This screen shot shows picture adjustment tools, at right, within Apple's new Photos app for Mac computers. Click an arrow to unveil the advanced controls. Each attribute has an auto button along with a slider you can adjust. The Adjust tool enhances lighting, color and other attributes separately.
The Enhance button alone will improve many shots. The Mac's app goes further in using face-detection technology to group photos by the people in them.Ĭlick on any photo to begin editing. Images are organized automatically, partly using location information embedded in the pictures. If you already use Photos on your iPhone or iPad, you'll see many similarities. But it goes further by also including some of the advanced fine-tuning you'd find in a tool like Adobe Lightroom, which costs $149.
Like other free apps such as Google's Picasa, Photos is good for auto-enhancing, cropping and other basic touches such as lightening underexposed shots. The app, which replaces iPhoto, bundles professional-level tools such as granular color correction into one free consumer package. Apple's new Photos app for Mac computers, available Wednesday as a free software update, makes it easy to organize and edit your pictures.
