September 2005
Beginner to intermediate
528 pages
23h 55m
English
Content preview from Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition
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424 switching to the mac: the missing manual
• .Mac slides. When you send your photos out into the world as .Mac slides, other
Mac OS X users can subscribe to your show, displaying your pictures as their screen
saver. (Of course, you must have a .Mac account, as described on page 147, for this
to work.)
To create a .Mac slideshow, select the album or photos you want to share, and then
click this button (or, if you don’t see it, choose ShareÆ.Mac Slides). Click Publish
to begin uploading your photos. When the process is complete, click Announce
Slideshow to email your friends to let them know about your slides.
• Desktop. Click one photo and then click this button. iPhoto instantly fills your
desktop background with that photo.
If you click one album and then click this button, you turn that album’s contents
into a spectacular screen saver feature that fills your screen with animated, gently
flowing photographs when your iMac isn’t in use.
• Burn Disc. iPhoto CDs are discs (either CDs or DVDs) that you can create directly
from within iPhoto to archive your entire Photo Library—or any selected portion
of it—with just a few mouse clicks. This is a great way to back up your photos;
transfer them to another Mac without losing all your keywords, descriptions, and
titles; share discs with other iPhoto fans; offload photos to CD or DVD as your
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