If you have divided a large photo library into small, more manageable libraries, Photos for Mac makes it easy to work multiple libraries. When you first set up Photos for Mac, it asks you to. If your Mac is a portable Mac, where you do not always want to have an external drive connected, you could keep a small photos library with the favorite photos you always want to able to access on the internal drive, and move the main Photos Library with all your photos to an external drive.

We tested nine photo manager programs for a total of 85 hours to discover which had the best organizing, editing and sharing features. Our choice for the best photo manager software is CyberLink PhotoDirector 9. It lets you organize photos by date, color labels, star ratings, locations and even by person through facial recognition. Using iCloud Photo Library lets you shoot or import photos and videos from your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Mac, or the web and have them all go to a single library that you manage. Watermark photo for mac.

Filed Under:,,, Update (11/3/2015): Unlike, does not yet have the capability to merge libraries together. This is something I’d like to add to PowerPhotos, though I can’t make any concrete promises, since doing so partially depends on whether Photos itself adds a few necessary enhancements. In the meantime, since I get asked about this a lot, I thought I’d put up a quick summary of the existing methods to get your content all together into a single Photos library. Merge your iPhoto libraries beforehand At this point, most people looking to merge libraries together have existing iPhoto or Aperture libraries that they’re either planning to migrate to Photos, or have already done so. Since merging options with Photos itself are very limited, if you do want to merge your libraries, it will be much easier to first merge everything together as iPhoto libraries, then take the resulting merged iPhoto library and migrate *that* to Photos afterward. If you haven’t migrated any of your existing libraries yet, then simply use iPhoto Library Manager to merge the libraries together first, then open the merged library in Photos to let it perform the migration (Aperture can also be used to merge iPhoto libraries, though it doesn’t perform duplicate detection like iPLM does).

If you have already migrated some/all of your iPhoto libraries though, you may still be able to follow this route. Photos leaves the original iPhoto library intact after performing the migration, so as long as you haven’t deleted the iPhoto library yourself, you should be able to go back and perform the merge, then migrate the merged library to Photos.