How to Organize Your Photos With Albums and Folders on a Mac
Organizing your favorite pictures can be a hassle, especially if you have a lot of them. Fortunately, your Mac offers many ways to keep everything in order, including folders and albums.
As you can probably guess, you can use albums to store all the photos you want. Folders, on the other hand, let you store albums, smart albums, and other folders. Keep reading to learn how to create and use albums and folders in the Photos app.
How to Create Albums or Folders in the Mac’s Photos App
Creating albums or folders in Photos on your Mac is very simple; both will help you organize your pictures in a flash. To create albums or folders, follow the steps below:
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There’s another way to create a new album or folder. After you open the Photos app, clickMy Albumsand then click theplus (+)icon right next to it. Finally, clickAlbumorFolder.
How to Add Images to Your Albums on a Mac
Using your albums in the Photos app for Mac is just as easy asusing albums or folders on your iPhone’s Photos app. First, you’ll need to add images to your albums. Here’s what you need to do:
Alternatively, you can select all the pictures you want and drag them to your desired album.
How to Use Folders to Organize Your Albums on Mac
you could create many albums as you like, but at some point, they might also be difficult to keep organized.
So, to keep your images and albums organized, you could use folders and put all the albums you want in them.
To do this, click the folder you want to use from the sidebar and then click theplus (+)icon. Next, chooseAlbum. From there, it’s possible to name your album and add any images you want, like we previously showed you.
On the other hand, if you want to add an existing album to a folder, all you need to do is drag and drop the album on top of the folder you want to use. You’ll know you’re doing it right because the folder will get highlighted. Once that happens, let go of your finger.
Organize Your Favorite Photos on Your Mac
Now, you can get started and organize your favorite pictures however you want. You can create albums for specific holidays or events you want to remember and then store them in folders you specifically created for photos of your family or friends.
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