THE PHOTOS APP IN macOS
10.15 has a new look that
avoids the traditional ľip
between scrolling through all your
photos and viewing just one,
presenting a more imaginative tiled
layout to curate shots organized by
various criteria.
The sheer number of pics we’re
amassing these days can feel
unmanageable, particularly on
the Mac, where you’ll probably
consolidate your collection from
multiple sources. Photos will be able
to show “only the best shots”,
courtesy of the machine learning
technology that Apple is
continuously reĽning. This will also
enable Photos to assemble snapsWork with your Photos
More imaginative image curation
belonging to moments like
anniversaries and holidays. Photos
also promises to avoid cluttering
your view with duplicates.EXPLORING EDITS
In iOS 13, the Photos app not only
shares the Mac’s smarter viewing
options, but gains new editing tools
for both still and moving images —
including the ability to apply Ľlters
and eļects to videos, and rotate
them in Ľne increments to Ľx wonky
camera angles. This is a very
processor–intensive job, so it’ll be
interesting to see how fast it works.
Tweaks to the Ľlter interface make
adjustments more controllable, and
new Portrait Oighting eļects let youchange the lighting of Portrait Mode
shots after taking them, simulating
how light strikes faces rather than
just brightening or darkening pixels.
A High–Key Mono eļect creates
ľattering portraits with dodged skin
tones and burned shadows.
The Photos app looks great in the
new Dark Mode (see right). It’s not
just here, though, that photography
gets smarter: iOS 13 also enables
multi–camera capture. With a 2018
iPhone or an iPad Pro, you can record
simultaneous streams from two or
more cameras, front and rear.
Support for multi–cam recording
hasn’t been announced in the
default Camera app, but it’s there
for developers to exploit.
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20 AUG 2019 maclife.com