iPhoto 11 Portable Genius E-Book

Brad Miser

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Serie: Portable Genius
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 406

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2011

Beschreibung

What serious fans need to take full advantage of iPhotoPart of the incredibly popular iLife suite that comes loaded onevery Mac, iPhoto is the standard for digital photo management andediting programs. This smart and clever guide gives iPhoto usersthe inside track on the key skills, tools and shortcuts toaccomplish every task iPhoto can do, including some hidden gemsthat most users miss. It helps maximize the key features of thenewest version so Mac users can get the most from theirsystems.* iPhoto is part of the iLife digital lifestyle suite that ispre-installed on every new Mac; this guide helps Mac users takefull advantage of its features* Packed with facts, secrets, tips, and techniques to help youmanage and edit your digital photos more effectively* Includes key information that can save you time and hassle anduncovers facts you might not discover just by using thesoftwareAuthoritative but down-to-earth, this small book is big onexpert advice that helps you discover and make the most of everyfeature of iPhoto.

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iPhoto® ’11 Portable Genius

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How Do I Get Started with iPhoto?

Adding Photos and Other Images to Your Photo Library

Importing photos from a camera or an Apple mobile device

Importing photos from a DVD

Importing photos attached to email

Importing files from the desktop

Understanding image quality

Configuring iPhoto

Configuring General iPhoto preferences

Configuring the appearance of the iPhoto window

Updating iPhoto

Understanding iPhoto’s Modes

Using iPhoto in Standard mode

Using iPhoto in Full Screen mode

Chapter 2: How Can Events Help Me with My Photos?

Understanding Events

Using Events to View Photos

Browsing and viewing events

Sorting events in the iPhoto window

Using Events to Find Photos

Configuring Events

Viewing and changing an event’s information

Changing the contents of events

Creating events

Chapter 3: How Can I Work with My Photos Individually?

Understanding the Photos Source

Understanding Tags

Viewing and Changing Photo Tags

Viewing photo information

Changing a photo’s title in the Browsing pane

Changing an individual photo’s information using the Info sidebar

Changing a photo’s time and date stamp

Changing information for multiple photos at the same time

Applying flags to Photos

Tagging photos with keywords

Rating photos

Viewing Photos Individually

Browsing and viewing photos

Sorting photos

Chapter 4: How Can Faces Help Me Organize and View My Photos?

Understanding Faces

Identifying Faces in Your Photos

Finding faces

Identifying faces in photos

Improving iPhoto’s automatic face recognition

Configuring snapshots

Using Faces to View Photos

Chapter 5: How Can I Use Places to Organize and View My Photos?

Understanding Places

Using Places to Tag Photos

Configuring automatic place lookups

Assigning locations to photos or events manually

Changing locations

Defining your places

Using Places to Find and View Photos

Chapter 6: Can iPhoto Help Me Keep My Photos Organized?

Creating and Configuring Standard Photo Albums

Creating a standard photo album

Adding photos to a standard photo album

Removing photos from a standard photo album

Organizing photos in a standard photo album

Creating and Configuring Smart Photo Albums

Creating a Smart Album

Sorting a Smart Album

Changing the photos in a Smart Album

Using Folders to Organize Photo Albums

Managing Photo Albums

Using Albums to Find Photos

Using Albums to View Photos

Removing Photos from Your Library

Chapter 7: How Else Can I Find My Photos?

Using Recents to Find Photos

Using the Search Tool to Find Photos

Searching by all

Searching by month

Searching by date

Searching by keywords

Searching by rating

Searching by names or places

Chapter 8: What Can I Do to Improve My Photos?

Working with iPhoto’s Editing Tools

Choosing a mode to edit in

Selecting and editing photos

Duplicating photos to edit

Zooming and navigating around a photo you are editing

Seeing the impact of and undoing changes

Restoring the previous versions of photos

Restoring the original versions of photos

Comparing or editing multiple photos simultaneously

Rotating Photos

Enhancing Photos

Removing Red Eye from Photos

Straightening Photos

Cropping Photos

Retouching Photos

Applying Effects to Photos

Adjusting Technical Aspects of Photos

Using a Different Application to Edit Photos

Configuring iPhoto to use a different application to edit photos

Editing photos with a different application

Chapter 9: How Can I Use MobileMe to Share Photos?

Getting Started with MobileMe

Sharing Photos via MobileMe

Publishing photos to MobileMe

Inviting people to view published photos

Viewing a published album

Viewing a gallery

Updating Published Albums

Updating the content of published albums

Updating a published album’s settings

Unpublishing Albums

Chapter 10: How Can I Use iWeb to Share Photos?

Publishing Photos on an iWeb Web Site

Starting a Web site

Adding and designing a photo page

Adding a photo blog to a Web site

Publishing an iWeb Web Site

Updating an iWeb Web Site

Chapter 11: How Can I Use Facebook to Share Photos?

Getting Started with Facebook Photo Sharing

Configuring your Facebook account in iPhoto

Sharing photos in new Facebook albums

Sharing photos in existing Facebook albums

Sharing photos on your Wall

Working with Your Facebook Photos

Using iPhoto to view your Facebook photos

Using your Facebook page to view your Facebook photos

Inviting people to view your Facebook photos

Managing Your Facebook Albums in iPhoto

Understanding How People Use Your Facebook Photos

Working with Faces and Facebook Tags

Including names on Facebook photos

Working with Facebook tags in iPhoto

Chapter 12: How Can I Use Flickr to Share Photos?

Getting Started with Flickr Photo Sharing

Configuring your Flickr account in iPhoto

Sharing photos via Flickr in a new set

Sharing photos in existing Flickr sets

Sharing photos on your Photostream

Viewing your Flickr photos with iPhoto

Using your Flickr sets to view your Flickr photos

Inviting people to view your Flickr photos

Managing Your Flickr Sets

Understanding How People Use Your Flickr Photos

Performing Cool Flickr Tricks

Managing Guest Passes

Enabling people to add photos to your Photostream

Chapter 13: What Can I Do with the Slideshow Feature?

Viewing Photos in a Temporary Slideshow

Selecting photos for a temporary slideshow

Configuring and playing a temporary slideshow

Creating and Watching Slideshows in iPhoto

Creating a slideshow

Configuring the photos in a slideshow using the Slideshow tool

Using a standard album to build and configure the photos in a slideshow

Designing a slideshow

Playing a slideshow within iPhoto

Exporting a slideshow from iPhoto

Playing a slideshow in iTunes oron an iPod/iPhone/iPad

Sending iPhoto Content to iDVD

Sending photos to iDVD

Sending slideshows to iDVD

Chapter 14: How Can I Create Photo Books?

Building Photo Books

Creating a Photo Book

Collecting photos for a book project

Creating a book project

Designing a Photo Book

Designing a book

Designing a book’s pages

Finishing a Photo Book

Proofing a book

Dealing with resolution problems in a photo book

Buying a Photo Book

Chapter 15: How Can I Create Cards?

Creating a Card

Designing a Card

Working with the Card tool

Changing a card’s overall design

Designing a side’s background and layout

Designing the photos on a card

Configuring a card’s text

Proofing a Card

Proofing with a PDF

Proofing with paper

Identifying and solving photo resolution problems

Buying a Card

Chapter 16: How Can I Create Calendars?

Creating a Calendar

Designing a Calendar

Working with the Calendar tool

Designing the overall look of a calendar

Designing a calendar’s pages

Finishing a Calendar

Proofing a calendar

Fixing photo resolution problems

Fixing text problems

Buying a Calendar

Chapter 17: What Else Can I Do with Photos?

Sharing Photos on a Local Network

Sharing your photos on a local network

Accessing photos being shared with you on a local network

Printing Photos

Printing photos using your own printer

Ordering prints of photos from Apple

Emailing Photos

Configuring email accounts in iPhoto

Emailing photos with iPhoto

Emailing photos with other applications

Exporting Photos as Files

Using Photos on Your Desktop

Setting a desktop photo using iPhoto

Setting desktop photos using the System Preferences application

Subscribing to Photo Feeds

Chapter 18: What Can I Do to Protect My Photos?

Understanding Options for Protecting Your Photos

Protecting Your Mac

Keeping Apple software current

Protecting your Mac from Internet attacks

Using Time Machine to Protect Your Photos

Obtaining and installing an external hard drive

Configuring Time Machine to back up your photos

Managing your Time Machine backups

Using Time Machine to restore your photos

Using DVDs to Protect Your Photos

Preparing a large iPhoto library for DVD

Burning your iPhoto library to DVD

Updating your iPhoto library on DVD

Restoring your photos from DVD

Using iDVD DVDs to Protect Your Photos

Backing up photo files on an iDVD DVD

Restoring photo files from an iDVD DVD

Using Photo Books and Prints to Protect Your Photos

Understanding Other Options for Protecting Your Photos

Using Apple Backup

Using online backup services

iPhoto® ’11 Portable Genius

by Brad Miser

iPhoto® ’11 Portable Genius

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About the Author

Brad Miser has written more than 40 books on technology with the goal of helping people learn to get the most out of that technology as easily and quickly as possible. In addition to iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius, Brad has written MacBook Pro Portable Genius (2nd Edition), My iPhone (4th Edition), Teach Yourself Visually MacBook Air, Teach Yourself Visually MacBook, MacBook Portable Genius (2nd Edition), My iPod touch (2nd Edition), and Special Edition Using Mac OS X Leopard. He also has been a coauthor, development editor, or technical editor on more than 50 other titles.

Brad has been a solutions consultant, the director of product and customer services, and the manager of education and support services for several software development companies. Previously, he was the lead proposal specialist for an aircraft engine manufacturer, a development editor for a computer book publisher, and a civilian aviation test officer/engineer for the U.S. Army. Brad holds a Bachelor of Science degree in mechanical engineering from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo and has received advanced education in maintainability engineering, business, and other topics.

In addition to his passion for silicon-based technology, Brad enjoys his steel-based technology, a.k.a. his motorcycle, whenever and wherever possible. Originally from California, Brad now lives in Indiana with his wife Amy; their three daughters, Jill, Emily, and Grace; and a rabbit.

Brad would love to hear about your experiences with this book (the good, the bad, and the ugly). You can write to him at [email protected].

Credits

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Project Editor

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Technical Editor

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Senior Copy Editor

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Editorial Director

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Editorial Manager

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Vice President and Group Executive Publisher

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Vice President and Executive Publisher

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Business Manager

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Senior Marketing Manager

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Project Coordinator

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Graphics and Production Specialists

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Quality Control Technician

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Proofreading

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Indexing

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Dedication

The probability that we may fall in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just; it shall not deter me.

—Abraham Lincoln

Acknowledgments

While my name is on the cover, it takes many people to build a book like this one. Thanks to Stephanie McComb, with whom this project had its genesis and who allowed me to be involved. Kristin Vorce deserves lots of credit for keeping the project on track and on target; I’m sure working with me was a challenge at times. Paul Sihvonen-Binder did a great job of keeping me on my toes to make sure this book contains fewer technical gaffs than it would have. Kim Heusel transformed my stumbling, bumbling text into something people can read and understand. Lastly, thanks to all the people on the Wiley team who handle the other, and equally important, parts of the process, such as production, sales, proofreading, and indexing.

On my personal team, I’d like to thank my wife Amy for her tolerance of the author lifestyle, which is both odd and challenging. My delightful daughters, Jill, Emily, and Grace, are always a source of joy and inspiration for all that I do, and for which I’m ever grateful.

Introduction

Technology is at its best when it enables you to focus more on what you are doing rather than how you are doing it. iPhoto is definitely technology at its best. It does so many things that it takes a whole book to describe them to you — this book, in fact. iPhoto ’11 Portable Genius is your companion: It helps you get going with iPhoto and quickly improve your skills so that you’ll be doing things with photos that will amaze and delight you.

iPhoto is built on its library, which is where you collect, label (tag), and organize your photos. Some of the coolest tag features are Faces, which identifies the people in your photos and helps you find photos with specific people in them, and Places, which serves a similar purpose for the locations associated with your pictures. You can add photos to your library from a digital camera, an iPhone, an iPod touch, from the Web, and many other sources. Of course, you can improve your photos by editing them. You can view your photos in collections iPhoto creates for you automatically or in slideshows or photo albums that you create. And speaking of projects, you can do all kinds of creative things with your photos, such as building photo books, designing cards, and creating calendars personalized with your photos. You can put amazing slideshows of your photos on DVD. And you can share your photos online many ways, including through MobileMe, Facebook, iWeb, and Flickr. All this photographic power is delivered in an intuitive interface, so it’s easy to become an iPhoto pro in no time.

iPhoto definitely plays well with the other iLife applications, too. For example, you can use your photos to create Web pages in iWeb or to create slideshows in iDVD. And you can access your photos in the other applications, such as adding them to iMovie projects.

As you read through this book, you get information about the many tricks in iPhoto’s bag. To help you find the ones that interest you most, this book is organized by common questions. Take a look at the Table of Contents to see which chapters address the questions you have. For in-depth answers, flip to specific chapters and get started. While the book explains the concepts you need to know, it focuses more on leading you through tasks step by step. I recommend keeping the book next to your trusty Mac so you experience iPhoto as you read about it.

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Chapter 1: How Do I Get Started with iPhoto?

iPhoto empowers you to do amazing things with the photos and other images you store in your iPhoto library. Of course, to do those amazing things, you have to first stock your library with pictures and other images. You can do this a number of ways. The most obvious method is importing photos from a digital camera, but you can also import photos from an iPhone, an iPod touch, an iPad, DVDs, email, and other places on your computer. You should also configure fundamental iPhoto preferences, make sure you are using the current version, and learn about iPhoto’s modes.

Adding Photos and Other Images to Your Photo Library

Configuring iPhoto

Updating iPhoto

Understanding iPhoto’s Modes

Adding Photos and Other Images to Your Photo Library

You store all the contents you manipulate with iPhoto’s tools in the iPhoto library. It almost goes without saying (but I’ll say it anyway) that you can import photos from a digital camera into your library, but that is just one source for images. You can also import photos, images saved from emails, and screenshots using an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad (current versions of iPads don’t have cameras, but you can still import the latter two types of images from one). If you have images on a DVD, you can import them from that into iPhoto as well. Email is a common way people share photos; when you receive images attached to emails, you can add them to your library. Last, and probably least known but very useful, you can import image files from your Mac’s desktop into the library.