But, if you just want to do some quick photo-editing work, then you can easily import photos of your own or use some of the free stock photos that are included with Express.Īs you import a photo, Express allows you to quickly resize it or pan around in order to focus on a particular part of the image. When you log-in to Express with your web browser, it starts by offering you a variety of templates designed for social media posts, or for creating documents such as posters, menus or even a resume. But if you want more in the way of editing tool you might need to look further–in which case, check out our alternative options below.Īdobe describes Express–formerly known as Spark–as a tool for ‘social graphics and more’, but this online web app also includes a number of useful photo-editing tools that are available for free through any web browser. Photos is both very easy to use and you can edit and improve images, easily share them with friends and family directly (via Shared Albums) or to social networks like FaceBook. For advice and help read How to edit in Photos for Mac. For a quick edit you can click on the Auto Enhance icon, which adjusts colour and contrast for the image–as a result images tend to look brighter and more colorful. Nor can you add text or shapes, or make selections. You can’t sharpen or blur individual spots in the picture, for example, or fix the brightness/darkness of regions of the picture. There’s a Heal tool, but there’s an absence of pen or brush-based tools in the Edit toolkit. If it’s image editing feature you are interested in you can apply the same Instagram-like filters as are available in the iOS version of the app, but you can also adjust light, color, switch to black & white, eliminate red-eye, adjust white balance, reduce noise and sharpen. You can also search for all your photos with cats, or plants or the sea in them, for example. Add a year to the search to see every photo of that person in that year. Searching for images can be made easier by identifying People in them so that you can, for example, see every image featuring a particular person in your library. You can assign photos to Albums and Shared Albums and Projects. ![]() It arranges your pictures and videos into the same Years, Collections and Moments as on iOS. The app is a great a tool for organising your photos. It’s not a professional image editing app, but it is easy to use and will do for basic to moderate photo management, and quick image tweaking. Photos has more in common with Photos for iOS and very little in common with Aperture. When Apple replaced iPhoto with Photos in 2015 it also stopped selling another photo app, Aperture, which offered more advanced image editing. Prior to 2015 Photos on the Mac was iPhoto. It’s completely free, easy to use, and has the benefit of syncing across all your devices if you take advantage of Apple’s iCloud Photo library (for which you will need to pay for iCloud storage, from $0.99/£0.79 a month for 50GB). It was nice of Apple to give Google one day to live on the Mac.įor the full thread of our live blogging, go to our Friendfeed room.Photos is the free photo editing and image library app on every Mac, iPhone and iPad. ![]() ![]() If you really love Picasa Web Albums, you’ll still want to use the new Picasa, but for everyone else, I have to think iPhoto ’09 blows it out of the water. ![]() This should be easier than being forced to tag locations on a map (which you can also do in iPhoto).Īs with Facebook, you can sync photos with Flickr now. iPhoto’s geotagging looks to work much the same way as it does on Flickr, but there’s one key area that’s better: You can easily type in the name of a place, and iPhoto will recognize it from a database of places. This is my favorite feature of another photo service, Yahoo’s Flickr. And now that it can sync - yes sync both ways - with iPhoto, it’s even more powerful.Īnother big addition to iPhoto is the ability to geotag pictures. To me, that’s always been a powerful feature of Facebook’s photo service. Even more powerful is that you can tag people in photos and sync them with Facebook.
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