Apple IPHOTO Getting Started
iPhoto
Getting Started
Get to know iPhoto and learn how to
import and organize your photos, and
create a photo slideshow and book.
Contents
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Chapter 1 3 Welcome to iPhoto
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What You’ll Learn
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Before You Begin
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What You Need
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The iPhoto Interface
Chapter 2 6 Learn iPhoto
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Step 1: Import Your Photos
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Step 2: Organize and View Your Photos
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Using Keywords
Organizing Your Photos
Step 3: Create a Slideshow
Setting Slideshow Options
Playing a Slideshow
Step 4: Create a Book
Making Changes to Your Book
Editing Text in Your Book
Continue to Explore iPhoto
Getting More Help
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Welcome to iPhoto
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Create lasting treasures from your digital photos. This
document familiarizes you with the basic features of
iPhoto and introduces you to new features in iPhoto ’08.
iPhoto offers you many ways to enhance and share your digital photos, whether you
have 100 images or 100,000. With iPhoto, you can quickly import and organize photos,
improve or enhance them, and order or make your own prints.
You can use iPhoto to create slideshows, books, calendars, and cards. From within
iPhoto, you can also email your photos or use them as screensavers, and publish photo
albums to your MobileMe Gallery for others to view or download.
What You’ll Learn
If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, you’ll be able to:
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Connect your camera to your computer
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Import your photos into iPhoto from your camera
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Sort your photos in several ways
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Use or add keywords to find and organize your photos
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Group your photos into one or more photo albums
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Create and play a slideshow
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Create a book
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Before You Begin
To make it easier to do the tasks in this tutorial, it’s a good idea to print this document
before you start.
In many tasks shown in this tutorial and in iPhoto Help, you need to choose menu
commands, which look like this:
Choose File > New Album.
The first term after
your computer screen. The next term is the item you choose from that menu.
Choose
is the name of a menu in the iPhoto menu bar at the top of
What You Need
To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need:
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A digital camera compatible with iPhoto (most digital cameras work with iPhoto,
but for specific compatibility details, check with your camera’s manufacturer)
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Photos saved in your digital camera
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A computer with Mac OS X and iPhoto installed
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Built-in Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports on both your camera and computer
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An A-to-B USB cable, which connects your camera to your computer
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Welcome to iPhoto
Source list
Access your library,
where all imported
photos and video clips
appear, as well as the
folders, albums,
slideshows, books,
calendars, and cards
you create.
Information pane
Find important photo
information, such as
date, size, associated
keywords, and
star rating.
The iPhoto Interface
When you open iPhoto, you’ll see the viewing area, which allows you to choose what
you want to do next, such as organize or view images, edit them, or use them to create
slideshows, books, calendars, or cards.
Chapter 1
Toolbar
Use buttons and controls to
organize, edit, review, and
share your photos.
Welcome to iPhoto
Viewing area
View the photos in your library, albums,
slideshows, and more. The iPhoto
window switches between views, such
as organize, edit, slideshow, or book
view, depending on your action.
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Learn iPhoto
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You’ve shot some great pictures with your digital camera.
Now it’s time to import them into iPhoto and organize them
in ways that make it easy to share them by creating
slideshows, books, and more.
Step 1: Import Your Photos
To edit and share your photos, you must first transfer them to your computer. This
transfer process, known as importing, copies the photo files from their original source
into iPhoto, where you can then work with them in a variety of ways.
Importing from a digital camera is the most common method of transferring photos to
iPhoto.
To connect your camera to the computer:
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Open iPhoto, located in the Applications folder on your computer.
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Turn off your camera.
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Plug the A connector (shown above) on your USB cable into the USB port on your
computer.
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Plug the B connector (shown above) on your USB cable into the USB port on your
camera.
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Turn on your camera.
Your camera should appear below Devices in the iPhoto Source list, located on the left
side of the iPhoto window. The pictures in your camera will appear in the viewing area.
If nothing happens when you connect your camera, make sure it’s turned on and set to
the correct mode for importing photos. For information about which mode to choose,
see the instructions provided with your camera.
Also, you can set your preferences to open iPhoto automatically when you connect
your camera. To do so, choose iPhoto > Preferences and click General at the top of the
dialog. Choose iPhoto from the pop-up menu labeled, “Connecting camera opens.”
To import your photos from a digital camera:
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Type a name in the Event Name field that describes the group of photos you’re
importing (for example, “Mike’s Wedding, roll #4”).
Your photos will be imported into an Event group of that name. Photos are organized
into Events in the iPhoto library so they’re easy to find and view.
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Type a description (for example, “Pictures from the second half of Mike’s reception”) in
the Description field for the group of photos.
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If you want, you can select the “Auto split Events after importing” checkbox.
This is useful if you are importing photos from several different days. iPhoto will
automatically split your photos into several different Events in the iPhoto library.
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If you have already imported some of the photos in your camera, you can select the
“Hide photos already imported” checkbox so that you see only the new photos in the
Import window.
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You can also choose to import only some of the images. To do so, hold down the
Command (x
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To import all your photos, click the Import All button. If you have selected specific
) key as you click each photo you want.
photos to import, click the Import Selected button.
To stop importing your photos at any time during the process, click Stop Import.
Chapter 2
Learn iPhoto
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