there…

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