From the course: Photos for macOS Catalina Essential Training

What's new in Photos for MacOS - Apple Photos Tutorial

From the course: Photos for macOS Catalina Essential Training

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What's new in Photos for MacOS

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- [Instructor] When you first open up photos for Mac OS Catalina, it's going to feel very familiar to you if you've used it before, if you've used Mojave or the High Sierra versions. Couple of little things, and I'll talk about that as we just take a stroll through the interface here. But one of the first things that has come back to the way that it was is that if I hit the return key, we now go to edit mode. If I hit the return key again, we come out of edit mode. There's a short little detour in that shortcut with Mojave, I believe, where you had to hold down the command and return, now it's just return again, the way that it was before. And of course you have edit right up here. When you're in edit mode, the tools should be very familiar to you. They're all the usual suspects right here, and we're happy to have them. Also, with the magic wand, or the auto adjustment, it's right there as well, so that's nice to have. We can turn that on and off. We can rotate not only here, but we can rotate different places in the interface. Favorite, we can go to our editing extensions right here. And, of course, we have get info right here that we can get to in editing mode or browsing mode. Either way, it's fine. So, that's all right up here. Pretty much the same as always. Filters, right here. We haven't added any new filters. We have crop, as always. One nice thing, at least I think it's nice, is that it doesn't try to auto-straighten the horizon anymore. It makes you hit the auto button in order to do that, if indeed, you do want that, okay. So, all of that is pretty much business as usual. I'm going to click on the done key. We'll come back up here to the regular interface, I'm going to double tap. And here we are, just looking at our shots. Just like before, we do have one nice little thing where we can look at them as squares. That's kind of fun, all righty. So (chuckling) you can go either way on that. The library is on the left side. It has our library things, including, you know, photos, favorites, people, places. We also have the shared stuff going on right beneath it. We have the albums, that both the application creates, the media types, and the ones that we can create, and projects. So, all of that is there as well. This has changed up here. I'm going to talk about that in a separate movie, because that is probably the most substantial change to the interface itself. So then, why do this, right? Why have this application be updated? Well, I'll tell you why. Because a whole bunch of stuff happened under the hood, and that's the thing that is really noticeable when you work with it for a while. The code is very clean and very fast. This runs as fast as Photos has ever run, on any of my machines, and I have it on a five-year-old machine right here, where we're doing our work together. So, that is a big deal. Speed is a wonderful thing. The other thing is, there's more use of machine learning and artificial intelligence so that when you do things such as search, and you search for, let's say, tree, look how fast that is, and it has great image recognition, and it uses that image recognition to help you find your pictures very fast just by tapping a word up there in the search box. So the real key to this is what's happening under the hood, not so much the interface or any new tools. This is a beast when you get into the code, and it's really a fun application to work with.

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