Apple’s Photos app does not allow you to perform batch processing. However, there is a way that you can quickly apply the same changes to multiple photos.
Start with any photo in edit mode; to edit a photo, select it and press Return. Photos switches to its editing interface with controls at the right side of the window. Make whatever changes you want to the photo: adjust the color, contrast, brightness, or apply a filter.
You can then switch to another photo in edit mode and paste these adjustments. To do this, choose Image > Paste Adjustments, press Command-Shift-V, or right-click on the photo and choose Paste Adjustments. Photos applies all the adjustments you made to the first photo, with the exception of cropping or rotation.
Kirk McElhearn
If I understand this correctly, you can’t actually select multiple photos and paste adjustments at once, you have to: select each individual photo, apply, repeat. To call this ‘batch processing’ is a massive overstatement. On top of that, you have to manually rotate and crop photos later.
To be fair, Microsoft’s modern Photos app doesn’t seem to be any better at this, but the older Photo Gallery (now discontinued) allowed users to select multiple photos and perform adjustments on all at once.
The author in a follow-up post:
I’ve been writing about Apple’s Photos app a lot lately, because I’ve decided to master this app rather than spending my time learning how to use Photoshop and Lightroom. Sure, those Adobe apps are powerful, but you can do a lot with Photos, and I’d rather spend my time taking pictures than tweaking them with complicated workflows and settings.
Kirk McElhearn
How is it easier to manually paste adjustments on each photo, like you described earlier, than learning to use more powerful software that makes it much faster to process photos?! In the long run you will have spent more time struggling with an inferior application (that Apple may discontinue later at a whim, as they did with Aperture) that could have been spent on other, more meaningful things. Apple fans are such hypocrites when it comes to defending Apple.
Wow @Apple, this is by far the most nonchalant slap in the face you could give a customer! Why isn't this a feature?https://t.co/eGJVGb4dWG
— Thomas Watson (@wa7son) July 24, 2017
Update: the saga continues:
Photos on OS X cannot search by FILE TYPE. If you shoot raw+jpg you cannot set it to manage raw by default, you have to flip every single image bundle with at least three clicks. Basically it was not designed for cameras, it was designed for iPhones.
— nilay patel (@reckless) April 13, 2018
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