Guides to finding and keeping your photos
Practical, plain answers about searching, archiving and organizing large photo libraries on a Mac. Each guide stands on its own, and points to the PhotoCore feature that puts it into practice.
Start with the question you have
How to archive iPhone photos to an external drive
Move your camera roll to a drive you own, verified and searchable.
How to make a photo book without uploading
Build a book on your Mac: a web story or a print-ready PDF.
How semantic photo search works
Vectors, matching and why it can run fully on device.
Lightroom alternatives for large archives
The main options compared by scale, offline search and price.
How to search disconnected hard drives
Why indexing lets you search a disk that is unplugged.
How to manage 500,000 photos
Storage, folder structure, backups and finding one photo.
How photographers archive 10 years of work
Drive strategy, catalogs and finding old shoots.
How to organize wedding photography archives
Naming, backups and finding a couple years later.
How to find photos of a person
Name a person once, then search "@Anna at the beach". All on device.
How to find duplicate photos
Spot near-duplicates with similar-photo search and a tolerance slider.
How to organize 50,000 photos
A step by step plan: index, hide screenshots, filter by quality and date.
How to find old photos
Search by description, date range or place instead of scrolling folders.
How to remove blurry photos
Sort by on-device quality score, push weak frames down and clear them out.
How to select the best photo
Group similar shots, sort by quality and pick the winner in seconds.
Put these guides into practice
Download PhotoCore free and index up to 200 photos. Full access is a one-time purchase, with no subscription.