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Mac OS X El Capitan: photos in the photo-editing App

  • Oct 31, 2025
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With Mac OS X El Capitan Apple for the first time offers the Option to edit photos directly in the photos App. What do you need and how to do it, we will explain in this practical tip.

Mac OS X: image editing with the photo App

The photo App already offers the option of your images with integrated tools easy to change. So you can rotate your photos, for example, and the cropping, automatically, optimize, or a Filter over your photos.
  • The tools display for image editing, select a photo and navigate to "image -> window - > show list".
  • In the right margin you will then see the Standard tools and can improve your photos.
Built-in tools in the photo App

El Capitan allows for extensions

With the photo App, you can get even more out of your images: Apple allows Extensions, with which you make your photos considerably more detail will be able to edit.
  • In the App-Store, numerous extensions are available, which can be used with the photo App. There are cheap Apps like BeFunky Express for 4,99 Euro. More extensive Plugins like Tonality cost, however, 17,99 Euro.
  • A Plugin can easily be in the photo-App integrate: After the Installation, you can enable the extension under "system settings -> extensions -> photos".

Photos in the photo editing App - how to

You have activated a Plugin, you can edit now so your photos directly in the photos App.
  • Click on an image twice to enable it. The top of the "edit appears to the right". With a click, the editing Tools, the Plugins are now available.
Your photos you can edit not only on the Macbook, but also on your mobile iDevice. The best image editing Apps for iPhone and iPad we provide you with in the next practical tip before

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