I'm new to MacBooks and I take a lot of pictures. One of the things I appreciated of my previous Windows computer was that the photo organization was great.
On my Mac, when I download my photos into Pictures folder in Finder, it doesn't sync to my Photos Library. I have to go through and import every photo. And if I want to edit a photo in photos library, it doesn't update that same photo in my Pictures folder.
I have a blog so I'm all the time uploading photos online. And if I want to upload a photo that I edited and try to open it from Photo Library, it won't let me. It only pulls up the Pictures folder, which doesn't have any of my edits.
Best Answer
The reason is that, when you sync photos with the app, pictures are copied in the Library, so it is actually created a new version of each photo. When you modify it in the app, you will only edit that copy, and not the original one.
If you want to access the edited photos, you have 2 options: