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Index
iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual
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A Note Regarding Supplemental Files
The Missing Credits
About the Authors
About the Creative Team
Acknowledgments
The Missing Manual Series
Introduction
iPhoto Arrives
What’s New in iPhoto ’11
About This Book
About the Outline
About→These→Arrows
About the Online Resources
Missing CD
Registration
Feedback
Errata
The Very Basics
Safari® Books Online
1. Camera Meets Mac
iPhoto: The Application
iPhoto Requirements
Getting iPhoto
Upgrading from earlier versions
Running iPhoto for the First Time
Getting Your Pictures into iPhoto
Connecting with a USB Camera
USB Card Readers
Importing Photos from Really Old Cameras
Importing Existing Graphics Files
Internal or External?
Dragging into iPhoto
Side Doors into iPhoto
The File Format Factor
Raw Files
Movies
Other graphics formats
The Post-Import Inspection
Where iPhoto Keeps Your Files
A Trip to the Library
What all those numbers mean
Other folders in the iPhoto Library
Look, but don’t touch
2. The Digital Shoebox
The Source List
Library
Recent
Shared
Subscriptions
Devices
Albums
Web
Projects
Slideshows
All About Events
The Events List
Opening an Event
Photos View
Size Control
Sorting Photos
Renaming Photos
Displaying Event Names
Collapsing Events En Masse
Creating Events Manually
Splitting Events
Moving Photos Between Events
Merging Events
Renaming and Dating Events
Scrolling Through Your Photos
Selecting Photos
Hiding Photos
Seeing Hidden Photos
Unhiding Photos
Three Ways to Open a Photo
Method 1: Right in the Window
Method 2: Full Screen View
Method 3: In Another Program
Albums
Creating an Empty Album
Creating an Album by Dragging
Creating an Album by Selecting
Adding More Photos
Viewing an Album
Moving Photos Between Albums
Removing Photos from an Album
Duplicating a Photo
Putting Photos in Order
Duplicating an Album
Merging Albums
Deleting an Album
Smart Albums
Folders
The Info Panel
Renaming Photos
Changing Titles, Dates, or Comments En Masse
Photo Dates
Description
Description as captions
Deleting Photos
The iPhoto Trash
Customizing the Shoebox
Changing the View
Showing/Hiding Titles, Ratings, and Keywords
3. Five Ways to Flag and Find Photos
Flagging Photos
How to Flag a Photo
How to Unflag Photos
How to Use Flagged Photos
See them all at once
Put them into an Event
Create a smart album
Hide them all at once
Move them all to the Trash
Searching for Photos by Text
The Calendar
Keywords
Editing Keywords
Assigning and Unassigning Keywords
Keyboard Shortcuts
Viewing Keyword Assignments
Using Keywords
Ratings
4. Faces and Places
Faces
Step 1: Analysis
Tagging Faces Automatically
Tagging Faces Manually
Adding More Pictures to a Name
Naming faces anytime
The Payoff
Deleting Faces
Adding More Details to a Face
Organizing the Faces Album
Change the key photo
Rearrange the order
Edit names
Places
Automatically Geotagging Photos
Manually Geotagging Photos
Renaming Places
Adding Additional Info to a Photo or Event
Going Places with Places
Map view
View photos by region
Places for Your Smart Albums
5. Editing Your Shots
Editing in iPhoto
Choosing an Editing Setup
Getting into Edit view
Using Full Screen view
Editing in another program
Using the Thumbnail Browser
Notes on Zooming and Scrolling
Using the Navigator
Zooming Numerically
Scrolling Tricks
The “Before and After” Keystroke
Backing Out
The Quick Fixes
The Rotate Button
The Enhance Button
Fixing Red Eye
Straightening
Cropping
How to crop a photo
Retouching Blemishes, Scratches, and Hairs
Using the Retouch brush
The Effects Panel
The Adjust Panel
Introduction to the Histogram
Three Channels
Adjusting the Levels
Exposure
Contrast
Saturation
Definition
Highlights and Shadows
Sharpness
De-noise
Color Balance
Manual Color Adjustment
Automatic Color Correction
Copy and Paste
Beyond iPhoto
The Official Way
The Quick-and-Dirty Way
Reverting to the Original
Editing Raw Files
External Raw Editors
16-Bit TIFF Files Instead of JPEGs
6. The iPhoto Slideshow
About Slideshows
Slideshow Themes
Instant Slideshows
Selecting a Slideshow Theme
What to Do During a Slideshow
Music: Soundtrack Central
Different Shows, Different Albums
Slideshow Settings
Slide Timing
Transitions
Show Caption
Show Title Slide
Shuffle Slide Order
Repeat Slideshow
Scale Photos to Fill Screen
Picking Photos for Instant Slideshows
Photo Order
Saved Slideshows
Global Settings
The Themes panel
The Music Settings panel
The Slideshow Settings panel
Individual-Slide Options
Color options
Slide timing
Transition
Transition speed and direction
The Ken Burns checkbox
Slideshow Tips
Picture Size
Determining the size of your photos
Slideshows and iDVD
7. Making Prints
Making Your Own Prints
Resolution and Shape
Calculating resolution
Aspect ratio
Tweaking the Printer Settings
Paper Matters
Printing from iPhoto, Step by Step
Phase 1: Choose photos to print
Phase 2: Choose a printing style (theme)
Phase 3: Choose print and paper sizes
Phase 4: Adjust the layout
Phase 5: Print
Ordering Prints Online
8. Email, Web Galleries, and Network Sharing
Emailing Photos
Using iPhoto’s Mail Command
Using Another Email Program
Notes on photo size
The Drag-and-Drop Method
Publishing Photos on the Web
Three Roads to Webdom
Flickr
One-Time Setup
Posting to Flickr
iPhoto Places on Flickr maps
Adding more photos to published Flickr sets
Deleting photos from Flickr
Subscribing to Flickr feeds
Facebook
Automatic photo-tagging in Facebook
Automatic photo-tagging in Facebook
Add/delete photos from Facebook albums
Changing your Facebook profile picture
The MobileMe Gallery
Using MobileMe Gallery
Deleting Your MobileMe Albums
Subscribing to Published Albums
iPhoto to iWeb
What you get when you’re done
What you get when you’re done
Editing or deleting the web page
Exporting iPhoto Web Pages
Preparing the Export
Examining the Results
Enhancing iPhoto’s HTML
Photo Sharing on the Network
Photo Sharing Across Accounts
Easy Way: Share Your Library
Geeky Way: Move the Library
9. Books, Calendars, and Cards
Phase 1: Pick the Pix
Phase 2: Publishing Options
Book Type
Theme Choices
Phase 3: Design the Pages
Open a Page
Choose a Page Layout
Lay Out the Book
Ways to manipulate photos
Ways to manipulate pages
Layout strategies
Backgrounds, Borders, and Effects
Making Your Photos Shape Up
Page Limits
Hiding Page Numbers
Phase 4: Edit the Titles and Captions
Editing Text
Check Your Spelling
Listen to Your Book
Phase 5: Preview Your Masterpiece
Print It
Slideshow It
Turn It into a PDF File
Phase 6: Send the Book to the Bindery
Your Apple ID
Photo Calendars
Phase 1: Choose the Photos
Phase 2: Choose the Calendar’s Design
Phase 3: Design the Pages
Phase 4: Edit the Text
Phase 5: Order the Calendar
Greeting Cards and Postcards
10. iPhoto Goes to the Movies
Before You Export the Slideshow
Perfect the Slideshow
Which photos make the cut
Two Ways to Make Movies
Exporting an Instant Slideshow
Exporting a Saved Slideshow
Exporting a QuickTime Movie
Step 1: Choose QuickTime
Step 2: Choose the Movie Dimensions
Proportion considerations
Size considerations
Step 3: Choose the Seconds per Photo
Step 4: Choose the Background Colors
Solid colors
Background graphics
Step 5: Export the Movie
Fun with QuickTime Player X
Shorten Your Movie
Exporting Edited Movies
Movies from Your Camera
Playing Digital Movies in iPhoto
Editing Digital-Camera Movies in iPhoto
Editing Movies in iMovie
Burning a Slideshow Movie CD or DVD
Slideshow Movies on the Web
11. iDVD Slideshows
The iDVD Slideshow
Creating an iDVD Slideshow
Starting in iPhoto
Starting in iDVD
Customizing the Show
Previewing the DVD
Extra Credit: Self-Playing Slideshows
12. Screensavers, AppleScript, and Automator
Building a Custom Screensaver
Meet the Screensaver
One-Click Desktop Backdrop
Exporting and Converting Pictures
Exporting by Dragging
Exporting by Dialog Box
File format
Titles and keywords
Size options
File Name
Plug-Ins and Add-Ons
AppleScript Tricks
Automator Tricks
The Lay of the Land
Template pane
Library list
Action list
Workflow pane
Saving your Task
The Auto Import Folder
13. iPhoto File Management
About iPhoto Discs
Burning an iPhoto CD or DVD
What you get
When Not to Burn
iPhoto Backups
Backing Up to CD or DVD
Backing Up to a Hard Drive
Managing Photo Libraries
iPhoto Disk Images
Multiple iPhoto Libraries
Creating new libraries
Swapping libraries (Apple’s method)
Swapping libraries (automatic method)
Merging Photo Libraries
How Not to Do It
The Good Way
Beyond iPhoto
A. Troubleshooting
The Most Important Advice in This Chapter
Importing, Upgrading, and Opening
Exporting
Printing
Editing and Sharing
General Questions
B. Where to Go from Here
iPhoto and the Web
Digital Photo Equipment Online
Show Your Pictures
Online Instruction
Online Printing
Books
Index
About the Authors
Colophon
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