This article explains how to use your Mac's Spotlight quick search feature to find files based on file names, keywords in the file contents, or associated metadata.

Many files on your Mac already contain a fair amount of metadata. For example, that photo you downloaded from your camera probably contains a bunch of metadata about the image, including exposure, lens used, whether a flash was used, image size, and color space.

If you want to quickly view a photo's metadata, here's what you can try.

This works best with a photo you downloaded from your camera or a photo from a friend's camera. Photos you find on the web may not contain much metadata other than image size and color space.