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When browsing your photos in the Photos app on the iPhone or iPad, you may come across a photos that would be a lovely background - or Wallpaper - for your Lock screen or Home screen.
You can always adjust these background by visiting Settings -> Wallpaper, and then finding that photo amongst your long list of photos. You might consider making it a Favourite so that you can more easily find it when doing this. But there is a much easier way to set a photo as your Wallpaper directly from the Photos app.
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 At the Photos on the Mac class series run recently by iTandCoffee, an attendee at these online classes wanted to know how to get photos onto her Mac from her Android device.
Here's the answer to that question.  At our PTT session called Organising Photos on a Windows Computer held on Friday 20/6, we looked at the Photos app on a Windows computer, for finding photos wherever they 'live' on your computer and allowing you to see them on a timeline, group photos by person using facial recognition, create your own albums and more.
One of the questions that came up was about old photos that you have scanned and imported to your computer. The date associated with these photos is the date scanned so these photos won't appear in the right place on the timeline. Is there a way to adjust this date? 
I was asked during a recent PTT session (which was about using your mobile for scanning documents and photos) about whether there is an easy way to scan old slides.
My suggestion at that session was to Google the words slide scanners to see range of physical devices that are available for this purpose. But I have since come across an App that may also be worth a try - and it is from the same people who made one of my favourite photo scanning apps (which I have covered in this previous Handy Hint: For those who are looking to organise all those old photos - there's a great app for that!).  When you download the Google Photos app to your mobile device, you may inadvertently turn on a feature that causes your device's photos to automatically sync to your Google cloud.
If you already use iCloud Photos on iOS, or some other sync service like Dropbox or OneDrive, there may be no real need to do this (unless you intend to use Google Photos to share with family and friends, etc.). If you no longer wish to backup your device's photos to the Google cloud, you need to adjust a setting in the Google Photos app - and turn off the Backup & sync setting that is causing this upload to Google. 6/3/2020 0 Comments How do I delete all of the photos or files that I have accidentally uploaded to Google If you have installed the Google Photos app on your mobile device, or the Google Backup & Sync service on your computer, you may find that you have inadvertently been uploading and storing your photos and/or files in your Google Cloud.
This is what happened to two clients this week, who were both getting messages that their Google account was full.  I am sure that this is a problem that the majority of people suffer when it comes to Photos - the problem of duplicated photos and how to clean up all those extra copies of the same photo.
I have been asked three times this week in different appointments for advice on how this clean-up can be achieved in the Photos App on the Mac - how to get rid of the duplicates without having to manually look for and delete double-ups. Unfortunately, there is not a built-in tool on the Mac for performing such a clean-up - but there is a solution.  If you have an iPhone 6S or newer, you have a wonderful feature in the Camera App - the ability to take 'Live' photos.
A 'Live' photo is actually a short video, and one of the 'frames' from that video is automatically chosen as the 'Key Photo' that is shown when you view the photo. Touching and holding on the Photo in the Photos app will play the short video. 18/2/2020 0 Comments How to change the date of a scanned photo on your iPhone or iPad, Mac and in Google Photos If you have ever scanned some old photos into your computer or mobile device, you will know the frustration of later trying to find these photos - especially if, like me, you have thousands of photos.
The date recorded against the photos (in the photo's 'metadata') will be the date they were scanned - which means the Photos app's timeline will show them on that date. So you have to remember when you scanned them (unless you have been clever enough to put them in a separate album, of course). Wouldn't it be great if you could put a more accurate date on these photos so that they appear in the Photos timeline in the correct year, on the date you specify? 20/12/2019 1 Comment For those who are looking to organise all those old photos - there's a great app for that! Over the Christmas break, I finally got around to sorting out a pile of old family photos - photos that I wanted to scan and save as digital versions and then share with the rest of my family.
So, I thought ... Wouldn't it be great if you could just point your iPhone at a set of old photos and have them scanned, cropped, clarified and saved to your Photos app? Even better, wouldn't it be great if you could also put the information written on the back of the photo onto this digital photo, so that you don't lose that information? And, even better again, wouldn't it lovely if those photos then appeared in your Photos timeline in the correct year/month, so that you could easily find them again. |
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