Photos for Mac lets you share photos and videos with pretty much any social network and app you can find. Whether you're looking to post something on Facebook, share directly to Macs, iPhones, or iPads with AirDrop, or add to a shared Photo Stream, Photos makes it easy to share with just a couple of clicks. Here's what you need to know about sharing pictures and video in Photos for Mac.
How to share a single image or video with Photos for Mac. Launch the Photos app on your Mac. Find the image or video you want to share and open it. Click on the Share button in the upper right hand corner. Choose the method you'd like to use to share it. Fill out any necessary info and send it on its way!
How to share multiple images and videos at once with Photos for Mac. Launch the Photos app on your Mac. Select the images and videos you'd like to share. Select multiples by holding down the command key.
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Click on the Share button in the top menu bar, it's off to the right. Choose the method you'd like to use to share it. Fill out any necessary info and send it on its way!
How to use iCloud Photo Sharing and create a shared photo album with Photos for Mac Apple's iCloud service includes iCloud Photo Sharing, which lets you share images and video with friends, family, and colleagues on an iPhone, iPad, Mac, PC, or Apple TV. While technically considered part of iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Photo Sharing exists outside of the service: You don't have to use iCloud Photo Library to share your images, and shared albums don't count toward your iCloud storage. Best of all, creating shared albums is simpler than uploading images to Facebook or Instagram, and safer, too: Your images and video stay private between your group, and you can take the album down at any time. If you want to reach a wider range of people, you can even create a public iCloud.com website to host your images for anyone with the link to view them. Let us know in the comments if you have any more questions about sharing pictures and videos using Photos for Mac.
Updated February 2018: All steps and screenshots have been updated for the latest version of Photos for macOS High Sierra.
In the box you enable Photos in during the previous step, you'll also see a button labeled Options next to Photos. This is where you choose what it is you wish to sync to your PC. Click on Options and you'll be presented with what you see in the image above. Here's what you can do:. iCloud Photo Library: Upload your PC photo library to your iCloud storage. Photostream: This is a pretty simple way to share your iPhone and iPad photos with all of your iCloud enabled devices.
It'll share everything you take and sync it to your Windows 10 PC, but it'll also work in reverse and allow you to add photos from your computer that will then sync to iCloud and any iPhone, iPad, Mac or Apple TV that's set up for it. iCloud Photo Sharing: Choose the people you want to share photos with and allow them to add photos, videos, and comments. Comments will show up right in the folder when you open it in Windows 10.
Download and Upload new photos and videos to and from your PC. You can also change the folder that synced photos go into. By default, it'll be set to go into Pictures or iCloud Photos, but you can change that to any other that you wish.
How to add iCloud Photos to Quick Access. The steps above will leave you in a position where iCloud will sync your photos to your computer. The photos themselves will reside in the folder specified in the previous step, but iCloud for Windows installs a 'desktop app' for quicker, easier management. Only it's not a desktop app as you might imagine.
To locate it you can either go into the 'iCloud' folder in the Start menu and find iCloud Photos, or just open File Explorer. ICloud Photos will be added there, under Devices and drives in This PC. To add to Quick Access in File Explorer, right-click on iCloud Photos and select Pin to Quick Access. To pin to the Start menu, right-click on iCloud Photos and select Pin to Start.
How to add Photos to a folder or Photostream. Once you open up iCloud Photos and you're viewing either your folders or Photostream you can add new photos right from your computer. Follow these steps:.
Open the location to which you wish to share new photos. Above the main window look for Add photos or videos. (See the image above.). Choose the photos from your computer. Once you're ready, hit done.
The photos you just selected will soon be available on the devices and to the other people to whom you allow access. How to create a new shared album. If you want to share a specific set of photos with friends or family who also use iCloud, there's a really easy way to do it. Do this:. Open the location to which you wish to share new photos. Above the main window look for New shared album.
Add the email addresses of the people you want to share with. Give the album a name.
Click Next. Select all the photos you want to add from your computer. Click Done. Now, all the photos you added to the folder will be synced to the devices of everyone you shared with. It's important to remember that you need to add their iCloud email addresses, which may well be different than their regular email addresses, so always make sure to check if in doubt. How to unsubscribe from shared folders. If someone has shared a folder with you through iCloud but you're done with it and want to unsubscribe, you can do that too from iCloud for Windows.
Follow these quick steps:. Select the folder you want to unsubscribe from. Right-click on it.
Click Unsubscribe in the bottom left corner. You'll now no longer see any photos from these folders. You may not get as wide a range of features as on macOS, but Apple at least provides a comprehensive, if a little rudimentary, way to keep your iCloud Photo Library in order on Windows 10. And you can now move photos both ways, as well as view and edit photos on Windows 10.
For more on iCloud Photo Library, be sure to visit our pals at iMore and check out their. Updated June 28, 2018: We thoroughly checked through this guide to make sure it contains all the info you need to get the most out of iCloud Photos on Windows.