EXPORTING your Apple Photo files on your MAC - EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!

Want to learn how to turn a Live Photo from your iPhone into an animated GIF?

In this video I walk through export options in Apple Photos on your Mac for how to export your photos into different formats, like jpeg, tiff, or png files. We look at the different quality settings and how the options affect the final result of your files. There are also a ton of tips and tricks along the way for keyboard shortcuts and easy drag and drop options for exporting.

Note that export options currently in macOS 12 Monterey and macOS 13 Ventura are the same.

This video is longer as I demonstrate all export options, so feel free to adjust the speed of the video to speed it up, or jump to the chapter markers below!

00:00 | Welcome Back!
00:23 | What options do we have to export?
04:28 | The Help Menu is your friend
08:41 | Export JPEG with Low Quality and Full Size - RECOMMENDED for BEST Quality for Smallest File Size
09:32 | Export JPEG with Low Quality and Small Size - DO NOT DO THIS!
10:55 | Keyboard shortcut for exporting
11:35 | Exporting Custom Size Photo
12:53 | How to export a photo as a TIFF or PNG file
14:21 | Exporting File Metadata with Photos
14:55 | Where do you find Titles, Keywords and Captions in Apple Photos
15:07 | View Options for Photo Metadata
16:52 | File Naming when exporting Photos and Videos
18:51 | How to batch rename files in the Finder
21:19 | Shortcut to drag photo out of Apple Photos
22:53 | Export Original unmodified photo from Apple Photos
25:22 | How to export Slideshows in Apple Photos
28:15 | How to Export and create an animated GIF in Apple Photos on a...
31:28 | How to Loop and Bounce a Live Photo in Apple Photos
33:28 | Export Live Photos as a QuickTime Video file
35:01 | How to export a Frame to Picture in Apple Photos
36:03 | How to change the Poster Frame on a Video in Apple Photos
37:12 | How to export a Memory Video in Apple Photos
40:13 | Set Desktop Wallpaper Picture on your Mac

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[andrreslopez]

I watched 3 videos of Joel and I thought he will have at least 2M subcribers, when I saw he had 31k I was speechless. You deserve more!! Thanks Joel

[Notitoforget]

Hi Joel, just to say you are a natural born teacher.Your videos are so easy to follow and very informative. Thank you

[AprilG]

Great clear content! As a Mac user for YEARS, I finally feel like I'm learning actual tips that I can use everyday! Thank you

[francoysguay]

Thanks for that incredible tutorial. Is there a way to export the photos without loosing the metadata i.e. the date and time the picture was taken? I noticed that the date reflects the moment we export the picture from Photos. 🤔

[williamjones]

Joel, your content represents the epitome of replay on Youtube. I've subscribed to your channel and rewinded every episode I've seen so far because the content is so precise and rich, I'm learning fast (coming from the Windows world) how to MAC. Thank you!

[Kuwandi]

Thanks Joel over the yrs I’ve gotten rusty, your pres and was a great refresher - Great Job ✅💯

[Larry]

Hey Joel: Thanks for teaching me how to change the Picture Frame on videos in Apple Photos. I've always been frustrated by my workaround (adding a title to a video whenever the thumbnail is ambiguous as to its content).

[pamelasmith]

Thank you Joe. I am 72 and love to make children's storybooks for my grand-children, out of family photos. It is fun, but I haven't been happy with some of the photos when they are printed out. Now I can do them justice after learning from your videos. 🙂🙃😊

[hagemanfamily]

Great source of knowledge. Almost too much, but that's ok. Question: If all I want to do is export library to external drive since I'm now out of SSD space, what options should I use?

[mjdsaxkid]

Hi Joel!! Finally I get to learn how to use this machine and it’s all thanks to you! I stillll have two questions however.
1. What would be the reason to select the maximum size or small size, it seems to have a direct impact on storage alone without consequence, same goes for tigg and the other one besides jpeg. Why would someone want to make it such a big file?
2 when exporting live pictures I think it’s mentioned where windows or Samsung can’t see the information and I’m curious if that applies to live pictures. I think in my experience I exported one and lost the live effect and couldn’t get it back since I deleted it from the original source. I think I’m confused on how Live Photos work and I know it might be a loaded question.
Thank you so much!! This video was so good and thank you if you are able to answer the questions, I know it’s an old video

[radradrad]

GREAT video ! Thank you. You got me as a new subscriber.
Two questions if you would be kind enough to answer:
1. Is there a way for me to export an entire folder from Apple photos with all of its contents and folder name?
2. I have about 60, 000 photos. About half of them are in folders currently. Is there someway for me to know which photos are not already in a folder so I can export them to a separate folder for categorizing later?
Again; thank you for the great content.

[connordaniels]

I love how I have to watch a 40 minute long video to understand how iPnoto works when I lieterally just want to move photos from my personal phone to my external hard drive. should literally take two steps but no, this is apple after all

[robhall]

Really enjoy your videos……Love to see video on 2023 photoshop elements on iMac

[machdaddy]

Could you please do a tutorial on how to upload photos from a MacBook laptop to Shutterfly.

[razyks]

We miss you man where are you..!! Please come back with new videos. Watching your videos is a real fun.

[phildibello]

Love your videos! I was able to pick up a trick or two, even though I have been using Photos/iPhoto since iLife. Thank you for this. It might be interesting if you considered doing a video which is not so much nuts-and-bolts, but "How do I email a photo to my family, " or "How do I share a slideshow with my family?" or "How do I upload to Google drive, or Smugmug, etc..." It is not always clear why we would choose TIFF vs JPEG vs PNG, and other options. Keep up the good work.

[tamasklausz]

Hello Joel! When exporting JPG, the dpi will be 72 even with the maximum quality and maximum size. For you it's 300 dpi as I see it. Can I set this up? Regards, Tamas

[sverso]

Hello Joel! Thanks for you videos. I've a question for you.
I've exported all my live photos to my pc/mac from my iphone/icloud. I've deleted them from my iphone but what if i want to put them back in as LIVE photos. is there a way to do it? thanks!

[bommaritohawaii]

I would like to export portrait photos from Photo App to Mac Finder. If I drag and drop out (as jpg) will the portrait format be exported by default?

[carlosprovyrivera]

Kudos 👏🏽 for another awesome tutorial! Your instructional videos keep getting better and better. Not sure if you’ve done one yet but would like to hear your thoughts, tips and tricks, dos sand don’ts of managing multiple Photo libraries. Given my 200gb iCloud plan I’m already keeping my photos in one library and my videos in another. Unfortunately with over 20, 000 photos I’m starting to run out of space. What suggestions would you have how best to split this up? Thx!