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You can export photos and videos to use in other apps. Single and 4-up photos are exported as JPEG files; video clips are exported as MOV files.
In addition to being a photo viewer, the Preview app for Mac offers basic image-editing functionality. If you want a quick and easy way to resize images, this built-in Apple app will do the trick.
In the Photo Booth app on your Mac, do any of the following:
Export a photo or a video clip: Select the thumbnail, then choose File > Export, or drag the thumbnail to your desktop.
Export one frame in a 4-up photo: Select the photo frame, then choose File > Export, or drag the photo frame (not the thumbnail) to your desktop.
Export a photo without effects: Select the thumbnail, then choose File > Export Original.
You can easily share photos and videos without exporting them. See Share photos and videos from Photo Booth.
Irreversible data loss is a sad story. John Marvin writes in with a question about restoring images that he exported:
I exported a number of important photos to a back up hard drive and then removed them from Photos as they were not regularly needed. When I then opened up the photo from the HD it was substantially reduced in size. How do I restore the original size of these photos?
If it’s been less than 30 days since you deleted the images from Photos, they may be in the Recently Deleted album in the sidebar. (Choose View > Show Sidebar if you aren’t seeing a list of albums at left.)
However, unless you have other backups (like Time Machine or external drives or cloud-based copies), the full-resolution images are gone for good.
What likely happened is that in using the export option in Photos, the choices were set to a lower resolution than truly desired.
In Photos, choosing File > Export > Export [x] Photo(s), the export option is collapsed by default, showing just Photo Kind. I don’t have a default installation, but when you click the downward-pointing area to expand the Photos section of that dialog box, the Size menu isn’t set to Full Size.
If you use the default options in collapsed or expanded view, you’re thus exporting a downsampled/lower resolution version of your original. Full Size incorporates any changes you made into a photo (or video), although it’s still doing some processing.
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For media you’ve just imported into Photos and haven’t modified at all, choosing File > Export > Export Unmodified Original for [x] Photo(s) copies exactly what was imported into Photos.
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