A Simple Trick to ORGANIZE Your Photos on Your Mac

[@pablo9364]

Good video. Wish I could talk like this guy. He commands you to listen

[@karenholland6910]

Neat. Thankyou!

[@maryredfield8800]

he lack of this aspect of “Organizing” has kept me for years from being able to organize my photo’s, I so grateful that you published this. I have 9,000 pictures. Pretty difficult to recall what was ordered in 4x4, or was it 4x6. So now I can do one year at t time, and not order doubles, or put the same picture on 3 pages. Thank you, thank you. Mary

[@dixiecho3338]

Thank you , the lesson is simple and easy to understand for a 60+ lady like me.

[@mitchellfamily1983]

By far the BEST tutorials! Clear and concise!

[@leahpeaceful]

Really well done. I was very frustrated that I didn't know what a smart album was, and now I see how great it works. I am going to start organizing my hundreds (who knows, maybe thousands) of photos and get that satisfying feeling he was talking about when you see the numbers go down. Thanks!

[@ShePaints]

This was HUGE. Almost life changing. I'm frustrated EVERY DAY because i'm completely overwhelmed by my photos and videos, .... for my small business. And i'm a content creator, so i'm sure you can see how very pitiful this is for me! Thank you.

[@MichaelStraussdiamonds]

Excellent... all your videos are easy to follow, slow enough to follow along on a personal mac if necessary, and on topic! Highly recommend.

[@BethJinkerson]

You can’t imagine how excited I am about this video and this way to organize Apple’s hard-to-sort photo app. Excellent!

[@jenniferelbert5827]

Good, clear, simple ideas to help me get started organizing the thousands of digital photos I have stored in no order whatsoever! Thanks!

[@CHROME098]

Great info, David. Very useful in organizing and rooting out photos that are not among the best. Your lectures are a public treasure.

[@ronnolan5490]

David, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for this tip! I am so glad that you showed us a great way to organize photos without having to buy yet more utility software to accomplish what can be a daunting task of organizing photos. I have been wrestling with this for years! This makes my day! As for the technicality of your video, you are speaking clearly, enunciating well, speaking at a rate that makes the video enjoyable to watch (not speaking hurriedly) and you explain each step very thoroughly! You did a *great* job here. A '10' ! :-)

[@jenniferjinx9514]

Thanks for sharing this useful organizing Feature - way more than a 'tip' for those of us overwhelmed with unsorted photos. I popped over here from your 'iMovie Full Tutorial ' which is super fantastic: I can't believe how much I can accomplish with my videos, still pictures, etc. thanks to your easy-to-follow tutorials.

[@16blank45]

That simple trick has gotten me back interested in using photos again, and picking up my dSLR again. Thanks David!!

[@ralphbell9991]

Thanks David, your upbeat attitude and the way you seem to alway explain things in a way easy to understand and retain. keep up the good work!

[@pumpkin8pie]

Big help! After watching this video, I am encouraged, as I think I'll be able to do this as the instructions are clear, concise, and just what a beginner needs. Thank you.

[@mp9033]

Very useful. I, too love the idea of the decreasing number of photos showing in the 'unorganised' smart album.

[@susiebrown9963]

THANK YOU!! as we go into winter, this is a major project for me with 22 thousand photos...you just made it easy with the 'unorganized photo smart' album...over 9,000 and then I want to back up my icloud..thank you!!!!!

[@barbreed1079]

Very helpful. Just starting to try to really organize my photos. Going to watch several of your videos!

[@sheilacook3901]

I was so frustrated every time I wanted to find a photo and this video got me all sorted out....and it was so simple. I'm so pleased😊. Thank you a million.

[@rockngrannyroadwarrior8807]

Thanks again David for such a clear explanation of a complicated feature. Read many references to Smart Folders but never understood their use. Received a new MacBook Pro as a gift and immediately upgraded it to Mojave. Bought USB port adapters so I could, hopefully, view the thousands of photos/videos on 4 external hard drives. Wasn’t sure if they’d be readable as I had them for my PC backups. Boy, was I delighted after your classes taught me how to operate this spectacular computer. The hard drives opened right up and I can just drag and drop them where I want and I can even simply txt or email them if I wish. So now I’ll create a multitude of folders so I can sort as I go

[@PatlLawson]

Thank you so much David! You’ve answered a question that’s had me stymied ever since Apple abandoned iPhoto and made a huge mess of my well organized albums when it converted them to Photos. I can’t tell you how frustrating it’s been to try and find a simple answer to how to fix the endless list of ‘rolls’ it imported. Now I think I can finally clean up this mess. I’ll be following you from now on guaranteed.

[@corcovado1122]

Thank you so much for this wonderful tip. I like the way you keep your presentation short and sweet. Really awesome!

[@miketurner3065]

Thank you so much David, this has been a real bugbear and now it is solved. Sooooo grateful. Keep safe. Mike

[@itsmadalicedj]

Brilliant!! I have 11, 595 pics ahhh. This is going to seriously help tidy up my computer and memories. Over 10yrs worth and back ups off old computers. Thank for such a simple easy to do tip.

[@pedelkamp]

Wow what a great tip, We have to live with this program and sure miss aperture, so I have lots of work to do 5,800 pics already down to 5,600. Thanks for all you're Tutorials.

[@marshiahawkins1]

Love your clear thinking and incisive directions.

[@sraike]

Finally got around to organizing my photos and followed all your tips...MUCH BETTER! Thank you very much

[@capistjf]

Hi David, I'm a first time viewer. Nice job on explaining photo organization on my Mac. I hope to watch more not that I'm subscribed. Thanks, Jay

[@spmartin]

This guy is a consistently great teacher! Thanks David!

[@ashwillromanpetersen8007]

You are doing an amazing job!! From watching a lot of your videos, you have the ability to make something that looks complicated just be as simple as it’s supposed to be. Not all teachers and instructors can do that. Some just confuse you more... You on the other hand give the ability to us to know that just a little time and effort gives the gains in knowledge and sometimes expertise in things that is normally misunderstood and sometimes features unused or may I say underutilized. You make it sooooooo easy!! Thanks man!!

[@deborahjurgensen6945]

As always, David, you are a lifesaver !!!!

[@kathywilliams4423]

David, Thank you for your generosity. You are the BEST teacher!

[@MrDjay46]

Perfect timing for me! Very helpful regarding Smart Albums. Thank you. A new subscriber here. 👍🏻

[@nashvilleaquaponics3564]

Awesome video. I always stayed away from my iPhoto because it was a hot mess. Thanks, this got me thinking and back to being organized.

[@geofff2357]

Thanks David, another great tip, I’ve been watching your videos for a few years - best Apple tutorials I’ve ever seen 😃

[@thenatureeffect7]

Thanks David! Been battling with iPhoto for months; no more! This makes it much easier to manage. Cheers!

[@fylou287]

You are a really awesome teacher! I learn so much with your videos! Thank you so much!!! 🌷🤩

[@kevinMosmen]

Did a private Mac lesson with David and he was very helpful! Thanks again David.

[@katrinaparker1988]

I followed these instructions and all went well until the last step. I was able to click and drag a photo into an album but it did not disappear from photos. How do you know which photos have been placed into an album?? Excellent teacher.

[@kawaiikitten9053]

Your tutorials are always the first I look for thank you, David

[@emilyleitner1233]

I love this guy! I am not computer savvy at all and he makes so much sense! Thank you!

[@steveperkins7009]

Super helpful as always, Sir David.

[@gigixo1329]

Loved your video, I’ve subscribed to your channel to keep learning... Def going to start organizing thousands of photos

[@EarlBalentine]

Great info. I have 40k pics on my Mac and every time I looking for a pics would would take forever looking for the that one pics. Now I can start orginizing into photo albums, thx

[@alyssamccraw4682]

Even over a year after the posting date (with a semi-outdated MacBook Pro), this is exactly what I needed to help organize my pictures. It can be such a mess between work-related stuff screenshots, family things and personal issues. David, thank you so much! Subscribed and liked.

[@laureklapac6538]

This was amazing! I have been looking for this tip to get organized with my photos. Thank you so much!!!!

[@joserobertocastellon]

You make THE BEST Apple related tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing them for free!

[@karenbloustine6635]

Very clever and clear directions. THANK YOU

[@mcsoupy]

Thank god! Thanks! For like ten years, I always hated apple photos because I couldn't put them in folders and then know afterwards which photos I'd moved already.

[@janecockcroft25]

Very helpful and will look for more of your classes

[@CarolinaRaine]

Anything Apple related what I do is instead of searching all of “youtube” I just search this channel. I know I am going to get the best info that I know I can follow and understand. There are so many channels out there that talk above my head especially the younger generations since technology was taught to them at birth. My generation the internet didn’t come along until after I greaduated from high school. The one question I would like to know about this process is when creating this smart album is this duplicating the images and taking up more of my space and when we move photos in an album does this now mean you have 2 images of this photo since it doesn’t leave your “All Photos” section? If anyone knows the answer to this I would appreciate it. I would hate to create a bunch of albums and in the process loose alot of my storage space too. Thanks David for dummying all this Apple tech stuff down for us. Keep up the good work.

[@LouiseBoettern]

Been looking for this exact answer for a very long time. Actually since I moved from iPhoto to the new version. Thank you so much for this simple video. Made my day!

[@guyfarnfield150]

Yet another video that helps us hacks out here. Thanks David

[@karen3boys]

Thanks David... I will see what other problems you can solve!

[@ksc826]

Great tip. Will be using it. You are a great teacher.

[@SafiGhaith]

Hold on, wait a minute, can you please tell me what you have used for your background wall/light installation!? I love it.

[@fredrickfowler6312]

I LOVE YOU AND YOUR TECH TALK THANK YOU AND I SO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOU AND YOUR TALKS

[@tracibunn8870]

This is the one thing that I could not figure out!! I kept trying to hide the photos that I had already put into albums. Thank you so much for making your knowledge accessible to all!!

[@Lutzboater]

Within 45 minutes I was able to organize over 200 photos into their appropriate albums. Thank you so much, this was a great help!!

[@Kollege4Life]

Greatly appreciated the video and the approach. I will definitely try that once I get to that point. What I am trying to resolve now is related. I have over 70000 photographs (possibly 840GB or more) and I am confused by the Library system on my iMAC. I have a 4TB Lacie external drive and a 500GB IMAC and I have 2TB of cloud storage. Ideally I would like to grab all my photos with confidence and store them on the external drive and then apply a method of album creation that makes sense likely separated at a high level by year. But I just unable to tell if I am working with the right library and I am afraid to delete anything. Couple that with a 300GB out of 500GB of storage being used for "system storage" and I am in a pickle. Would welcome any comments on either of those two topics. Keep up the great support.

[@PadmaDorjee]

Thanks David for again providing awesome free content we all need!

[@cherylortenzi]

so helpful! looking forward to checking out some of your other tutorials! thank you ~

[@june049]

Captivating eyes! Great video as well!

[@nettiesmagicalnook]

Thank you so much! Bought my first iMac 2 days ago and now I can clean up my pictures on my phone at the same time :)

[@ChrisHodges87]

Just found your channel. Huge help. I will be back. Yes I liked and subscribed. Looking forward to taking a few classes. Cheers.

[@margluca1]

This is SO good! The best trick yet.

[@hello-wp7bx]

can you do this with Iphone? this is so frustrating about apple iphones im thinking of changing to samsung

[@tmhandler]

very helpful. Thanks! I will be looking to see all that you have and share with my wife and friends. Nicely done.

[@donlawler2014]

Super helpful! Finally made some action towards getting my photos organized. Thank you!

[@zandrikajames5690]

Fantastic ! Very clear explanation thanks!

[@sueskiing]

I have just done this and its great but I can only see this smart album on my Mac and not on my iPhone or iPad. Can you help?

[@MoonlitWanderer16]

Great video thank you....Any idea if we can organize pictures in the sequence we want instead of random order?

[@hansdegroot8366]

Thanks - especially the tip on the Smart Album to filter our uncategorized photos.

[@ginnym3549]

Super smart methodology to identify unsorted photos. Thank you for sharing!

[@TechTalkAmerica]

My pleasure!

[@csyoong8646]

Great video. Thanks for teaching.

[@zandrikajames5690]

Fantastic! Very clear explanation..thanks

[@travelhaunt3918]

I loved this! Great video.

[@fredrickfowler6312]

I'D LOVE TO SEE MORE TALKS ON HOW AND WHERE TO STORE YOUR PHOTOS FOR EASY ACCESS WHILE IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

[@JeraldJamesCapao]

Wow! Amazing. Thank you David for that amazing trick

[@sharenseiwerth8017]

I am probably duplicating efforts. Hopefully I can do better with this short lesson. Thank You!

[@raulzalles]

Excelent tip; very much needed info; instant gratification to see that number drop !!!!

[@essiem7689]

You absolute treasure, mega thanks from Oz

[@tomorrowkiddo]

WOW WOW WOW...New Subscriber, just found you. I'll be sharing your videos to all of my contacts, students etc. Wonderful! (MY PHOTOS ARE GOING TO BE OGANISED AHHHHH)

[@geniuskatie6813]

Fantastic 🎉🎉🎉 I was wondering for a while and finally you nail that THANK YOU 🙏

[@glennam.jenkins1957]

This is terrific. Do you know a way to organize photos in a album by the date the photo was taken rather then the date the photo was added? I am trying to create an album using photos I took and photos my daughter took of a recent trip we took together. Thanks so much.

[@sparkygarrett]

Wow! Who knew? Love your channel. Thank YOU!

[@PhilippineSailboatCharters]

I have had this on my "Todo" list for over a year. Now = DONE. Thanks!!!

[@rodionmark7924]

Love your work David

[@zandrikajames5690]

Fabulous. Clear explanation thanks

[@kayeashton2818]

Thanks for the tips David. What lighting do you use for your utube vids?

[@darrellkenny]

Thank you David so much for this photo organizing tip, just saved me countless hours of frustration sorting threw hundreds of photos. Excellent

[@garyjones241]

Great advice. Easy to implement.

[@jackeycoyle2409]

Really helpful! Thanks - I now have a starting point!

[@andrewmriv]

Great video! Really appreciate this!

[@maureenhart2854]

I loved this suggestion David.I am going to try it out tomorrow. My questions is related to the many photos that I have scanned into the photos app. These give me the most headaches. Any suggestions on managing these?

[@ninachris53]

Thank you so much for all your tips, lessons ,etc. I've learned so many new things

[@PangaeaJAL]

Thanks for this very valuable video ... I'm always inspired after watching your videos - THANKS AGAIN !!!

[@gerardosegura-warnholtz4470]

Dear David Thanks much for your tips, all very good and easy to understand. However, I have come across a glitch when trying to create a smart album. After deleting all my old files, and then a new Folder for a specific year and then a smart album, when I indicate the first rule for range of dates, it works. BUT, when I add the next rule for " Album-is not-any". The original number of photos captured under the first rule, drop down significantly (e.g. from 4000 to 700). It seams like the program continues to detect deleted albums that are not there anymore. I've looked on line, and this seems to be happening to other people too. I would happily sign up for one of your private lessons, but for now, this is the only issue I. would need to resolve. Any advise would be much appreciated. !! I will also happily donate to your fund to expand the business!

[@pelagiaek]

Thank you!!! I have almost 200K pics and really needed this feature.

[@kaylynnaldengovoni551]

perfect! I have over 1000 business and personal photos to organize- thanks for the awesome short cut. Already seems less daunting:)