May 2014
Beginner
459 pages
16h 10m
English
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Chapter 1. Camera Meets Mac
Your camera, phone, and tablet are brimming with photos. You’ve snapped the perfect graduation portrait, captured that jaw-dropping sunset over the Pacific, or compiled an unforgettable photo essay of your 2-year-old attempting to eat a bowl of spaghetti. Now it’s time to use your Mac to gather, organize, and tweak all these photos so you can share them with the rest of the world.
That’s the core of this book—compiling, organizing, and adjusting your pictures using iPhoto, and then transforming this collection into a professional-looking slideshow, set of prints, movie, web gallery, and more. You’ll also learn how to share them online via services like Facebook, Flickr, and Apple’s own iCloud.
But before you start organizing and publishing pictures with iPhoto, they have to find their way from your camera to your Mac. This chapter explains how to get pictures from camera to computer and introduces you to iPhoto.
iPhoto: The Application
iPhoto approaches photo-management as a four-step process:
Import. Working with iPhoto begins with feeding your digital pictures (and videos) into the program, either from a camera or from somewhere on your Mac. In general, importing is a one-click process. This is the part of iPhoto covered in this chapter.
Organize. This step is about sorting and categorizing your chaotic jumble of pictures so you can easily find individual snapshots and arrange them into logical groups. You can assign searchable keywords to pictures to make ...
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