A new interface makes your snaps
look even snappierA STRIKING NEW feature in Photos is the
new tiled grid layout, which crops and
arranges pics at varying sizes. This isn’t as
prominent as you might expect, featuring mainly in
the Days view, but there are various other ways to
display your collection.
Sorting your photos by day doesn’t show you all
the pics for each day, but a selection. We weren’t
sduwlfxoduo|#frqylqfhg#e|#wkh#duwlĽfldoo|#lqwhooljhqw#
choice of our best shots, but the photos were at least
fursshg#vhqvlwlyho|1#\rx#fdq#ľls#wr#Doo#Skrwrv#wr#vhh#
more, although it would have been nice to have a
more obvious shortcut for this than the Cmd+4/
Cmd+3 key combos.MAGIC LANTERN
New to the left sidebar is Media
Types, which picks out not–exactly–
photo formats including videos,
screenshots, and iPhone phenomena
like Live Photos and slo–mo.OFF THE GRID
The new tiled layout is seen in
Days, one of the options that
appears in tabs across the top of
the screen when Photos is selected
in the left sidebar. Memories,
People and Places views work just
as before.PICTURE SHOW
The icon with three dots at the top
right of each day’s selection has
two options. The first, Play Movie,
shows a full–screen Ken Burns–style
slideshow of all that day’s photos.LOCATION, LOCATION
The second option on the dots
menu brings up a full–screen map
of the geographic area covered by
this day’s photos. For an equivalent
overview of your whole library, use
the Places view.
Feature
24 DEC 2019 maclife.com