{"id":52130,"date":"2018-09-13T09:43:46","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:43:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/?p=52130"},"modified":"2018-09-13T09:43:46","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T13:43:46","slug":"apple-is-now-offering-free-photo-editing-classes-by-phone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adorama.com\/alc\/apple-is-now-offering-free-photo-editing-classes-by-phone\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple Is Now Offering Free Photo Editing Classes by Phone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to take your photos \u2014 and your Photos app \u2014 to the next level? If so, Apple has a new solution for you. The company is now offering support for photo editors<\/a>, and you can easily get it by registering for Apple\u2019s new free one-on-one phone tutorials for iOS and macOS. This may be the perfect solution for photographers and customers who don\u2019t live near an Apple store or can\u2019t make it to their scheduled workshops.<\/p>\n

And the premise, is quite simple.<\/p>\n

“Our specially trained Apple Support Advisors are experts in using Photos to transform pictures from good to amazing \u2014 and they’d love to show you how in a 30-minute guided phone session,” reads Apple’s support document published earlier this week. Currently the Photos training is only available to US customers.<\/p>\n

I registered online for the following day at 5PM and received a phone call at exactly 5:02 from a friendly and knowledgable instructor. Choosing to navigate the Photo app on my latest version of iOS, instead of my laptop, we began by allowing access to my images while talking on speaker-phone. I chose a waterfall image from Iceland to adjust and enhance. After complimenting me on my compositions (who doesn’t want to hear that?) we quickly went through the tools as he darted around with a red arrow on my screen, pointing out the options:<\/p>\n