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iPhoto ’08: Visual QuickStart Guide Greetings! Welcome to iPhoto ’08 for Mac OS X: Visual QuickStart Guide. I appreciate having you as a reader, and I hope you find the book helpful as you use Apple’s iPhoto. Why make this entire book available in electronic format when everyone already has it or can get it on paper? Because in some cases, the electronic version is better. Imagine you want to go on vacation with your MacBook and digital camera. The electronic version won’t add any weight to your bag, and you’ll still have all the advice you need about iPhoto at your fingertips. Plus, because of the bookmarks for each page in the book and the clickable entries in the Table of Contents and index, the electronic version can be faster and easier to use. (All email addresses and Web links are also clickable to help you avoid unnecessary typing and navigating.) A quick word about copying. I didn’t add copy prevention to this PDF file because it makes life harder for everyone. So I ask two favors. If you want to share this electronic book with a friend, please do so as you would a physical book, meaning that if your friend uses it regularly, ask them to buy their own copy. Or if someone has given you a copy of this book, and you find it useful, please buy your own copy to support my efforts helping people with iPhoto. No matter what, I hope you enjoy the book, and I welcome any corrections or comments you may have via email at [email protected]. –Adam Engst, December 2007

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VISUAL QUICKSTART GUIDE

iPhoto ’08 for Mac OS X Adam C. Engst

Peachpit Press


Visual QuickStart Guide

iPhoto ’08 for Mac OS X Adam C. Engst

Peachpit Press 1249 Eighth Street • Berkeley, CA 94710 510/524-2178 • 510/524-2221 (fax) Find us on the Web at www.peachpit.com. To report errors, please send a note to [email protected]. Peachpit Press is a division of Pearson Education. Copyright © 2008 by Adam C. Engst Editor: Nancy Davis Production Coordinator: Lisa Brazieal Copyeditor: Tonya Engst Compositor: Adam C. Engst Proofreader: Valerie Witte Indexer: Rebecca Plunkett Cover Design: Peachpit Press

Notice of rights All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. For information on getting permission for reprints and excerpts, contact [email protected].

Notice of liability The information in this book is distributed on an “As Is” basis, without warranty. While every precaution has been taken in the preparation of the book, neither the author nor Peachpit Press shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to be caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this book or by the computer software and hardware products described in it.

Trademarks Visual QuickStart Guide is a registered trademark of Peachpit Press, a division of Pearson Education. iPhoto, iTunes, iDVD, and iMovie are registered trademarks and/or registered service marks of Apple Inc. Many of the designations used by manufacturers and sellers to distinguish their products are claimed as trademarks. Where those designations appear in this book, and Peachpit was aware of a trademark claim, the designations appear as requested by the owner of the trademark. All other product names and services identified throughout this book are used in editorial fashion only and for the benefit of such companies with no intention of infringement of the trademark. No such use, or the use of any trade name, is intended to convey endorsement or other affiliation with this book. ISBN 13: 978-0-321-50188-2 ISBN 10: 0-321-50188-8 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Printed and bound in the United States of America


Dedication To my son, Tristan Mackay Engst, the subject of so many of my photographs.

About the Author Adam C. Engst is the publisher of TidBITS, one of the oldest and largest Internet-based newsletters, and the Take Control electronic book series (with print collections published by Peachpit Press), both of which have helped tens of thousands of readers (find them at www.tidbits.com). He has written numerous computer books, including the best-selling Internet Starter Kit series, and many articles for magazines, including Macworld, where he is currently a contributing editor. His photos have appeared in juried photography shows. His indefatigable support of the Macintosh community has resulted in numerous awards and recognition at the highest levels. In the annual MDJ Power 25 survey of industry insiders, he consistently ranks as one of the top five most influential people in the Macintosh industry, and he was named one of MacDirectory’s top ten visionaries. And how many industry figures can boast of being turned into an action figure? Please send comments about this book to Adam at [email protected].

Other Books by Adam C. Engst Take Control of Your Wi-Fi Security Take Control of iKey 2 Take Control of Buying a Mac The Wireless Networking Starter Kit Internet Starter Kit for Macintosh


Special Thanks

Featured Photographers

No book is the work of a single person, and many people helped with this one, including:

I took most of the photos in this book, but I also included some pictures from my sister, Jennifer Upson, and my father, Chris Engst. And of course, any photos that I’m in were probably taken by Tonya Engst or Tristan Engst (who is now 8 years old and loves to take pictures with my older cameras).

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Tonya Engst (not only my wonderful wife, but also a great copyeditor)

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Nancy Davis (an excellent editor and the woman who makes all the books happen)

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Lisa Brazieal (spotter of wayward pixels!)

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Nancy Ruenzel (for giving me the nod on this book with iPhoto 1.0)

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Scott Cowlin (for marketing wizardry)

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Chris Engst (for watching Tristan!)

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Glenn Fleishman, Marshall Clow, Fred Johnson, and David Blatner (without whose help I could never have explained color management and resolution)

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Keith Kubarek, Sandro Menzel, Cory Byard, and Laurie Clow (for their photography knowledge and tips)

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Jeff Carlson, Glenn Fleishman, Joe Kissell, Matt Neuburg, and Mark Anbinder (for helping keep TidBITS running)

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The High Noon Athletic Club, whose noontime runs kept me more or less sane.

Technical Colophon I wrote this book using the following hardware and software: 

A dual-processor 2 GHz Power Mac G5 with a pair of 17-inch Apple Studio Display monitors, Canon PowerShot S100, S400, and SD870IS digital cameras, and an Addonics Pocket DigiDrive card reader

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Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, iPhoto 7, Adobe InDesign CS2, Snapz Pro X for screen shots, and the Peachpit VQS template


Contents at a Glance Chapter 1: Getting Started

1 11

Chapter 3: Organizing Photos

29

Chapter 4: Editing Photos

63

Chapter 5: Showing Photos Onscreen

99

Chapter 6: Printing Photos

129

Chapter 7: Sharing Photos

159

Chapter 8: Troubleshooting

171

Appendix A: Deep Background

185

Appendix B: Taking Better Photos

193

Index

205


Contents at a Glance

Chapter 2: Importing and Managing Photos

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Getting Started

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Hardware and Software Requirements. . . . . . . . . . . 2 Acquiring iPhoto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Installing iPhoto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Updating iPhoto via Software Update. . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Updating to iPhoto 7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 Launching iPhoto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 iPhoto’s Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Interface Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Chapter 2: Importing and Managing Photos

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Entering Import Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing from a Camera. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing from a Card Reader. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing from Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing from Mail, Safari, and Other Apps . . . . Importing from an iPhoto Disc. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing via Image Capture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . iPhoto Directory Structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Leaving Photos in Place . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Deleting Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Culling Photos Quickly. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Recovering Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Multiple iPhoto Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Switching between iPhoto Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . Backing Up Your Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Backup Options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Merging iPhoto Libraries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Chapter 3: Organizing Photos

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What’s New in Organize Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Organize Tools Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Changing the Display Pane’s Layout. . . . . . . . . . . . . Other Display Preferences. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contextual Menu Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Moving around in iPhoto. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Working with Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Splitting and Merging Events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 4: Editing Photos Entering Edit Mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit Tools Overview (Main Window). . . . . . . . . . . . Edit Tools Overview (Full Screen). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edit Tools Overview (Separate Window) . . . . . . . . Editing RAW Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Contextual Menu Shortcuts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Zooming Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duplicating Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rotating Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting Portions of Photos for Cropping. . . . . . . Specific Aspect Ratios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Cropping Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Straightening Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Enhancing Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reducing Red-Eye. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Retouching Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Effects Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using the Adjust Panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Understanding the Levels Histogram. . . . . . . . . . . .

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Creating and Working with Folders. . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Albums. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating and Editing Smart Albums. . . . . . . . . . . . . Smart Album Ideas. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Duplicating Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Renaming and Rearranging Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . Deleting Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adding Photos to Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Removing Photos from Sources. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sorting Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning Titles to Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning Descriptions to Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Photo Dates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning Ratings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Keywords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning and Removing Keywords. . . . . . . . . . . . . Hiding Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Flagging Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Searching with the Search Field. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Searching by Date. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Searching by Keyword. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Searching by Rating. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing Photo Information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Table of Contents Adjusting Exposure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Levels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Contrast. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Highlight Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Shadow Detail. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Saturation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Temperature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Tint. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Adjusting Sharpness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Reducing Noise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Undoing Changes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Using an External Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Try GraphicConverter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Try Photoshop Elements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 5: Showing Photos Onscreen Types of Slideshows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slideshow Tools Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting up Basic Slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Assigning Music to Slideshows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating and Deleting Saved Slideshows. . . . . . . . Manipulating Slideshow Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Selecting Default Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Customizing Slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Slide Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Configuring the Ken Burns Effect. . . . . . . . . . . . . . Controlling Slideshows. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exporting Slideshows to QuickTime Movies. . . . Distributing QuickTime Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating an iMovie Slideshow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a DVD Slideshow with iDVD. . . . . . . . . . iDVD Slideshow Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting the Desktop Picture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating a Screen Saver. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Setting up a .Mac Account. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Some Major .Mac Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Creating Web Galleries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Managing Web Galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Publishing Photo Pages with iWeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . Publishing Blog Photos with iWeb. . . . . . . . . . . . . Publishing .Mac Slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscribing to .Mac Slides. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exporting to Web Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Web Page Export Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Copying Photos to an iPod. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Chapter 6: Printing Photos

129

Chapter 7: Sharing Photos

159

Sharing a Library via iPhoto Library Manager. . . Sharing a Library via a Shared Volume . . . . . . . . . Sharing Photos via iPhoto Sharing . . . . . . . . . . . . . Accessing Shared Photos. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Viewing Photos in Web Galleries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Subscribing to Web Galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exporting Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Exporting Files by Dragging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Emailing Photos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sharing Photos on Disc with iPhoto Users. . . . . . Sharing Photos on Disc with Windows Users. . .

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Printing Photos Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Designing Print Projects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Previewing Prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 Printing Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133 Printing Standard Prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134 Printing Contact Sheets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135 Setting up an Apple ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136 Using Your Apple ID. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Preparing to Order Prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138 Ordering Prints. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 Creating Cards Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Designing Your Card. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Creating Calendars Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 Designing Calendar Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 Creating Books Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 Designing Book Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Adding, Deleting, and Moving Book Pages. . . . . . 146 Arranging Photos on Book and Calendar Pages 147 Editing Photos on Pages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 Dealing with Warning Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Entering and Editing Text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Typing Text “Correctly” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Changing Fonts, Styles, and Sizes Globally. . . . . . 152 Changing Fonts, Styles, and Sizes per Text Box 153 Changing Text Color. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Checking Spelling as You Type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 Printing on Your Own Printer. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 Ordering Cards, Calendars, and Books. . . . . . . . . . 157

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Chapter 8: Troubleshooting

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General Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Importing Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . Editing Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . RAW File Facts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Slideshow Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . Printing Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Print and Book Problems and Solutions. . . . . . . . Dealing with Warning Icons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Help Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Appendix A: Deep Background

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Understanding Aspect Ratios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186 Understanding Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Understanding Color Management . . . . . . . . . . . . 190

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Appendix B: Taking Better Photos

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What Kind of Photographer Are You?. . . . . . . . . . Choosing a Camera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Where to Read Camera Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Camera Accessories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . General Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . More General Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Portrait Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Child and Pet Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Landscape Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Travel Photo Tips. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Getting Started

But iPhoto’s popularity doesn’t stem just from the fact that Apple bundles it with every Mac—it’s a genuinely useful program, providing a broad set of features while remaining easy to use. With iPhoto, you can organize your photos, perform common editing tasks, and create professional-looking printed works (prints, greeting cards, hardcover books, and even calendars).

iPhoto 7, not iPhoto ’08 Annoyingly, Apple refers to the various programs in iLife ’08 interchangeably as “iPhoto ’08” and “iPhoto 7,” “GarageBand ’08” and “GarageBand 4,” and so on. I prefer the actual version numbers to the year, since otherwise the full name would be the insanely confusing iPhoto ’08 7.1.1. As a result, I’ll use the iPhoto 7 name throughout this book. (Peachpit made me put iPhoto ’08 on the cover to match their other iLife titles. But I still like them.)

If iPhoto is so easy, why write this book? Even though iPhoto 7 is the best version of the program that Apple has released so far, it still doesn’t entirely demystify the process of importing a digital photograph, editing it, and presenting it on paper or on the computer screen. And iPhoto comes with no documentation beyond minimal and often incomplete online help. Read on, then, not just for the manual iPhoto lacks, but also for the help you need to take digital photos and make the most of them.


Getting Started

Digital cameras have become commonplace, and few people even consider purchasing a traditional analog camera anymore. But with digital photos, the camera is only part of the equation. Once you’ve taken photos, you need software to help you import, organize, edit, and share your photos. Since 2001, the most popular application for that task on the Mac has been Apple’s iPhoto.

Chapter 1

Hardware and Software Requirements iPhoto 7 has fairly significant system requirements thanks to the difficulty of working with large numbers of digital images.

Hardware and Software Requirements

To run iPhoto, you need: 

A Macintosh with a PowerPC G4, PowerPC G5, or Intel Core processor with 512 MB of RAM (though 1 GB of RAM is better). Realistically, the more CPU power and RAM you can throw at iPhoto, the better its performance. You’ll also find a large monitor extremely helpful.

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Mac OS X. Specifically, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later and QuickTime 7.2 or later.

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An optical drive that can read DVD discs, since iLife ’08 comes on DVD. Burning DVDs directly from iDVD requires a drive that can write to DVD as well, such as an Apple SuperDrive or a third-party DVD burner.

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A source of digital images, which could be an iPhoto-compatible digital camera, scanned images, Kodak Photo CDs, or a service that provides digital images along with traditional film developing.

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To be able to use iDVD for creating and burning slideshows to DVD, you need at least a 733 MHz PowerPC G4-based Mac.

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iPhoto can import photos in RAW format, which is an uncompressed image file format used by some high-end cameras. However, there are multiple flavors of RAW, and iPhoto does not support all of them.


Getting Started

Acquiring iPhoto Apple offers several methods of acquiring iPhoto, although it’s worth noting that Apple does not offer free upgrades between major versions of the program. In other words, even if you got iPhoto 6 bundled with your last iMac, you must still buy iLife ’08 to get iPhoto 7.

Ways to get iPhoto 7: Look in your Applications folder. If you purchased your Mac since August 2007, iPhoto 7 may already be installed.

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Buy a $79 copy of Apple’s iLife ’08, which is a DVD package containing all five of Apple’s digital hub applications: iPhoto 7, iMovie 7, iTunes 7, iDVD 7, GarageBand 4, and iWeb 2. Although these applications come free with new Macs, the iLife package is the only way for current owners of iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, iWeb, and GarageBand to get updates for those products. For details, visit www.apple.com/ilife/.

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Buy a new Mac, which will come with iPhoto pre-installed. Steve Jobs and his private jet thank you!

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Rather than buy multiple copies of iLife ’08 to use on all the Macs in your house, you can buy a $99 family pack that’s licensed for up to five users.


Acquiring iPhoto

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Importing and Managing Photos

Although iPhoto supports a large number of digital cameras, some extremely inexpensive cameras still lack support from Apple. Luckily, a small firm of driver gurus called IOXperts has stepped up to the plate. To add support for many cameras with similar guts, download a copy of the USB Still Camera Driver for Mac OS X Driver from www.ioxperts.com/products/ usbstillcamera.html. That page links to the full list of supported cameras.

Multitasking While Importing Although you may not realize it, you can work in other parts of iPhoto while it is importing images. While this is worth keeping in mind, it’s not always as much of a help as you might think, since you usually want to work with the images that are being imported.

In this chapter, we’ll look at all the ways you can import pictures into iPhoto and manage them afterward, including such tasks as trashing and recovering photos, making and switching between different iPhoto libraries, backing up your images to CD or DVD, and learning exactly how iPhoto stores images on your hard disk.

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Supporting More Cameras

One of the most common things you’ll find yourself doing in iPhoto is importing photos. iPhoto provides a number of ways you can import photos, including the most obvious: from a digital camera. You can also import files that you downloaded from your camera previously, acquired on a CD, scanned in from prints, or received from a photo-processing company that provides digital images along with traditional prints. It’s also possible to use a card reader—a USB or FireWire device into which you put the memory card from your camera and which presents the contents of your memory card as files on a disk—with the twist that iPhoto recognizes many card readers and can import from them just as though they were cameras. And lastly, you can copy photos that other iPhoto users make available to you on disc or over a network.

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Entering Import Mode It’s easy to bring your photos into iPhoto no matter where they may originate because iPhoto offers four different importing approaches, all of which switch you into import mode automatically. The only time you need to switch into import mode manually is if you switch modes after connecting a camera but before clicking either Import Selected or Import All.

Entering Import Mode

Ways to enter import mode: 

Connect your digital camera to your Mac’s USB port and turn the camera on. iPhoto need not be running; it launches automatically if necessary (Figure 2.1).

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Insert your camera’s memory card into the card reader. iPhoto need not be running; it launches if necessary.

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From iPhoto’s File menu, choose Import to Library (xsI ). iPhoto displays an Import Photos dialog from which you can select a file, a folder, or multiple items before clicking Open.

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Figure 2.1 After you attach a camera or insert a media card, it shows up in the Source pane, and thumbnails of its pictures appear in the display pane.

Figure 2.2 To see the last set of images you imported, click the Last Import album in Recent.

From the Finder, drag and drop one or more files or an entire folder of images into the iPhoto window or onto the iPhoto icon in the Dock.

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The Last Import album in the Recent collection remembers the last set of images you imported. Click it to see just those images (Figure 2.2). By default, iPhoto shows you all the photos on your card, but if you have already imported some of them, select Hide Photos Already Imported to avoid seeing the already imported photos.

Launching Automatically iPhoto launches automatically only if you allow it to do so. The first time iPhoto runs, it asks if you want it to launch automatically from then on. If you agree, iPhoto takes over as the application that launches when you connect a camera. You can change this setting in iPhoto’s General preference pane if you wish.



Importing from a Camera Most people will probably import most of their photos directly from a digital camera.

To import from a digital camera:

Figure 2.3 Use either Import Selected or Import All to import photos from your camera.

1. Connect your camera to your Mac using the USB cable included with the camera, turn it on, and make sure the camera is set to view pictures. iPhoto switches into import mode (Figure 2.1, opposite).

3. Click the Keep Originals button. Figure 2.4 While iPhoto imports photos, it displays the image being downloaded along with a progress bar. To stop the process before it completes, click the Stop Import button.

Figure 2.5 When iPhoto finishes importing, it gives you the choice of keeping or deleting the original photos on the camera. I recommend keeping them and deleting them later from the camera itself.

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To be safe, always click Keep Originals. Then erase the card in your camera after verifying that the import succeeded.

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You can name and describe the event that will be created by the import, though it can be easier to do so later. The name and description are applied only to the first event if more than one are created.

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Select Autosplit Events After Importing unless you’re importing photos from one event that spans multiple days.

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If you attempt to import an already imported photo, iPhoto asks if you want duplicates or only new images.

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Some cameras mount on your Desktop like a hard disk. Eject the camera using the eject button next to its name in the Source pane before disconnecting it!


Importing from a Camera

2. Either select one or more photos to import and click Import Selected, or click Import All (Figure 2.3). iPhoto starts importing the photos. If you’ve made a mistake, click the Stop Import button (Figure 2.4). iPhoto asks if you’d like it to delete the original photos from the camera after importing (Figure 2.5).

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Organizing Photos

One of the best things, in my opinion, about digital photographs is that they come with their own organizational tags built in. We may not have cameras that can recognize specific people, but every modern digital camera records a great deal of information about when each picture was taken and its associated settings. For many people, including me, that information provides enough organizational power.

iPhoto keeps you in organize mode, except when you’re importing photos; editing photos; creating a slideshow; or working on a book, card, or calendar. Thus, there are only two basic ways to return to organize mode from another mode: 

In the Source pane, click any item in Library, Recent, Subscriptions, or Albums to switch to organize mode and display the contents of the selected album.

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When you have switched into edit mode from organize mode but are not using the Crop, Red-Eye, or Retouch tools, double-click the picture to switch back to organize mode.

Of course, the only reason to organize photos at all is so you can find them quickly and easily later, and iPhoto also shines in that department, making it easy to scroll through your entire photo collection chronologically or home in on a specific set of photos with sophisticated yet simple searching tools. Want to find all the photos taken in June, July, and August of the last 5 years? Want to find all the photos whose titles or descriptions mention your mother? No problem. You can even make smart albums that constantly search your entire library for matching photos and present them in an album. Let’s take a look.


Organizing Photos

Switching to Organize Mode

However, many people want to do more, and iPhoto provides a wide variety of tools for assigning keywords to your photos, collecting them in albums, and more. We’ll look at each of those capabilities in this chapter.

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What’s New in Organize Mode If you’ve used previous versions of iPhoto, you’ll want to pay attention to the new features iPhoto 7 brings to organize mode.

New features in organize mode:

What’s New in Organize Mode

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Film rolls have been replaced by events, and a new Event view shows a key photo (which you can change) from the set of pictures that make up the event (Figure 3.1). Technically speaking, there’s no real difference between events and film rolls, since you’ve been able to change the contents of a film roll for quite a number of iPhoto revisions now. But events provide a good overview of your photos.

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The Source pane on the left side of the iPhoto window now contains a number of categories—Library, Recent, Subscriptions, Devices, Albums, Web Gallery, Projects, and Slideshows, plus others on occasion—that can be opened and closed with expansion triangles.

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The interface for defining, assigning, and searching for keywords has changed completely, and for the better.

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You can flag photos temporarily, and then work on all flagged photos in the Flagged album in the Recent category.

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The Calendar pane is gone, and a new search interface brings together searching by text, date, keyword, and rating.

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You can title photos and name events directly, rather than being forced to do so in the Info pane. Finally!

Figure 3.1 iPhoto 7’s new Events view provides a key picture for each set of photos in the library.

Vanishing Events Events are a little like smart albums in that they exist only as long as they have contents. If you remove all the photos from an event, or merge an event into another one, the event that no longer contains any photos simply disappears. You can also delete an event by selecting it in Events and pressing xd . Be very careful, since this sends the photos in that event to iPhoto’s Trash!

Source Pane? I follow Apple’s lead in calling the items in the left-hand pane in iPhoto “sources” and the pane itself the “Source pane,” even though iPhoto 7 no longer explicitly labels it as previous versions did. In most cases, things you can do to one type of source (like delete it, move it around, or add photos to it), you can do to all the types of sources. When that’s the case, I’ll use the term “sources;” when there are exceptions, I’ll use the specific term or call out the exception.


Organizing Photos

Organize Tools Overview Here’s a quick reference to the controls available in organize mode (Figure 3.2). Note that this screenshot shows the Photos view, whereas Figure 3.1 shows the Events view.

Source pane. Create and work with collections of photos here.

Drag the divider to change the size of the Source pane.

Event, showing its thumbnail, name, date, and number of photos. Drag a photo to the thumbnail to set it as the key photo; double-click the title to change it. Click an event’s triangle to open and close it.

A folder containing other items. Click its triangle to open and close.

Photo metadata: title, rating, and keywords. Click any one to change it. Size slider. Adjust this slider to display more or fewer thumbnails. Drag the slider or click the desired location. Click the end icons for smallest and largest sizes.

Click to add a new item to the Source pane. Click to hide and show the Information pane. Figure 3.2 Click to enter fullscreen mode.

Click to play a basic slideshow.

Search field. Click to hide or flag Enter text here the selected photos. to find matching photos.

The buttons in the organize mode’s toolbar help you switch between modes and offer different methods of sharing photos.


Organize Tools Overview

Information pane. Info about the selected item(s) shows up here. Modify titles, dates, and descriptions.

Editing Photos Nondestructive Editing In the first few versions of iPhoto, the program saved each change as you made it, which was a bad idea because the lossy JPEG compression that was applied each time could degrade the image quality. In iPhoto 5, Apple reduced the number of times an edited photo would be recompressed by writing all changes out at once when you clicked Done or moved to another photo.

iPhoto still maintains the current edited version of each photo in the Modified folder; those files are still necessary for display and export.

If you’re anything like me, not all your photos come out perfect. In fact, lots of them are probably pretty bad, and those you can delete after import. No harm, no foul, and you didn’t pay for developing. What about those pictures that are okay, but not great? Much of the time they merely require a little work. Perhaps you need to crop out extraneous background that distracts the eye from the subject of the photo, or maybe you want to remove the red glow from that cute baby’s eyes (it’s the fault of the camera flash, not necessarily the sign of a demon child). iPhoto can help with those tasks and more. I’m not suggesting that you whip out an image-editing application, clip your cousin’s ex-husband out of the family reunion photo, and use filters that sound like alien death rays (Gaussian blur?) to make it appear as though he was never there. If you can do that, great, and iPhoto will even let you use any other image-editing application, including Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. But for most people, iPhoto provides all the basic editing tools that they need. The main thing to remember is that there’s no shame in editing photos to improve them. All the best photographers do it, and you can do it, too.


Editing Photos

In iPhoto 7, Apple has switched again, to the nondestructive editing approach used by Aperture, iPhoto’s high-end sibling. Now, all changes you make to new photos, or those that have never been edited, are saved in an edit list and applied to the original. (Previously edited photos don’t use nondestructive editing unless you first revert to the original photo.) So in theory, image degradation due to multiple applications of JPEG compression should be a thing of the past.

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Entering Edit Mode Since you can edit in the main window, in full screen mode, in a separate window, or in another application, it makes sense that you can enter edit mode in several ways. Which you choose is purely personal preference.

To choose how to edit photos: 1. From the iPhoto application menu, choose Preferences (x, ). iPhoto opens the Preferences window. Click the General button (Figure 4.1). 2. Select whether double-clicking a photo edits it (what I’m used to) or magnifies it.

Figure 4.1 In the Preferences window, choose how you want iPhoto to react when you click the Edit button or double-click a photo.

3. From the Edit Photo pop-up menu, choose how you want iPhoto to edit photos by default. 4. To use another program, choose In Application, and select a program in the Open dialog (Figure 4.2). 5. Close iPhoto’s Preferences window.

Entering Edit Mode

Ways to enter edit mode: 

Double-click a photo in any mode (o -double-click in organize mode if you set double-click to magnify), or double-click a photo twice if it’s a small photo on a calendar page. In organize mode, you can also just press r . iPhoto switches to edit mode and displays the photo.

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In organize mode, click the Full Screen button or choose Full Screen from the View menu (xoF ) to edit the selected photos in full screen mode.

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C -click a photo in organize mode,

and choose an editing command from the contextual menu (Figure 4.3). Book mode offers a different contextual menu that also has an Edit Photo command.

Figure 4.2 To use another program, choose In Application, and then find your desired program in the Open dialog.

Figure 4.3 Control-click a photo in organize mode and choose one of the editing commands from the contextual menu. This is a particularly good way to edit in an external application on an occasional basis.


Editing Photos

Edit Tools Overview (Main Window)

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Hide or show the Thumbnail list at the top of the window by choosing Hide or Show (xoT ) from the View menu’s Thumbnail submenu.

Images around the photo being edited appear in the Thumbnail list. Click one to edit it.

Here’s a quick look at the tools available when you edit an image in the main window (Figure 4.4).

The selected image appears in the display pane for editing.

Click Done to save your changes to the photo (and return to the previous mode).

Click to switch to full screen mode.

Size slider. Adjust this slider to zoom in and out of the picture in the display pane.

Click to hide or show the Information pane (now hidden). Click to add an item to the Source pane.

Click to rotate the image counterclockwise. Option-click to rotate clockwise.

Figure 4.4

Click to open the crop panel. Click to open the straighten panel.

Click the Adjust button to open the Adjust panel. Click the Enhance button to fix photos automatically. To eliminate red-eye in a picture of a person or pet, click the Red-Eye button and then click the subject’s eyes.

Click the Effects button to open the Effects panel. Use the Retouch tool to scrub out unwanted blemishes.


Edit Tools Overview (Main Window)

Use the previous and next buttons to navigate to the previous or next photo in the current album.

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Edit Tools Overview (Full Screen)

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When you edit a photo in full screen mode, the editing tools and thumbnails are the same, but they automatically appear and disappear at the bottom and top of the screen when you move your pointer to those locations, and there are several other buttons that provide necessary features (Figure 4.5).

Effects panel. Click The selected image an effect to apply takes over the entire it to the image. screen for editing.

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Choose Always Show from the Thumbnails submenu in the View menu to display thumbnails all the time. You can also set the thumbnail column position and number of columns in the Thumbnails submenu.

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Choose Show Toolbar from the View menu to display the toolbar all the time.

Images around the photo being edited appear in the thumbnail list. Click one to edit it.

Adjust panel. Use the controls in here to modify the image.

Edit Tools Overview (Full Screen)

Information panel. Use it to view information, and change titles, date, and time. Navigation panel. Drag the selection rectangle to scroll around in the image. Use the previous and next buttons to navigate to the previous or next photo in the current album. Close button. Click to leave full screen mode. Size slider. Adjust this slider to zoom in and out of the picture. Automatically opens the Navigation panel.

Figure 4.5 Click to open the Information panel.

Click to Click to open open the the crop straighten panel. panel.

Click to compare this image with the next one to the right.

Click to rotate the current image counter-clockwise. Option-click to rotate clockwise.

Click the Enhance button to fix photos automatically.

Use the Retouch tool to scrub out unwanted blemishes.

Click the Effects Click the Adjust button to open button to open the the Effects panel. Adjust panel.

To eliminate red-eye in a picture of a person or pet, click the Red-Eye button and then click the subject’s eyes.


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Showing Photos Onscreen

Although there are those for whom a photo isn’t real unless it appears on a piece of paper (and iPhoto can satisfy those people too), one of iPhoto’s coolest features is its capability to present photos on screen in a wide variety of ways—ranging from slideshows on your Mac and Web-based presentations that anyone can view to customized screen savers and QuickTime movies.

iPhoto’s various onscreen presentation tools are not only the best way to display your photographs to friends and relatives, but also the best way for you to experience your own photos, whether through a constantly changing Desktop picture or a slideshow-based screen saver that kicks in whenever your Mac is idle. Read on for instructions and advice on how to present your photos on screen!



Gone are the days of the carousel projector and a darkened room; now a slideshow involves high-resolution photographs slipping on and off a computer screen, complete with elegant transitions between pictures. But that’s only the beginning with iPhoto. Your slideshows can take advantage of the Ken Burns Effect, which zooms and pans around photos, turning them from still images to scenes in a movie.

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Types of Slideshows iPhoto offers two types of slideshows, which I call “basic” slideshows and “saved” slideshows.

About basic slideshows: Basic slideshows are simple to use and offer a basic set of options that apply equally to all slides. Use basic slideshows when you want to show someone a set of photos quickly, without any fuss or bother. Basic slideshows can also be useful for reviewing just-taken photos and culling the lousy shots. Lastly, you can use only basic slideshows when viewing images from a shared iPhoto Library over a network.

About saved slideshows:

Types of Slideshows

Saved slideshows appear in the Source pane like albums, books, cards, and calendars, and any changes you make to them are saved for the future. You can organize saved slideshows in folders, duplicate them to experiment with different approaches, and export them to QuickTime movies. Use saved slideshows when you want to put some effort into making a slideshow as visually impressive as possible. You can add and remove individual photos from the slideshow, apply temporary effects to photos during the slideshow, change the time each slide appears on screen, adjust the Ken Burns Effect for each slide, set the transition between any two slides, and more. What’s particularly neat about saved slideshows is that they’re created with default settings, so you can customize them as much or as little as you like.

Book Slideshows iPhoto also offers “book slideshows” that are almost identical to basic slideshows. When in book mode, you can click the Play button under the Information pane to display the standard Slideshow dialog; clicking Play in it displays each page in the book in a slideshow format. The only difference between a book slideshow and a basic slideshow (other than showing a book page instead of a single photo at a time) is that a number of the options in the Slideshow dialog aren’t available for book slideshows because they don’t make sense in the context of a book page. In particular, you cannot scale photos; turn on the Ken Burns Effect; or show titles, ratings, or controls.



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Slideshow Tools Overview

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When you select a saved slideshow in the Source pane, iPhoto displays a new set of tools for customizing your slideshow (Figure 5.1).

The Play button underneath the Information pane normally starts a basic slideshow, but when you’re in a saved slideshow, it starts the saved slideshow.

Source pane. Create and work with saved slideshows here.

Thumbnails of the photos in the slideshow, in order. Click one to display it. Command- or Shift-click to select multiple photos.

The current photo on which you’re working.

Saved slideshow in the Source pane.

Click to open the default slideshow settings dialog.

Click to move back and forward through slides.

Figure 5.1

Click to play the saved slideshow. Click to preview a few frames of the slideshow in the display pane; click again to stop the preview.

Choose a Choose an effect transition (black-and-white to assign to or sepia) to apply the currently to the currently selected selected photo(s). photo(s).

Toggle between the starting point (Start) and the finishing point (End) for manual overrides of the Ken Burns Effect.

Click to open the music settings dialog. Use the size slider to set the start and end magnifications for the Ken Burns Effect.

Select to override the default Ken Burns Effect settings for the selected photo(s).


Slideshow Tools Overview

Click to create a saved slideshow from the selected photos.

Click to open a panel that lets you adjust the slide duration, transition, and transition speed.

Printing Photos What your printer can do is determined by its driver, system-level software provided by Apple or the manufacturer. There’s also Gutenprint (formerly called Gimp-Print), an open source set of drivers for over 700 printers, which offers support for printer options that the manufacturers may not expose, such as printing on roll paper or other unusual paper sizes. Learn more at: http://gutenprint. sourceforge.net/MacOSX.php3.

How to Find Info in This Chapter iPhoto 7’s printing interface is completely new, but it borrows heavily from the interface used to create books, cards, and calendars. As a result, if you’ve created any of those items, you’ll be at home with creating prints. To avoid duplication in this chapter, I first give an overview of creating each type of project, followed by details that are specific to each (such as adding photos to dates on a calendar), and then I finish up with general instructions (such as how to enter and edit text) that are common to all of them.

If I had to pick a single feature that sets iPhoto apart from most photo management programs, I’d choose the way iPhoto enables you to create professional-looking prints, cards, calendars, and photo books. Numerous programs can help you edit and organize photos. But iPhoto is the undisputed champion of creating high-quality printed products in an easy fashion. The beauty of iPhoto’s prints, cards, calendars, and books, apart from their quality printing on heavy, glossy paper, is that they help bridge the gap between the analog and digital worlds. Many people still prefer prints displayed in a traditional photo album, and there’s no denying the attraction of a glossy color calendar on the wall that’s displaying your photos or the slickness of a professionally printed postcard showing your latest photographic favorite on the front. In addition, with a modern inkjet printer, anyone can create prints that rival those ordered from a commercial service. iPhoto 7 has completely revamped printing capabilities, so if you’ve written it off in the past, take a closer look now. Whatever your preference, by the time you’re done with this chapter, you’ll be able to turn your digital photography collection into stunning prints, cards, books, and calendars.


Printing Photos

Gutenprint/Gimp-Print Drivers

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Printing Photos Overview Many people prefer to print their photos on inexpensive color inkjet printers rather than waiting for online orders.

To print photos: 1. Select one or more photos to print and choose Print from the File menu (xP ) to bring up the print settings dialog (Figure 6.1).

Printing Photos Overview

2. Select the desired theme from the list. 3. From the four pop-up menus, choose the appropriate printer, printer-specific presets, paper size, and print size.

Figure 6.1 Choose basic printing options in the Print dialog, and then click Print. Or click Customize to set more advanced options before printing.

4. Either click Print to print right away with the default settings (and jump to step 9), or click Customize to switch to the print project interface, which makes a Printing album in the Recent list (Figure 6.2). 5. From the Themes, Background, Borders, and Layout pop-up menus in the toolbar, choose settings to lay out your photos as you wish. 6. Enter text if the layout provides it; you can adjust text settings by clicking the Settings button in the toolbar.

Figure 6.2 In the print customization interface, you can choose alternate themes, backgrounds, borders, text settings, and layouts, including those that put multiple photos on a single page.

7. To make temporary adjustments to an image, select it, click the Adjust button, and use the buttons and sliders in the Adjust panel as you would in the normal Adjust and Effects panels (Figure 6.3). See Chapter 4, “Editing Photos.” 8. When you’re ready, click the Print button. iPhoto displays the standard Mac OS X Print dialog (Figure 6.7, page 132). 9. Verify your printer and preset settings, enter the number of copies to print, and access other settings by clicking the Advanced button. Click Print when done. iPhoto sends your photos to the printer.

Figure 6.3 Make non-permanent adjustments to photos using the modified Adjust panel.


Printing Photos

Designing Print Projects iPhoto 7 enables you to print not just a single photo at standard sizes, but also multiple photos with themed frame styles, colored backgrounds, and text. While you’re designing your prints, they appear in a special Printing album in the Recent list in the Source pane; you can perform other tasks and return to the Printing album at any time. Figure 6.4 Choose the desired border design from the Borders pop-up menu.

To design a print project: 1. In the print project, click a page.

3. From the Background pop-up menu, choose the color for your background. 4. From the Borders pop-up menu, choose the desired border style (Figure 6.4). Figure 6.5 Choose the desired page layout from the Layout pop-up menu.

5. From the Layout pop-up menu, choose the desired page layout (Figure 6.5). 6. Click the photo icon to switch from viewing pages to viewing the available photos, and then drag photos to the desired spots in your layout.

Figure 6.6 Change settings for the entire print project in the Settings dialog.

7. Tweak each photo so it is zoomed and centered appropriately; see “Editing Photos on Pages” on page 148 for details. 8. Enter text in any provided text boxes, and change text settings as you would in any other program. 9. Click an arrow button or press < or > to move to another page, and repeat steps 3–8.

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Click Settings to change font settings for all the pages of your print project, among other options (Figure 6.6).


Designing Print Projects

2. From the Theme pop-up menu on the toolbar, choose the desired theme (if you want to switch from the currently selected theme).

Sharing Photos

7 But there’s an additional way in which you can share photos in iPhoto—sharing of the actual photo files. For instance, you might want to share photos with a family member who also uses your Mac, or a roommate whose Mac is on your network. Or maybe you want to send photos to friends via email or on a CD or DVD. iPhoto can help in all of these situations and more. I’ve organized this chapter in roughly that order; think of it as near (sharing on your Mac) to far (sending a CD to a Windows-using relative). It’s worth keeping in mind that although Apple has provided various different tools for sharing these original photos, there are usually trade-offs. For instance, it’s trickier to burn a CD of photos for someone who uses Windows than for someone who uses iPhoto on the Mac. Sharing photos via Web galleries (but not accessing them) requires a .Mac account. And Apple still hasn’t made it easy for people on the same Mac to share an iPhoto Library.


Sharing Photos

Although there’s certainly nothing wrong with taking photos and keeping them to yourself, most people I know want to share them with others. We’ve already looked at a few ways of doing this, via .Mac Slides, exporting to a Web page, and, of course, creating prints, cards, calendars, and books.

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Sharing a Library via iPhoto Library Manager Mac OS X is a multi-user operating system, so it’s common for people who share a Mac each to have an account. But what if you want to share the same iPhoto Library among multiple users on the same Mac? You can use Brian Webster’s $19.95 shareware iPhoto Library Manager utility, available at www.fatcatsoftware.com/iplm/.

Figure 7.1 Store your iPhoto Shared Library in the Shared folder at the same level as your user folder.

Sharing via iPhoto Library Manager

To share your library among users: 1. With iPhoto not running, rename your iPhoto Library to iPhoto Shared Library (to avoid confusion) and move it from the Pictures folder to the Shared folder at the same level as your user folder (Figure 7.1). The Shared folder may or may not contain other items. 2. Open iPhoto Library Manager, and drag the iPhoto Shared Library from the Finder into the iPhoto Libraries list in iPhoto Library Manager. 3. Select the iPhoto Shared Library in the list, click the Options button, choose Read & Write from each of the three Permissions pop-up menus, and select the three checkboxes underneath. These settings cause iPhoto Library Manager to fix the permissions on the iPhoto Shared Library whenever necessary (Figure 7.2). 4. For each user, log in via Fast User Switching and repeat steps 2 and 3. 5. From now on, each user on your Mac should launch iPhoto by clicking the Launch iPhoto button in iPhoto Library Manager.

Figure 7.2 Set the permissions properly for shared iPhoto Libraries in the Options dialog in iPhoto Library Manager.

Permissions Problems You must jump through these hoops to share an iPhoto Library because of how iPhoto assigns permissions to thumbnails in the Data folder. iPhoto Library Manager works around the problem by fixing permissions constantly. The techniques on the opposite page have similar effects: turning on Ignore Ownership on This Volume for an external drive ignores permissions entirely, and the issue disappears with network volumes because each user can log into a shared account, thus ensuring that all newly imported photos are written with the same ownership. For more on this, including yet another technique that still works with iPhoto 7, see the article I wrote on the topic for Macworld at www.macworld.com/2006/05/ secrets/junedigitalphoto/.


Sharing Photos

Sharing a Library via a Shared Volume There’s another trick you can use to share photos among multiple users of the same Mac, and it also works for sharing an iPhoto Library across a network. Figure 7.3 To use another hard drive to store a shared iPhoto Library, you must select the Ignore Ownership on This Volume checkbox.

To share your library among users:

Choosing Network Sharing Approaches iPhoto’s official method of sharing photos over a network is discussed on the next page, “Sharing Photos via iPhoto Sharing.” What’s the difference between that approach and the shared volume method discussed on this page? Use the shared volume method to share an entire iPhoto Library and have each person make changes that are seen by every other person. This method lets you share the work of editing photos, making albums, and assigning keywords. Use iPhoto’s photo-sharing approach to let other people see and potentially copy your photos without making any other changes. This approach works best when each person has his or her own primary collection of photos but wants to access a few photos from other people. Neither approach is “better,” and which you choose depends mostly on whether you consider photos community property or personal property that can be shared.

1. If you are using another hard drive as your shared volume, select it in the Finder, choose Get Info (xI ) from the File menu, and, in the Permissions area of the Get Info window, select the Ignore Ownership on This Volume checkbox (Figure 7.3). 2. With iPhoto not running, copy your iPhoto Library from the Pictures folder to where you want to store it on the shared volume. 3. Rename the iPhoto Library in your Pictures folder to “Old iPhoto Library.” 4. For each user (whether on the same Mac or over your network), open iPhoto while holding down o , click the Choose Library button, and select the iPhoto Library on the shared volume. o -launching iPhoto and selecting a library teaches iPhoto to use the selected library instead of the default. 5. From now on, each user should be able to use iPhoto normally, although only one person may use the shared iPhoto Library at a time.


Sharing a Library via a Shared Volume

This technique requires a “shared volume,” which is either another hard drive or a Mac with File Sharing turned on in the Sharing preference pane. If you’re using a network, it must be at least 54 Mbps AirPort Extreme, or preferably 100 Mbps Ethernet; anything else will be too slow.

8

Troubleshooting The Trouble with Bugs

I continue to include these suggestions even when I can’t verify them because bugs are slippery, and just because I can’t reproduce a particular problem in this or any other version of iPhoto doesn’t mean that you won’t experience it. And then one of the suggestions in this chapter may save your bacon (or at least your photos). Also keep in mind that updates to iPhoto very well may eliminate even those problems I’ve confirmed in iPhoto 7, so be sure to use Software Update to check for new versions on a regular basis.

One advantage iPhoto has in this respect is that it saves your changes frequently and automatically, so you’re unlikely to lose much work even if it does crash. Put simply, if iPhoto crashes (and it has crashed on me a number of times while I was writing this book), just relaunch the program and pick up where you left off. (Also be sure to click the Report button in the crash dialog and report the crash to Apple so it can be fixed.) If the crashes happen regularly, you may need to do some troubleshooting. One way or another, keep good backups! (See “Backing Up Your Photos” on page 26.) Of course, most of the problems you might encounter won’t result in a crash. It’s more likely you’ll have trouble importing photos from an unusual camera, printing a photo at the exact size you want, or dealing with thumbnails that don’t display properly. Those are the sorts of problems—and solutions—I’ll focus on in this chapter.


Troubleshooting

Many iPhoto problems that I’ve seen people report seem to be specific to their photos, a particular iPhoto Library, their Mac, or the phase of the moon, and I have been unable to reproduce them. I still include here the potential problem and any solutions I’ve heard of or can think of, but this uncertainty makes it impossible for me to say when or if Apple has fixed the incorrect behavior. As such, some of the problems and solutions listed in this chapter may no longer apply to iPhoto 7; there’s simply no way to tell.

The world of iPhoto is no more a perfect place than the real world. No one, iPhoto’s developers least of all, wants problems, but bugs are a fact of life, and you may have a problem with iPhoto at some point.

Chapter 8

General Problems and Solutions Some problems you may experience in iPhoto aren’t related to particular activities. Others are, and subsequent pages in this chapter will address issues with importing, editing, slideshows, printing, and more.

Performance Problems

General Problems and Solutions

If you find iPhoto slow to perform certain operations, try these tricks. Some are obvious (if expensive), others less so: 

Turn off title, rating, and keyword display using the View menu.

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Shrink thumbnails to a smaller size.

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Use the triangles next to events in Photos view to hide photos you don’t need to see.

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Quit other programs that are running. In my experience, there is usually one culprit, which you can identify by launching Activity Monitor from your Utilities folder and clicking the %CPU column title to see which applications are using the most processor time.

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Restart your Mac by choosing Restart from the Apple menu. Restarting is especially helpful if you don’t have much free disk space, which cramps Mac OS X’s virtual memory techniques.



Check your disk with DiskWarrior (www.alsoft.com/DiskWarrior/); sufficient disk corruption can cause huge performance problems on startup.

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Add more RAM to your Mac. iPhoto works with 512 MB of RAM, but it likes a lot more, and RAM is cheap. I always recommend at least 1 GB these days.

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Buy a faster Mac. That’s always fun.

Photos Disappear Some people have reported troubles with photos disappearing, even when the files are still present in the iPhoto Library (see “iPhoto Directory Structure” on page 19). Try the following procedure to fix the problem, keeping in mind that you may lose your albums, keywords, and titles. Follow these steps after backing up your iPhoto Library: 1. Hold down xo while clicking the iPhoto icon in the Dock to launch it. This causes iPhoto to display the Rebuild Photo Library dialog. Try each of the options, quitting and relaunching in between attempts, and see if one of them fixes the problem. If not… 2. Drag your corrupt iPhoto Library to the Desktop, and launch iPhoto to create a new iPhoto Library. Quit iPhoto. 3. C -click the corrupt iPhoto Library, and choose Show Package Contents. o -drag the Library6.iPhoto file, and the Modified and Originals folders into the new iPhoto Library to copy them into it. Launch iPhoto with xo and select the first two checkboxes to rebuild thumbnails. If that doesn’t help… 4. Repeat step 2 to create yet another new iPhoto Library, and then manually drag the year folders contained in the Originals folder into iPhoto’s display pane to import them. If you wish, repeat with the contents of the Modified folder, but don’t import any exact duplicates. Unfortunately, I can’t figure out any way to trick iPhoto into connecting the modified versions of photos to the originals you restored in step 4, so you’ll have to sort out which version of each modified photo you want to keep.


A

Deep Background

Right off the bat, let me say that you don’t need to read this appendix. It’s deep background, the kind of detail that you might wish to delve into when you’re attempting to understand how iPhoto works, perhaps because you’ve just printed a photo and you’re unhappy with the results.

Lastly, although I’ve called this appendix “Deep Background,” these topics are so complex that entire books have been written about each one. If these discussions leave you with more questions, I’d encourage you to visit a library or bookstore and browse its collection of books on photography, digital imaging, and pre-press. I especially recommend Real World Scanning and Halftones, Third Edition, by David Blatner, Conrad Chavez, Glenn Fleishman, and Steve Roth.


Deep Background

The following pages contain “Understanding Aspect Ratios,” “Understanding Resolution,” and “Understanding Color Management.” Each of these discussions examines an aspect of digital photography from which iPhoto, for the most part, tries to shield you. That’s great most of the time, but if you’re trying to understand how cropping removes information from a photo, thus making it print at a lower quality, you’ll want to come here for the explanation.

Appendix A

Understanding Aspect Ratios iPhoto makes it easy to select and crop a portion of a photo using a specific aspect ratio, but why is this important? It matters because aspect ratios differ between traditional and digital photos.

Understanding Aspect Ratios

An aspect ratio is the ratio between the width of the image and its height, generally expressed with both numbers, as in the line from Arlo Guthrie’s song “Alice’s Restaurant Massacree” about “Twenty-seven, eight-byten, color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one.” The aspect ratio of 35mm film is 4 x 6 (using the standard print size rather than the least common denominator of 2 x 3) because the negative measures 24mm by 36mm. Thus, traditional photographs are usually printed at sizes like 4" x 6", 5" x 7", or 8" x 10", all of which are close enough to that 4 x 6 aspect ratio so photos scale well. When there’s a mismatch between the aspect ratio of the original negative and the final print, either the image must be shrunk proportionally to fit (producing unsightly borders) or some portion of the image must be cropped. (The alternative would be to resize the image disproportionally, which makes people look like they’re reflected in a funhouse mirror.) The equivalent of film in digital photography is the CCD (charge-coupled device), which is essentially a grid of many light-sensitive elements that gain a charge when exposed to light. Through much digital wizardry, the camera translates those charges into the individual dots (called pixels) that, put together, make up the image. Zoom in on a picture all the way, and you can actually see these pixels. So if your digital camera uses a CCD that can capture a picture composed

Figure A.1 This is a 4 x 3 image with a 4 x 6 landscape selection. A bit of the bottom of the image would be lost, which is fine.

Figure A.2 This is a 4 x 3 image with a 5 x 7 landscape selection. Very little of the bottom of the image would be lost to cropping.

Figure A.3 This is a 4 x 3 image with an 8 x 10 landscape selection. Losing the right side of the image would be somewhat problematic.


Taking Better Photos

B

iPhoto and your digital camera will make you a better photographer, for the simple reason that the best way to improve a skill is constant practice. Thanks to iPhoto, it’s easier to take and review photographs than ever before.

So skim these few pages to find tips that you can use to create better photos with minimal extra effort.


Taking Better Photos

But you need not discover all the ways you can take better photos on your own. Having the best equipment for the kind of photos you want to take will help, as will learning some of the basics of different types of photography. This appendix offers that advice, ranging from choosing the best camera for your needs to tips on how to take great pictures of kids. (Hint: The posed portrait is unlikely to work.)

Appendix B

What Kind of Photographer Are You? When choosing the camera that will help you take the best photos, it’s important to choose one that matches the kind of photos you actually take. But what sort of photographer are you? In one way of thinking, there are two types of photographers: artistic and documentary (and as is usually the case, most people overlap somewhat).

What Kind of Photographer Are You?

You’re an artistic photographer if: 

You care more about the overall look of a photo than the subject of the picture (Figure B.1).

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Objects and landscapes fill many of your photos and stand alone as aesthetic representations of your reality.

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Display and print quality is of the utmost importance. You regularly print and display your best photos.

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You’re willing to take time to set up the perfect shot, and you do things because they give you photo opportunities.

Figure B.1 There’s not much of a story in this photo—I was just intrigued by the color of the leaf underneath the new-fallen snow. We’re definitely looking at an artistic photograph here.

You’re a documentary photographer if: 

Who or what appears in the photo is more important than the overall look (Figure B.2).

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The most common subjects of your photos are people and places, and they usually fit into and support a larger story.

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You’re willing to trade quality for convenience, ease of use, or speed of shooting.

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You don’t have the free time or patience to set up shots, and you prefer to snap a few pictures quickly, hoping that at least one will turn out well. You carry your camera to record events or in the hope of getting a good shot.

Figure B.2 In contrast, here we have a picture of me and my grandmother at my 35th birthday party. Whether or not it’s a good photo is almost immaterial—what’s important is that it reminds me of a special meal with my family. It’s a pure documentary photograph.


i

Index + (Add) button (Source pane), 39, 40, 104 1-Click ordering, 136, 179

A

B Background pop-up menu, 141, 145 backing up photos, 26, 27 basic slideshows, 100, 101, 102 batch operations date changes as, 51 rotating photos as, 72 title assignments as, 49 batteries, 195, 197 black point adjustments, 85 blog photos, 123 book mode, 8, 146


Index

accessing shared photos, 163 accessories, 197 Account Info dialog, 127, 136 Add (+) button (Source pane), 39, 40, 104 Add to iPhoto button, 16 Adjust panel adjusting highlight detail in, 87 Contrast slider of, 86 exposure adjustments on, 84 features of, 82 histogram on, 83 Levels sliders adjustments, 85 modifying photos temporarily in, 130 reducing noise, 92, 93 saturation adjustments, 89 shadow detail adjustments, 88 sharpness modifications with, 92 temperature adjustments, 90 tint adjustments from, 91 Adjust This Slide window, 107 Advanced pane (Preferences window), 20 albums creating, 39 deleting photos from, 21 keywords vs., 53 .Mac Slides, 124 removing photos from, 47 selecting multiple, 45 sorting photos in, 48 Appearance pane (Preferences window), 33, 35 Apple. See also .Mac accounts; shipping 1-Click ordering, 136 Apple ID for orders from, 136, 137

international shipping details, 139 ordering cards, calendars, and books, 157 pricing and shipping for orders, 157 print orders from, 138, 139 Apple ID, 136, 137 applications importing photos from other, 16 selecting default external editor, 95 unable to open photos in other, 176 archiving photos, 27 artistic vs. documentary photos, 194 aspect ratios book page designs and, 145 choosing, 73, 74 print sizes and, 138 selecting for slideshows, 110 understanding, 186–187 assigning batch titles, 49 keywords, 54 ratings, 52 Autoflow option, 144 Automatic Ken Burns Effect, 109 autosplit feature, 37

Index book slideshows, 100 books adding, deleting, and moving pages in, 146 aspect ratios of, 187 autoflowing text into, 144 changing text fonts, styles, and sizes, 152–153 creating, 144 designing pages for, 145 editing photos in, 148 entering and editing text in, 150, 151 ordering, 157 placing photos on pages, 147 printing own, 156 quality not what expected, 181 removing photos from, 47 troubleshooting orders for, 180–181 burning iPhoto discs, 26, 169 buying cameras, 195, 196

Index

C calendar mode, 8 calendars arranging photos on, 147 creating, 142 designing, 143 ordering, 157 printing own, 156 cameras. See digital cameras card mode, 8 card readers. See also memory cards about, 197 defined, 11 importing photos from, 14 problems importing images from, 175 cards creating, 140 designing, 141 ordering, 157 printing own, 156 CCD (charge-coupled device), 186 CDs burning iPhoto disc, 169 checking readability of backups, 27 CD-R vs. CD-RW, 27, 28 importing photos from iPhoto, 17, 169 Kodak Photo and Picture, 14 CDs & DVDs pane (Preferences window), 170 checkmark keyword, 53 children, 201 clean installations, 6 color adjusting temperature of photo, 90 correcting, 191

on-screen vs. color management, 82 perception of, 190 rendering, 190 text, 154 color management, 82, 190–191 color-matching systems, 191 Colors palette, 154 ColorSync technology, 191 comparing photos onscreen, 22 compression, 63, 68 Constrain pop-up menu, 73 contact sheets, 135 contextual menu shortcuts, 34, 69 Contrast slider (Adjust panel), 86 copying. See duplicating corruption, 172, 176 crashes, 171, 173, 176 criteria for smart albums, 40, 41 crop marks, 134 cropping choosing aspect ratios before, 73, 74 including extra space when, 75 interpolation and, 189 opening crop panel for, 66, 67 steps for, 75 culling photos, 22 customizing slides, 107

D Data folder, 19 Date pop-up, 58 deleting book pages, 146 contents of events, 30 folders, 38 keywords, 53–54 originals photos from camera, 13 photos, 21 saved slideshows, 104 sources, 44 Descriptions field, 50 deselecting photos, 45 Design pop-up menu, 141 designing print projects, 131 Desktop photo, 116 devices compatible with iPhoto, 2 digital cameras accessories for, 197 aspect ratios in film vs., 186–187 choosing, 195, 196 color rendering and, 190 drivers for, 11 ejecting mounted on Desktop, 13


Index importing photos from, 13 launching iPhoto automatically, 12 reviews of, 196 supported by iPhoto, 11 unrecognized by iPhoto, 174 directory structure in iPhoto, 19 disappearing photos, 172 discs. See CDs; DVDs Display Calibrator Assistant, 181, 191 display pane, 9, 32, 33 Dock, 21 downloading photos with Image Capture, 18 QuickTime for Windows, 112 Web galleries, 165 downsampling, 188, 189 dragging exporting multiple files by, 167 files to Source pane, 15 importing photos by, 16 photo to Trash or Dock, 21 photos onto Albums list title, 39 drivers, 11 duplicating folder and contents, 38 photos for editing, 71 source items on Source pane, 42 duration of slides, 107, 109, 115 DVDs burning iPhoto disc, 169 hardware requirements for drives, 2 slideshows on, 114–115

E


Index

Edit Keywords window, 53 edit mode defined, 8 entering, 64 switching to organize mode from, 29 Edit Photos pop-up menu, 95 editing, 63–97. See also Adjust panel; external editors about, 63 adjusting exposure, 84 choosing aspect ratios, 73, 74 color of text, 154 contrast adjustments for, 86 dates of photos, 51 duplicating photos for, 71 Effects panel for, 65, 66, 80–81 enhancing photos, 77 external editors for, 95 highlight detail, 87

histograms and, 83 making saturation adjustments, 89 noise, 92, 93 nondestructive, 63 photos on book pages, 148 photos unavailable for, 176 RAW files, 68 reducing red-eye, 78 retouching photos, 79 rotating photos, 65, 72, 108 selecting part of photo for, 73 shadow detail, 88 shared photos not allowed, 163 sharpness of image, 92 slide photos, 108 smart albums, 40 straightening photos, 76 temperature of photo, 90 tint of photo, 91 tools for, 65–67 undoing changes, 94 ways to enter edit mode, 64 zooming photos for, 70 Effects panel features of, 80–81 opening, 65, 66 ejecting cameras on Desktop, 13 electronic version of book, 1 emailing photos, 168 Enhance tool, 77 events changing key photo, 36 deleting contents or removing, 30 making from flagged photos, 56 moving photos between, 37 renaming, 36 selected after search in Event view, 57 splitting and merging, 37 viewing photos in, 36 Events pane (Preferences window), 33, 37 Events view, 30, 32 EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data, 15, 61 Export Photos dialog, 126, 166 exporting photos keywords not exported, 54 merging libraries and, 28 to QuickTime movie, 111 transferring multiple files by dragging, 167 to Web pages, 126–127 exposure adjustments, 84 external editors GraphicConverter, 96, 175, 182 Photoshop, 182 Photoshop Elements, 97

Index external editors (continued) selecting, 64 setting default for, 95 using RAW files with, 68

F

Index

File Export pane (Export Photos dialog), 166 filenames duplicate photo, 71 naming exported files, 166 using photo title as, 28 files finding original, 19, 20 formats supported in iPhoto, 15 importing photos from, 15 music formats, 103 RAW, 2, 68 film rolls, 30 Finder, 170 finding camera reviews, 196 original files, 19, 20 fitting photo to frame size, 148 flagged photos, 53, 56 folders creating and working with, 38 directory structure for, 19 downloading photos to, 18 duplicating, 42 Font dialog, 153 fonts changing, 152–153 choosing, 141 copying information about, 153 customizing calendar text, 143 trouble with Type 1 PostScript fonts, 180 foreground objects, 202 form factor, 195 full screen mode, 66, 70

G gamma, 181 gamut, 190 GarageBand, 103 General pane (Preferences window) configuring iPhoto for email, 168 rotation direction preferences in, 72 setting Edit button preferences, 64 Gimp-Print drivers, 129 GraphicConverter, 96, 175, 182 greeting cards. See cards Gutenprint drivers, 129

H hardware requirements, 2 help resources, 183 hiding/showing Information pane, 65 photos, 55 Thumbnail list, 65 Highlight slider (Adjust panel), 87 histograms, 83 HomePage, 119

I icons orange X, 55 orange flag, 56 spinning progress, 121 warning, 139, 149, 182, 188–189 iDisk, 119 iDVD, 2, 114–115 Ignore Ownership on This Volume checkbox (Get Info window), 161 iLife, 3, 4 Image Capture, 18 Image Puzzle screen saver, 117 iMovie slideshows, 113 import mode, 8, 12 Import Photos dialog, 15 importing photos cameras supported for, 11 entering import mode, 12 from files, 15 from Mail, Safari, and other applications, 16 leaving in place when, 20 located in shared albums, 163 solving problems with, 174–175 transferring from camera, 13 transferring from card reader, 14 using Image Capture, 18 using iPhoto disc, 17, 169 Information pane hiding/showing, 65 illustrated, 9, 31 viewing photo’s metadata in, 61, 66 inkjet printers color rendering and, 190 printing tips for, 133 installing iPhoto, 4 interpolation, 189 iPhone, 128 iPhoto directory structure of, 19 file formats supported in, 15


Index hardware/software requirements, 2 installing, 4 interface for, 9 launching, 7, 12 modes in, 8 new features of version 7, 6 reading text to you, 155 relaunching after crash, 171, 173 sharing photos in, 161, 162 updating, 5–6 version numbers for, 3 ways to acquire, 3 iPhoto Buddy, 25 iPhoto discs, 17, 169, 175 iPhoto Library Manager, 25, 28, 160 iPhoto Library packages. See also libraries creating multiple, 24 importing photos without bringing into, 20 items OK for deleting from, 19 merging, 28 opening, 19, 25 recovering photos from, 19 switching between, 25 iPod, 128 IPTC metadata, 54 iTunes, 103 iWeb about, 119, 127 blog photo publishing with, 123 publishing photos with, 122

J JPEG compression, 63

K

L landscape orientation, 73, 115, 116, 199 landscapes, 202 Last Import album, 12 launching iPhoto, 7, 12, 171, 173

M .Mac accounts applications in, 119 changes to HomePage, 119 distributing QuickTime movies with, 112 .Mac Slides, 124, 125 setting up, 118 Web galleries, 120–121, 127 Mail, 16, 119 Mail Photo dialog, 168 managing photos archiving photos, 27 backing up photos, 26–27 creating multiple iPhoto libraries, 24 culling, 22 deleting, 21 leaving in place when importing photos, 20 recovering photos, 23 structure of iPhoto directories, 19 megapixels, 195 memory cards buying larger, 197 removing from card reader, 14 saving original photos on, 13 unrecognized by iPhoto, 174 merging events, 37 libraries, 28 metadata EXIF, 15, 61 IPTC, 54 viewing photo’s, 61, 66 Modified folder, 19 monitors aspect ratios and, 187 color rendering and, 190 light emitted by, 189, 191 using dual, 110


Index

Ken Burns Effect, 101, 107, 109, 113 key photos, 36 keywords albums vs., 53 categorizing album photos with, 39 searching photos by, 59 unable to assign for shared photos, 163 using on iPhoto discs, 17 working with, 53–54 Kodak Photo/Picture CDs, 14

layers, 97 lens, 195, 197 Levels histogram, 83 Levels sliders (Adjust panel), 85 libraries. See also iPhoto Library packages creating multiple, 24 iPhoto Library folders, 26 merging, 28 rebuilding, 172 sharing, 160 switching between, 25 lighting adjustments, 90 lossy vs. lossless compression, 68 low-resolution warning icons, 149

Index monopod/tripod, 197 moving book pages, 146 items into and out of folders, 38 photos between events, 37 multiple libraries, 24 multiple photos assigning descriptions for, 50 assigning titles for, 49 batch changing dates for, 51 hiding, 55 multiple prints, 135 music choosing for slideshows, 115 fitting slideshow to, 107 formats for slideshows, 103 saved slideshow, 106 selecting playlist for slideshows, 110 troubleshooting problems with, 177 Music pane (Slideshow dialog), 103

N naming exported files, 166 Navigation panel, 66 network photo sharing, 161, 162, 173 noise reduction, 92, 93 nondestructive editing, 63

Index

O Open dialog, 64 orange X icon, 55 orange flag icon, 56 Order Prints dialog, 139, 182 Order window, 157 ordering Apple ID for 1-Click, 136 book or photo processing problems, 180–181 cards, calendars, and books, 157 getting help, 183 photos don’t upload when, 180 pricing and shipping costs, 157 prints, 138–139 quality not what expected, 181 troubleshooting, 179 unreceived or damaged orders, 181 organize mode, 8, 29–31 organizing photos, 29–61. See also organize mode; searching adding photos to sources, 46 albums, 39 changing display pane layout, 32 contextual menu shortcuts, 34

deleting sources, 44 duplicating items on Source pane, 42 editing photo dates, 51 events, 36 flagging photos, 53, 56 folders for, 38 hiding/showing photos, 55 managing keywords, 53–54 navigating in iPhoto, 35 new features in organize mode, 30 overview, 29 photo descriptions for, 50 ratings for, 52 removing photos from sources, 47 renaming and rearranging sources, 43 selecting photos, 45 smart albums, 40–41 sorting photos, 48 splitting and merging events, 37 titles for photos, 49 viewing photo information, 61 Originals folder, 19

P packages. See iPhoto Library packages panel keyboard shortcuts, 69 paper choosing size of, 134 light reflected by, 189, 191 prints appear incorrectly on, 178 selecting, 133 passwords forgotten Apple ID, 137 strong, 136 Web gallery, 120 PDF file for book, 1 perception of color, 190 performance Reduce Noise slider effect on, 93 troubleshooting, 172 permissions, 160, 174 pet photos, 201 photo feeds, 165 Photo Info window, 61 photos. See also sharing photos; taking better photos accessing shared, 163 adding to sources, 46 adding to Web galleries, 120 artistic vs. documentary, 194 assigning descriptions of, 50 black and white point adjustments of, 85 can’t open in external program, 176


Index undoing changes, 94 viewing in events, 36 viewing onscreen, 99 Photos Per Page pop-up menu, 134 Photoshop, 182 Photoshop Elements, 97 picture books, 42 pixels aspect ratios and, 138 defined, 186 removed when cropping, 75 resolution and, 188–189 playing saved slideshows, 101 playlists for slideshows, 103, 110 plug-ins, 6, 126 portrait orientation, 73, 115, 116, 199 portraits, 200 post cards, 140, 141. See also cards Preferences window Check for iPhoto Updates Automatically checkbox, 5 choosing default external editor, 95 configuring iPhoto for email, 168 General, Appearance, and Events panes, 33 selecting way to enter edit mode in, 64 setting rotation direction for photos, 72 previewing photos on memory card, 14 prints, 132 saved slideshows, 101 Print dialog, 130, 156 print mode, 8 print settings dialog, 130, 134, 135 Print Size pop-up menu, 134 printers color rendering and inkjet, 190 selecting for photo printing, 197 testing output for, 132 tips for inkjet, 133 printing advantages of iPhoto, 129 books, 144–147, 156 calendars, 142–143, 156 cards, 140, 156 contact sheets, 135 designing print projects, 131 paper selections when, 133 preparing photos for, 138 previewing prints before, 132 selected pages, 156 standard-sized prints, 134 steps for, 130 tips for, 133 troubleshooting, 178


Index

changing key, 36 choosing aspect ratios for, 73, 74 contrast adjustments, 86 copying to iPod or iPhone, 128 damaged during import, 175 dates of, 51 deleting, 21 disappearing, 172 editing in external editor, 64, 68, 69, 95 editing slide, 108 emailing, 168 enhancing, 77 exporting to Web pages, 126–127 exposure adjustments, 84 filenames of duplicate, 71 flagging, 53, 56 hiding/showing, 55 highlight adjustments in, 87 information about, 61 layouts for books, 146 leaving in place when importing, 20 making saturation adjustments, 89 managing keywords for, 53–54 modifying tint of, 91 moving between events, 37 orientation of, 73, 115, 116, 199 pixels and dots in, 188 placing in slideshows, 105 preparing for printing, 138 previewing prints, 132 print quality not what expected, 181 processing problems for, 180–181 publishing on Web, 122, 124 rating, 40, 52 recovering, 7, 94, 175 reducing noise in, 92, 93 removing from sources, 47 retouching, 79 reverting to original unavailable, 176 rotating, 65, 72, 108 saving originals on memory card, 13 scaling to fill slideshow screen, 102, 106 searching for, 57–60 selecting, 45, 73 shadow detail adjustments for, 88 sharpness of, 92 sorting, 48 standard-sized prints of, 134 stored in Trash, 23 straightening, 76 temperature of, 90 titles for, 49 trouble printing, 178 unable to upload when ordering, 180

Index prints ordering, 138, 139 quality not what expected, 181 sizes and aspect ratios for, 138

Q QuickTime movies distributing, 112 exporting photos and slideshows to, 111 Windows errors playing, 177

Index

R RAM, 172 ratings assigning, 52 searching by, 60 for smart albums, 40 unable to assign for shared photos, 163 RAW files editing, 68 facts about, 177 formats supported for, 2 rearranging book pages, 146 source items, 43 rebuilding libraries, 172 recovering photos during upgrade, 7 from iPhoto Library package, 19 original photos, 94, 175 from Trash, 23 Red-Eye button, 65, 66, 67, 78 red-eye reduction, 78 Reduce Noise slider, 92, 93 reinstalling iPhoto, 173 removing keywords from photos, 54 photos from Web galleries, 120 slideshow photos, 105 smart album photos, 41 renaming events, 36 keywords, 53–54 source items, 43 rendering color, 190 reporting iPhoto problems, 173 resizing Source and Information panes, 9 resolution, 75, 188–189 restoring photos from iPhoto disc, 17 from Trash, 23 retouching photos, 79

reverting to original photo unavailable, 176 reviews of digital cameras, 196 rotating photos, 65, 72, 108 RSS readers, 165 Rule of Thirds, 198, 202

S Safari, 16 Saturation slider (Adjust panel), 89 saved slideshows about, 100 adding, deleting, or moving photos in, 105 configuring Ken Burns Effect for, 109 creating and deleting, 104 customizing slides for, 107 designing iMovie slideshows from, 113 duration of slides, 107, 109 editing photos in, 108 exporting to QuickTime movie, 111 making DVD slideshows from, 114–115 music and default settings for, 106 running, 110 scaling to fill screen, 102, 106 Source pane display of, 101 tips for, 110 screen savers, 116–117, 125 scrolling behavior in iPhoto, 35 scrubbing, 36 Search field, 57, 58 searching by date, 58 by keywords, 59 by rating, 60 for photos, 57 selecting multiple files in Import Photos dialog, 15 pages for printing, 156 part of photo, 73 photos and albums, 45 Set Up Account dialog, 136, 137 Settings pane (Slideshow dialog), 102 Shadows slider (Adjust panel), 88 Shared Photos folder, 163 shared volumes, 161 Sharing pane, 162 sharing photos, 159–170 accessing shared photos, 163 actions allowed for, 163 burning CD or DVD for, 169 discs for non-iPhoto users, 170 emailing photos, 168 exporting files for, 166–167 overview, 159


Index smart albums, 21, 40, 48 software requirements for iPhoto, 2 Software Update, 5, 171, 174 sorting changing order of slideshows and, 102 photos, 48 Source pane categories in, 30 changing size of, 31 dragging files to, 15 dragging photos onto Albums list title, 39 duplicating sources on, 42 illustrated, 9, 31 importing pictures from iPhoto disc, 17, 169 saved slideshows in, 101 switching to organize mode in, 29 sources adding photos to, 46 defined, 30 deleting, 44 duplicating, 42 removing photos from, 47 renaming and rearranging, 43 Speech menu, 155 spelling checks, 50, 155 splitting events, 37 standard-sized prints, 134 straightening panel, 66, 67 straightening photos, 76 strong passwords, 136 styles, 152–153 Subscriptions dialog, 125 switching between libraries, 25 synchronizing Web galleries, 121

T taking better photos artistic vs. documentary photos, 194 camera accessories, 197 children and pets, 201 choosing camera, 195 finding camera reviews, 196 landscapes, 202 portraits, 200 tips for, 198–199 travel photos, 203 television slideshows, 110, 115 Temperature slider (Adjust panel), 90 testing printer output, 132 text changing fonts, styles, and sizes, 152–153 checking spelling of, 50, 155 copying font and styling information, 153


Index

sharing libraries, 160 troubleshooting network photo sharing, 173 turning on, 28, 162 using shared volume for, 161 via iPhoto sharing, 161, 162 viewing in Web galleries, 164 sharing tools, 32 Sharpness slider (Adjust panel), 92 shipping costs for orders, 157 international details for, 139 providing addresses for Apple, 137 shortcuts contextual menu, 69 keyword, 53, 54 showing photos onscreen, 99–128. See also .Mac account; slideshows basic slideshows, 100, 101, 102 DVD slideshows, 114–115 iMovie slideshows, 113 iPod or iPhone displays, 128 publishing as .Mac Slides, 124 QuickTime movies for, 111, 112 saved slideshows, 100, 101, 104–106, 110 screen savers, 116–117, 125 selecting slideshow music, 103 slideshow tools, 101, 107 types of slideshows for, 100 Web galleries for, 120–121, 127 Web pages, 126–127 size aspect ratios and print, 138 changing Source pane, 31 changing text, 152–153 fitting photo to frame, 148 paper, 134 Size pop-up menu (Export Photos dialog), 166 size slider, 9, 31, 65 slideshow mode, 8 slideshows. See also basic slideshows; saved slideshows controls for, 110 creating DVD, 114–115 dual monitors and, 110 iMovie, 113 music for, 103 ratings assignments during, 52 removing photos from, 47 setting up basic, 102 tips for, 110 tools for, 101, 107 troubleshooting, 177 types of, 100 viewing in Mail messages, 16

Index

Index text (continued) editing color of, 154 entering and editing in book, 150 rules for typing, 151 text warning icons, 149 thumbnails corrupted, 176 hiding/showing list of, 65 permissions assigned to, 160 slideshow, 101 TidBITS, 183 Tint slider (Adjust panel), 91 titles for photos, 49 toolbar, 31, 32 tools. See also Adjust panel editing, 65–67 Effects panel, 80–81 Red-eye, 78 Retouch, 79 sharing, 32 slideshow, 101, 107 using Enhance, 77 Web export, 127 transitions for slideshows, 106, 177 Trash, 21, 23 travel photos, 203 troubleshooting, 171–183 book or photo processing, 180–181 can’t open photos in external program, 176 corrupted thumbnails, 176 disappearing photos, 172 getting help, 183 iPhoto crashes, 171, 173, 176 memory cards or camera not recognized, 174 nothing appears after import, 174 order doesn’t arrive or is damaged, 181 ordering, 179 performance problems, 172 photos damaged during import, 175 photos don’t upload, 180 photos that can’t be edited, 176 printing, 178 prints or books not what expected, 181 RAW files, 177 slideshows, 177 unable to revert to original, 176 warning icons, 182 turning off/on photo sharing, 28, 162

U undoing changes, 94 deleted book pages, 146 unflagging photos, 56 updating iPhoto, 5, 6 upgrading, recovering photos during, 7 uploading prints, 139, 180 user names for Web galleries, 120

V Verify Burned Data option, 27 viewing photo information, 61 photos in events, 36 photos on iPod or iPhone, 128 shared photos in Web galleries, 164 Voiceover dialog, 113

W warning icons appearing when ordering prints, 139 dealing with low-resolution, 149 handling, 182 understanding resolution and, 188–189 Web galleries adding and removing photos in, 120 subscribing to, 165 synchronizing, 121 tips for exporting Web photos, 127 viewing shared photos in, 164 Web sites. See also .Mac accounts camera review, 196 changes to .Mac HomePage, 119 distributing QuickTime movies on, 112 exporting photos to, 126–127 setting up .Mac account, 118 white point adjustments, 85 white space, 198 Windows computers burning discs for non-iPhoto users, 170 errors playing QuickTime movies, 177

Z zooming, 70, 108, 148
