iPhoto 6: The Missing Manual, 5th Edition

Chapter 9. iWeb, Photocasting, & 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 photocasting them (a new photo-transmission feature in iPhoto 6).

All of this is particularly easy and satisfying in iPhoto 6.

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 or photocasting 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 5-megapixel camera.

First, a little math: A typical 5-megapixel shot might consume two or three megabytes of disk space. So sending along just three shots would make at least a 6-megabyte package.

Why is that bad? Let us count the ways:

• It will take you 24 minutes to send (using a dial-up modem). ...