How to Share Pictures from Photos on Mac

How to Share Pictures from Photos on Mac

Do you have a great picture on your Mac within Photos app that you want to share? Photos for Mac makes sharing pictures, videos, and other images very easy, and you share a picture from the Mac directly to another user through messages, email, iCloud, social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Flickr, or locally to another nearby Mac or iOS user through AirDrop.

You can share any picture this way as long as you have the image, video, or picture stored within the Photos app on Mac. Whether the pictures were or doesnt matter, the pictures just must be contained within the Photos application in Mac OS. Its worth pointing out that were focusing on sharing pictures here, but the Photos app also holds videos and Live Photos, which can be shared the exact same way. Want to share a single photo from the Mac? Here are the steps: Sharing photos directly from the Photos application is quick and easy this way.

If you want to have a little fun with your pictures, you can before sharing them too. Its worth noting that if youre sharing images with GPS metadata, that geolocation information will be shared as well unless you beforehand. Want to share a collection of multiple photos? Heres how you can do that: However you choose the share the images, be aware that if youre sharing many pictures it can take a while to send them to the recipient just based on the photo and video file size, as well as the speed of your internet connection. Note that if you choose iCloud Photo Stream then you can create a new photo stream of multiple images, which offers a simple way to share multiple images with various users in a private collection that only recipients of the shared photo stream can view. *

You can enable or disable sharing options from the Sharing menu by choosing the More option and adjusting your settings in Mac OS System Preferences. This is obviously aiming to share images and videos directly from within the Photos app using the built-in Sharing features in Mac OS, but if youre a more advanced user and prefer hands-on approach you might want to instead. Do you have any helpful photo sharing tips for Mac? Let us know in the comments.