iPhoto '09: The Missing Manual

Chapter 8. Email, Web Galleries,and Network Sharing

Holding a beautifully rendered glossy color print created from your own digital image is a glorious feeling. But unless you have an uncle in the inkjet cartridge business, you could go broke printing your own photos. Ordering high-quality prints with iPhoto is terrific fun, too, but it’s slow and expensive.

For the discerning digital photographer who craves both instant gratification and economy, the solution is to put your photos online—by emailing them to others, posting them on the Web, or sharing them with other people on your home or office network.

All of this is particularly easy and satisfying in iPhoto ’09, especially if you are a fan of Facebook or Flickr.

Emailing Photos

Emailing from iPhoto is perfect for quickly sending off a single photo—or even a handful of photos—to friends, family, and co-workers. (If you have a whole batch of photos to share, on the other hand, consider using the Web-publishing features described later in this chapter.)

The most important thing to know about emailing photos is this: Full-size photos are usually too big to email.

Suppose, for example, that you want to send three photos along to some friends—terrific shots you captured with your 7-megapixel camera.

First, a little math: A typical 7-megapixel shot might consume 3 megabytes of disk space. So sending along just three shots would make at least a 9-megabyte package.

Why is that bad? Let us count the ways:

• It will take you a long time to send. ...