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In its heyday, it seemed you could not throw a stick without hitting a G3 iMac. They were everywhere, from sitting in the background of some television show, airport kiosks, art houses, or your cousin’s house. The first iteration of the iMac was a PowerPC 750, also called the G3. When it was first released in 1998, it ran at 233MHz, which was quite speedy for its time. But what really made the iMac the huge success it was to become was the form factor. An all-in-one design, sporting a colorful plastic shell, the original iMac was like nothing that came before.
In Macspiration #37 I wrote about tips for using iTunes. This week it’s iPhoto’s turn. Here’s five iPhoto quick tips for you.
1. Export
In iPhoto 5, Apple moved the Export command to the Share menu. Why? I don’t know, but you would think they would keep it there for iPhoto 6. If you thought that, you would be wrong. For some reason, they have moved it back to the File menu. So if you need to Export files from iPhoto stop looking in the Share menu, and go to the File menu.
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No doubt, either version of Adobe’s Photoshop offers the best tools for photo enhancements, but Apple’s iPhoto image Adjustment tool provides a quick, down and dirty, method for enhancing your photos. I rarely print out or publish a photo to the web without at least using one aspect of this Adjustment tool.
Two weeks ago, I discussed making an album in iPhoto. This week I will be talking about one way to use that album, which is burning a CD of its contents.
Burning a CD in iPhotois a piece of cake. Once you insert a blank CD into your drive, you are two clicks away from burning. Click #1- choose the album you want to burn. Click #2- click the burn icon in the lower right of iPhoto.
That’s it!
Short article right? Well, I’m not done yet.
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1. Label Your Photos: When you import digital photos to iPhoto, be sure to name each roll before you import. Including a description might also come in handy when you’re searching photos six months down the road.
2. Moving Photos: You can move digital photos from one roll to another. If you say have roll of scenic shots and a few of your children, you can move the children shots to a roll that contains similar shots. Click on Library and select the photo files you want to move to another roll where they should be placed. Moving files from one album to another does not change where they are placed in their original roll.
3. Keyword Photos: You can quickly key word photos by selecting particular thumbnail shots and dragging them to and over a particular keyword. When you release the mouse, your keyword appears under the photos.
Once you have downloaded your pictures into iPhoto there are many ways you can edit your photos. One of these techniques is cropping.
Cropping, in simplest terms, is getting rid of what you don’t want in the photo. iPhoto makes cropping easy.
To crop a photo in iPhoto you start by double clicking the thumbnail in your Library to switch into edit mode. Once there you click on the photo and draw a box around the portion of the photo you want to keep. If you want to change the size, move your pointer to the corner of the box. When it becomes a cross-hair (+), click and drag to resize. To move the selected area around, move the pointer to the center of the selected area until it becomes a hand. Click and move the mouse, and you can adjust the placement of the area.
While iTunes has playlists for organizing your music, podcasts, etc, iPhoto has albums for organizing your photos (and video if you import video from your digital camera). Albums in iPhoto are just as easy to make and use as playlists are in iTunes.
Just like iTunes, iPhoto has a Library. In the Library, all of your photos are stored from your digital camera or other sources. To see all of these photos, click the Library icon located in the top of the left window called the Source Window.
You have your photos in iPhoto, and now you want to email them to a friend or family member. Using the email features in iPhoto can save you a lot of frustration and time.
To start, after opening iPhoto, click the “Library” icon on the top left. This will show you every picture stored in iPhoto. To see only the last batch you imported, click the “Last Roll” icon.
So now your photos are in front of you in little thumbnail versions. To enlarge them, so you see them better, use the slider on the lower right. Move it to the right and the photos get larger, and move it to the left and they get smaller.
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As I mentioned in my first article, a lot of the topics for these articles are going to be coming from help requests I receive from coworkers at my school. We take a lot of digital pictures at work, and I have found myself giving mini lessons on iPhoto recently. iPhoto is a great tool for simple editing of photos, emailing photos, and more. (For more iPhoto instructions, please see Nemo’s iPhoto Ten Point Tutorial #1)
Before you can do anything with a photo in iPhoto, you have to get the photos from your digital camera into your iPhoto library. Your library is like a catalog of all your photos. This couldn’t be any easier!
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When you have a bunch of photos suitable for a nice slide show, iPhoto can easily group the images and then export them into a handy QuickTime presentation that will play on most Apple and Windows computers having the latest free QuickTime application. Here’s the link to obtain the software, if necessary.
Let’s get started!
1. OPEN iPHOTO and click on the plus (+) sign, lower left, to create a new Untitled Album, then type in a name for it, such as “First QuickTime Show,” and click CREATE.
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The Macworld Keynote given by Steve Jobs disappointed many loyal Mac fans. Part of it was due to the fact that the rumor sites had spilled virtual *all* the beans. Part of it was sticker shock from the newly rebranded Mac service. And part of it was because it really wasn’t that exciting. But imagine you’re not a Macintosh user for a moment. Imagine that instead, you are an investor who either doesn’t own a Mac, or doesn’t even use a computer if you can help it. Imagine you have no feelings for Apple and their products outside of what it means as far as potential growth in the stock.
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It is, in an interesting way, very different from from
iMovie and iTunes, though each is equally a spoke in
our digital hubs. I
have written about the human context which makes
iPhoto a slick reminder of our own, and of other’s,
mortality. But it is different in another way as well.
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