From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS

Using the exercise files - Photos for OS X Tutorial

From the course: Enhancing Your Images with Photos for macOS

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Using the exercise files

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- If your membership includes it, I've put together a collection of hands-on exercise files so you can really explore the features of Photos for MacOS. Now if you don't have access to these files, just be sure to load up some of your own favorite images, preferably some that aren't quite perfect, that you'd like to enhance. But I do encourage you to download these files as it will really bring the lesson to life. Now, once you've downloaded this, you'll find two primary elements inside the folder. The first is a photos library that has almost all of the elements loaded. The other is a subfolder that contains some additional files we're going to import as well as the images that you can manually import if you want to add them to an existing library. The benefits though of using a new and unique library is that our machines will match and you'll absolutely have zero clutter as you go to find things. Now to load this is really simple. Just navigate to the library and double-click. Photos for MacOS will launch and it will switch to this new library. In the future, when you want to switch back it's really simple. Just quit the application and then while holding down the Option or Alt key, click to launch the application. When you do this, you'll see it gives you the ability to choose which library you work with. Likely the default library is Photos library. But here's that Enhancing Photos library that we're going to work with. You can then easily select it and switch between any of the libraries that you have. But for now, the best thing to do is just double-click to open this current library and then click the button to take the application full screen. All right, now that you've got the files loaded, we're ready to start. These images are provided just for educational purposes. I've pulled together a wide range of photos, including some shot on smartphones, some shot with third-party apps, as well as those shot on traditional DSLR and mirrorless cameras. This'll give you a lot of different material to practice with, including some extra files if you'd like some additional hands-on practice. All right, let's begin.

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