iPhoto '11 · The Missing Manual by Pogue, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

iPhoto ’11: The Missing Manual

SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly 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 SPECIAL OFFER: Upgrade this ebook with O’Reilly

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