Photos is where all the amazing photos you take with your iPhone and iPad live. And now it’s even smarter and more personal, with intelligent new features that help you find, edit, and share your best shots.

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A lifetime of photos.
Curated just for you.

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• Edit photos on your Mac. Learn how to edit like a pro with the intuitive editing tools built into Photos.
• And with iCloud Photos, you can keep all your photos and videos stored in iCloud and up to date on your Mac, Apple TV, iPhone, iPad and even your PC. A smarter way to find your favourites. Photos in macOS Catalina intelligently declutters and curates your photos and videos —.

Get a beautiful look at every day, month, and year.

The Photos tab helps you find and relive your favorite photos and videos. Years highlights the best of your past photos. Months presents your photos by significant events. Days surfaces your best shots. And All Photos displays your photos and videos in a beautiful grid.

Intelligent curation puts the focus on your best shots.

Using on‑device machine learning, the Photos tab hides similar photos and reduces clutter by removing screenshots and receipts, so you can easily enjoy your best shots. Photos also uses intelligence to find and focus on only the best part of your photo for better previews.

Rediscover magical moments from your library.

The For You tab contains all your Memories, Shared Album activity, and the best moments from your library. You’ll get intelligent suggestions about which photos could look even better with effects. Memories intelligently searches and curates your photos and videos to find trips, holidays, people, pets, and more, then presents them in beautiful collections. Memories also finds your best photos and videos and stitches them together into a Memory Movie — complete with theme music, titles, and cinematic transitions — that you can edit and share.

Powerful tools for fine‑tuning
your photos and videos.

Make your best shots even better
on iPhone and iPad.

A streamlined editing experience lets you fine‑tune your photos with powerful new tools and better control over effects. You control the intensity of Auto Enhance, so when you turn the dial up or down you’ll see other adjustments — including exposure, contrast, and brightness — intelligently change with it.

The photo editing tools you love.
Now for videos, too.

Nearly every tool and effect available for photos can be used on videos, including Rotate, Crop, and Auto Enhance.

Edit RAW images right inside Photos.

You can import and edit RAW images from Photos on iPhone or iPad models with an A9 chip or later.

Find your
favorite
moments
with ease.

Find photos by the things that appear in them.

Using advanced machine learning, scene and object recognition lets you search your photos for things like motorcycles, trees, or apples. You can also combine multiple search terms — like “beach” and “selfies” — without having to tap each word in search.

Picture all the ways
to share.

Get smart suggestions for your most shareable photos.

The For You tab shows you great moments from your library, like family vacations and weddings, and uses face recognition to identify and suggest sharing photos with the people in them.

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Bring your photos into the conversation.

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Get suggestions for photos to share right in Messages based on who you’re chatting with, what you’re talking about, and where you’ve taken photos together.

iCloud Photos

All your photos,
on all
your devices.

With iCloud Photos, you have the freedom to access every photo and video in your library — from any device, anytime you want. So you can view a photo from last week or last year no matter where you are. iCloud Photos keeps every photo and video you take all in one place, and you can access them from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac, on iCloud.com, and even with your PC.

Designed to keep
your photos private.

One of the best things about Photos is how it protects your privacy. iOS and iPadOS are designed to take advantage of the powerful processor built into every iPhone and iPad. So when you search your photos, for instance, all the face recognition and scene and object detection are done completely on your device. Which means your photos are yours and yours alone.

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Learn about
the technology behind Photos

iPhoto and Aperture had the nice Sepia Tone effect to create sepia toned Black and White photos. This effect is missing from Photos.

It can be recreated in Photos using a combination of the adjustments 'Color > Saturation' and 'Curves'. By looking at the colors of a sepia tone image, we can see that the red channel is the brightest, and the green values are roughly 98% of the red values. The blue channel is much darker, only 80% of the red channel. To set this color balance do the following:

• First, remove the saturation completely, by dragging the saturation slider in the Color adjustment section all the way to the left to -1.0. If you leave a little saturation, -0.8 or so, you will create the 'Antique' effect instead.
  
• Now click the disclosure triangle to the left of 'Curves'.
  • Leave the Red curve as it ist.
  • Set the selector to 'Green' and grab the upper right corner of the Green curve and lower it just a little bit, by 2% or so. Be careful, that the curve stays a straight line. The curves tend to wiggle like snakes, if we move the pointer along the curve and not just drag the endpoint down. If you accidentally create a new definition curve on the curve, drag this new point towards the endpoint. The green curve should look like this:
    
  • Set the selector to 'Blue' and grab the upper right corner of the Blue curve and lower it by 20% or so.
    The Blue curve should look like this:
    

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Now you can copy the new Sepia adjustment from the photo where you applied it to other photos. While in Edit mode, use the Image menu: 'Image > Copy adjustment ⇧⌘C' to let the adjustment from the selected image and and 'Image > Paste adjustment ⇧⌘V' to stamp it onto another selected image. If you apply the keyword 'Sepia' to your Sepia Photos, you can quickly find back to a photo, where you can lift and stamp the adjustment from. Or create an album with sample adjustments.

With the saturation slider set at -50% the photo will have faintly saturated colors like in the iPhoto Antique effect:

Added: To recreate Aperture's Cyanotype:

For the black end of the curves, for the dark shadows, raise the blue and the red curve slightly, so even the darkest shadows will have a dark, purple tint.

For example:

The Sepia filter is primarily changing the color of the bright image areas, the Cyanotype effect does not tint the bright areas so strongly, but is changing the colors of shadows more. So I moved the green curve slightly away from the black point - the shadows are now strongly purple, while the highlights are still white or of a neutral gray.