From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS

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Starting with Auto Enhance

Starting with Auto Enhance - Photos for OS X Tutorial

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Starting with Auto Enhance

- As you work with an image there is a simple one-click method to try to enhance your pictures and while it doesn't work every time, it's still a good starting point. Let's double click here on a photo in the Croatia album and as I mouse over the top menu bar, you'll see the magic wand. This is designed for Auto-Enhance and when you click this it will attempt to fix the image and enhance the details. And that definitely made an improvement, but it didn't quite go far enough. That's okay. We'll adjust that manually in a second. Let's press the right arrow to go to the next image. I can now also just choose Auto-Enhance by pressing Command + E. It's the same shortcut as clicking in the toolbar and you see it analyzes the photo and attempts to fix color and exposure. Now, the Enhance command is going to do its best to modify the images. It's quite straightforward and you can run it from Edit mode or from the Overview…

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