A Simple Trick to ORGANIZE Your Photos on Your Mac 

Good video. Wish I could talk like this guy. He commands you to listen

Really well done. I was very frustrated that I didn't know what a smart album was, and now I see how great it works. I am going to start organizing my hundreds (who knows, maybe thousands) of photos and get that satisfying feeling he was talking about when you see the numbers go down. Thanks!

he lack of this aspect of “Organizing” has kept me for years from being able to organize my photo’s, I so grateful that you published this. I have 9,000 pictures. Pretty difficult to recall what was ordered in 4x4, or was it 4x6. So now I can do one year at t time, and not order doubles, or put the same picture on 3 pages. Thank you, thank you. Mary

Good, clear, simple ideas to help me get started organizing the thousands of digital photos I have stored in no order whatsoever! Thanks!

Thank you , the lesson is simple and easy to understand for a 60+ lady like me.

This was HUGE. Almost life changing. I'm frustrated EVERY DAY because i'm completely overwhelmed by my photos and videos, .... for my small business. And i'm a content creator, so i'm sure you can see how very pitiful this is for me! Thank you.

I was so frustrated every time I wanted to find a photo and this video got me all sorted out....and it was so simple. I'm so pleased😊. Thank you a million.

That simple trick has gotten me back interested in using photos again, and picking up my dSLR again. Thanks David!!

You can’t imagine how excited I am about this video and this way to organize Apple’s hard-to-sort photo app. Excellent!

By far the BEST tutorials! Clear and concise!

Excellent... all your videos are easy to follow, slow enough to follow along on a personal mac if necessary, and on topic! Highly recommend.

Love your clear thinking and incisive directions.

Thank god! Thanks! For like ten years, I always hated apple photos because I couldn't put them in folders and then know afterwards which photos I'd moved already.

Thank you so much David, this has been a real bugbear and now it is solved. Sooooo grateful. Keep safe. Mike

Very helpful. Just starting to try to really organize my photos. Going to watch several of your videos!

You are a really awesome teacher! I learn so much with your videos! Thank you so much!!! 🌷🤩

Big help! After watching this video, I am encouraged, as I think I'll be able to do this as the instructions are clear, concise, and just what a beginner needs. Thank you.

Very useful. I, too love the idea of the decreasing number of photos showing in the 'unorganised' smart album.

Thank you so much for this wonderful tip. I like the way you keep your presentation short and sweet. Really awesome!

This is the one thing that I could not figure out!! I kept trying to hide the photos that I had already put into albums. Thank you so much for making your knowledge accessible to all!!

Finally got around to organizing my photos and followed all your tips...MUCH BETTER! Thank you very much

Wow what a great tip, We have to live with this program and sure miss aperture, so I have lots of work to do 5,800 pics already down to 5,600. Thanks for all you're Tutorials.

I love this guy! I am not computer savvy at all and he makes so much sense! Thank you!

Awesome video. I always stayed away from my iPhoto because it was a hot mess. Thanks, this got me thinking and back to being organized.

Thank you for a quick and easy way to organize the photos.

Thanks for sharing this useful organizing Feature - way more than a 'tip' for those of us overwhelmed with unsorted photos. I popped over here from your 'iMovie Full Tutorial ' which is super fantastic: I can't believe how much I can accomplish with my videos, still pictures, etc. thanks to your easy-to-follow tutorials.

Very clever and clear directions. THANK YOU

Nice one David. How would you suggest working with Lightroom and Photo, ito structure?

Thanks David, your upbeat attitude and the way you seem to alway explain things in a way easy to understand and retain. keep up the good work!

Did a private Mac lesson with David and he was very helpful! Thanks again David.

Brilliant!! I have 11, 595 pics ahhh. This is going to seriously help tidy up my computer and memories. Over 10yrs worth and back ups off old computers. Thank for such a simple easy to do tip.

I LOVE YOU AND YOUR TECH TALK THANK YOU AND I SO LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOU AND YOUR TALKS

Great info, David. Very useful in organizing and rooting out photos that are not among the best. Your lectures are a public treasure.

Thank you so much! Bought my first iMac 2 days ago and now I can clean up my pictures on my phone at the same time :)

Thanks David! Been battling with iPhoto for months; no more! This makes it much easier to manage. Cheers!

THANK YOU!! as we go into winter, this is a major project for me with 22 thousand photos...you just made it easy with the 'unorganized photo smart' album...over 9,000 and then I want to back up my icloud..thank you!!!!!

This guy is a consistently great teacher! Thanks David!

Hold on, wait a minute, can you please tell me what you have used for your background wall/light installation!? I love it.

Really helpful! Thanks - I now have a starting point!

Within 45 minutes I was able to organize over 200 photos into their appropriate albums. Thank you so much, this was a great help!!

Great info. I have 40k pics on my Mac and every time I looking for a pics would would take forever looking for the that one pics. Now I can start orginizing into photo albums, thx

Super smart methodology to identify unsorted photos. Thank you for sharing!

David, Thank you for your generosity. You are the BEST teacher!

I followed these instructions and all went well until the last step. I was able to click and drag a photo into an album but it did not disappear from photos. How do you know which photos have been placed into an album?? Excellent teacher.

Very helpful and will look for more of your classes

This was amazing! I have been looking for this tip to get organized with my photos. Thank you so much!!!!

Great tip. Will be using it. You are a great teacher.

Very cool video, finally I will be able to organize my photos so I can find them when I need them. I have 5,000 pics to organize from my new smart album. One questions. Do I need to create only one smart album?

Just found your channel. Huge help. I will be back. Yes I liked and subscribed. Looking forward to taking a few classes. Cheers.

Thank you so much David! You’ve answered a question that’s had me stymied ever since Apple abandoned iPhoto and made a huge mess of my well organized albums when it converted them to Photos. I can’t tell you how frustrating it’s been to try and find a simple answer to how to fix the endless list of ‘rolls’ it imported. Now I think I can finally clean up this mess. I’ll be following you from now on guaranteed.

Thanks again David for such a clear explanation of a complicated feature. Read many references to Smart Folders but never understood their use. Received a new MacBook Pro as a gift and immediately upgraded it to Mojave. Bought USB port adapters so I could, hopefully, view the thousands of photos/videos on 4 external hard drives. Wasn’t sure if they’d be readable as I had them for my PC backups. Boy, was I delighted after your classes taught me how to operate this spectacular computer. The hard drives opened right up and I can just drag and drop them where I want and I can even simply txt or email them if I wish. So now I’ll create a multitude of folders so I can sort as I go

Loved your video, I’ve subscribed to your channel to keep learning... Def going to start organizing thousands of photos

Excelent tip; very much needed info; instant gratification to see that number drop !!!!

David, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, for this tip! I am so glad that you showed us a great way to organize photos without having to buy yet more utility software to accomplish what can be a daunting task of organizing photos. I have been wrestling with this for years! This makes my day! As for the technicality of your video, you are speaking clearly, enunciating well, speaking at a rate that makes the video enjoyable to watch (not speaking hurriedly) and you explain each step very thoroughly! You did a *great* job here. A '10' ! :-)

Thanks David... I will see what other problems you can solve!

Thank you...I simply don't understand Apples photos etc, it's seemed to become more & more complicated. This helps a great deal!

Thanks - especially the tip on the Smart Album to filter our uncategorized photos.

Perfect timing for me! Very helpful regarding Smart Albums. Thank you. A new subscriber here. 👍🏻

Exact fix for the problem I was having. Thanks!

great idea...been working just on the Ipad...didnt realize smart album existed.

Amazing life saving tip..!! Thank you so much ❤

Fantastic 🎉🎉🎉 I was wondering for a while and finally you nail that THANK YOU 🙏

Thank you!!! I have almost 200K pics and really needed this feature.

Hi, love your tutorials. They are very helpful. I have a question . How do I get my Photos albums to show up in finder ?

Wow! This trick was a lifesaver for me. Thanks a million

very helpful. Thanks! I will be looking to see all that you have and share with my wife and friends. Nicely done.

Thanks for the tips David. What lighting do you use for your utube vids?

Great video thank you....Any idea if we can organize pictures in the sequence we want instead of random order?

Fabulous. Clear explanation thanks

Yet another video that helps us hacks out here. Thanks David

Your tutorials are always the first I look for thank you, David

Fantastic ! Very clear explanation thanks!

Super helpful as always, Sir David.

so helpful! looking forward to checking out some of your other tutorials! thank you ~

As always, David, you are a lifesaver !!!!

Fantastic! Very clear explanation..thanks

Wow! Who knew? Love your channel. Thank YOU!

Even over a year after the posting date (with a semi-outdated MacBook Pro), this is exactly what I needed to help organize my pictures. It can be such a mess between work-related stuff screenshots, family things and personal issues. David, thank you so much! Subscribed and liked.

Thanks David, I have all your Apple Photo/I -movies videos saved. As a septuagenarian I appreciate your step by step approach which is easy to follow. 🤓🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤙🏻

I loved this suggestion David.I am going to try it out tomorrow. My questions is related to the many photos that I have scanned into the photos app. These give me the most headaches. Any suggestions on managing these?

Super helpful! Finally made some action towards getting my photos organized. Thank you!

Been looking for this exact answer for a very long time. Actually since I moved from iPhoto to the new version. Thank you so much for this simple video. Made my day!

I have had this on my "Todo" list for over a year. Now = DONE. Thanks!!!

Thank you! I do not know much about the Photos App.

Great advice. Easy to implement.

This is terrific. Do you know a way to organize photos in a album by the date the photo was taken rather then the date the photo was added? I am trying to create an album using photos I took and photos my daughter took of a recent trip we took together. Thanks so much.

You make THE BEST Apple related tutorials. Thank you so much for sharing them for free!

I'D LOVE TO SEE MORE TALKS ON HOW AND WHERE TO STORE YOUR PHOTOS FOR EASY ACCESS WHILE IN PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS

Such clear advice - thank you!

Great video. Thanks for teaching.

Really good ideas. Thanks. My collection of photos is a mess.

Thank you David it worked like a Charm, appreciate all your help

thanks! I'm trying to figure out how to sort my pictures that are on my cellphone onto my Macbook! this helps me a bit, thanks again!

Loved this. Do you have information on how to find and delete duplicate photos? Thank you, Linda

Very informative and helped me much to organize my photos, now I've created so many folders and in these folders I also created albums, problem is How t backup my work in case I need to clean instal or transfer to another Mac, is there a way to do so other than copying an extra large photo library

At last... I was going round in circles to find out how to do this. thank you !

This is SO good! The best trick yet.

Thanks David, another great tip, I’ve been watching your videos for a few years - best Apple tutorials I’ve ever seen 😃

BRILLIANT - THANK YOU DAVID!

Thank you so much for all your tips, lessons ,etc. I've learned so many new things