March 10, 2006
iPhoto | Keywords
In Tagging iPhoto, Melvin Rivera provides a quick explanation of how to use keywords in iPhoto:
"Most people I know don’t know that iPhoto can be tagged with keywords. Or if they do they don’t know how to use them. They’re not to blame, iPhoto has always had an awkward implementation of keywords. iPhoto 06 improves on keywords but they are still confusing to most users I know. So here’s a quick tutorial on setting up and managing keywords in iPhoto. This tutorial uses iPhoto 06, but it can be implemented in earlier versions that support keywords."
Posted by Brad at 10:21 AM | Comments (2)
June 19, 2005
Home | Pictures | iPhoto
If you had a digital snapshot camera, here's how you'd use it with your Mac. After you took a bunch of pictures, you would plug it into your iBook: iPhoto would then launch, and copy all your pictures from your camera to your computer, and remove them from the camera so you could start shooting more. It would store all the pictures in a folder called "iPhoto Library" in your Pictures folder.
iPhoto will do for your photos what iTunes does for your music. iPhoto is photo album software. It will keep track of all your photos. And you can create your own photo albums. In iPhoto, an album is simply a collection of photos. You can print your own photos with a cheap photo printer and get glossy pictures that are comparable to what you'd get from a photomat. Or with a few clicks you can order prints or a book of the photos for delivery from Kodak. It all happens within iPhoto. I think you'll find yourself wondering how you could do so much — so simply.
You can also view your photos as a slide show. If you've transferred your music CD collection to your iBook, you can pick a song to play with the slideshow. Pick the right music with the right photos and you can actually make 'em weep. And if you want to share a slideshow with someone, you can save it with the music as a QuickTIme movie. Slideshow movie files are relatively small, so you can email the movie to a friend. You can also click a button to send a particular picture to someone by email.
If you ever thought about getting a snapshot camera, there's never been a better time. Digital cameras just keep getting better and cheaper, and will undoubtedly continue to do so. A 3 Megapixel camera is probably all you'd need. More Megapixels cost more. Smaller cameras cost more.
A Megapixel is just a unit of measuring how big your pictures can be printed without looking terrible. 4 Megapixels is probably equivilant to an 8" by 10" photo, ie. far bigger than you'd normally get from the photomat. So you'd probably want a relatively cheap 3 Megapixel camera.
In the meantime, if anyone emails pictures to you, you can add those to iPhoto too. It's a great place to store them, view them, share them, and find them later.
Here's an iPhoto Tutorial. It's like the iTunes one for music.
Posted by Brad at 03:50 PM | Comments (0)
