I've been using albums for years and this is so much easier and much more powerful. With 200k pix in just one of my libraries, this is a lifesaver. Thanks for the tips.

organizing my photos is something I've been needing to do for a long long time. thanks Gary for this video. Great information!

Gee, what an idea! I wonder how long it will take to do this to my 50,000 photos?

I had no idea that we could assign keywords to a photo. I just sort them based on the event and then group them based on the year. Never gave too much thought on organizing my photos but it is great that I have options on my Mac. Sometimes I feel like I have a computer that is more than just a computer, it never stops surprising me :) Thank you Gary

Gary, great video keep the great professional approach! I have been putting all my images on couple hard drives and created my own logical folders. Because I couldn’t find a logical system. So the last two week I have been looking for a great system and your system make senses. That would be so much easier to find some images. I am starting this filing system and that would not be as long as it would with your system. Thanks you very much and will keep watching most of your video. Cheers

I really love this channel. Second day here. Best tip ever. Thanks

I grew up where pictures went into shoeboxes. I miss getting to relive memories by having to filter through times I’d forgotten about , maybe looking for one in particular, as opposed to being able instantly find one. I guess it’s what you grow up with that seems to stick, but I get it. I recently found, and subscribed to you channel. I’m learning a lot. Thank you ✌🏻

Nice overview, thanks. Wish the iOS iPhoto apps, particularly the iPad’s, had this level of control.

Another outstanding video. Great Tips.

I also like to create slideshows and add appropriate music and titles. This makes it easy to look at a group of photos and/or to show them to a friend.

Wow,wow wow!! What a fantastic tutorial, this guy is well worth following, simple straightforward shows you what you need to do, well done indeed! Thank you

I’m liking these tips and will be using them today. Thanks for sharing

Interesting idea, I maybe will consider this in the future, thanks for the tip

Wow, this is brilliant. I had no idea that so much was possible. Amazing. Thank you Gary for sharing this.

Thank you for sharing these incredibly helpful tips!

I have tens of thousands of pics I've taken over the years.... this is a game changer. Love it.

Great as always. I guess the best way is to apply those keywords to them, but also make smart albums in Mac. This way you’ll have keywords for all devices including iPhone, and you have smart albums for just Macs.

Thanks for sharing your experience. I have come to understand the Photos app so much better. Steve

Thanks-very helpful. I do a lot of photo uploads and processing on iPad-especially for perspective correction. Frustrating that the Photos app is so different on the several devices.

Thank you, I’ve learned more in the past week than I have in the past two years. 🙏

Thank’s for sharing more Photos tips! I still prefer albums organized into folders for a quick visual reference in the Photos sidebar. Although whenever possible, I try to assign titles and keywords for better searches down the road. 3:25 It would be great if Apple made assigning Keywords available on iOS and iPad OS.

Thanks for this. I found your tips very helpful.

Amazingly useful as always Gary. Thanks...

That’s was super useful, thanks for another great informative video!

Another really simple but great technique! Thanx

All those tips with tagging and Description would be great, if it would be possible to view and create Smart Albums in iOS. If Apple does not implement this functionality (and I don‘t know why they haven‘t done this yet), I‘ll stay with Albums.

I just went through Lightroom and trashed all my folders and now use keywords. It has made my workflow so much better. I also trashed all my folders in Photos. Much better experience.

This has been a great time saver vs using albums. Thanks a lot

Thanks for the lesson. If you mostly use IOS devices (which I do), albums are much simpler to manage.

Very Useful!! Thanks for the good content!

Wow Great Stuff, Thanks Gary

Very informative and helpful!

Thank you for the information ...however . Although the search function works on ipad / iPhone it relies on what you can remember or guess what the image might be , whereas if you have your photos in ALBUMS ( not smart albums) your iPhone and ipad shows you the album names and is a far easier way of accessing . Furthermore if you search ..for example for flowers’ on the iPhone / ipad it will return images titled / keyworded flowers AND what it thinks are flowers even if they are not Best habit to get in to is to very regularly add your latest images to an album or create a new album with them . You can create albums on your ipad and iPhone too as well as adding new images to existing albums Also ...regularly go on to your images on your Mac and give them titles . It is annoying that it is impossible to add titles on ipad / iPhone

omg thank you so much for all y the info, i've learned so much from your videos. 🙏

I have found Apple's Photo programme to be the most troublesome. Every time there was an upgrade to the OS chaos reigned! Albums got jumbled up etc. One rep of Apple Support told me that the same thing happened to her photo albums. Her wedding photos, chidren, military career etc. all thrown into confusion. I wouldn't even bother trying another method, because the reality is that the only way to keep your photos safe is to back them up onto a memory stick. You can do your very best to make everything secure, follow all the instructions etc., then something goes wrong further up the unaccountable chain, and you've lost valuable material.

Keyboard shortcuts are a GAME CHANGER for me! Wow! Love this app now.

Very easy to understand and using the keyword to organize the photo. Hope to be able sort out my photo they are all mix up. Thank you

Oh this makes more sense than smart albums! I felt annoyed that it didn’t show on iPad or phone and wanted a more sunned solution. Thank you

These are great tips… thanks.

Great post, very helpful...many thanks

Great Video Tutorial! You helped me so much !

Thanks Gary, very good presentation.

Wow. I'm a newbee to Mac. Great tips.

Excellent, exactly what i was looking for, thank you

Good job. Easy explanation. Thank you

Great advice; thanks!

Another great video thank you

Why doesnt Apple just offer a simple way To alphabetize all my albums? It is mind numbing when you have 100000 + photos.

Good video, very interesting info. Although, albums are still a must for those that like to have their photos on iPhones an iPads

Just found you! :-) This is a great video but I've been looking for this specific info: what is best way to fill out the fields in the Info tab? By identifying the geographical location, this eliminates the need to use a keyword for the location. What is best way to use the keyword section vs the description vs the title since no matter where you put a word il will appear in the search results. I''m trying to be sleek and consistent in how I identify my photos...any tips? thanks!

thank you for your very clear explanation

Great instruction. On my PC I run Lightroom but with my new MAcPro I like to work with Mac tools and this is great way to organise photos. On my PC I also use Photoshop Element, using layers. In the 'Photos" App I don't find that functionality not. In iMovie this functionality is implemented a bit with picture in picture. But multiple pictures in picture is not possible. Can you comment on this.and advise me? Thanks a lot!

Thank you for that lovely explanation of how keywords work. I was missing a bit of extra information on how this works on mobile devices though, as it seems Apple has not done much to make it accessible on these devices.

TQSM! I love your videos. God bless you!

Thank you for all your videos! Very good and smart stuff. Can you share the best option about how to remove the duplicate photos? Or if you already did that could you please point out where to find it. Thank you.

Great tip!

Great ideas!

HashPhotos for iOS and iPadOS is an amazing app for tagging. You can put multiple tags, notes for each photo, and very powerful filters to search

Great video!!!!! Thanks

What about when you want to put collections of photos back onto your phone or iPad? Aren’t Albums the only way to do that? Thanks

Thank you Gary.

I tried this but wasn’t able to get it to work with iPhone 12pro. I really like your tips with the apple products and they have been very helpful.

Well done mac

This seemed like a good idea and so I deleted all my albums and set up folders with relevant smart albums. But what I didn’t realise is that in IOS and IPadOS smart albums are not recognised. They don’t exist. So now I find that I have no albums when viewing photos on the IPad Pro which is probably where I would most often casually view my 20,000 odd photos. Let’s hope that Apple migrate the functionality of Smart albums to IPadOS although I’m not hopeful. I also note that keywords are not part of the functionality of IOS / iPadOS. Surely the ipads deserve a closer connection with Mac Photos for viewing options.

That only works with a couple hundred photos and a few keywords. Not very useful if you have a large collection. Also search doesn‘t work very well on the iOS versions of the Photos app. Using albums is much easier.

I've used that idea but, What's the best way to keep my iOS camera roll & saves sorted? Do I tag & title while connected to Mac or do I need to move over & back? Does this transfer my "memo" I added to iPhone photos?

If I connect external harddisks with photos from time to time, can we use Mac to organise the photos in the same way ? Will Mac build up a Photo Library & Mac can recognise the HDD ? Where will the Library be saved if so - on Mac or HDD ?

THIS WILL HELP MY ADHD SO MUCH! Thanks! Genius!

Brilliant!

Hi, this is knew for me, thanks for the insight

I have so many keywords that I'd like to be able to sub group them (example.. group tennis, footballl etc under a subgrouping of "sports"). Is this possible in apple photos or would you advise against this? Thanks!

I loved iPhoto for having photos in an Event and one event only. That functioned as Albums and when you deleted a photo, it was deleted in the library also. Furthermore I have lost so much work within iPhoto because of updates/glitches... Now I use the Finder to organise photos...

Something else I was wondering about...What if I enter all the info in the Info tab but eventually change from a Mac to a PC - will all the info I entered transfer to another platform. If not, which ones will? Thank you so much - I'm using the Xmas break to try to put some order in my photos

This is great tip because, giving an example, when i try to add a photo to an album, i can't search for that album. For doing that, first i need to search for that album, and so add the photo, wich is not advantageous imho

Good tips! Thanks for sharing! Is there maximum capacity for a photo library?

Best of greetings from Denmark :-) 😎

Thank You

Awesome !

Thanks! I have hundreds of duplicates. I will start doing small sessions.

There was this really nice pro app called aperture that did this far easier and even allowed you to *gasp* relocate libraries and maintain multiple libraries!!!

the worst thing apple has done to date is getting rid of “film rolls” from photos (only in iPhoto). Such a pain in the ass to see all photos without the organization of being able to name of a given set of photos imported. It only gives a date. Basically Photos forces you to make albums.

I have a TON of photos on an external drive in folders already- when I transferred to Mac, they didnt stay in folders and are now organized by dates. How do I not have to re-organize into albums? and easily back up and transfer to external drive when I change computers?

hi i have few questions about smart album and something like that, i'm on High Sierra and my iphone 7 with iOs 13.7 and i don't want to use iCloud, so i imported all my pictures on Photos (3.0) and then i created the smart albums and the normal albums as well, but when i plug my iphone on my laptop and go to iTunes/iPhone7/Photos i see on the right side Sync Photos i tik this one and below just show me All Photos Album and selected Album, i tick the last one and in the screen show me just Albums: Favorites - Videos - Live Photos (only this 3 standard folders), why don't appear all my albums previously create in Photos? So i would like to sync my favorites pictures/albums from Photos to iPhone and i want to also delete all the already imported pictures from my iphone.

This is great. Do you know if it’s possible to add keywords when first capturing a photo using an iOS shortcut? That way, I could take a photo and “tag” it right away.

Thank you for your great work, Gary. My question: Can I isolate my Keyword albums fro iCloud? And how to get Keyword albums to display in iOS devices? Thank you.

GREAT VIDEO! You hot have a video on how to organize menu on top the one with the time, wifi, bluetooth etc. do you mind sharing that link I viewed it but cannot locate it...thanks

Without doing albums and doing it the way you show once I do that the photos that are in my photo app on top of the page do I delete all those

nice tricks fir reorganizing

I love the keyword idea. but what if you have photos across many years. do you beed a keyword for each year as well. Thanks

Gary, I love ALL your videos, they are so great. I've been using Smart albums exclusively to organize my pictures on the Mac for the past several years ( I have a lot of pictures). It's been great for me. I organize it the way I think, how I would search for something. However, something went wrong with the Mac recently and I had to reinstall the hard drive. The pictures are up in iCloud so I don't think I lost any pictures but all my smart albums are gone!!! Also in the new installed hard drive, all my hard work of organizing the photos are not there. Do I have to start all over again in setting up the albums in the Photos App? I cannot find a way to do smart albums in iCloud photos, just regular albums. I also had a second Photos Library on the Mac, and that did not sync to iCloud. (I sort of knew that). With my newly reinstalled hard drive, is there anyway to recover my second Photos library?? thank you

Gary I really appreciate your videos. Coming from a PC practically my whole computer experience, until they decided to move everything to windows 10. I decided if I had to learn a new operating system...it would be on a Mac. My question: in the finder window you have "pictures" and in the doc we have "photos". And, to add to the confusion I now have "Affinity Photo" Do I organize my photos; in pictures or photos... ps I have watched everything I can find on the subject.

Is there a way to add titles or keywords using your iPhone or iPad? When I multi select photos on my iPad for example I don’t see a way to add a title or keyword i ca. only see an option adding to an album.

Thanks for pointing out this useful practice. However, I could not agree more with Bla Blum below - "don't rely on Apple Tools..." !! With their abandonment of Aperture Apple proved to me to be completely unreliable for long term commitment to professional tools and process's that need to span years if not decades. I cheer all those newbie techies with great ideas but the mid/senior tech and business management are flipp'n ruthless & clueless (worse, most likely - they know exactly the pain they will cause and don't care) in decisions that cripple and collapse years of photo management work for companies. Screw your entitlement as you revel in making those choices that hurt us. Is Lightroom the answer..? I don't trust Adobe to be any better, e.g. FreeHand and the white-collar felon take over of Macromedia and killing of a superior graphics software package. I do like the approach given here with keywords/descriptions/title...BUT Apple WILL abandon this software and will not provide a way to export all that metadata sorting you all are making to your collections. They will fail us, again, that is for sure. The only thing that might be redeeming would be access and export of the metadata into a Database .db or .xlsx format - then I might have a small amount of confidence of using iPhoto again to manage my pics/vids.

Good habits. Thank you for this video.

This is a great functionality. But what about changing the order of photos. Let's say you want to take some photos for a simple slideshow out of your collection. As I remember it is possible to change the order of the photos inside an album by dragging them around. Is there an alternative workflow for this?

that is not a bad idea-- I do find the albums help make things more organized for imovie on the iphone

Help me with 1 thing: a have lot of pics in my photo app feom previous phones, but they’re not showing up on my Iphone. How can I sync that they do so? Thank you!

Love your work. My issue, 6-700 videos in total but divided between 3 photos libraries and I would like to download ALL of the videos to an external drive. I don't know how to combine all the videos, saving all the metadata etc.. I just want my videos OFF photos for flexibility is using them in video production with whatever app I choose. Thank you.

Maybe I missed this but is there a way to delete a photo in the library after you’ve moved it to “family” without losing the new categorized photo? Because it deletes it from both places, thereby losing the pic altogether.

Great tip, finally some LR functionality. Also I believe when you use Albums, Photos will create another copy of the photo taking up unnecessary space. I assume keywords is just baked into the metadata.