March 2021 • Macworld 109If you export images from Photos
for macOS, it does retain people’s
names that you’ve tagged, however,
allowing use of that information in
other photo-management software.APPLE PHOTOS: WHAT
CAN YOU DO IF YOU CROP
OUT DETAILS AND LATER
WANT THEM BACK?
A photo often doesn’t contain
exactly what you want. Cropping
a picture can be a solution.
But what do you do if
you crop out a critical
detail and later want it
back? One Macworld
reader cropped herself
out of a picture with her
newborn baby.
If you used an Apple
photo organizing app to
crop the photo, you’re in
luck. Fortunately, both
the long-discontinued
iPhoto (which no longer
works starting with macOS
10.15 Catalina) and the
modern Photos app both
support non-destructive
cropping. You can revert
backwards simply to
recrop an image or reset
it to its full bounds.In both iPhoto and Photos (the
steps are shockingly identical):- Select an image you cropped.
- Click the Edit button.
- Click the Crop button.
- You should now see the cropped
image and the full image around
it. Drag the handles to change the
cropping. Or click Reset to remove
the crop altogether. - Click Done.
You can recrop images within Photos.March 2021 • Macworld 109If you export images from Photos
for macOS, it does retain people’s
names that you’ve tagged, however,
allowing use of that information in
other photo-management software.
APPLE PHOTOS: WHAT
CAN YOU DO IF YOUCROP
OUT DETAILS AND LATER
WANT THEM BACK?
A photo often doesn’t contain
exactly what you want. Cropping
a picture can be a solution.
But what do you do if
you crop out a critical
detail and later want it
back? One Macworld
reader cropped herself
out of a picture with her
newborn baby.
If you used an Apple
photo organizing app to
crop the photo, you’re in
luck. Fortunately, both
the long-discontinued
iPhoto (which no longer
works starting with macOS
10.15 Catalina) and the
modern Photos app both
support non-destructive
cropping. You can revert
backwards simply to
recrop an image or reset
it to its full bounds.
In both iPhoto and Photos (the
steps are shockingly identical):- Select an image you cropped.
- Click the Edit button.
3.ClicktheCropbutton.
4.You should now see the cropped
image and the full image around
it. Drag the handles to change the
cropping. Or click Reset to remove
the crop altogether. - Click Done.
You can recrop images within Photos.