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Photos User Guide
- Welcome
- Get started
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- Browse your photos
- View individual photos
- Add titles, captions and more
- Interact with text in a photo using Live Text
- Use Visual Look Up to learn about a photo
- Isolate and copy a photo’s subject
- View photos others have shared with you
- Delete photos or recover deleted ones
- Remove duplicates
- Hide photos from view
- View photo bursts
- Play video clips
- View Live Photos
- Change Photos settings
- Keyboard shortcuts and gestures
- Copyright
Isolate and copy a photo’s subject in Photos on Mac
In macOS Ventura or later, you can use Photos to isolate the subject of a photo from the photo background and then share it in other documents and apps.
You can also use this feature in Safari, Quick Look, Mail and more.
In the Photos app
on your Mac, open a photo.Control-click the photo, then choose Copy Subject.
As you move the pointer over Copy Subject, the photo’s background dims and an outline appears around the subject.
You can now paste the subject into a document, email, text message or note.
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