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Joseph Humfreys' Substage integrates the natural language approach offered by products like ChatGPT into the Finder on macOS, allowing you to action complex commands that would normally take multiple windows or multiple apps to accomplish.

Imagine needing to email a video, but it's too large? You've taken some great photos with your iPhone but the format doesn't work when uploading to a website? Just ask through Substage to make the video smaller, or change the photo type. You learn this and a lot more with Darcy as your guide in this short video.

Following on from Allison's show last week on managing Apple Photo libraries with the help of PowerPhotos, Don's thoughts turned to optimising and organising the actual contents. In this week's show, he grasps the nettle on sorting out his personal Photos library, as years of neglect have resulted in out-of-date and unorganised albums, both personal and shared. You also learn how Apple Intelligence can help in this organisation, giving you solid organization tools, both automated and manual. The version of Photos seen in this video requires macOS Tahoe 26.

PowerPhotos works with the built-in Photos app on your Mac, providing powerful tools to manage your photos and videos. With PowerPhotos, you can split large libraries, as well as merge existing libraries. You can find and delete duplicate images with full control of how duplicates are defined and managed.

You also get a much better metadata editor, which even supports batch editing. Join Allison as she guides you through PowerPhotos' extensive feature set, with real world examples.

Get a 20% discount at checkout by using code SCREENCASTSONLINE (This offer is valid through January 10, 2026.)

PowerPhotos 3 is a one-time purchase of $39.95 USD, and requires macOS Sonoma or newer. If you already own PowerPhotos 1 or 2, you can purchase an upgrade for $19.95 USD.

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See more information in Resources below.

Ecamm Live may be best known as a tool for live streamers, but this powerful Mac video production studio can also significantly improve the quality (and effectiveness) of any online workshop or presentation.In this screencast, Mike walks you through the Ecamm Live interface and shows some specific workflows for switching camera sources, creating scenes. He also goes over using the Ecamm's virtual camera with Zoom to make your next meeting a lot more polished.Ecamm Live runs on a Mac from 2015 or later, running macOS 11.2 or newer.

If you've been looking for a way to quickly and easily edit your videos, today's tutorial is all about an app that offers a simple user interface that allows you to do just that. Darcy is your guide today as you learn about the many ways you can manipulate your media, whether it's video, audio, and even images. He shows you examples of trimming, merging, and exporting video files, how to create a GIF (and reverse GIF), and much more.

Pimosa runs on macOS 10.14 or newer.

Acorn has been Don's go-to app for all things image creation and editing. It has a huge range of features and is perfect whether you dabble in image editing or need power user features.

With the release of Acorn 8, it's time to revisit this great app and explore some of its new features. It might be worth checking out the previous Acorn show (see Resources below) to explore the basics in detail. Join Don as he does a quick return to basics before diving in to some of his favorite new features.

Acorn will run on macOS 14 or later, and you can download a 14-day free trial of the software.

We often overlook the depth of the software we already have on our Macs. One example is Apple's Photos, which has amazing tools that are kept folded away so they don't intimidate those who don't want or need these advanced options. To help you understand what you can do using these tools, Allison dives deep into every one of the editing controls, using a variety of shots from her personal library.

You learn about all 12 adjustments and all of their options, including things like the difference between Definition and Sharpen. Allison explains why you might see Filters while other times you'll see Styles in Photos, the differences between Curves and Levels (and which of the two she prefers) and much more.

This tutorial was recorded on a Mac running macOS Sequoia 15.2.

With iOS and iPadOS 18.2, the next wave of Apple Intelligence tools have landed and the creative amongst us can create custom emoji (called Genmoji), as well as use Image Playground to create fun stills of people from our Photo Library. In this episode, with Lee as your guide, you learn how to use both of these creative tools.

Apple Intelligence is available on iOS and iPadOS 18.2 on the following devices:

iPhone 15 Pro or Pro Max

iPhone 16 (any model)

Any iPad with M1 chip or newer

iPad Mini with A17 Pro

From Neil Clayton at shinywhitebox comes iShowU, a full-featured and very customisable screen recording application, optimised for Apple silicon. The user experience can either be a simple mode for easily configuring your recording with connected displays, microphones and cameras, or a deeper, integrated "Pro" mode. In this mode you can add layers that you can customise to your needs, making it very flexible for a variety of use cases. In this episode, Darcy takes you on a tour of the app. So download iShowU and follow along with him!

iShowU v6 requires macOS 13 or newer.

You can buy an iShowU v6 perpetual license for $89 USD, or subscribe for $24 USD annually.

Bezel has had a lot of plaudits from the Apple community since its release. We covered it ourselves in January 2024, however it's had so many updates in the last 6 months that Lee had to show them to you.

As well as mirror the display of your iPhone and iPad to your Mac, you can now capture screenshots from within the app, as well as create video recordings, and choose from a variety of options. You also have the ability to mirror your Apple TV and (for those of you who would like to see it) Lee wraps up this video by demoing how Bezel runs on Vision Pro.

Bezel runs on macOS 12.0 or newer. The connected iOS device needs to run iOS 8 or newer.

The Vision Pro represents Apple's first foray into the world of Spatial Computing. Released in the US on February 2 2024, it wasn't until July 12 that Lee was able to get his hands on one, thanks to Apple releasing it in the UK. With an entry-level price of $3,500 USD, this is definitely not for the mass market. This new Apple device is sure to see revisions over the coming years as more developers have access, and create products for it so that we can determine the most popular use cases for Vision Pro. Even in its current state, Lee thought it would be nice to show what Vision Pro can do.

In this video, you see how to use the different menus, configure some of the Vision Pro-only settings, set up your Persona (and get on a FaceTime call), work with different environments, and more. You also get a quick peek into Lee's house as he walks around, showing off some examples of how the Vision Pro can be used day to day.

Shown in this video: Spigen's Klasden Pouch for Vision Pro

Most of us take screenshots on our iPhone, whether it's to capture information to send on to someone else, or for our own reference material. Some of us also produce screenshots for written materials to help with our work. Whilst the built-in screenshot functionality is basic enough, Shareshot is a utility that allows you to take those images to the next level, with custom backgrounds, automatic device frame detection, lighting effects, and more. Shareshot can also be used to add frames to screenshots taken on other devices, such as iPad, Macs, Apple TV and even Vision Pro.  Lee walks you through these and more in this screencast.

Shareshot will run on iOS 17 or higher ; iPadOS 17 or higher; visionOS 1.0 or higher.

A Pro subscription to Shareshot cost $1.99 per month or $14.99 per year.

The iPhone has been evolving into a viable camera replacement a little more each year. Apple have recently released a camera app of their own aimed at professionals. Final Cut Camera is built with professional video workflows in mind. Creatives have full control over white balance, exposure, focus and even the camera's shutter speed and ISO settings. The app has focus and exposure protections to help users create the perfect shots. This app pairs perfectly with Final Cut Pro for iPad offering users not only a simple way of creating multi-camera shots, but also seamlessly editing them. In this episode Darcy goes over Final Cut Camera's interface, shows how you can set up a multicam shoot, and then moves over to Final Cut Pro for iPad to show the basics of working with a multicam clip.

After a one-month free trial, Final Cut Pro for iPad costs $4.99 USD per month or $49 per year.

See full device compatibility on the App Store page.

The rise of videoconferencing over the last couple of years has placed increased importance on the quality of your video. The better your video looks, the more clearly you can communicate. But you don't need to spend thousands of dollars on fancy camera equipment. With Camo Studio, you can use the camera you already own to produce great video, whether you’re meeting, streaming, or recording.

In this screencast, Mike shows you how to pair your iPhone running the Camo app with your Mac in order to use it with Camo Studio. He then walks you through all of the available camera and image settings and enhancements to fine-tune the video quality. You also learn how to record and save a video directly from Camo Studio.

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Monthly subscription is $8.99 USD 

Annual subscription is $49.99 

You can buy a Lifetime license for $99.99 

Camo Studio requires macOS 10.15 or newer 

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Wouldn't it be great if there was a native Mac app for screencasting that combined the simplicity of Loom with the polish of ScreenFlow?  Well, now there is: it's called Screen Studio. This app gives you just enough tools to make your screencasts pop while being simple enough to let you focus on the content, not the options. It also smartly uses AI to help you automatically add zooms and transcripts and lets you export your video in several formats for easy sharing to social platforms. Mike walks through all of the options of Screen Studio in this episode, and shares a finished video so you can see what the app is capable of.

• Screen Studio requires macOS 13.1 or newer.

• Pricing Standard (1 macOS device) $89 USD

• Extended (3 macOS devices) $189 USD

There are many photo editors on the market for iPad and each has their own set of features. Luminar for iPad is an application that adds enough features for doing some amazing edits on your photos but does so in style with a unique editing interface that includes dials, scroll wheels, and other create ways to use the touch screen interface with some analogue-like interfaces. In this screencast, Todd walks through three typical workflows that any photographer might use to see how Luminar for iPad shapes up to the competition.

There are lots of options for mirroring your iOS devices to your Mac, but few let you connect wirelessly. Reflector not only gives you quality screen mirroring without a cable, but it also lets you mirror multiple devices at once. In this episode, Mike shows you how to set up and use Reflector 4.

We all love to post images on social media and often we're trying to figure out how to gain more followers to get more reach. One of the ways you can increase your audience is by adding descriptions to your images so that visually impaired people can enjoy them, too. These descriptions have different names: alt tags, alt text, alternative text, descriptions, or sometimes simply captions. In this tutorial, Allison teaches you how to add alt text in several social media platforms using her iPhone. You also learn how to use a free application called Be My Eyes to add incredibly good captions for your images using AI, saving you the trouble of thinking them up yourself.

Rather than showcasing a single app, in this full show Darcy introduces four applications designed and released by Amico Apps.

The first is a utility that allows you to quit multiple programs at the same time, as well as schedule app quitting due to inactivity. Another that makes accessing emoji on the Mac very easy, using shortcuts.

A third that is aimed at designers and overlays the golden ratio on your screen and finally, software to manage your calendars, reminders, notes and photos using widgets.

The Photos app on iPad can easily be overlooked. Many people think of their phone for easily viewing their camera roll, and turn to the Mac when editing the sharing their images. Photos on iPad offers a nice middle ground on the larger display this mobile device offers. In this episode, Darcy takes you on a full tour of the app and showcases its many features, including For You, Photos' full editing capabilities and organization features, and much more.