How to Draw on Photos on a Mac

How to Draw on Photos on a Mac

The Mac Photos app has a set of simple drawing tools called Markup which can be used to draw, doodle, sketch, and otherwise markup or write on any picture.

Markup in Photos can offer a fun way to scribble on an image, put a remark on a picture, add a blurb, or just to draw a little creative addition to any photo found within the Photos app.

The Markup editing toolkit in Photos on Mac is great, but like many other features, its a bit hidden and its easy to overlook this feature.

This tutorial will show you how to access Markup in Photos for Mac and how to draw on a picture using the tool set. You can draw on any picture or image file contained with Photos app this way, whether it has been , , or otherwise contained within the app.

If you want to test this out yourself, you may want to make a copy of a picture or just choose a picture you dont mind doodling on.

 Now that you have drawn on a photo, you can keep it in your photos library, export it, share it, email it, message it, save it, or whatever else you want to do with your wonderful creation. If this set of tools looks familiar to you, it may be because as well, which is very convenient.

While this applies to the Mac, the Markup toolkit in Photos is essentially the same set of utilities you can too, but accessing Markup in Photos iPhone and iPad is obviously a bit different than the same Markup toolkit on a Mac. Have fun drawing on your photos!