Apple IPHOTO 6 Getting Started

iPhoto

Getting Started

Learn how to import and organize your photos, and create a photo slideshow and book

Chapter 1 4 Welcome to iPhoto

Using This Document

What’s New in iPhoto

Finding Out More

Chapter 2 7 iPhoto Tutorial

What You’ll Learn

Before You Begin

What You Need

Importing Photos From a Digital Camera

Organizing and Viewing Your Photos

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Sorting Your Photos Using Keywords Organizing Your Photos

Creating a Slideshow

Setting Slideshow Options Playing a Slideshow

Creating a Book

Making Changes to Your Book

Next Steps

Chapter 3 21 iPhoto at a Glance

The iPhoto Window

The Source List

Organize View

Information Pane

Calendar Pane

Keywords Pane

Import View

Edit View

Full-Screen View

Slideshow View

Book View

Calendar View

Card View

Contents

Welcome to iPhoto

This document helps familiarize you with how to use the basic features of iPhoto, and tells you about the new features in iPhoto 6.

You can use iPhoto to easily import photos from your digital camera, organize them for fast retrieval, and then share them with family and friends. Whether you have 100 or 100,000 digital photos, iPhoto keeps track of them all, automatically organizing them so you can find them quickly.

iPhoto puts you in charge of your photographs—helping you import them; organize them in albums, slideshows, and books; enhance their appearance; and share them as prints, via email, over the web, and in stunning, professionally printed books, calendars, and cards.

Using This Document

This document is organized into three chapters, making it easy access to the information you need:

Chapter 1, “Welcome to iPhoto”: Gives a brief description of the major new features

in this version of iPhoto.

Chapter 2, “iPhoto Tutorial”:

photos, as well as how to create a slideshow and a book.

Chapter 3, “iPhoto at a Glance”:

iPhoto window.

Shows you how to import, organize, and view your

Shows you the different views and controls in the

What’s New in iPhoto

Increased Performance and More Photos:

and editing, iPhoto is faster and more responsive than ever. You'll even notice the boost in speed when opening and quitting the application. And with 250,000 photos now supported, you have plenty of room to grow.

Full-Screen View:

Take advantage of every pixel your monitor can muster to view and show off your photos from one edge of your computer screen to the other. The large, high-resolution view makes editing easier and more precise. You can also view two or more photos at once, so you can compare or edit them side by side.

Cool Calendars:

Get a daily reminder of your favorite photos with the new wall calendars in iPhoto. Include up to 24 months of Apple's great designs and import your iCal calendar information. You can also add photos or text to any date to mark personal reminders and highlight special days, such as birthdays and anniversaries.

Personal Greeting Cards:

Send your very best photos to friends and family with 4 x 6 double-sided or 5 x 7 folded greeting cards. Choose from themes such as birthdays, invitations, postcards, or blank cards, add your own message, and have a set sent straight to your door.

Photocast Publishing:

Friends and family who use iPhoto can now see your photos—and print them out or use them in slideshows, books, calendars, and cards—simply by subscribing to your Photocast albums. Subscribers can also use standard RSS to access these published albums. As you add photos to them, your subscribers see them too, whether they're next door or overseas.

More One-Click Editing Effects:

iPhoto has a click fix for every photo—now you can boost colors in a washed-out image, tone them down in a too-bright one, or use special effects such as blurred edges or vignetting.

Faster Photo Finding:

Browsing to find one photo among thousands is even simpler with the new Scroll Guide—just scroll up and down through the iPhoto window to see dates or film roll titles appear over the photos as they move through the viewing area.

More Flexible Web Publishing:

iPhoto integrates iWeb, Apple's new full-scale publishing application, to give you more flexibility to present your photos the way you want to. From resizing and editing photos to choosing the right complementary theme, it's easier than ever to put your photo albums on the web.

Books as Slideshows:

Turn your photos into a customized iPhoto book and share it as a creative slideshow. Choose from a range of book themes, add your pictures, then view the sequence and edit it as a slideshow to share with friends and family.

Enhanced Printing:

Now it's even easier to print borderless photos. You can also add titles to the contact sheets of your film rolls for more efficient organization and retrieval.

From scrolling and paging to importing

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Welcome to iPhoto

Enhanced Searching:

iPhoto now allows you to search. When you create Smart Albums in iPhoto, you can search for your photos by details such as the shutter speed or aperture you used to take it, the film ISO, and the camera model.

Color Profiles:

profile that improves the quality of everything you create, from slideshows to books to web galleries. You can also choose whether to use these color profiles.

More RAW options:

with even more RAW-format cameras, including the most popular models.

Advanced Organization:

on your computer, the new import option lets you choose to have iPhoto point to your original photo files instead of duplicating them in iPhoto.

As your photos are imported, iPhoto assigns them a ColorSync color

Digital photos are imported with a host of information that

iPhoto offers increased RAW image quality and is compatible

If you already have an extensive photo file structure saved

Finding Out More

For complete and up-to-date information on iPhoto, including tips, news about new features, and a list of compatible cameras, go to the iPhoto website at www.apple.com/ ilife/iphoto.

To get help while you’re using iPhoto, look in iPhoto Help, which is available in the Help menu when iPhoto is open. You’ll find more information about the topics covered in this document, as well as information and instructions for many more topics.

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Welcome to iPhoto

iPhoto Tutorial

This tutorial takes you step-by-step through importing your photos from a digital camera into iPhoto, organizing and viewing your photos, and creating a slideshow and a book.

What You’ll Learn

If you follow all the steps in this tutorial, you will be able to:

Connect your camera to the computer

Import your photos into iPhoto from the camera

Sort your photos in several different ways

Use or add keywords to find and organize your photos

Group your photos into one or more photo albums

Create and play a slideshow

Create a book

As you go through the tutorial, look for the “Did You Know?” boxes that point out more things you can do, as well as how to find more information in iPhoto Help.

Before You Begin

To make it easier to do the tasks in this tutorial, print the 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 term (or terms) are the items you choose from that menu.

Choose

is the name of a menu in the iPhoto menu bar. The next

What You Need

To complete all the parts of this tutorial, you need:

A digital camera compatible with iPhoto (for a list of cameras that are compatible with iPhoto, visit the iPhoto website)

Photos saved in your digital camera

A computer with Mac OS X and iPhoto installed

Built-in Universal Serial Bus (USB) ports on both camera and computer

An A-to-B USB cable

Importing Photos From a Digital Camera

To edit and share your photos, you must first transfer them into your computer. This 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.

The most common method of importing is to connect a digital camera to a computer that has iPhoto installed.

To connect your camera to the computer:

Open the iPhoto application on your computer.

Turn off your camera and plug the B connector on your USB cable into the USB port on your camera.

Plug the A connector on the USB cable into the USB port on your computer.

Turn on your camera.

Your camera should appear in the iPhoto Source list, located in the top left of the iPhoto window.

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B connector

A connector

iPhoto Tutorial

If nothing happens when you connect your camera, check your camera to see if it's turned on and set to the correct mode for importing photos. For information on which mode to choose, see the instructions provided with your camera.

To import your photos from a digital camera:

Type a film roll name (for example, “Zoe’s Wedding roll #4”) in the Roll Name field (A, shown below) for the group of photos you're importing. (This allows you to search for the photos associated with that film roll later.)

Type a description (for example, “Pictures from Zoe’s reception”) in the Description field (B, shown below) for the group of photos.

3 If you want to delete photos from your camera as soon as they are imported, select the

"Delete items from camera after importing" checkbox.

4 Click the Import button. (To cancel photo transfer at any time during your import, click

Stop Import.)

Be sure to wait until all photos have been transferred into iPhoto (or click Stop Import) before disconnecting your camera. If your camera has a "sleep" mode, make sure it is disabled or set to a time increment long enough to allow your images to download. For more information, see the instructions that came with your camera.

To view your pictures, click Last Roll (in the Source list) or click Library and view your photos by film roll. To do this, choose View > Film Rolls.

To disconnect the camera from the computer:

1 Click the Eject button in the Source list, or drag the camera's icon to the iPhoto Trash.

2 Turn off the camera.

3 Disconnect the camera from your computer.

Chapter 2

iPhoto Tutorial

You are now ready to view and organize your photos. To learn how, go to the next section of this tutorial.

Did You Know?—Importing Photos Without Using a Camera

There are several ways to import photos into iPhoto besides using a digital camera. (If you are not using a digital camera, try to ensure that all photos are in JPEG format for best results.) You can import photos that are: Â Saved on a CD (When you take your 35 mm film to be developed, ask if the photo

developer can store your photos on a CD or floppy disk. Many offer this service.)

Â Saved on a DVD or flash drive

Â Located in a file or folder on your hard disk

Â Saved on a memory card (For a list of compatible storage devices, visit the iPhoto

website.)

For more information, refer to the “Importing Photos” section of iPhoto Help.

Organizing and Viewing Your Photos

In iPhoto, all photos are stored within the iPhoto library. You can see the photos in the Library by clicking Library, located at the top of the Source list on the left side of the iPhoto window.

Within the library, photos are grouped by year and film roll (either an actual film roll, such as 35 mm film stored on a photo CD, or each group of photos you imported from a digital camera).

In this section, you will learn how to sort your photos in several ways, add keywords and view photos by keyword, and create a photo album.

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Sorting Your Photos

iPhoto displays your photos in the order in which you imported them. You can rearrange photos in the photo library by sorting them in a variety of ways.

To sort, choose View > Sort Photos, and then choose an option from the submenu:

Â "by Film Roll" arranges photos in the order they were imported. Film roll markers

indicate photos that were imported together. You can arrange photos by film roll only in your photo library.

Â "by Date" arranges photos by the date on which they were taken.

Â "by Keyword" arranges photos alphabetically by any keywords you’ve assigned to

them (see “Using Keywords,” next).

Â "by Title" arranges photos alphabetically by their titles.

Â "by Rating" arranges photos from highest to lowest rating. (You can rate your photos

to mark your favorites. See “Did You Know?—Rating Photos” on page 12.)

To quickly display only your most recent film rolls, click the Last Rolls icon in the Source list; to display only your most recent photos, click the Last Months icon.

Using Keywords

Keywords are labels you can add to your photos, such as “Birthday” or “Sports,” so you can easily find all the photos in a specific category.

iPhoto comes with some basic keywords; you can assign these to your photos or create your own keywords by editing the Keywords list in iPhoto Preferences. Once you add a keyword to the Keywords list, you can assign it to any photo you choose.

To assign keywords to your photos:

m Click the Keywords button in the bottom-left corner of the window and drag a photo

from the iPhoto viewing area to a keyword in the Keywords pane.

Keywords button

Or you can do the following:

1 Select the photo or photos you want to keyword.

2 Choose Photos > Get Info.

3 Click the Keywords button at the top of the Photo Info window.

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