Photos

Your entire photo collection.
Framed in a whole new way.
Introducing Photos for OS X. Featuring an easy-to-use and streamlined design, Photos has been engineered from the ground up to help you keep your growing library organised and accessible. Powerful and intuitive editing tools help you perfect your images as well as create beautiful gifts for sharing. And with iCloud Photo Library, a lifetime’s worth of photos and videos can be stored in the cloud — so you can access your entire collection from your Mac and iOS devices at any time.

iCloud Photo Library.
One convenient home for all your photos and videos.

For the first time, iCloud Photo Library gives you access to your entire Mac photo and video library from all your devices. If you shoot a snapshot, slow-motion video or selfie on your iPhone, it’s automatically added to iCloud Photo Library as well — so it appears on your Mac, your iOS devices and iCloud.com. And since your collection is organised the same way across your devices, navigating your library always feels familiar. Learn more

Make an edit here, see it there.

When you make changes on your Mac like editing a photo, marking a Favourite or adding to an album, they’re kept up to date on your iPhone, your iPad and iCloud.com. And vice versa — any changes made on your iOS devices are automatically reflected on your Mac.

Fill your library, not your device.

iCloud Photo Library can help you make the most of the space on your Mac. When you choose “Optimise Mac Storage”, all your full-resolution photos and videos are stored in iCloud in their original formats, with storage-saving versions kept on your Mac as space is needed. You can also optimise storage on your iPhone, iPad and iPod touch, so you can access more photos and videos than ever before. You get 5GB of free storage in iCloud — and as your library grows, you have the option to choose a plan for up to 1TB.

The moment you’re looking for, always at hand.

The beautiful all-new design of the Photos app uses Moments, Collections and Years views to automatically organise your photos and videos by when and where they were taken. With dramatically more screen space devoted to your photos, you can easily scan your entire library at a glance and quickly find the content you’re looking for. A new, streamlined toolbar puts the right controls at your fingertips, giving you instant access to the photos you’ve shared, the albums you’ve made and the projects you’ve created. And you can even use gestures to browse your entire photo collection with just a touch.

Perfect your best shots with powerful editing tools.

Create stand-out photos with a comprehensive set of powerful but easy-to-use editing tools. Choose Enhance to improve your photo with just a click. Use a filter to instantly give it a new look. Or use new Smart Sliders to quickly edit like a pro even if you’re a beginner. Smart Sliders intelligently adjust multiple elements of your photo at once — so it’s easier than ever to lighten a dark image, get the colour just right or even create a beautiful black and white.

Take control of the finest details.

Photos makes it simple to apply more advanced adjustments to your image. You can make precise edits by enabling the histogram, adjusting levels, adding definition and more. You can even add a vignette for a final artistic touch.

Click through to see how these editing tools work:

Add filters for striking effects.

With just a click, you can add a filter to make a photo shine. Click through eight built-in filters to audition a look and choose the one you like best.

Give the photos you love to the people you love.

Making special gifts for loved ones is easier than ever with Photos. Simple tools and new Apple-designed themes help you create beautiful prints, photo books, cards and calendars that your friends and family will always cherish.

Professional-quality photo books.

Fresh new designs and streamlined tools help you easily build beautiful custom-designed photo books. Add full-bleed, two-page spreads and include your own captions, maps and more. You can create square books in new 25-by-25-centimetre or 20-by-20-centimetre sizes, in both hardcover and softcover.

Auto-Sized and square prints.

Order gorgeous prints of the iPhone panoramas you’ve taken. Just choose Auto-Sized to print your photos with no cropping in sizes up to 91 centimetres wide. Or choose from a variety of new square sizes.

Start using Photos on your Mac today.

Photos is included as part of the OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 update, which is available for free from the Mac App Store.