Apple’s image management and editing application, Photos, is an essential component of any Mac and iPhone owner’s digital life, but some of the things it can do are both hard to find and essential. I’m collecting Photos tips and queries at present, but here are five useful tips you may need.

[Recommended reading: “12 tips for better iPhone photographs”.]

Adjustments

I’m sure you know Photos has a range of image editing tools. These let you adjust lights and exposure, apply filters and use Extensions (below). That’s great, but did you know you can save adjustments you have applied to one image for use in another? It works like this: when you are pleased with the Edit in one image you should Save it, then reopen that image’s Edit dialog (or select the image and hit Return to open it in Edit view). Now in the Photos Menu bar select Image and look for Copy Adjustments, which will be available command if you have applied any adjustments to that image. Select Copy Adjustments, click Done. Now you can open another image you wish to Edit and apply all the Adjustments you made in the previous one to this new picture by choosing Paste Adjustments in the Image Menu. This is a great way to consistently edit groups of shots.

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