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Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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- View photos and videos
- View photo bursts
- See photo and video information
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- Find photos and videos by date
- Find and name people and pets
- Find group photos and videos
- Find photos and videos by location
- View photos and videos you recently saved
- Find your travel photos and videos
- Find receipts, documents, recently edited photos, and more
- Find screenshots, Live Photos, and more by media type
- Use Live Text to interact with text in a photo
- Use Visual Look Up to learn more about a photo
- Isolate and share a photo’s subject
- Delete photos and videos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos and videos from view
- Add titles, captions, and more
- Add keywords
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- Editing basics
- Crop and straighten photos and videos
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- Add filters
- Adjust light, exposure, and color
- Change Photographic Styles
- Remove distractions and imperfections
- Remove red-eye
- Adjust white balance
- Apply curves adjustments
- Apply levels adjustments
- Adjust definition
- Adjust specific colors
- Reduce noise
- Sharpen a photo
- Change a Portrait mode photo
- Apply a vignette
- Write or draw on a photo
- Use other apps when editing in Photos
- Change a Live Photo
- Change a video
- Edit a Cinematic mode video
- Photos settings
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright
to turn the audio off or on.Change the focus point in a Cinematic mode video
When recording a video using Cinematic mode, the camera identifies where to focus and can automatically change the focus if a new subject is identified. White dots below the frame viewer (or scrubber) show where focus point changes occur. When editing a Cinematic mode video, you can change the focus point manually.
Go to the Photos app
on your Mac.Double-click a Cinematic mode video, then click Edit in the toolbar.
Click Adjust in the toolbar, then drag the Depth slider of the Cinematic adjustment to change the amount of foreground and background blur.
Change and enhance a video in Photos on Mac