iPhoto: The Missing Manual

Chapter 8. Emailing, Sharing, and Web Galleries

Holding a beautiful, glossy 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 between printing and mailing, you’ll spend a few days waiting for them to arrive.

For the discerning digital photographer who craves both instant gratification and economy, the solution is to put your photos online—by posting them on social media sites, creating web galleries, exporting web pages that you can post on your own website, or sharing them with others through iCloud (Apple’s online storage and synchronization service). If you go the social media or iCloud route, any comments your admirers have left even show up in iPhoto’s Info panel.

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If you’ve got an iCloud account (Using iCloud’s Photo Stream) and an iOS device (iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch), you can also create gorgeous web journals, with highly customizable layouts, captioning opportunities, and more. This fun feature is covered in Chapter 15.

All of this is particularly easy and satisfying in iPhoto, especially if you’re an iCloud member or a fan of Facebook, Flickr, or Twitter. And if you’d rather send electronic photos directly to your fan base (instead of requiring them to visit a website), you can fire off an instant message or email from inside iPhoto, where you’ll find a plethora of graphical email ...