IntroductionWelcome| 00:00 | (Music playing.)
| | 00:03 | Welcome to iPhoto '09 Essential
Training. I'm Damian Allen, President of
| | 00:08 | Pixerati, a postproduction studio
based in LA. I'll be taking you through
| | 00:12 | this comprehensive training on iPhoto '09.
| | 00:15 | Now if you're brand new to iPhoto,
be sure to check out the Getting Started section
| | 00:19 | first to get a feel for the
interface. You'll also get to see how to
| | 00:23 | import images from different sources,
set preferences and how to navigate
| | 00:27 | inside of iPhoto.
| | 00:29 | Regardless of whether you're
a new user or you're an iPhoto
| | 00:32 | veteran from versions past, the Faces
and Places features in this new version
| | 00:36 | will change the way you organize your photos.
| | 00:39 | If you've always wanted to fix the
color on your photos or touch them up a little,
| | 00:42 | I'll be teaching you how to
crop an image, straighten it, adjust the
| | 00:46 | exposure, create effects and apply lots
of other enhancements. You'll soon find
| | 00:51 | that tweaking a few simple sliders
can make good photos look amazing.
| | 00:55 | Finally, I'll show you how to share
your photos on different viewing platforms
| | 00:59 | like Facebook and Flickr and in various formats.
| | 01:02 | So go ahead, grab your latest shots, launch
iPhoto '09 and let's get straight into it.
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| Using the exercise files| 00:00 | If you're a premium member of the
lynda.com Online Training Library or
| | 00:04 | if you're watching this tutorial on a DVD ROM,
you have access to the exercise files used
| | 00:09 | throughout this title. For easy
access to the files drag the iPhoto09_Files
| | 00:15 | folder to your desktop
while you're doing the training.
| | 00:18 | Now rather than fill your personal
iPhoto library with endless photos of
| | 00:21 | my family members, as beautiful as they
are, I have only included sample photos
| | 00:26 | where needed for specific reasons.
For the rest of the work it makes sense to
| | 00:30 | follow along with your own photos.
| | 00:32 | There are two folders here. One for
working through the faces exercises and the
| | 00:36 | other for working through the editing
and adjustment lessons. To use these in
| | 00:40 | iPhoto just drag a folder on to the
iPhoto icon in the dock. The entire folder
| | 00:48 | will be imported as a single event
ready for you to work with. When you're done
| | 00:54 | with the training press Command+
Delete to move the event to the Trash.
| | 01:00 | Now if you're a monthly subscriber or
an annual subscriber to lynda.com
| | 01:04 | you won't have access to these exercise
files but of course you can follow along
| | 01:08 | using your own photos. Let's get started.
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1. Getting StartedLaunching the application| 00:01 | On first launch of iPhoto you'll see a
Welcome Screen. Now the videos you're
| | 00:05 | going through right now are much more
comprehensive than these ones but if you
| | 00:10 | do want to access these later, make
sure Show this Window when iPhoto opens is
| | 00:14 | checked and you'll see this
Welcome Screen every time you launch.
| | 00:17 | I'll go ahead and click Close.
| | 00:19 | Next you're given two options to
decide on. The first is whether you want
| | 00:24 | iPhoto to automatically open when you
connect your digital camera. Now unless
| | 00:28 | you're working with Aperture or some
other photo application, you'll choose Yes here.
| | 00:33 | What this means is that every time
you plug your digital camera into your computer,
| | 00:38 | iPhoto will automatically
launch ready to download the images from
| | 00:41 | your camera to your iPhoto library.
| | 00:45 | Next iPhoto asks permission to send
GPS coordinates from your photos to an
| | 00:50 | Apple server in order to get
information to use for the new Places feature.
| | 00:54 | This is really just a privacy issue.
Apple's making sure it does due diligence
| | 00:58 | to warn you that you will get your
information sent to Apple and giving you
| | 01:02 | the option to say no.
| | 01:03 | Now if you're going to use Places,
you'll need it to access the GPS coordinates.
| | 01:08 | So you will need to click Yes.
Seeing as I don't have any secret
| | 01:11 | military basis in any of my photos that
have been GPS tagged, I can click Yes.
| | 01:15 | I feel fairly safe that my
information is not getting in the wrong hands.
| | 01:19 | Once you've made your decision you'll
be brought to the main iPhoto window.
| | 01:23 | Now of course there's absolutely nothing
here yet. You'll need to import some
| | 01:27 | images before you actually have
something to see. In the upcoming videos
| | 01:31 | we'll look at importing photos as well as a
brief tour of the interface to get you started.
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| Importing images from a camera| 00:00 | A photo management application like
iPhoto isn't much used without photos to manage.
| | 00:05 | So let's take a look at how to
import photos into iPhoto from your camera.
| | 00:09 | Now a quick word of advice. If you plan
on importing a lot of photos in iPhoto
| | 00:13 | and most people do, it's a good idea to
purchase a separate flash card reader.
| | 00:18 | With the card reader you take the
memory card out of your camera and insert it
| | 00:22 | directly into the card reader to go
into the computer. If you have multiple
| | 00:27 | memory cards that means you can
insert another one in your camera and keep
| | 00:31 | shooting even while iPhoto's importing
your first lot of photos. They also tend
| | 00:36 | to be faster than
reading from the camera itself.
| | 00:38 | If you are importing your photos
directly from the camera connected to your Mac
| | 00:42 | via the USB cable that should have
been provided with the camera, set the
| | 00:46 | camera to PC mode. That's often the
same mode that's used to view the photos
| | 00:50 | inside the camera itself.
| | 00:52 | Finally turn on the camera. When you
turn on the camera or insert a memory card
| | 00:57 | into a card reader, iPhoto should
automatically launch, ready to import the
| | 01:01 | photos. If it doesn't, go to iPhoto >
Preferences and make sure Connecting
| | 01:07 | camera opens is set to iPhoto. That
way whenever a camera or memory card's
| | 01:12 | connected, iPhoto will automatically open.
| | 01:15 | Here I'll go ahead and insert a
memory card. Whether you insert a card or
| | 01:20 | connect your camera, you should
automatically see a camera device appear in the
| | 01:23 | Source list. There is a brief pause
while iPhoto creates thumbnails of all the
| | 01:28 | photos on your camera or card.
| | 01:31 | Now you can click the Import All
button to import all the photos or you can
| | 01:35 | select individual photos to import.
Most of the time you will want to press
| | 01:39 | Command+A to select all the photos
and then just identify the ones that you
| | 01:44 | don't want to import. Usually photos
that are out of focus will lack the
| | 01:48 | correct exposure. Just Command+Click to
deselect any photos you don't want to import.
| | 01:55 | Next select an event name. Try to
choose a name that's central to the theme of
| | 02:00 | what the photos are about and also
try to include terms that are easily
| | 02:03 | searchable if you do a search later for
your photos. You can optionally include
| | 02:08 | a more detailed description and that
again will help you search for photos
| | 02:12 | based on the words inside the description.
| | 02:14 | Next decide whether you want to import
all of the photos as one single event or
| | 02:19 | Autosplit the events based on time or
date. By deselecting Autosplit, all of
| | 02:25 | the photos imported will come in as a
single event. We'll leave that selected
| | 02:29 | to split the events up by date. For
more information on Autosplit, be sure to
| | 02:33 | watch the video on Event Preferences.
| | 02:35 | If some of these photos have been
imported during a previous import session,
| | 02:39 | you can select Hide photos already
imported to eliminate any photos that are
| | 02:44 | already included in your iPhoto library.
When you're happy either click Import
| | 02:48 | Selected if you've selected
individual photos or Import All.
| | 02:54 | iPhoto proceeds to import your photos
and they'll then be included as a new
| | 02:58 | event in the Event Library. You can
choose whether to delete the photos on your
| | 03:03 | camera or to keep them. My personal
advice is to select Keep photos and then
| | 03:08 | use the Format function on the
camera itself for a nice, clean format.
| | 03:12 | Here you'll see we have our photos
and we can begin to name the autosplit
| | 03:16 | events. Be sure to watch the video on
creating, merging and splitting events
| | 03:23 | for information on how to combine and
organize your events once the photos are imported.
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| Importing images from an iPhone| 00:00 | When you connect your iPhone to your
Mac, it should automatically show up in
| | 00:04 | the Devices section of your Source list.
There is a slight delay while iPhoto
| | 00:08 | builds preview thumbnails of all of
the photos in your iPhone. You can then
| | 00:13 | proceed to give your event a name. I
like to include iPhone in the name of the
| | 00:17 | event so it is easy for me to
distinguish the iPhone photos in my library.
| | 00:22 | As with the standard camera import,
either select individual photos and click
| | 00:27 | Import Selected or click Import All.
iPhoto proceeds to import the photos from
| | 00:32 | your iPhone. One other thing to know,
in iTunes, if you click on the Photos
| | 00:38 | section of your iPhone, you will see
the ability to sink photos from your
| | 00:42 | iPhoto library. This is actually
completely independent of the process of
| | 00:46 | importing your photos
from the phone into iPhoto.
| | 00:50 | Here, you are deciding whether you want
your iPhoto library imported on to your
| | 00:54 | iPhone. Since you only have limited
space in an iPhone, it's a good idea to
| | 00:58 | select specific albums or an event,
instead of sinking the entire library.
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| Importing images from files| 00:00 | In addition to photos coming from your
camera, you may also have photos that
| | 00:04 | you archived previously or came from
another computer and they are on a CD or
| | 00:08 | on your hard drive. iPhoto makes it
very simple to import them. Just select the
| | 00:12 | folder that contains them and drag it
to the iPhoto icon in the doc. When you
| | 00:17 | release the mouse, iPhoto will open
and begin importing the photos. When it's
| | 00:22 | finished, they will all be
included in one single event.
| | 00:25 | You will see here if I switch to the
Events section of the library, I can see a
| | 00:30 | single event called Chapter_08_and_09_
Enhancing and of course, that's the name
| | 00:35 | of the folder we imported from the
finder. Command+Tab back in our iPhoto.
| | 00:39 | Let's take a look at one more
preference that's important. Choose iPhoto >
| | 00:43 | Preferences and under Events, you want
to make sure Imported items from Finder
| | 00:49 | is unchecked. If this is checked,
iPhoto will split the photos from the folder
| | 00:53 | you are importing into separate events
based on the Autosplit date setting. In
| | 00:58 | this case, one event per day. Again
with this unchecked, the behavior is to
| | 01:03 | import all the photos as one single event.
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| Understanding the iPhoto interface| 00:00 | Let's now take a look at the interface.
You will see first of all that I have a
| | 00:04 | fully populated library here complete
with Albums, Galleries and Keepsakes and
| | 00:08 | we'll cover the creation of all these
things in detail in later lessons.
| | 00:11 | For now, I just want to focus on
the main elements of the interface.
| | 00:15 | At the far left you will see we have
the iPhoto's Source list, which has your
| | 00:19 | basic Library, Recent Locations, Albums,
Galleries, Keepsakes and Slideshows,
| | 00:25 | all listed in their separate categories.
At the bottom of the screen, we have
| | 00:29 | additional buttons. At the left to
these rows of buttons we have editing
| | 00:33 | features. This includes the naming
function that works with the Faces
| | 00:37 | technology. At the center of this row
we have Slideshows and Keepsakes and
| | 00:42 | at the far right we have web
publishing options like MobileMe galleries,
| | 00:47 | publishing to Facebook,
Flickr or emailing a photo.
| | 00:51 | Now, at the lower left we have three
buttons. The first is the Add button.
| | 00:55 | This allows you to quickly add elements to
your library like Albums, Slideshows,
| | 00:59 | MobileMe galleries, Cards and
Calendars. Now, with the photo selected,
| | 01:06 | the Information button next to that brings
up a simple summary pane of information
| | 01:10 | about the photo.
Click again to hide it.
| | 01:13 | The next button is a Full Screen button.
By clicking it, the current photo is
| | 01:17 | zoomed to full screen for easy viewing
and editing. We'll see more about this
| | 01:21 | when we actually work on editing and
adjusting our photos. A pop-up menu at
| | 01:26 | that base allows you to click an X to the
far right to return to the standard view.
| | 01:30 | Next, we have a Search field, which
allows you to search for photos via
| | 01:34 | keywords, date or rating. Next to this
we have basic information about what
| | 01:39 | we are viewing. You will see if I click in
the gray space to deselect the current photo
| | 01:43 | it actually tells me exactly how
many photos there are in my library currently.
| | 01:48 | Finally, at the lower right, we have
the Photo Size slider. This allows you to
| | 01:52 | adjust how big the thumbnails appear
in your viewer. Now, this Size slider is
| | 01:57 | independent for different views.
Currently I'm working in the Photos view.
| | 02:01 | If I moved to Events you will see I have
independent slider access for event thumbnails.
| | 02:06 | Now, in coming lessons we'll look at
exactly how the library is broken down,
| | 02:11 | but for now we have just looked at the
basic elements for getting around in iPhoto.
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| Reviewing the interface preferences| 00:00 | There are a handful of appearance
settings that are worth adjusting for your
| | 00:04 | personal preference. Go to iPhoto >
Preferences and select Appearance.
| | 00:11 | The first of these are simple border
elements used to separate your photo from the
| | 00:15 | background. Now, if you have lots of
grays in your photos that match the
| | 00:18 | background in iPhoto, these two
elements help the photo stand out.
| | 00:23 | If you find it distracting, you can
deselect Outline and you can deselect the
| | 00:27 | Drop shadow. Making your photos appear
much flatter against their background.
| | 00:32 | Most of the time you will leave these
selected. Next, you can choose a shade of
| | 00:36 | gray for your background. Now, the
default iPhoto gray is a good generic
| | 00:41 | background that helps to neutralize any
kind of contrast effects you might get
| | 00:45 | while viewing your photos on a computer.
But if you like, you can adjust for
| | 00:48 | fully black background or a fully
white background. I'll set it back to the
| | 00:53 | default gray. Below this are organization
options. The first is to Align photos to a grid.
| | 00:59 | Now, if you have portrait and
landscape photos sharing the same space
| | 01:04 | deselecting these will change the way
they are viewed. Let's go ahead and close
| | 01:08 | out of preferences for a moment and
take a look. You will see now an irregular
| | 01:12 | spacing between those photos that are
portrait and landscape. If we go back to
| | 01:17 | iPhoto Preferences and reselect
Align photos to grid, the photos are now
| | 01:22 | perfectly centered in grid lines left
to right. With my current Size slider
| | 01:27 | settings, I have three columns of photos.
| | 01:29 | The next option is Show scrolling
information. With that selected which is the
| | 01:34 | default as I scroll with the thumb
slider, iPhoto displays the date and the
| | 01:39 | name of the event I'm currently viewing
on the screen. If I go back to iPhoto >
| | 01:43 | Preferences and deselect that option
that information is no longer displayed as
| | 01:50 | I scroll. Most of the
time you want that checked.
| | 01:58 | Finally, in this section is the Use
smooth scrolling option. With this
| | 02:02 | selected, clicking on the empty space
of the scroll bar will smoothly scroll
| | 02:07 | the images upwards or downwards. With
it deselected, iPhoto would jump much
| | 02:17 | more erratically.
| | 02:21 | The final preference is to set your
Source Text at Large, to Default or Small.
| | 02:27 | Most of the time setting it to Large
works well especially if you are working
| | 02:31 | at a high resolution display like
1920x1280, 24 inch iMac. When you are happy
| | 02:36 | with your Preference settings,
just close the Preference pane.
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| Learning some quick navigation tips| 00:00 | Here is a quick tip when navigating
your library. To jump to the very top of
| | 00:04 | the library, press the Home key on the
keyboard. That's Function+Left arrow on
| | 00:08 | a laptop keyboard. Press the End key to
go the end of your library and to jump
| | 00:13 | back to an already selected event,
press the G key. You will see my selected
| | 00:18 | event is now framed at the top of the viewer.
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2. Organizing PhotosBuilding ways to organize photos| 00:00 | The core of what makes iPhoto truly
powerful is its organization features.
| | 00:04 | You will see in the iPhoto Source List
to the left of the interface that your
| | 00:08 | library can be viewed in several
different ways. Events, Photos, Faces and Places.
| | 00:14 | Now iPhoto has been around for a while
and with each new version Apple has done
| | 00:18 | a fantastic job of actually
simplifying the way things are organized while
| | 00:22 | still making it easy to sort through
your photos and quickly find the ones
| | 00:25 | you are looking for.
| | 00:27 | A core concept of this
organizational evolution is Events. Events are the
| | 00:32 | fundamental building block of iPhoto.
Events group photos together that were
| | 00:37 | taken around the same time. Now that
might have been within the same day,
| | 00:41 | within the same week or even within
the same month. Whatever the case, events
| | 00:46 | are the basic unit in
which your photos are stored.
| | 00:48 | You will see if I select Events from
the library and then scroll through with
| | 00:52 | the thumbnail slider at the right
of the screen, that all my Events are
| | 00:55 | categorized by date and iPhoto actually
displays the date of the current photos
| | 00:59 | scrolling down the screen. All of the
photos within my library are actually
| | 01:04 | contained within one of these events.
| | 01:06 | And you will see by scrubbing through
one of the events, I can actually see all
| | 01:13 | of the photos contained within that
event, or I can double-click to launch the
| | 01:17 | event. I click All Events to return to
the standard view. The Photos category
| | 01:22 | allows you to view your photos
individually. Notice they are still grouped
| | 01:26 | into events. And as I scroll down you
will see all the individual photos and
| | 01:30 | their events still listed chronologically.
| | 01:33 | Yet another way to view your photos
is via Faces. Faces uses biometric
| | 01:39 | techniques to identify the same person
in multiple photos, and then group all
| | 01:43 | the photos that person is in.
| | 01:44 | And the fourth element in the library
is Places. With Places all of your photos
| | 01:52 | are broken down to the geographic
regions in which you took the photos. You can
| | 01:56 | select one of the regions, and then zoom in
to find all the photos taken in that region.
| | 02:05 | Below the library is a section called
Recent. Here you can see that last event viewed,
| | 02:10 | all the photos taken within
the last twelve months, the last photos
| | 02:14 | imported, any photos you have flagged,
and any photos you have placed in the Trash.
| | 02:19 | Below this we have sections for
Albums, Galleries, Keepsakes and Slide Shows,
| | 02:24 | and we'll look at each of
those in turn in the following lessons.
| | 02:28 | For now the most important takeaway
is to understand that iPhoto organizes
| | 02:32 | your library in different ways so you
can find photos easily depending on how
| | 02:36 | you want to look for them. Whether
that's by the place you took them,
| | 02:39 | the people in them, or the
period in time they were taken.
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| Creating albums| 00:00 | Albums in iPhoto are simply
collections of photos. It's a way of grouping
| | 00:05 | several photos together for a
specific purpose. Now the same photos can
| | 00:10 | actually be in different albums. So
for example, I have here a Christmas Book
| | 00:15 | album that I have used to collect
photos I have planned to place in a book.
| | 00:19 | But I also have a Christmas Card album
with three of the same images that I'm
| | 00:23 | planning to use in a Christmas card.
| | 00:26 | Now one of these photos can belong to
as many albums as they like, your master
| | 00:30 | photos are actually stored in Events.
So each photo in your library can only
| | 00:35 | belong to one event, but you can place
any individual photo and as many albums
| | 00:41 | as you like. Let's take a look how to
create albums. We can choose File > New
| | 00:46 | Album or click the Add button in the
lower left, make sure Album is selected
| | 00:53 | from the list of the top and give it a name.
| | 00:58 | The album appears in the Album section
of the Source List. Then all you need to
| | 01:03 | do is select an event, select some
images and drag them to the album. You can
| | 01:10 | do this from the Events
View or from the Photos View.
| | 01:17 | Next time you click in your album you
will see all the images that you have
| | 01:20 | added to it. Now again it is
important to understand we haven't moved these
| | 01:24 | photos out of the events. They still
belong in their original events and that's
| | 01:28 | where the masters are stored. We simply
made a neat collection of these photos
| | 01:33 | for easy organization.
| | 01:35 | Now one important thing to
understand is because these images are shared
| | 01:38 | between albums, if you make adjustments
or enhancements to images in one album,
| | 01:43 | those changes will also affect the
photo as it appears in other albums. Again
| | 01:47 | that's because there is only photo
that's being grouped in different albums.
| | 01:52 | Finally if you no longer need an album,
you can simply press the Delete key.
| | 01:57 | This does not remove the photos from
your library; it just removes that album.
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| Creating Smart Albums| 00:00 | Just like regular albums, Smart
Albums in iPhoto are collections of your
| | 00:05 | photos. But the difference between
regular albums and Smart Albums is the way
| | 00:10 | the photos are collected. With regular
albums you manually drag images from the
| | 00:15 | Events or Photos section
and drop them into the album.
| | 00:18 | With Smart Albums, iPhoto
automatically collects images based on criteria you
| | 00:24 | set, and every time a new image is
added to your library that meets that
| | 00:28 | criteria, it is automatically included
in your Smart Album. Let's take a look.
| | 00:33 | I will click the Add button and then
select Smart Album. You will see I'll have
| | 00:38 | a list of conditions. Currently there
is only one, and it is set to Album is
| | 00:42 | Any. Which means it will include any photo
that is already included in another album.
| | 00:47 | If I select Album you will see I have
additional criteria that I can use to
| | 00:51 | determine which photos end up in this
Smart Album. In later lessons when we
| | 00:56 | work with keywords and ratings you
will see how powerful this can be for
| | 00:59 | quickly isolating specific images.
| | 01:02 | You will also see at the bottom of the
list advanced features for experienced
| | 01:07 | photographers. For example, if you
shoot with different lenses you could use
| | 01:11 | the Focal length criterion to isolate
only the photos that were shot with your
| | 01:16 | wide-angle lens. Now in any case I
want to isolate the images of Makenzie in
| | 01:22 | Sydney. So we'll actually give that
name to the album. Makenzie in Sydney. And
| | 01:28 | I'll set the first criterion to Name. You
will see a second condition is -ends with-.
| | 01:36 | The way I have set up my Faces is just
to get the first name Makenzie so I'll
| | 01:40 | change this to -is-. And then type
Makenzie. Now that will currently give me a
| | 01:47 | Smart Album of all the photos I have
with Makenzie in them. But I want all the
| | 01:52 | photos with Makenzie in Sydney. So
we'll click the Add button to include an
| | 01:57 | additional criterion, and then
I'll select Place Contains Sydney.
| | 02:04 | Of course if I decide later that I
want to eliminate one of those criterion I
| | 02:10 | can click the Minus button. When I'm
done I'll OK. And you will now see I have
| | 02:15 | a new Smart Album in Source list, and this
contains only pictures of Makenzie in Sydney.
| | 02:22 | Obviously this is just one example how
to group photos based on criteria but it
| | 02:27 | is a really powerful way of quickly
collecting your images. And the great thing
| | 02:31 | about Smart Albums is as I add new
photos of Makenzie in Sydney they will
| | 02:36 | automatically be included in this album.
| | 02:39 | One last tip if you ever want to modify
the criteria you have already set for a
| | 02:44 | Smart Album, simple select it and
choose File > Edit Smart Album. You can then
| | 02:50 | add, subtract or change any of the
criteria that you have already defined. When
| | 02:55 | you are done just click OK.
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| Understanding folders and albums| 00:00 | iPhoto includes one more organizational
feature to help keep your library under
| | 00:04 | control and that's folders.
| | 00:06 | Create a new folder by choosing File
> New Folder. In this folder I plan to
| | 00:12 | collect all of the albums that I'm
using to create books. I'll call it For
| | 00:17 | Books and now I'll simply drag the
alums on to the folder. That's it. To give
| | 00:26 | yourself plenty of real estate, click
the disclosure triangle to the left of
| | 00:30 | the album to hide its
contents. Click it again to expand.
| | 00:34 | One last thing. You can actually
nest folders. That means put one inside
| | 00:39 | another. So I'll choose File > New
Folder and I'll call this For Keepsakes and
| | 00:48 | simply drag the For Books folder on to
For Keepsakes and I now have it nested
| | 00:54 | inside of For Keepsakes.
| | 00:57 | So there you have it. Folders are a nice
simple way to unclutter your iPhoto library.
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3. Working with EventsSetting a key photo| 00:00 | As mentioned in the previous lesson,
events are the basic building blocks of
| | 00:05 | your iPhoto library. Every photo is
contained within one single event even
| | 00:09 | though that photo is allowed to
belong to several different albums.
| | 00:12 | Now you'll notice as you mouse over one
of the events, you can skim through all
| | 00:17 | other photos within that event. But
when you mouse off the event there is just
| | 00:21 | one photo, which is called the key photo,
that remains. This photo is obviously
| | 00:26 | representative of the contents of that event.
| | 00:30 | There are several ways to set the
key photo for an event. The simplest is
| | 00:34 | simply to mouse over the event, scrub
through the photos, when you locate an
| | 00:39 | image that you're happy with, in this
case I'll choose this one with a bit of
| | 00:43 | attitude, simply press the spacebar.
Now when you move your mouse up the event,
| | 00:48 | then photo is expanded
and becomes the key photo.
| | 00:53 | Another way to set the key photo is to
press the information about it in the
| | 00:57 | lower right corner, scrub through the
images at the top left and this time
| | 01:01 | click to set the key photo.
When you're happy click Done.
| | 01:06 | Now that works well for typical event
that has 20 or 30 photos in it but if
| | 01:12 | you've got larger event such as this
one of Vietnam with 194 photos, it proves
| | 01:17 | a little difficult to track down the
individual photo you're after. Instead
| | 01:22 | we'll double to open the event revealing
all of the photos contained within the event.
| | 01:27 | Now I can scroll through all of the
images until I locate an image that I think
| | 01:31 | is particularly representative of the
event. I can then select the photo and
| | 01:37 | choose Events > Make Key Photo. The
currently selected photo will now become
| | 01:42 | the key photo for the event. So that
when I click the All Events button to
| | 01:45 | return to the Standard Events view, you'll
see that the key photo is been correctly set.
| | 01:51 | We'll continue in the next few lessons
to look at how to rename events, create,
| | 01:55 | merge and split them; and also at some
of the preferences that are specifically
| | 02:00 | useful when you're importing your photos.
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| Renaming events| 00:00 | When an event's created during an
import session, it's given the uninspiring
| | 00:04 | name Untitled Event. In the events
view it's listed by the date of the first
| | 00:09 | photo in the event. Here's December 21st, 2008.
| | 00:13 | Naming or renaming an event is
extremely simple. Simply click on the name and
| | 00:18 | type in the new one. This information
is also accessible by the Information
| | 00:25 | panel available by clicking the
Information button. While you're here feel free
| | 00:33 | to enter event description information.
Click Done to return to the standard Events view.
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| Creating and merging events| 00:00 | Events are created when you import
photos but you're still free to move photos
| | 00:05 | around, combine events or even
split them into multiple events.
| | 00:09 | Let's take a look.
| | 00:10 | First of all, suppose I have Terrigal
'08 and Feeding Kangaroos and I really
| | 00:15 | want these combined into one event. I
simply select one of the events and drag
| | 00:20 | it on top of the other. When I
release the mouse, I'm given a warning about
| | 00:24 | merging the events. I'll click Merge
and the two events are combined. Notice
| | 00:29 | that the name for the final combine
event comes from the first event on to
| | 00:34 | which the second was dragged.
| | 00:36 | Splitting an event is just as simple.
Here I'll double click on the on the
| | 00:40 | event to open its contents. Next I'll
locate the first photo I want in the new
| | 00:45 | event. So here we have the photos of
Terrigal and right here at this photo is
| | 00:51 | the start of what we want to be a new
event. We select the photo and choose
| | 00:56 | Events > Split Event. The two events
are split and we can now rename the second
| | 01:02 | event as appropriate. When we return to
the All Events view, we see we now have
| | 01:11 | the two separate events.
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| Splitting events| 00:01 | A common problem iPhoto users have is
how to move just one or two photos from
| | 00:05 | one event to another. The solution is
actually quite simple. Position your
| | 00:10 | pointer over the event containing the
photos you want to move, hold down the
| | 00:14 | Command key and double-click. This
opens the photos of that event in a separate
| | 00:19 | floating window.
| | 00:21 | You can move the window so you can
clearly see the event you want to move the
| | 00:24 | photos to. Select the photos and then
drag them on to the other event.
| | 00:31 | When you release the mouse, the photos are
transferred to the new event. You can then
| | 00:36 | close the old event and if you double
-click the new event, you'll see the
| | 00:40 | photos now contained within the new event.
| | 00:44 | In the next lesson we'll look at some
specific event preferences along with
| | 00:48 | different ways to order
your events in the Events view.
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| Understanding event preferences| 00:00 | To finish out our review of events in
iPhoto, let's take a look at some events
| | 00:04 | specific preferences. Choose iPhoto
> Preferences and then select Events.
| | 00:11 | The first option is what happens when
you double-click an event. By default,
| | 00:16 | it opens a view of all the event's photos.
But you can change the double-click
| | 00:21 | behavior. Instead you can choose to have it
magnify the current photo. Let's take a look.
| | 00:26 | I will select it, close the Preferences
and now mouse across the event. When I
| | 00:34 | find the photo, I want to look at I'll
simply double-click and now that photo
| | 00:39 | is magnified. Click once again to
return to the standard Events View. Most
| | 00:45 | users would probably want to see all
the event photos when they double-click.
| | 00:51 | The next option is Show Event
Reflections. With this selected, we see
| | 00:56 | reflections in the event view. Now
personally I find this a little distracting
| | 01:01 | so I always leave this unchecked.
| | 01:03 | The next option is to Show Scrolling
Information as we have seen before. When
| | 01:08 | scrolling iPhoto shows the current date
of the images on the screen. With this
| | 01:14 | preference deselected, iPhoto
no longer shows that display.
| | 01:21 | Finally and probably the most
significant event preference is the Autosplit.
| | 01:27 | This is where you decide how iPhoto
will split up your photos as you import
| | 01:31 | them. Currently, it's set to one event
per day. That means iPhoto will create a
| | 01:36 | separate event for each new day of shooting.
| | 01:39 | Now that's fine if you are shooting
20 or 30 photos a day. In fact, that's
| | 01:44 | perfect. However, you may find yourself
shooting only one or two photos a day,
| | 01:48 | especially if you are not on vacation.
In that case, you could change the
| | 01:52 | Autosplit to One event per week. If you
find yourself shooting 20 or 30 photos
| | 01:58 | per week, that's perfect.
| | 02:00 | Now if you are a prolific photographer
or you're shooting with a camera that
| | 02:03 | takes multiple shots per second,
you could set it to two-hour gaps or
| | 02:08 | eight-hour gaps. You may need to
experiment to find out what yields the best
| | 02:13 | size events for you. Typically, an
event with 20-30 photos is optimal. Although
| | 02:18 | with cameras that shoot multiple frames per
second that number may need to be much higher.
| | 02:24 | Finally, you have an option to set
Autosplit for items imported from the
| | 02:28 | Finder. By default with this deselected
if you drag a folder of images from the
| | 02:34 | Finder into iPhoto, it will be created
as one single event. With this selected,
| | 02:39 | whatever the Autosplit option is set to,
in this case, One event per day will
| | 02:43 | be applied to those imported items.
| | 02:46 | So if you have a folder of 300 photos
and that was shot of 10 different days,
| | 02:51 | with this option selected, you will
end up with 10 separate events. With it
| | 02:55 | deselected, the standard behavior is
to create one event with all 300 photos
| | 03:00 | contained within.
| | 03:02 | Before we leave Events, let's look at
one last option and that is the ordering
| | 03:06 | of the events in your viewer. By
default it's set chronologically, so as you
| | 03:12 | drag the slider from top to bottom,
you start with the oldest photos and move
| | 03:16 | to the newest ones.
| | 03:18 | This works for most people, but if you
are more particular about the placement
| | 03:21 | of things, you can actually change the
way they are ordered. Choose View, Sort
| | 03:27 | Events, either by Date, Keyword if you
have them, Title, Rating if you have set
| | 03:33 | them or Manually. Set this to Manually,
and you can drag events to different
| | 03:38 | locations as desired. Of course, you
can always click View > Sort Events > By
| | 03:48 | Date to return to chronological order.
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4. FacesReviewing the Faces feature| 00:00 | Faces really is a powerful addition to
iPhoto. Access the Faces view from the
| | 00:06 | library on the left of the interface.
Now, long after you have given up adding
| | 00:10 | keywords and individual titles to your
photos, you'll still find yourself using Faces
| | 00:15 | to quickly sort through your
library and find photos of your favorite
| | 00:19 | people. In the Faces view, you'll see
a corkboard with individual photos of
| | 00:23 | every face you have identified to iPhoto.
| | 00:26 | We'll be looking at the process of
identifying and confirming faces in the
| | 00:30 | lessons following. Faces uses biometric
principles to identify the same person
| | 00:36 | in several different photos. So the
distance between the eyes, the special
| | 00:40 | relationship they have to the nose and
mouth, all create a distinctive facial
| | 00:44 | fingerprint that iPhoto can
used to identify faces uniquely.
| | 00:49 | You'll see as you mouse over the images,
that you can scrub through all of the
| | 00:53 | photos that belong to that face.
You can also arrange the photos.
| | 00:58 | You'll see here that we have part of my family,
Marne, Makenzie, Michaela, but I'm down on
| | 01:02 | a different line. I'll simply drag my
image up, position it just after Michaela
| | 01:08 | and now the whole family is on one line.
| | 01:10 | Be careful when you are doing this not
to unintentionally put one face over the
| | 01:13 | top of another, otherwise you'll
actually combine the two sets and tell iPhoto
| | 01:18 | that they are actually the same face.
| | 01:20 | As an example of that functionality,
you will see I have Makenzie here but also
| | 01:24 | down the bottom, I have another item
misnamed as Rachel, which are actually
| | 01:28 | photos of Makenzie as well. So I
simply select it, drag it, and drop it onto
| | 01:34 | the original Makenzie item
and the two will be merged.
| | 01:37 | Again, to arrange images side-by-side,
simply drag in the space between them.
| | 01:41 | If a collection of faces you have
identified are completely wrong and you need
| | 01:45 | to remove them entirely to start
again, just select the item and press
| | 01:50 | Command+Delete. Don't worry;
this won't delete any of your photos.
| | 01:54 | It will simply remove the label of that
person from each photo they appear in.
| | 01:58 | Finally, to view all of the photos of
a certain face, simply double-click it.
| | 02:03 | To return to viewing all faces, click
All Faces. In the next lessons, we'll see
| | 02:09 | how iPhoto can automatically
identify faces in your photos and apply
| | 02:13 | the correct names to them.
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| Connecting faces and photos| 00:00 | Now I have already mentioned this in
other lessons but if you do noting else to
| | 00:04 | help organize your iPhoto Library,
make sure you take advantage of Faces and
| | 00:08 | Places. It takes just a short while to
train iPhoto to recognize your favorite
| | 00:13 | faces and then it's an enormous
resource when it comes time to search through
| | 00:18 | your photos for favorite moments in your life.
| | 00:20 | When you first start setting up Faces,
you'll see this screen if you select
| | 00:24 | Faces from the Library. Obviously,
we have no faces unidentified, so it
| | 00:28 | tells us it's time to go in and start
naming people. So that's what we'll do.
| | 00:33 | We'll go to Events, and select an
event with people we want to name.
| | 00:39 | I'll double-click the event to open it
and you see here, I have photos of two
| | 00:44 | sisters, Makenzie and Michaela, and
these are actually pretty good photos,
| | 00:48 | mainly because they are right at
the median age for these children.
| | 00:52 | When you are working with faces,
especially with the younger children, you
| | 00:56 | should try to find an age right in
the middle of the photos that you are
| | 00:59 | working with. So if you have lots of
photos of them as a baby and lots when
| | 01:03 | they are older, you find the mid range,
that's a good place to start. And then
| | 01:07 | you can start naming photos of them at
a younger and an older age, until iPhoto
| | 01:11 | easily recognizes all stages of their life.
| | 01:14 | Now in adults and older children who
passed through adolescence, the face shape
| | 01:18 | doesn't change as much and so it's
much easier to identify a broad swath of
| | 01:23 | photos, just from one or two source images.
| | 01:25 | Let's get started with the process of
naming the photos. So I'll go ahead and
| | 01:31 | select the first photo and click the
Name button at the base of interface.
| | 01:35 | You will see that iPhoto is automatically
identifying the face and we simply need
| | 01:39 | to click in the unknown face section
here and type in the name. In this case,
| | 01:43 | this is Makenzie. I'll hit Return and
the photo is now identified and correctly
| | 01:49 | labeled as Makenzie.
| | 01:50 | Now I then go through to the next photo.
I can either click the arrow down in
| | 01:54 | the lower right of the screen, but
it's much easier just to use the Left and
| | 01:58 | Right Arrow Keys in the keyboard. So
press the Right Arrow key to come to the
| | 02:01 | next photo. This is the photo of
Michaela, so I'll type in Michaela and we now
| | 02:07 | have two photos identified. Press the
Right Arrow again to move to the next
| | 02:11 | photo and this time again, it's
Michaela but because iPhoto is still building
| | 02:16 | up a database of what Michaela looks
like, it doesn't yet recognized this face.
| | 02:21 | So again we'll click and we'll start
typing Michaela that you'll see as soon as
| | 02:24 | we type two letters, it identifies
Michaela as one of the already named faces
| | 02:29 | and we can just select it from the pop-
up list. Press the Right Arrow again and
| | 02:33 | this time, even with this glasses,
you'll see it's correctly identified
| | 02:37 | Michaela, all I need to do
is click the checkbox like so.
| | 02:41 | Press the Right Arrow to move to the
next photo. Again, correctly identified
| | 02:45 | Michaela. I'll click the check, next
photo, again correct identification, I
| | 02:51 | click the check and I'll proceed
through here just for enough photos that I'm
| | 02:56 | getting a lot of positives.
| | 02:57 | Again, Michaela correctly identified.
We have only had one photo of Makenzie so
| | 03:02 | far and so it's still having a hard
time identifying her. I'll select and hit
| | 03:07 | Mak and now I can just
select Makenzie from the list.
| | 03:11 | Now one really important point here.
It's a good idea when you are dealing with
| | 03:14 | siblings like this who have a lot of
facial features that are similar to work
| | 03:18 | through a few photos, before you move
on to the next part of the process which
| | 03:22 | is moving to the Faces section of the
Library and then looking at all of the
| | 03:26 | faces that iPhoto has identified as
that person and we'll look at that next.
| | 03:30 | But right now we are going through
and just looking at a few photos to make
| | 03:33 | sure that when the two girls are
together, iPhoto is recognizing one from the
| | 03:38 | other. I'll click the Right Arrow
again and again Michaela is being correctly
| | 03:41 | identified but we need to name
Makenzie. Right Arrow, yes this is Michaela.
| | 03:50 | Again this is Michaela.
| | 03:51 | Now notice here that there is no box
in Makenzie's face. That's because the
| | 03:55 | hair covering her eye obscures the
face and iPhoto is unable to identify that
| | 04:01 | as a face. Now we can actually add a
missing face and we'll do that in the
| | 04:04 | following lesson but for now we'll
just ignore her face in this photo.
| | 04:08 | I'll press the Right Arrow and again
another picture of Makenzie, not yet
| | 04:11 | identified. So we'll select type the
first few letters of her name and select
| | 04:16 | it from the list.
| | 04:20 | Now this one is obviously much trickier
for iPhoto to identify. So most cases,
| | 04:26 | we would have had to manually name this
one anyway. I'm selecting check and in
| | 04:35 | this case, because these girls are
sisters, incorrectly identified Makenzie as
| | 04:40 | Michaela. So we'll say no, it's not
and type her name in. And of course, we
| | 04:48 | need to type Michaela's name in the top face
and then press the Right Arrow to move forward.
| | 04:54 | We are almost done with this process.
You will see now that it actually
| | 05:00 | correctly identified Makenzie and it
also wants a name for her doll and for the
| | 05:06 | sake of this exercise, we probably
don't need to identify the doll, mainly
| | 05:10 | because I have no idea which one of
the Disney princess is this is. And that
| | 05:14 | will probably cause trademark issues
if I incorrectly name her. So we'll go
| | 05:18 | ahead and press the Right Arrow to
move forward and once again, you will see
| | 05:21 | that it's correctly
identified both Michaela and Makenzie.
| | 05:25 | Okay, now that iPhoto is doing a good
job of recognizing both these girl's
| | 05:30 | faces, we'll click Done and then in
the next lesson, we'll take a look at
| | 05:34 | confirming the faces in the
Faces section of the Library.
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| Confirming faces| 00:00 | After naming some faces in the
Events view, it's time to go to the Faces
| | 00:04 | section of the library and start to
confirm other faces that iPhoto has
| | 00:09 | automatically identified for you.
| | 00:11 | Let's take a look. We'll select Faces
and then we'll choose one of currently
| | 00:16 | the two faces that we've already
identified, Makenzie and Michaela. Now before
| | 00:20 | we do that you can see we have a less
than stellar photo of Michaela here as
| | 00:24 | the key photo. So what we'll do is
we'll change that and all we need to do is
| | 00:29 | mouse over, pick out a different
photo and press the Spacebar. Now when
| | 00:34 | you move off the thumbnail that
image remains as the key photo.
| | 00:38 | Now these girls are sisters, so they
share a lot of the same facial structure.
| | 00:42 | What we'll do then is we'll actually
confirm photos for Makenzie and then move
| | 00:47 | on the confirm those for Michaela and
then back to Makenzie again. That way
| | 00:51 | iPhoto has a better chance of
recognizing the difference between the two.
| | 00:55 | So let's start. We'll double-click on
Makenzie. You will see at the very top are
| | 01:00 | the photos we've already identified as
being of Makenzie. Below that you will
| | 01:05 | see a section called Makenzie may also
be in the photos below. I'll scroll down
| | 01:10 | to that section and what we do now is
move into Confirm Name mode. I'll simply
| | 01:17 | select the Confirm Name button and you
will see that the interface zooms up on
| | 01:21 | the particular part of the image that
iPhoto has identified as being Makenzie's face.
| | 01:27 | Now all we need to do is click to
confirm that it's Makenzie. So I'll confirm
| | 01:32 | this one, this one, this one and
I'll keep going. Scroll down again
| | 01:41 | and you'll see iPhoto is actually done
a great job of identifying Makenzie in
| | 01:45 | additional photos. Scroll down again.
| | 01:52 | Now clearly this is not Makenzie. So
what I'll do is double-click and that sets
| | 01:58 | the photo to say Not Makenzie. Faces
is now being told that whatever false
| | 02:03 | information caused it to think that
this was Makenzie should be discarded.
| | 02:10 | So we continue down the left and
identify all of the other images that are
| | 02:15 | Makenzie. Again, this here is not Makenzie,
so we'll double-click and continue to move down.
| | 02:23 | Now if you go through and click and
select something that is not Makenzie by mistake,
| | 02:26 | simply click again, which is
essentially two clicks, a double-click and
| | 02:31 | we re-identify the photo as being not
Makenzie. This is actually Michaela, so
| | 02:37 | we'll double-click and of course this
is not Makenzie, we'll double-click as well.
| | 02:45 | I'll just finish things out.
| | 02:50 | Now you will notice that we have
had several identifications of Michaela,
| | 02:52 | Makenzie's sister, as being Makenzie.
Because we are specifically saying
| | 02:57 | that these are not Makenzie,
it will actually help those photos to be
| | 03:00 | identified as Michaela and help
iPhoto to identify between the two sisters.
| | 03:11 | Now when we are done with the
identification, we click Done and what iPhoto
| | 03:15 | does is then refines the photo
search further and based on the additional
| | 03:20 | information of the new faces we've
identified creates new photos in the
| | 03:24 | Makenzie may also be in the photos
below section. We can then perceive to
| | 03:28 | confirm or deny these ones as well.
But what I like to do is go back to
| | 03:32 | the All Faces sections and now I'll select
Michaela and we'll proceed with the process of
| | 03:37 | identifying Michaela in these additional photos.
| | 03:41 | So again once we have scroll to
Michaela may also be in the photos below,
| | 03:45 | we'll click the Confirm Name button
and start to confirm Michaela's photos.
| | 03:54 | These are actually photos of her sister Makenzie
and you will see again we have several
| | 04:00 | false positives where iPhoto is
thought that Makenzie is Michaela.
| | 04:04 | So by selecting Not Michaela we are
retraining iPhoto to ignore those images and not
| | 04:10 | associate them with Michaela.
| | 04:13 | Now a lot of people might stop here
and think that Faces really isn't doing a
| | 04:17 | good job. In fact it's still in the
process of proceeding to understand what
| | 04:21 | Michaela's face really looks like. You
will see that once we have done this one
| | 04:25 | round through, the next time we have
look at the images, iPhoto will have done
| | 04:28 | a much better job of correctly
identifying Michaela. So even though all of the
| | 04:34 | images are not her, once we select
them as such, iPhoto will do a much better
| | 04:40 | job of identifying her in future searches.
| | 04:44 | This will also free up some of these
photos of Makenzie to be identified in
| | 04:48 | the Makenzie section. I'll go ahead
and click Done and now let's look at the
| | 04:53 | photos that as a result of our last
set of conformations have been identified
| | 04:57 | as Michaela. I'll go ahead and click
Confirm Name and you will see that Faces
| | 05:02 | has now done a much better
job at identifying Michaela.
| | 05:17 | Just continue through these.
| | 05:29 | And you will see that
in this case at least so far
| | 05:34 | we have had 100% accuracy in the
detection of Michaela's face, even on the
| | 05:40 | blurry image like this one. Okay,
we have got our first false positive,
| | 05:46 | but not too bad so far.
| | 05:54 | And one more false positive out
of the batch and I'll click Done.
| | 05:59 | Now you can continue to do this for
all of your photos but you can also just
| | 06:03 | leave iPhoto to continue to add
photos to the Michaela may also in section
| | 06:08 | without always doing the
tedious job of confirming them.
| | 06:10 | So once you have spend a little bit of
time training iPhoto to recognize your
| | 06:14 | favorite faces, you can leave it to
collect the rest of the photos for you.
| | 06:18 | Then as you continue to look through
your photos, add new faces as see them
| | 06:23 | until your Faces corkboard is
full of your favorite people.
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| Adding missing faces| 00:00 | Now Faces won't always detect a face
in every single photo. Obviously some
| | 00:05 | photos simply don't have people in them,
but at other times the orientation of
| | 00:09 | the face is insufficient for
iPhoto to make a correct match.
| | 00:13 | So you'll see I have at the top here
examples of photos that Faces is unable to
| | 00:18 | identify, not just identity, but the
actual fact that there is a face there at all.
| | 00:23 | In this first image the face is
pointed downwards so the eyes are not open, so
| | 00:28 | it's enough to confuse Faces and
not make it recognizable as a face.
| | 00:33 | Obviously, here part of the face is
cut off. Now, sometimes Faces will still
| | 00:37 | attempt to identify a face like this,
but usually it requires at least both
| | 00:42 | eyes to be visible in the image.
| | 00:44 | Again in this next photo the face is
turned away from the camera and the mouth
| | 00:48 | is somewhat obscured from the image.
| | 00:50 | Now this next image is a little confusing
but the main reason Faces has a hard time
| | 00:55 | with this is the direction the
eyes are facing and also the slight
| | 00:59 | obstruction of the hair.
| | 01:00 | Similarly, the last photo here has
the face in an odd angle and the eyes
| | 01:05 | pointing away from the center.
| | 01:07 | The less symmetrical the face appears
in the photo the harder it is for Faces
| | 01:12 | to identify it as a face.
| | 01:14 | So let's see what we do when we find
a face that's not identified. I'll go
| | 01:18 | ahead and select a photo and click Name,
and you'll see at the bottom-left the
| | 01:24 | Add Missing Face button. I'll click
the button, and that will bring up the
| | 01:27 | on-screen display of the square
that I can reposition around the face.
| | 01:33 | I can either drag a corner or the
entire box by grabbing the center. Now it's
| | 01:41 | very important to understand that
Faces is not going to use this as future
| | 01:46 | information to help recognize other
photos. So this is not part of training
| | 01:50 | Faces to recognize this person;
it's only for your personal ability to identify
| | 01:55 | the person in this photo.
| | 01:57 | So you can be a little arbitrary about
where you position this box, but just
| | 02:01 | remember if you're exporting to
somewhere like Facebook this area will be
| | 02:05 | defined as the person's name area. Now
that I have set up the box, I'll simply
| | 02:09 | click Done and then type a name. Again
Faces automatically identifies the name
| | 02:15 | in my database and I can just select
it from the list. When I'm happy
| | 02:20 | I'll click Done. That photo will now
appear in the Makenzie section of Faces.
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5. PlacesReviewing the Places feature| 00:00 | Places is one of the brand-new features
in iPhoto '09 and is likely to completely
| | 00:05 | change the way you view and access your photos.
| | 00:08 | Choose Places from the Library section
of the Source pane. You will red pins to
| | 00:13 | every location on the map where photos
were taken. This actually turns out to
| | 00:18 | be a much more powerful way of
locating photos that you have taken.
| | 00:22 | The human mind is actually very good at
spatially mapping events to locations.
| | 00:27 | What it's not so good at is identifying
events based on their chronology.
| | 00:32 | It's hard to remember what happened two years,
let alone what happened in March two years ago.
| | 00:37 | But it's much easier to remember
where you were when an event took place.
| | 00:42 | That's what makes Places so powerful.
Just select a location on the map and
| | 00:49 | you can see all of the photos that were
taken past, present and as you add them
| | 00:54 | of course future for that location.
You can even use Places in your published books
| | 00:59 | to create routes complete with
hours between destinations of your vacation.
| | 01:05 | iPhoto leverages locations information
that's embedded in photos taken by GPS
| | 01:10 | capable cameras. Now these cameras are
still emerging in the market, but the very
| | 01:14 | existence of Places in iPhoto is
likely to spur hardware manufacturers to
| | 01:19 | include GPS in more and more
devices as we move forward.
| | 01:23 | Now since these cameras are still
fairly new to the market, you may feel like
| | 01:27 | Places has limited usefulness to you.
However, if you own an iPhone you already
| | 01:31 | have GPS capability built-in and you
may be surprised to find that as you
| | 01:36 | import photos from your iPhone,
whether it's 1st Generation or a 3G,
| | 01:41 | iPhoto automatically imports
the data of where they were taken.
| | 01:45 | iPhoto includes very simple ways to
add geographic information to the photos
| | 01:50 | with just a few clicks, and we'll see
how to do that in the following lessons.
| | 01:54 | You will find that we can enter a
single location for an entire event or for a
| | 01:58 | selection of photos.
| | 02:00 | One last thing before we wrap. To work
with the Places map interactively in iPhoto
| | 02:05 | you need to have an active Internet
connection. You will see if I select Places
| | 02:08 | right now without an Internet
connection I see a warning that my computer is
| | 02:12 | not connected and I have no access to
the geographic data that comes with my photos.
| | 02:17 | It all requires
access to Google Maps to work.
| | 02:21 | Now obviously that's not going to be a
problem if you are watching these videos
| | 02:24 | from the lynda site; you are already
online to view the videos. But if you are
| | 02:28 | watching this training from an offline
source just make sure you have an active
| | 02:31 | Internet connection before
continuing with the lessons.
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| Adding missing places| 00:00 | Now as I've mentioned in the previous
lesson if you are shooting your photos
| | 00:04 | with a GPS capable camera or an
iPhone, the Places information is already
| | 00:09 | included in the photos and iPhoto
will automatically place them in the
| | 00:13 | appropriate locations on your Places map.
| | 00:16 | However, since most of us aren't yet
shooting with a GPS capable camera,
| | 00:21 | Apple has included a very nice easy
way of manually adding Places information
| | 00:25 | to your photos. You can add
geographic information to an entire event or to
| | 00:30 | individual photos. Let's look at each in turn.
| | 00:33 | First, to add geographic information
to an event, move your pointer over the
| | 00:38 | event and then select the Information
icon. This opens a basic Information
| | 00:43 | window containing the key photo, the
name of the event, the earliest date of
| | 00:47 | photos in the event, and the number of
photos in the event. You then have two
| | 00:51 | additional fields for Event
Location and Event Description.
| | 00:55 | Right now we are only concerned with
the Event Location. So I'll select that
| | 01:00 | field and type in the location, in this
case Sydney. You will see that as soon
| | 01:06 | as I begin typing, iPhoto populates the list
with the most likely locations I'm trying to find.
| | 01:13 | Now one of the really cool features
of this search that iPhoto takes into
| | 01:17 | account where you've already
identified photos are belonging. So since I have
| | 01:21 | already taken photos in New South Wales,
Australia, iPhoto identifies Sydney
| | 01:25 | and local Sydney landmarks as the
most likely targets for my search.
| | 01:30 | All I need to do is select Sydney from
the list and I'm done. Click Done at the
| | 01:34 | bottom of the window and the event is
being tagged with the appropriate location.
| | 01:39 | Now there may be photos in that event
that were actually take in a different
| | 01:43 | location or I want to be more precise
with exactly where in Sydney certain
| | 01:48 | photos were taken. I'll simply double
-click the event to open it and then
| | 01:53 | identify photos I want to individually place.
| | 01:56 | Here in fact all of the photos except
for the one at the opera house were taken
| | 02:00 | in a beach city north of Sydney
called Terrigal. So I'll simply select that
| | 02:05 | photos that I want to place more
precisely and then click the Information icon
| | 02:09 | for one of the selected items.
| | 02:12 | Now even though that brings up the
properties just for the item I clicked on,
| | 02:16 | all of the selected items will receive
the same changed data as I edit it here.
| | 02:22 | Again, I'll move to the Places field
and replace Sydney with Terrigal. This is
| | 02:29 | already a place I've identified for other
photos, so it automatically appears in the list.
| | 02:34 | If I hadn't yet identified Terrigal as
one of my places, I'd need to locate it
| | 02:38 | with a master Google search using the
New Place option. We'll see how to do
| | 02:42 | that in the following lesson. Right
now I'll select it and then click Done.
| | 02:49 | Now each of these photos will appear
as listed in Terrigal even though the
| | 02:53 | master event is listed in Sydney and
the one unselected photo, the one at the
| | 02:58 | Sydney opera house, will
still be located in Sydney.
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| Adding a new place| 00:00 | While iPhoto automatically identifies
major cities when you start adding places,
| | 00:05 | you can also be incredibly precise.
I'll begin by double-clicking my
| | 00:09 | event and identifying two images that
I want to precisely locate. These two
| | 00:15 | photos were taken of the apartments we
were staying at in Terrigal during a vacation.
| | 00:20 | So I'll select both photos and click
the Information icon for one of the two
| | 00:25 | images. You will see currently it's
been tagged as being in Terrigal, New South
| | 00:29 | Wales, but I want to be more precise.
The apartments in question were called
| | 00:34 | Star of the Sea. So I'll select the
field and type in Star of the Sea instead.
| | 00:39 | You will that iPhoto is unable to
locate anything matching that description.
| | 00:45 | I'll select New Place. This brings me
to the Edit My Places window. You will
| | 00:50 | see on the left all of the custom
places I have identified in other photos that
| | 00:54 | I have already tagged with a place. In
this case Star of the Sea is not one of them.
| | 00:59 | So I'll go to Google search and type in
Star of the Sea. When I press Return, I
| | 01:06 | get a list of all of the identified
locations. Now currently the search is
| | 01:11 | local to California, the location of my
computer. So I need to be a little bit
| | 01:16 | more precise. I'll just add Terrigal to
the search term and press Return again.
| | 01:24 | Now I see another list and you will see
as I click each of the search results,
| | 01:28 | I can actually see the location of the
result on a map. In my case Star of the
| | 01:33 | Sea Luxury Apartment is listed at the
very bottom and is correctly located. Now
| | 01:37 | on the map I have a blue pin
indicating the searched item. I also have a red
| | 01:41 | pin indicating that other photos in
my library have been taken nearby.
| | 01:46 | Use the plus and the minus buttons at
the lower left to zoom in or zoom out on
| | 01:50 | your map. And then you will see that if
you position your pointer over the two
| | 01:54 | arrows of the circumference of the
blue circle, you can adjust the radius of
| | 01:59 | the area covered by this particular location.
| | 02:02 | Now if we were talking about photos
taken around Terrigal, we would want this
| | 02:06 | circle to cover the entire beach area.
In this case we are very specifically
| | 02:11 | referring to the location of the apartments,
so I can make the circle extremely small.
| | 02:17 | Now all I need to do is click Assign to
photo. You will see that in future if I
| | 02:22 | need to tag any of the other photos,
it's automatically been listed as Star of
| | 02:27 | the Sea Luxury Apartments and by
simply typing in Star of the Sea it will
| | 02:31 | automatically be populated in the list.
| | 02:35 | You will see now if I go to the new
places that in my places, Star of the Sea
| | 02:38 | is listed right along side other custom
locations that I have identified. When
| | 02:44 | you are happy, click Done and
your photos are correctly placed.
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| Using the Places map| 00:01 | Anyone familiar with Google maps will
feel right at home in the Places map.
| | 00:05 | Begin by selecting the Places from the
Source list. You will see a map of the
| | 00:09 | world with individual pins for each
location in which photos were taken. Simply
| | 00:15 | drag the map to pan around. You will
see that yes indeed the world is round and
| | 00:19 | so as you pan, the map
reappears to the left or the right.
| | 00:23 | To zoom in on a certain region, select
one of the pins and then click the Plus
| | 00:28 | or Minus buttons to the left or right
of the Zoom slider. The map will zoom on
| | 00:33 | the selected pin. You can also
interactively drag the slider but you'll
| | 00:39 | probably find that the lagging update
makes just clicking the plus and the
| | 00:43 | minus preferable to move in
and out by discreet steps.
| | 00:47 | To show the entire map again click Zoom
All and you will see as you will select
| | 00:52 | the pin and then click the plus to
zoom in, that additional pins begin to
| | 00:58 | appear as the resolution increases.
Here while I initially only had one pin for
| | 01:04 | Sydney, Australia as we zoom in, we'll
see pins for all the unique locations in
| | 01:09 | Sydney that I have visited.
| | 01:10 | As with all Google maps, you can view
data in three different ways. The Terrain
| | 01:15 | view, which we are looking at now, a
Satellite view or a Hybrid view with the
| | 01:20 | information of the Terrain view
superimposed of this satellite information.
| | 01:25 | I'll select the Terrain view again. As
I continue to zoom even more pins appear
| | 01:30 | and I can select one of the
pins to center the zooming.
| | 01:33 | Once I have identified a location
that I want to actually see photos for I
| | 01:39 | click the location I want to view and
then click the arrow to the right of the
| | 01:42 | label. This brings up all of the
photos that would take in, in that location,
| | 01:47 | in this case, the Koala Park in Sydney.
| | 01:51 | Now notice that these photos were
taken at different times in fact three
| | 01:55 | separate years they have represented
here. But because they were all taken in
| | 01:58 | the same location in the world they
are all grouped together here very
| | 02:01 | conveniently. To return to the main map,
I'll simply click Map. Now as you zoom
| | 02:07 | in even closer, the Terrain view
will show you individual streets and the
| | 02:13 | Satellite and hybrid maps make a lot more sense.
| | 02:16 | I will click Zoom All again to see
the entire map. Now another really
| | 02:23 | convenient feature is the ability to
create a Smart Album from a location. For
| | 02:27 | example, if I want a Smart Album of
all the photos from Sydney, I'll select
| | 02:32 | Sydney and then simply click the Smart
Album button. This creates a Smart Album
| | 02:38 | labeled with the state in which Sydney
resides, New South Wales. When I select
| | 02:42 | it all of my photos from the Sydney
area are contained within that Smart Album.
| | 02:47 | I will select Places again, you will
see a third button between Zoom All and
| | 02:53 | Smart Album and that's Show Photos.
This is identical to selecting one of the
| | 02:57 | pins and clicking the arrow, it's
simply another way to move to the Photo view.
| | 03:02 | Finally, the Places map has an
alternate view. If I select the second view
| | 03:07 | option, I can view the places as a list.
Here I can select Australia, images
| | 03:14 | from New South Wales, images from
Sydney locations and then one of the
| | 03:18 | individual Sydney locations in
the list such as Sydney Town Hall.
| | 03:23 | In this case, Sydney Town Hall appears
twice because it's actually identified
| | 03:28 | as two separate locations very close to
each other. So hopefully you have seen
| | 03:33 | just how powerful Places is because
the human mind works so well at recalling
| | 03:38 | events based on their location, Places really
is an ideal way to search through your photos.
| | 03:44 | Along with Faces if you do nothing else
to organize your Library, take the time
| | 03:48 | to at least add locations to your
events, you will find it an amazing way to
| | 03:52 | recall photos very quickly when you
are searching through your library.
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| More tips on Places| 00:00 | Now we've already seen that on the
Places map, we can select a place and use
| | 00:04 | the Plus and Minus keys in the lower
right corner to zoom in on that location,
| | 00:08 | or we can drag the slider. However,
if you want to zoom in on an arbitrary
| | 00:13 | location just double-click it. Even if
you don't have photos in that location,
| | 00:18 | iPhoto will zoom in on
the area you have selected.
| | 00:20 | Of course, to zoom out fully again,
just click the Zoom All button. One other
| | 00:26 | tip regarding Places. If you want to
edit the custom places that you have added
| | 00:30 | to your Library, choose Window >
Manage my Places. Here you can adjust or
| | 00:36 | delete any places that are incorrect.
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6. Keywords and SearchingExploring metadata in the Photo Info panel| 00:00 | One of the things that often
surprises people as they get into digital
| | 00:03 | photography is just how many photos
they end up taking. Now the good news is
| | 00:09 | that iPhoto includes extensive metadata
support to help keep track and organize
| | 00:15 | all of these images. Metadata is
just a big word that simply means extra
| | 00:19 | information that comes along with a photo.
| | 00:22 | So instead of just having rows of
pixels of different colors you also have some
| | 00:26 | basic information that tells iPhoto
about how the image was taken and also
| | 00:31 | adding things like keywords and
ratings. We'll take a look at keywords and
| | 00:35 | ratings in the following lessons but
right now let's take a look at that
| | 00:39 | metadata information that comes in
with the photo straight from the camera.
| | 00:44 | There are two simple ways to look at
metadata information in iPhoto. The first
| | 00:49 | is the Info pane. If I click the Info
button, you will see right now that we
| | 00:53 | are just looking at basic information
about the event we are viewing.
| | 00:57 | But if I select the photo I'll actually
see information about that photo.
| | 01:01 | Now, it's rather brief. We have got
the name of the image, in this case
| | 01:05 | PA106599, and that was the name that
the camera gave to it. We can, of course,
| | 01:11 | rename that photo if we wish by
clicking its Info button, the day it was taken,
| | 01:15 | the time of day was taken, a rating
which we'll get to in a later lesson,
| | 01:20 | any keywords we have attached to it and
again we'll look at that in a later lesson.
| | 01:24 | The kind of image, in this case it's
an Olympus Raw file format. And finally,
| | 01:29 | the size in pixels and the size in
mega bytes. Now that's a modest amount of
| | 01:34 | information for a quick review but it's
actually a lot more detail. With the
| | 01:38 | image still selected I'll choose Photos
> Show Extended Photo Info. This brings up
| | 01:46 | a completely different window.
| | 01:47 | Here we have all of the same data
but some more extensive information.
| | 01:53 | We can see the type of camera that was used.
It was an A500 made by Olympus.
| | 01:57 | The software version of the camera's
firmware and in the Exposure setting,
| | 02:02 | detailed information about the shutter
and aperture settings of the camera itself,
| | 02:06 | when the photo was taken.
| | 02:08 | Now if you knew the photography, this
information might seem a little strange
| | 02:12 | or foreign. That's okay. In fact it's
a great way to learn about your camera
| | 02:16 | and learn about the settings that we
used. If something doesn't look right
| | 02:20 | often you can diagnose what went wrong
by seeing the camera settings you had
| | 02:24 | when you took the photo. But there
is another powerful purpose for having
| | 02:28 | access to this information.
| | 02:30 | Let's say you have a couple of
different lenses and one of them like this
| | 02:33 | 14-millimeter is a wide-angle lens.
Wide-angle lenses are traditionally
| | 02:37 | anything 35 millimeters or less. If I
wanted to isolate all of the photos that
| | 02:43 | I took on a certain day with my wide-angle lens,
I could create a Smart Album to do just that.
| | 02:49 | Be sure to watch the video on Smart
Albums for more information but let's just take
| | 02:53 | a quick look. I'll choose File > New
Smart Album and I'll set the criteria of
| | 03:01 | Focal Length, choose is less than 35 mm,
and click OK. Here's my untitled album.
| | 03:14 | I'll just close the extended info and
you will see all of the images that were
| | 03:18 | taken with a wide-angle lens.
| | 03:20 | Of course, I could have searched or
created a combination search with other
| | 03:24 | exposure settings like shutter,
aperture, exposure bias or even whether the
| | 03:29 | flash fired or not. So while, as you
will see in the coming lessons, we can add
| | 03:33 | a lot of information to our photos
within iPhoto using keywords and ratings,
| | 03:38 | we can actually take advantage of a
wealth of data placed into the photos
| | 03:42 | automatically by our cameras.
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| Adding keywords| 00:00 | Apple has gone to great lengths to
make Keywords easy to apply and easy to
| | 00:04 | search. Keywords are a great way to
make your entire library searchable so that
| | 00:09 | if you are trying to track down one
photo, months or years later, you can do it
| | 00:15 | based on what was in the photo
and what keywords you apply to it.
| | 00:19 | Now before we get going, a quick
warning and it's along the lines of "know
| | 00:22 | thyself." If you are fastidious kind
of person, and you know that you will be
| | 00:27 | able to commit to continually adding
keywords as you introduce new photos into
| | 00:31 | your library, go ahead use them as
much as you like. If on the other hand you
| | 00:36 | are the kind of person that will
quickly tire of their process, you might want
| | 00:40 | to limit how many keywords you apply to
make sure that it's a manageable number
| | 00:44 | that you feel you can consistently and
faithfully add as photos are introduced.
| | 00:49 | Now the good news is that Faces and
Places in iPhoto '09, go a long way to
| | 00:54 | making your photos automatically
searchable. But there are still many cases
| | 00:59 | when you want more information included
about a photo, other than who is in it
| | 01:03 | and where it was taken.
| | 01:05 | In this case, keywords are ideal. So
to get started, choose View, Keywords. A
| | 01:11 | row of keywords appears below every
single image. Now I currently haven't added
| | 01:16 | any keywords to my iPhoto library. So
the only word that appears is Raw. That's
| | 01:21 | because these photos were shot in the
raw format and iPhoto automatically add
| | 01:26 | that keyword so if I wanted to
search just for raw images later, I could.
| | 01:30 | Let's go ahead and add our own custom
keyword. I'll simply select the Keyword
| | 01:36 | line and type in a new word, in this
case, we have dancing going on so I'll
| | 01:41 | simply type in Dance and hit Return.
Dance is automatically added as the
| | 01:46 | keyword. Press Return again and I exit
the Keyword Entry mode. Now you will see
| | 01:52 | I have a several other keywords I
would like to assign the word Dance to.
| | 01:55 | I will select three of them here,
click in one and attempt to apply the word.
| | 02:00 | You will see iPhoto automatically identifies
the word in my database and fills in it for me.
| | 02:06 | But notice it was only entered for the
first photo, not for the others I had
| | 02:10 | selected. Instead I can use an
alternate method for adding keywords. I'll go
| | 02:15 | ahead and Command+Click several of
these images in preparation for adding the
| | 02:20 | Dance keyword. Now I'll choose
Window > Show Keywords or press Command+K.
| | 02:27 | This brings up the Keywords Window
and you will see a list of all of the
| | 02:31 | keywords that I currently have
available for using with my photos. You will see
| | 02:36 | the recently added Dance keyword there,
I simply click on it and all of the
| | 02:41 | photos selected automatically
have that keyword added to them.
| | 02:45 | If I want to remove that keyword from
all the selected photos, I simply click
| | 02:49 | the button again. In this case, I do
want the word applied so I'll click to
| | 02:54 | apply the Dance keyword to all selected photos.
| | 02:58 | Now you will see above this section
called Keywords, another section called
| | 03:02 | Quick Group. Once your library of
keywords grows, you can add the most common
| | 03:07 | keywords to that top quick group to
make easy access to them and to assign
| | 03:12 | keyboard shortcuts. Let's take a look.
| | 03:14 | I will drag Dance up into the Quick
Group and when I release the mouse, Dance
| | 03:19 | pops-up to that Quick Group list and
has the keyboard shortcut D applied to it.
| | 03:24 | Now I can move through my library to
other images of dancing, I'll select these
| | 03:29 | two here and simply press the D key
on the keyboard. Dance is automatically
| | 03:35 | applied as a keyboard to those selected photos.
| | 03:38 | Now we have seen we can create a brand
new keyword by clicking and typing in
| | 03:42 | the row below the photos but we can
also do this from the Keywords Window. And
| | 03:47 | that brings up all of the keywords in a
columned list. To add a new keyword, I
| | 03:52 | click the Add button and simply type
it in. You will see iPhoto automatically
| | 03:58 | assigns a keyboard shortcut of the
first letter of the word since it's not
| | 04:02 | currently being used by any other keywords.
| | 04:05 | I can delete a keyword in the same way
simply by pressing the Minus button. Now
| | 04:10 | if I attempt to delete a keyword
that's already being used in photos such as
| | 04:14 | the Dance keyword, I receive a warning.
It tells me that ten photos already
| | 04:19 | have this keyword applied and I'll
lose that keyword if I delete it from the
| | 04:23 | master list. I can continue
by clicking OK or click Cancel.
| | 04:28 | If I like, I can also assign or
change a keyboard shortcut by selecting a
| | 04:33 | keyword, clicking the Shortcut button
and typing in an appropriate keyboard
| | 04:38 | shortcut. Then press Return to except
the shortcut. When you are done editing
| | 04:42 | your keywords, click OK.
| | 04:44 | Now as we just saw, deleting a
keyword from the master list, deleted every
| | 04:49 | instance of it. If you simply want to
delete a keyword just from one photo,
| | 04:53 | select it's keyword line,
select the keyword and press Delete.
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| Searching by keyword| 00:00 | Adding keywords to all the images in
your library is the hard part. The easy
| | 00:05 | part is searching for them. There are
several ways to search for your images
| | 00:08 | via keywords; the first one is simply to use
the Search bar at the bottom of the screen.
| | 00:13 | Click the Search button and choose
Keyword. You will see a list of every single
| | 00:19 | keyword that's been applied
to any image in your library.
| | 00:22 | Let's say we want to search for all
the photos we have of holidays like
| | 00:25 | Christmas, Easter, Halloween. I'll
click the Holiday keyword and all of my
| | 00:30 | holiday pictures are isolated.
| | 00:33 | Let's say we want to further narrow the
search by only showing pictures of the
| | 00:36 | immediate family. I'll click the
Family keyword and now I have a list of
| | 00:41 | holiday photos that include family
members. To return to the normal view,
| | 00:48 | simply click the X in the search field.
| | 00:50 | Another easy way to search is to simply
type in the keyword you want to search
| | 00:55 | for. I'll click in the search field and
type in Halloween. This again, reveals
| | 01:02 | all the pictures with Halloween
keywords. Now bear in mind when you type in
| | 01:07 | like this, if Halloween appears in the
title of the event, that entire event
| | 01:11 | will also be included.
| | 01:13 | We have already looked at the concept
of Smart Albums in another lesson but
| | 01:17 | let's take a look at it as it
specifically applies to keywords.
| | 01:20 | I will choose File > New Smart Album
and first I'll give this smart album a
| | 01:25 | name, I'll call it Holiday Pictures
and I'll actually click the images of
| | 01:32 | birthdays and holidays. Let's take a
look. I choose Keyword from the first
| | 01:37 | pop-up list and I'll say it contains
the word Birthday, click the Add button to
| | 01:46 | add a second criterion, choose
Keywords again and this time I'll say it
| | 01:53 | contains Holiday and click OK.
| | 01:58 | Now you maybe surprised to find that
the screen is completely blank. Let's take
| | 02:04 | a look at the Smart Album settings
again. This time I'll Ctrl+Click or
| | 02:08 | Right+Click on the Smart Album and
choose Edit Smart Album. If you look at the
| | 02:14 | very top of above the two
keywords we set is the Match option.
| | 02:18 | Right now, it's set to Match all of
the following conditions. That means the
| | 02:23 | photo has to be of birthday and be on a
holiday to appear in our results. Since
| | 02:29 | no one in my library has a birthday
on a holiday, the results are empty.
| | 02:33 | Instead, what I should have chosen
is any. If we now say match any of the
| | 02:39 | following conditions, all of the photos
of birthdays and the photos of holidays
| | 02:44 | will appear in the search results.
| | 02:47 | We can also use Smart Albums to combine
keywords searches with other criteria.
| | 02:53 | Again, I'll select the Smart Album,
Right+Click or Ctrl+Click and choose Edit
| | 02:57 | Smart Album and instead let's use
this smart album to locate pictures of
| | 03:02 | Makenzie's birthday. I'll leave the
Birthday keyword as set, but I'll change
| | 03:08 | the second option from Keyword to Name
is Makenzie, the Smart Album will now
| | 03:20 | use the Faces feature to identify
Makenzie and photos and then include only
| | 03:25 | those that have birthday as
a keyword applied to them.
| | 03:28 | Now before I click OK, I need to be
careful of that pesky Match setting again.
| | 03:33 | In this again, I want to change it to
Match all of the following conditions so
| | 03:38 | that I get only pictures that both have
Makenzie appearing in them and include
| | 03:43 | the keyword birthday.
| | 03:45 | Now when I click OK, I get a list of
all of the images of Makenzie appearing in
| | 03:50 | photos on birthdays. There is some
other ways to search including searching by
| | 03:55 | date, and we'll look at
those in the upcoming lessons.
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| Rating and searching by ratings| 00:00 | Even professional photographers take
some shots that are keepers and plenty
| | 00:05 | more that don't quite make the grade.
You can use iPhoto's rating system to
| | 00:09 | quickly separate out your best shots
from the rest. Choose View > Rating.
| | 00:14 | Now at first, you won't be able to
see anything except an extra row of gray
| | 00:19 | below each photo but as you move over
each of the photos, you will see a line
| | 00:23 | of dots. Drag across the dots and you
can set a rating for the photo. You can
| | 00:29 | go through your entire
library setting rating this way.
| | 00:33 | Now a word of wisdom. Be very sparing
with your five stars. You can actually
| | 00:39 | isolate four stars and higher, three
stars and higher or two stars and higher
| | 00:43 | as we'll see in a moment. So try to
reserve five stars for your absolute
| | 00:48 | favorite shots. Otherwise you may find
that you end up with far too many photos
| | 00:53 | in your five-star category. Once you
have rated your photos, searching based on
| | 00:58 | their rating is really simple.
| | 01:00 | In the search field, click the Search
button and choose Rating, then simply
| | 01:05 | drag from left to right. As you start,
you will isolate all of the photos with
| | 01:09 | a rating of one or above. Now this
won't reveal any photos that haven't been
| | 01:14 | rated since they have no stars at all.
| | 01:17 | As I move to the right, I now have
rating two star or higher then three, then
| | 01:23 | four and then finally all of
my five star images are listed.
| | 01:27 | Now you can change the ratings at any
time. So for example, if I decide to
| | 01:33 | lower the rating of this image to four
stars, I can do so simply by selecting
| | 01:38 | and dragging and as soon as I release
the mouse, the photo is removed from my
| | 01:42 | list of five star photos. To return to the
Standard View, I click the X in the search field.
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| Hiding and flagging| 00:00 | Let's look quickly at two other
minor organizational features, Hiding and
| | 00:05 | Flagging. Hiding is useful when you
want to remove photos from view of your
| | 00:09 | library but you don't want to delete
them entirely. Simply select the photos
| | 00:13 | you want to hide and click the Hide button.
| | 00:16 | To reveal hidden photos in your
library choose View > Hidden Photos or press
| | 00:22 | Shift+Command+H. You will see Xs in
the top right corner indicating that even
| | 00:27 | though you are currently
seeing them they are hidden photos.
| | 00:30 | To unhide them select them and click
the Unhide button. The Flag tool is useful
| | 00:37 | for quickly isolating a group of
photos you want to work with. If you are
| | 00:40 | planning something more permanent, it's
probably easier just to create an album
| | 00:44 | and drag the photos into the album.
| | 00:46 | But for quickly grouping photos
together, Flagging is a useful tool. Just
| | 00:50 | select a photo and click the Flag
button. You will see a Flag icon appear on
| | 00:55 | the top left or select the photo and use
the hot key Command+Period to apply the Flag.
| | 01:02 | When you have added your flags, click
the Flag section of the Source list and
| | 01:07 | you will see the items you have
flagged. You can select them here or press
| | 01:11 | Command+A to select all and choose Unflag.
| | 01:15 | Along with Albums and Smart Albums,
Hiding and Flagging are two other quick
| | 01:19 | ways to help keep the
organization of your library in check.
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| Using the Date feature| 00:00 | Before we leave this chapter on
keywords and searching, let's look at one more
| | 00:04 | way to search, and that's by date.
Click the Search button and choose Date.
| | 00:09 | Here I see a calendar with the
list of months for the year 2009.
| | 00:14 | Notice that January is highlighted.
That indicates that there are photos in my
| | 00:18 | iPhoto Library taken during the month
of January. If I click the arrows in the
| | 00:23 | top left corner. I can move to the year
2008 or any of the other years. Notice
| | 00:29 | in 2008 that all of the months appear
in bold, indicating that I have photos in
| | 00:34 | my library for every single one of those months.
| | 00:37 | I can view photos from a specific
month by clicking it. To isolate photos by
| | 00:43 | days of a month I can double-click the
month. Currently, all of the days are
| | 00:48 | selected. I can click anywhere to
deselect and then drag to isolate just a day,
| | 00:55 | several days, even an entire week of photos.
| | 00:58 | Click the arrow button in the top left
corner to return to the Standard Annual
| | 01:02 | Calendar, and then click the arrows
again to cycle through the different years.
| | 01:09 | When you are done searching, click the
X to return to the Standard Events View.
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7. Basic EditingWorking in Full Screen mode| 00:00 | Over the next two chapters, we'll be
looking at how to edit and enhance your
| | 00:03 | photos. For convenience, I'll open
the Info pane so you can see the name of
| | 00:08 | each photo that I'm working with.
| | 00:09 | In this lesson, we'll look at how to
work in Full Screen mode. Now you can edit
| | 00:14 | in Basic mode and I'll show you how to
do that. If I select a photo and click Edit,
| | 00:18 | it will bring the photo to
maximum size within the interface.
| | 00:22 | But you will see I still have the other
interface elements, reducing how much space that
| | 00:27 | the photo can take up.
| | 00:28 | I will hit the Escape key to get back
to the Normal viewing mode and instead
| | 00:32 | I'll move to Full Screen mode. I would
simply select the Full Screen button and
| | 00:37 | the photo zooms to take up the maximum
possible space on the screen. You will
| | 00:40 | see if I move the pointer over the bottom of
the screen or the top, additional menus come up.
| | 00:45 | The top menu gives me access to all of
the other photos within the event I'm
| | 00:48 | currently viewing so I can quickly
edit them by either clicking on them by
| | 00:52 | using the arrow keys on the
keyboard to move left and right.
| | 00:57 | The scroll bar of course moves between
all of the photos in that event. At the
| | 01:01 | base of the screen are various editing
controls and we'll be looking at each of
| | 01:05 | these in turn as we go
through the following lessons.
| | 01:08 | A couple of things specific to Full
Screen mode though, you will see that we
| | 01:11 | have a Zoom slider over to the right.
As I drag this of course, I can zoom
| | 01:15 | right in on the image. I can then use
the navigation to drag around the image
| | 01:21 | and locate a specific area
I want to pay attention to.
| | 01:24 | However, there is an easy way to pan
even without the navigator and that's
| | 01:27 | simply to hold down the
Spacebar as you drag around the image.
| | 01:33 | Now, three very important keyboard
shortcuts to remember that are related to
| | 01:36 | zooming. The first is to press the 1
key on the keyboard. That zooms to 100% scale.
| | 01:42 | So you are seeing one pixel on your
screen for every pixel in the original image.
| | 01:47 | Press 2 to zoom into 200% scale and
then press 0 to fit the entire image back
| | 01:55 | on the screen. Of course, this image
needs to be rotated. So we'll simply click
| | 02:00 | the Rotate tool to rotate the image
to the correct portrait orientation.
| | 02:04 | Finally, click the X in the lower
right corner to exit Full Screen mode or
| | 02:09 | simply press the Escape key.
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| Rotating and straightening photos| 00:00 | Many modern cameras include sensors
to detect the way you are tilting the
| | 00:04 | camera. As a result, the photos taken
by those cameras have information that
| | 00:08 | allows iPhoto to
automatically orient the image correctly.
| | 00:12 | Here, this image has been correctly
oriented to a portrait orientation.
| | 00:16 | In other cases, you need to manually
rotate an image to its correct orientation.
| | 00:21 | Doing so is very simple, either in the
Standard viewing mode or in Edit mode,
| | 00:26 | select the image and then
click the Rotate button.
| | 00:29 | The default is to rotate counter-
clockwise. To rotate clockwise, select the
| | 00:34 | image, hold down the Option key and
click the Rotate tool. It's worth learning
| | 00:40 | the keyboard shortcuts for this, which
is Command+R to rotate counter-clockwise
| | 00:45 | and Option+Command+R to rotate clockwise.
| | 00:49 | Another common need in photos is to
arbitrarily rotate them to even out their
| | 00:54 | horizon line. I'll select the image here
of the plane and go to Full Screen mode.
| | 00:59 | Here you will see the plane is
sloping down to the left. To level out the
| | 01:05 | orientation of the plane, we'll use
the Straighten tool. Select the tool and
| | 01:10 | then use the Angle slider
to even out the positioning.
| | 01:15 | Use the grid lines that appear to help
orient the image. When you are happy,
| | 01:19 | click the Straighten button again and
your image is straightened. So between
| | 01:23 | the Rotate and Straighten tools, you have
an easy way to correctly orient your images.
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| Cropping photos| 00:00 | One of the most common edits to a
photo is cropping. With cropping, you can
| | 00:05 | recompose your image for greater impact.
Here I'll select a photo and move to
| | 00:09 | Full Screen mode. Now I'll select the
Crop tool and you will see I'm given a
| | 00:15 | bordered rectangle. As I drag the
corners of the rectangle, I can readjust the
| | 00:20 | image according to my liking.
| | 00:22 | Notice that the image is divided up
into thirds. This helps you to compose
| | 00:26 | based on something called the rule
of thirds. The idea here is the most
| | 00:30 | interesting parts of your image should
appear in the one-third lines or at the
| | 00:34 | intersection of the lines. When you
are happy with the composition, click
| | 00:40 | Apply. The image is automatically
cropped to your new specification.
| | 00:45 | Now the good news is this is not a
destructive crop. To adjust it again, I'll
| | 00:49 | simply click the Crop button. I'm
again viewing the full image with my
| | 00:53 | rectangle adjusted to the current crop settings.
| | 00:56 | Now one other important feature of
crop is the Constrain option. You will see
| | 01:00 | if I select the pop-up menu here, I
have several different options to constrain
| | 01:05 | the aspect ratio of the cropped image.
For example, if I planned to display
| | 01:09 | this photo on my iPhone, I can select
iPhone 2x3 and the crop is set to the
| | 01:15 | exact aspect ratio of the iPhone display.
| | 01:19 | Another common setting is a 4x6 (
Postcard). If I select this, the aspect ratio
| | 01:25 | is set for 4x6 and I can now adjust the
corners and then position my pointer in
| | 01:29 | the center of the cropped
region to adjust its positioning.
| | 01:33 | Again, when I'm happy, I'll simply
click Apply. To create multiple cropped
| | 01:38 | versions of a photo, for using
different applications like photo, books and
| | 01:42 | calendars, be sure to watch the video,
I'm creating duplicates of your photo.
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| Removing red-eye| 00:00 | Red-eye occurs when your camera's
flash is reflected by the retina of one of
| | 00:05 | your subjects. Fortunately, iPhoto has
two great tools to get rid of red-eye.
| | 00:10 | Here I'll select a photo, and click
the Full Screen button. You will see here
| | 00:14 | clearly, Michaela on the left is
suffering from a bad case of red-eye.
| | 00:18 | iPhoto has an automatic red-eye
reduction and a manual version. Let's look at
| | 00:23 | each in turn. Here you will see the Red
-Eye button at the base of the screen.
| | 00:27 | I'll click it and then select the
Auto button. As soon as I do, iPhoto
| | 00:32 | leverages its Faces technology to
identify Michaela's face and apply the
| | 00:37 | red-eye reduction.
| | 00:38 | Now, things look okay right now, but
it's a good idea with red-eye reduction to
| | 00:43 | zoom in on the image to see exactly
how well it's done. Remember we can press
| | 00:47 | the 1 and 2 keys to go to 100% or 200% scale.
| | 00:51 | Right now at 100% if I hold down the
Spacebar and drag the image to center it,
| | 00:56 | we can clearly see that the automatic
red-eye has not done the job. Over on the
| | 01:01 | left, we still have a red rim and to
the right, the red-eye has completely
| | 01:04 | missed its target.
| | 01:06 | So in this case, we'll need to revert
to manual methods. I'll press Command+Z
| | 01:10 | to undo. You will see that my mouse
pointer has turned into a target shape.
| | 01:16 | I can adjust the size of this using the
Size slider in the red-eye reduction HUD.
| | 01:21 | I will drag until the circle is just
larger than the red-eye problem area. Now
| | 01:26 | I'll move and position this over the
red-eye problem and click once. You will
| | 01:30 | see that the red-eye is automatically removed.
| | 01:33 | Now the red-eye is slightly larger for
the right, so just size up a touch. Now
| | 01:37 | I'll move to the other eye, click
again and you will see, while it looks
| | 01:43 | slightly unnatural, extremely close up,
we'll now press the 0 to zoom out in
| | 01:47 | context to the whole image, the red-
eye looks quite comfortably removed.
| | 01:51 | When you are happy, click the Red-Eye
button again to exit the Red-Eye tool.
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| Using the Retouch tool| 00:00 | Frequently an otherwise perfect photo
can be marred by a spec on the lens or by
| | 00:05 | something in the photo itself. Here
one of my kids has been a little careless
| | 00:10 | with their midday snack. I'll select
the image and enter Full Screen mode.
| | 00:16 | We see a slightly unpleasant dribble
of yogurt just below the mouth. Now
| | 00:20 | normally you decide not to use this
for your Christmas photo. But thanks to
| | 00:24 | iPhoto's Retouch tool, you can
actually get rid of this blemish and make the
| | 00:28 | photo usable again.
| | 00:29 | I will select the Retouch tool and all
I need to do is paint over the problem area.
| | 00:34 | When I release the mouse, iPhoto
magically blends in with the surrounding
| | 00:40 | area. I can do another touch up
down the bottom, and I'm done.
| | 00:45 | Now, if we zoom-in by pressing the 1
key to 100%, you will see that iPhoto has
| | 00:51 | done its best but it's not an
absolute perfect job. You can try undoing by
| | 00:55 | pressing Command+Z, and then try using
a different angle of stroke to see if
| | 01:00 | iPhoto does a better job of borrowing
texture from neighboring pixels. Press
| | 01:05 | the 0 key to completely frame the image again.
| | 01:07 | For a single blemish like this one
just below the eye, we can change the size
| | 01:11 | of the brush and then click once over
the top of it. When you are happy, click
| | 01:17 | the Retouch tool again. I'll close the
Full Screen mode, and let's try another
| | 01:22 | image. I'll select this image here to
show just how powerful iPhoto's Retouch
| | 01:27 | tool is when it comes to edges. I'll
enter Full Screen mode. Let's take a look
| | 01:32 | first of all at removing
the snow just below the eye.
| | 01:35 | I will select the Retouch tool, press
the 1 key to zoom in, and I'll enlarge my
| | 01:43 | Brush just slightly. With a simple
stroke, I can completely remove the snow.
| | 01:50 | Now, you notice the strand of hair
below the face, not necessarily something
| | 01:54 | that I would normally want to remove,
but watch what happens as I drag through
| | 01:58 | to the borderline here where the face
turns into the red jacket. I'll press the
| | 02:03 | 0 key to move back to the full framing.
| | 02:07 | As I drag down and release, you will
see even though it's not a perfect edit,
| | 02:12 | iPhoto detects the border and
protects the line between the face and the
| | 02:16 | jacket. Actually, if I press Command+Z,
a better way to achieve a removal like
| | 02:21 | this is to stop just shy of that
border. I can then treat the border pixels
| | 02:27 | separately with a diagonal stroke.
| | 02:29 | So just for these two photos, we have
seen just how powerful iPhoto's Retouch
| | 02:35 | tool is on creating a perfect shot out
of an otherwise slightly blemished photo.
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| Creating effects| 00:00 | iPhoto has a great feature of creating
stylistic effects to your images.
| | 00:04 | Here I'll select a photo and enter Full
Screen mode. Next, I'll select the Effects HUD.
| | 00:12 | Here in the HUD, you will see
the original image surrounded by eight
| | 00:16 | different options for creating effects.
| | 00:19 | Let's try the Vignette. When I select it,
we get a black board of Vignette
| | 00:23 | around the image. At anytime I can
return to the original version by simply
| | 00:27 | clicking Original. Let's try an Edge
Blur. I'll select the Edge Blur and
| | 00:32 | you will see a number appears at the
base of the Edge Blur thumbnail.
| | 00:35 | As I click the arrow to the right,
I can increase the amount of Blur.
| | 00:39 | You'll see the blur starts to create further
and further towards the center. I can
| | 00:44 | back off the blur by clicking the Left Arrow.
I'll leave this set to a value of around 3.
| | 00:51 | Now, I can combine these effects to
create a final look. Let's say I would like
| | 00:54 | to give an antique treatment, I can
click Antique. I still have the Edge Blur,
| | 00:59 | but now I have a nice antique photo
look to the image. I can increase that by
| | 01:03 | clicking the Arrow to the right of 1.
I can try and turn the Sepia on.
| | 01:09 | Notice that this has an on or off
setting. There is no intensity.
| | 01:12 | When I click again, the Sepia is removed. Or
I can try Black and White. Again, it has an on
| | 01:19 | and off setting. Click again to deactivate.
| | 01:23 | When you are happy with your settings,
just go ahead and click the close at the
| | 01:27 | top of the Effects HUD. Be sure to
watch the following lessons to see how to
| | 01:31 | create duplicate original versions, so
that you can have a treated version of
| | 01:35 | your image, but still
preserve your original photo.
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| Creating a duplicate| 00:00 | Quite often, you will find yourself
wanting to have multiple copies of the
| | 00:04 | same photo. That may be because you
want to crop the photo for different
| | 00:08 | purposes like creating a Photo Book
or a calendar, or it may be because you
| | 00:12 | want to create a stylistic version of
the photo, but retain the look of the
| | 00:15 | original as well.
| | 00:16 | Creating a duplicate is easy. Here,
I'll select the image we worked on the last
| | 00:20 | lesson, and I'll go to Photos >
Duplicate. Notice the keyboard shortcut for
| | 00:26 | this one Command+D. An easy, but
useful keyboard combination to learn. When I
| | 00:31 | select it, you will see I now have two
identical copies of the image. I can now
| | 00:35 | choose to edit one of the images.
| | 00:37 | I will select Effects, return to the
original version, and then I'll fade the
| | 00:43 | color, and add the vignette. When I
click Done, you will see I now have the two
| | 00:49 | images side by side, one with the
Vignette and one with the Antique treatment.
| | 00:54 | Now, there is an element in Full
Screen mode that's useful when working with
| | 00:57 | duplicate versions. That's the Compare function.
| | 01:00 | You will see with my first image
selected, I'll choose the Full Screen mode.
| | 01:05 | Now by clicking the Compare button, I
can actually see the two images side by
| | 01:08 | side and adjust them however I desire.
When I use the Arrow keys, I can adjust
| | 01:14 | which image is being compared
against the current one on the left.
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| Reverting to an original photo| 00:00 | A comforting fact to know, when
you are experimenting with edits and
| | 00:04 | enhancements on your photos is that
you can always return to your original.
| | 00:07 | There is nothing you can do that can't
be undone. Simply select a photo, choose
| | 00:13 | Photos > Revert to Original.
| | 00:17 | You will be given the usual warning and
just click OK. Your changes are removed
| | 00:21 | and the photo is restored to its
original version. Now this looks a little
| | 00:25 | different for raw images. When you
select a raw image and choose Photos, you
| | 00:30 | will see the option to Reprocess raw.
| | 00:34 | This is identical to restoring to the
original. It's just reprocessing the raw
| | 00:38 | version of your photo to return it to
its original settings. If you have no
| | 00:43 | idea what a raw image is, be sure to watch
the video I'm working with the raw file format.
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8. Enhancing a PhotoUsing the automatic Enhance feature| 00:01 | Over the lessons in this chapter,
we'll be looking at the enhanced tools.
| | 00:04 | These are tools in iPhoto specifically
designed to adjust the color and contrast in
| | 00:10 | your images to make them seen.
| | 00:13 | Apple has gone to great links to make
these controls simple, so even a novice
| | 00:17 | user can make really profound
adjustment to the look of an image.
| | 00:21 | In this lesson, we'll look at the simplest
of all enhancements, the Auto Enhance.
| | 00:26 | I am working with the Chapter 08_and_
09 Enhancing images from the premium
| | 00:31 | content. If you don't have access to
that, just find a suitable replacement
| | 00:35 | image. I'll select an image and I'll
actually click on the Info button so that
| | 00:39 | you can see the information pane and
the title of the image I'm working on.
| | 00:43 | In this case, AutoEnhance1. Now, I could
go to Full Screen mode but just to be
| | 00:47 | different, we'll click the Edit
button to move into the standard edit mode
| | 00:51 | while retaining the source list.
| | 00:54 | This image looks decent but you will
see with one click of the Enhance button
| | 00:58 | which is the Auto Enhance, iPhoto
automatically adjusts the color and contrast
| | 01:03 | of the image to really make it pop. Now,
one of the nice features of Enhance is
| | 01:08 | that it isn't just a black box. It
doesn't do one enhancement that you can't
| | 01:12 | adjust. Instead, it makes changes to
the settings in the Adjust panel, which
| | 01:17 | we'll look at right now.
| | 01:18 | If I click the Adjust button, the
Adjust heads up display or HUD appears and
| | 01:23 | you will see that its settings have
already been adjusted from the defaults.
| | 01:26 | Exposure has been increased by 0.77,
Saturation has been increased very
| | 01:31 | slightly and the Shadows have been
adjusted. Now, we'll talk in later lessons
| | 01:35 | about what all of these controls do but
for now, just see that the adjustments
| | 01:39 | made by the Auto Enhance can be fully
modified here in the Adjust pane. So, if
| | 01:44 | I want to reduce back the Exposure, I
can simply drag the Exposure slider or I
| | 01:50 | can make the Exposure more extreme.
| | 01:53 | One important keyboard shortcut that
we'll be using throughout the enhancement
| | 01:57 | lessons is the Shift key. Whenever
you press the Shift key, it reverts the
| | 02:01 | image temporarily to the original look.
So while you will hold down the Shift
| | 02:06 | key, you can see the original untouched
image. When you release the Shift key,
| | 02:11 | it restores the
corrections that you have applied.
| | 02:14 | As we have seen in the previous lesson,
to completely remove all adjustments,
| | 02:18 | simply choose Photos > Revert to
Previous. Now, Auto Enhance doesn't always
| | 02:24 | work perfectly for every shot. I'll
select this image, AutoEnhance3. Now, watch
| | 02:30 | carefully, the highly saturated areas
of these yellows and reds and greens in
| | 02:34 | the foreground. When I click the Auto
Enhance, the yellows actually clip, as do
| | 02:39 | the reds. You will see in this region
here, we actually have flat sections of
| | 02:44 | color. That means those highlights have
been clipped out. So, in this case, the
| | 02:49 | Auto Enhance has not done
full justice to the image.
| | 02:52 | In fact, over the next few lessons, you
will see how to manually create all the
| | 02:56 | effects the Auto Enhance is doing
and once you become familiar with the
| | 03:00 | controls, for the most part you want
to make the adjustments yourself. After
| | 03:04 | all, you are a human being looking
at the final image and iPhoto is just
| | 03:09 | software on our computer. It can only
do so much without the natural visual
| | 03:14 | ecstatic that humans possess.
| | 03:16 | Now, sometimes the effect of Auto
Enhance is dramatic, sometimes it is a little
| | 03:20 | more subtle. I'll select the image
AutoEnhance2 and click Enhance again.
| | 03:25 | You will see in this case, the image is
brightened but overall the contrast is
| | 03:30 | similar. I'll press the Shift key to
perform the before and after compare.
| | 03:35 | So, let's move on in the following
lessons to learn how to manually create
| | 03:39 | these effects that the Auto Enhance is
applying in a single step. But in the
| | 03:44 | process, we'll learn how to have a
much greater control of the final look.
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| Working with raw photos| 00:00 | Before you go deep into enhancing your
images, it is important to understand
| | 00:05 | the raw file format. Raw is the kind
of image file format just like JPEG or TIFF.
| | 00:10 | It can usually be selected from
the Quality settings menu in your camera.
| | 00:14 | Now, mid-range consumer cameras may not
have a raw setting, but if you have it,
| | 00:19 | you should really use it and here is
why. Raw stores the picture information
| | 00:25 | exactly the way it appeared on the
camera's image sensor before the camera's
| | 00:29 | internal software went to work
turning it into a JPEG or a TIFF. With raw,
| | 00:34 | iPhoto uses its own conversion
software to create a normal viewable image out
| | 00:39 | of the raw photo. But because it is
done by iPhoto instead of the camera, you
| | 00:44 | can change it if you don't like it.
With regular JPEGs or TIFFs from a camera,
| | 00:49 | the look of the image is baked into it
and there is only so much you can do to
| | 00:53 | enhance the photo.
| | 00:54 | Let's go ahead and compare the same
image in the raw format and as a JPEG.
| | 01:00 | I'll select the raw version here and move
into Full Screen mode. The reason I can be
| | 01:06 | sure this is a raw is because at the
lower right of the interface, I see the
| | 01:10 | raw logo. Now, I'll move to Compare
mode to compare it against the JPEG
| | 01:15 | version. Let's bring up the Adjust
HUD. We'll talk about the individual
| | 01:20 | controls in other videos but for now
you can obviously see that this image was
| | 01:24 | shot over exposed. If I try to reduce
the Exposure for the JPEG version, have a
| | 01:29 | look at what happens. The Exposure is
reduced but the Contrast appears quite flat.
| | 01:36 | Now, watch what happens when I perform
the same adjustment on the raw image.
| | 01:42 | This time as I reduce the Exposure, the
Brightness is reduced but the Contrast
| | 01:46 | is retained. In fact, if we look at
the histogram, we have a nice healthy
| | 01:50 | histogram curve. When I look at the
histogram for the JPEG, everything is
| | 01:54 | bunched up in one small area.
That's because the Exposure setting was
| | 02:00 | permanently baked into the JPEG version
but with the raw, we are going back to
| | 02:04 | the original camera sensor data and
then applying a new Exposure setting.
| | 02:09 | So the bottom line, if your camera
supports the raw format, shoot your photos in it.
| | 02:15 | They take up more space in your
memory cards but the flexibility later
| | 02:19 | is really worth it. One more thing
about raw. In the Adjust HUD, if you have a
| | 02:25 | raw image selected, holding down the
Option key converts the Exposure slider
| | 02:30 | into a Recovery adjustment slider. The
Recovery can sometimes be used to rescue
| | 02:35 | detail and highlights that would
otherwise appear clipped. In this image you
| | 02:40 | can see a very subtle change as
I move the slider to the right.
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| Fine-tuning in the Adjust palette| 00:00 | Let's take an introductory look at the
Adjust HUD or palette. I'll select an
| | 00:04 | image and then enter Full Screen mode.
Now, I'll click the Adjust button to
| | 00:10 | bring up the Adjust palette.
| | 00:12 | There are four main sections of controls.
At the top, we have a histogram with
| | 00:17 | the Levels control. We then have a
section with Exposure, Contrast, Saturation.
| | 00:22 | A further section with controls
called Definitions, Highlights, Shadows,
| | 00:25 | Sharpness, De-noise and then finally
at the bottom, Temperature controls for
| | 00:30 | adjusting the white point of the image.
| | 00:32 | Now, in the following lessons, we'll
cover all of these controls in detail and
| | 00:36 | believe it or not, that will be a lot
less intimidating than they may appear
| | 00:39 | now. But one thing to bear in mind is
that you can actually perform similar
| | 00:43 | functions with different controls.
Some people love using Levels adjustments
| | 00:48 | and so most of their Contrast settings
will be done there. They may even ignore
| | 00:52 | the Contrast completely. Other people
prefer to stick with the Exposure and
| | 00:56 | Contrast controls and not work with Levels.
| | 00:59 | The way I'll be approaching color
correction now is to focus on using Levels
| | 01:03 | and use the other controls as needed
to add or enhance the effect. In fact,
| | 01:07 | throughout the following lessons, you
will see a fairly consistent workflow of
| | 01:10 | adjusting Exposure, working with
the Levels and then fine tuning with
| | 01:14 | Saturation, Definition, Highlights and
Shadows. We'll also look at how to fix
| | 01:19 | the white point if the Temperature is off.
| | 01:21 | So stay tuned to the following lessons
and trust me, these controls really will
| | 01:26 | be demystified by the time we are done.
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| Using the histogram| 00:00 | Let's take a look in this lesson at
working with the histogram. I'll select an
| | 00:04 | image and just for a change instead of
going to Full Screen mode, I'll simply
| | 00:08 | click the Edit button. Now, I'll click
Adjust to bring up the Adjust palette.
| | 00:13 | The histogram occupies the top of the
Adjust palette. It visually grasps how
| | 00:18 | intense the red, green and blue are in
the pixels of your image from dark to
| | 00:22 | light. So, if you look at this image,
you will see we have a lot of bright
| | 00:26 | blues based on the sky and you can see
that in the histogram, there is a peak
| | 00:32 | in the blues right towards the top. We
have a lot of medium to dark reds, which
| | 00:37 | would be typical of the sand, and we
have a lot of strong midtone greens coming
| | 00:41 | from the sea, the trees and the foliage.
| | 00:44 | Now, we are actually lucky with this
image, it has a pretty nice spread right
| | 00:48 | from the dark to the light pixels
without making any adjustments. But other
| | 00:52 | images aren't naturally quite so well
balanced. Here I'll select another image,
| | 00:57 | AutoEnhance1 and let's take a look. You
will see the histogram here is bunched
| | 01:03 | up in one portion of the spectrum. We
don't have a lot of highlights and we are
| | 01:07 | missing some of the real darks.
| | 01:09 | So, this photograph isn't taking
advantage of the full gamut of colors that a
| | 01:14 | printer might potentially use. That's
where the Levels controls come into play.
| | 01:19 | You see them just below the histogram
and what we can do is adjust the controls
| | 01:23 | to set the true black and the
true white points of the image.
| | 01:27 | Let's begin with the blacks. I'll
simply drag the far left Levels control until
| | 01:32 | I reach the point where my histogram
curve begins to pick up. I'll grab the far
| | 01:36 | right slider and move it to the left.
Now, I have to be careful I don't clip
| | 01:40 | out too much of the white information
I want so I'll begin just when the red
| | 01:44 | begins to rise. So I'll set this slider
just to where the red begins to rise as
| | 01:49 | we move into the main portion of the histogram.
| | 01:52 | So what's the center control for?
The center slider adjusts the overall
| | 01:56 | contrast of the image, also called gamma.
So, as I drag this, I can adjust how
| | 02:01 | the contrast falls across the entire
image. There is no hard science to this.
| | 02:06 | We want the most pleasing look
for the contrast of the image.
| | 02:10 | Now, bear in mind, this is all
dependent on how well your monitor is calibrated
| | 02:14 | but unfortunately that's another story
for another course. We are assuming here
| | 02:18 | that you have a well-calibrated monitor
and so as you are adjusting the way you
| | 02:22 | are seeing the image on this screen,
we'll ultimately translate to how well it
| | 02:26 | prints out on a printer. To see the
before and after, hold down the Shift key
| | 02:30 | to see the original and release it
to see the final corrected version.
| | 02:34 | Now, if you are not happy, you can
always click the Reset at the lower left of
| | 02:38 | the palette and completely
restore the image to its original.
| | 02:41 | Before we move on, I want to stress
that the Levels shouldn't necessarily be
| | 02:46 | your first stop in the Adjust palette.
Most of the time you want to adjust the
| | 02:50 | Exposure first. You will see as I
increase the Exposure, I can actually widen
| | 02:55 | the range of the histogram. Now, I
can go in and adjust the black and white
| | 03:00 | points to suit. Doing this will
actually give me more information in my final
| | 03:04 | image and avoid potential clipping.
When you are done, close out the Adjust
| | 03:09 | palette and click Done. Because
iPhoto is non-destructive, you can always
| | 03:14 | reopen the Adjust palette and
change the settings at any time.
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| Adjusting exposure, contrast, and saturation| 00:00 | Let's take a look now at the Exposure,
Contrast and Saturation settings in the
| | 00:04 | Adjust palette. I'll select an
image and enter Full Screen Mode.
| | 00:09 | Now I'll select the Adjust palette. The image
we're looking at right now is a raw image.
| | 00:14 | If you recall raw means that we have
an image that capture the raw data from
| | 00:19 | the image sensor in your digital camera.
That means I can change the Exposure
| | 00:24 | after the filming.
| | 00:25 | Now, here I shot this photo overexposed,
but because I shot in raw, I'm free to
| | 00:30 | change the Exposure value at any time.
Watch as I drag this slider to the left.
| | 00:35 | You'll see that the image comes into a
correct exposure. Notice also the way
| | 00:39 | the histogram changes. It actually
starts to bunch up towards the left.
| | 00:44 | There is a shift in the overall contrast
of the image. Now compare this to when
| | 00:49 | I adjust the Exposure
control for a JPEG image.
| | 00:52 | Here we have a JPEG and as I adjust the
Exposure control for this, we simply scale
| | 00:58 | the entire range of values up or down.
There is no bunching effect, no changing
| | 01:03 | of the intensity of the Contrast.
That histogram is just compressed or expanded.
| | 01:08 | That's because as a JPEG we don't
have the ability to change the overall
| | 01:12 | Exposure from the raw image data. All
we can do is apply a basic brightening or
| | 01:17 | darkening effect.
| | 01:18 | So just understand that the Exposure
setting has a maximum value when you're
| | 01:23 | working with raw images. You can still
use it to brighten or darken a JPEG, but
| | 01:28 | it's not going to have the same
impact as it would if you are using a raw image.
| | 01:33 | Let's return to our raw image
and look at the other controls.
| | 01:37 | So we see with the Exposure that we can
readjust the overall Exposure setting.
| | 01:41 | Now let's look at Contrast. While we
can make Contrast adjustments with the
| | 01:45 | Levels control using the center
gamma slider, the Contrast slider also
| | 01:50 | obviously adjusts contrast. As I move
to the right the midtones are expanded
| | 01:56 | towards the extreme light and dark
regions and you can see that in the histogram.
| | 02:02 | What that means is as we
move the Contrast to the right, pixels in
| | 02:06 | the image either become much darker
or much brighter. That creates a strong
| | 02:11 | contrast and is similar to what's
often called a posterizing effect.
| | 02:15 | Now as I drag to the left, the
extreme bright and dark pixels are actually
| | 02:19 | pushed back towards the center midtones,
creating a flattening of the contrast.
| | 02:24 | So this is a slightly different effect
to adjusting the midtone point on the
| | 02:29 | Levels sliders. Don't feel like you
have to use one or the other or both.
| | 02:33 | You can use whatever
looks best for the final image.
| | 02:36 | Next, let's look at Saturation.
Saturation simply increases the intensity of
| | 02:41 | the colors in the image. Now as I drag
to the right, you'll see that all of the
| | 02:45 | colors in the image become stronger.
You need to be very careful when adjusting
| | 02:49 | Saturation because if you overdo it,
you can really blow out the prints you're
| | 02:53 | creating. The color gamut of a typical
printer may not be able to represent all
| | 02:57 | the colors you're seeing on your
screen. So, if you overdo the Saturation
| | 03:00 | adjustment, you can actually produce
banding and clipping on your final prints.
| | 03:04 | Subtle adjustments are much better.
| | 03:07 | Now one other thing, you'll notice here
as I drag to the right is that the skin tones
| | 03:12 | starts look unnaturally yellow
or orange, kind of like jaundice.
| | 03:16 | One of the really nice features in iPhoto
is the ability to select Avoid saturating
| | 03:22 | the skin tones. With that selected,
I can now increase the Saturation and
| | 03:26 | you'll notice the blue of the sea has
dramatically increased, but the skin
| | 03:29 | tones are untouched because iPhoto is
avoiding making Saturation changes to any
| | 03:34 | colors close to skin tone. This
allows you to make some fairly strong
| | 03:38 | saturation changes to the rest of the
image without creating that unnatural
| | 03:41 | jaundiced look in the skin tones.
| | 03:44 | One last tip before we go. You can
actually use that Avoid saturating the
| | 03:48 | skin tones selection for other images
that don't contain skin tones. So here
| | 03:53 | we have a landscape shot that'll
actually benefit from avoiding the skin tone
| | 03:58 | portion of the color spectrum. Let's
take a look. First of all, you'll see this
| | 04:03 | is dramatically overexposed, but
because we shot in a raw format, we can rescue the image.
| | 04:09 | Otherwise it'd have been completely unusable,
had we shot in the JPEG format for example.
| | 04:14 | So, I drag the Exposure all the way
to the left and you'll see we actually
| | 04:18 | recover a lot of detail in the image.
Now watch what happens when I deselect
| | 04:22 | Avoid saturating the skin tones and
drag the Saturation to the right. You'll
| | 04:26 | see that the rock formation takes on
again an unpleasant look based on the
| | 04:31 | over-saturation. But if I select Avoid
saturating the skin tones, we actually
| | 04:36 | get a nice deepening of the blue of
the sea without affecting the look of
| | 04:41 | the rocks themselves.
| | 04:42 | So this is a useful check box, not just
for skin tones, but also for landscapes
| | 04:47 | that contain a lot of earthy tones.
So, there you have it. Exposure, Contrast
| | 04:51 | and Saturation, three great sliders
for working with your image. Remember,
| | 04:56 | Exposure should almost always be used
first before you start adjusting the
| | 05:00 | Levels in the histogram.
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| Fixing highlights and shadows| 00:00 | Let's have a look now at two really
powerful adjustment sliders. Highlights and Shadows.
| | 00:05 | I'll select an image and then
in this case I need to rotate it so
| | 00:09 | I'll press Opt+Command+R to rotate it clockwise.
Now I'll enter Full Screen Mode and begin editing.
| | 00:16 | In this case you'll see we have a
well-lit foreground, but we really can't make out
| | 00:20 | the background detail at all.
You'll notice that Levels aren't much help
| | 00:24 | because the histogram is all fairly
spread out, but everything is really
| | 00:28 | crushed into that black area of the
histogram to the left. What I'll do is grab
| | 00:33 | the Shadow slider at the center of the
Adjust palette and drag to the right.
| | 00:37 | Watch what happens. You'll see that
all of that background detail begins to
| | 00:41 | stretch out and I recover the detail
that was otherwise hidden in the shadows.
| | 00:46 | Now in this case we're working with the
JPEG, so there's is only so much we can do
| | 00:50 | before the background starts to
look a little too sharpened. So, I'll dial
| | 00:54 | the Shadows back a little bit. We'll
still get the background, but we don't have
| | 00:58 | the harshness and the contrast we see,
if the Shadows are set too high.
| | 01:02 | I'll press the Shift key to
compare it to the original.
| | 01:05 | Now I can also pull back some of the
Highlights. You'll notice that the lantern
| | 01:09 | she's holding is a little clipped in
the highlight area. So I'll drag the
| | 01:13 | Highlights to the right and you'll see we
can recover some of that highlight detail.
| | 01:18 | Let's have a look at applying this
to some other images. Here we have
| | 01:23 | another image that's obviously
suffering from being too dark. Now the first step
| | 01:28 | is we can expand the Exposure,
like so. We'll see even as I do this,
| | 01:34 | we still lose a lot of the detail of
the plane and the shadows at the bottom.
| | 01:37 | So I can drag the Shadow slider to the
right and recover a lot of the detail
| | 01:41 | otherwise hidden in the shadows. And
now I can adjust some of the cloud detail
| | 01:46 | with the Highlights. Of course I can
work in conjunction with the Levels
| | 01:51 | sliders to make a nice even adjustment of
the overall contrast and look of the image.
| | 01:58 | Let's have a look at one final image
that shows up the Highlight slider.
| | 02:02 | First of all if we look at the histogram,
we can see that this is an overexposed image.
| | 02:06 | I'll drag the Exposure slider
to the left just to everything within range.
| | 02:10 | I can then adjust the Levels to
bring my black point and my white point
| | 02:15 | right to where they should be without
wasting any space on those higher and
| | 02:18 | lower values where we don't
actually have any pixel data.
| | 02:21 | Now even though the Exposure is being
evened out, we still don't have a lot of
| | 02:24 | detail on those bright walls
behind our subjects. So let's adjust the Highlights.
| | 02:30 | As I drag to the right, I recover
a lot of detail in that highlight area.
| | 02:35 | We can now see a lot of
the grime and the grit on the wall.
| | 02:39 | Likewise, if I want to recover some of
the detail under the hood of the boy to the left,
| | 02:44 | I can drag the Shadow slider
up to the right. Finally I can readjust
| | 02:49 | the Levels to suit.
| | 02:55 | Let's press the Shift key to
see that before. You can see
| | 02:59 | we've made a radical change to the
overall look at the image. A slight touch-up
| | 03:03 | to the Saturation and we've
a really nice, compelling image.
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| Adding clarity and definition, changing sharpness, and reducing noise| 00:00 | Let's take a look now at the Definition,
Sharpness and De-noise adjustments.
| | 00:05 | I'll select an image again in a full
screen mode and bring up the Adjust palette.
| | 00:11 | We'll begin with the
Sharpness adjuster. Sharpness works by
| | 00:15 | identifying edges with a contrast
change across them. What it does is it
| | 00:20 | increases the brightness of the
brighter portion of the edge and increases the
| | 00:24 | darkness of the darker portion. The
result is an increase of the contrast as
| | 00:29 | you move from one side of the edge to the other.
| | 00:31 | This produces the illusion of a
more in-focus image. Watch some of the
| | 00:36 | background dancers, as I adjust the
sharpness by moving it to the right.
| | 00:40 | You will see the parts of the image that
were out of focus based on depth of field,
| | 00:44 | now appear to be more in-focus.
| | 00:48 | Now you have to be very careful when
using sharpening, because as you go to the extreme,
| | 00:52 | things that were already in-
focus begin to look too harsh.
| | 00:57 | There's only so much sharpening
you should apply to any given image.
| | 01:01 | Another adjustment that also performs
some sharpening is Definition. Definition
| | 01:07 | is one of sliders that's a little hard
to understand and it's better just to
| | 01:11 | try it out with several images to get
a sense of how it works. Basically what
| | 01:16 | Definition does is perform a
localized contrast adjustment. That means it
| | 01:21 | identifies areas of detail in an image and
only applies a contrast adjustment there.
| | 01:26 | You will see as I drag Definition to
the right, there is a contrast shift in
| | 01:30 | the detailed portions of the image,
in this case the dancers, but rest of
| | 01:34 | the image is essentially left intact.
This is as opposed to the regular
| | 01:38 | Contrast slider, which performs
contrast adjustment indiscriminately across the
| | 01:43 | entire image. So Definition is really
a great adjustment to add clarity
| | 01:49 | to the overall look of your image.
| | 01:51 | Finally let's talk about De-noise.
Here I have an image that's way too dark,
| | 01:57 | under exposed. Now I can increase the
exposure, but you will see as I do so,
| | 02:02 | I reveal the noise that's typical of a
low light photo. Here I'll press the 1 key
| | 02:08 | to zoom in on the background, and
we can clearly see the noise detail.
| | 02:12 | As I drag De-noise to the right
that noise is blended away. iPhoto uses
| | 02:18 | Intelligent Edge Detection to avoid
softening edge detail while the De-noise is
| | 02:23 | taking place. However, the reality
is that all De-noisers have a hard time
| | 02:27 | removing noise without affecting the
image. There is really a trade-off between
| | 02:32 | the original image details and the
removal of noise. I'll press the zero key to
| | 02:37 | retain to Frame All.
| | 02:39 | Now bear in mind you can actually use
the De-noise to apply more painterly
| | 02:44 | effect by moving it to an extreme. I'll
press the Shift key to compare to the original.
| | 02:50 | That just about wraps up the Adjust
palette. In the next video we'll take a
| | 02:55 | look at the temperature adjustments,
and then you have a full arsenal of tools
| | 02:59 | when it comes to making
adjustments to your images.
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| Cleaning up the whites| 00:00 | White balance can be a confusing thing
to new photographers. The problem we face
| | 00:05 | is that the human eye is very
good at adopting the color cast in an
| | 00:10 | environment, but a camera has a much harder
time subjectively deciding what true white is.
| | 00:16 | So while as human beings we can walk
into a room that's lit by an incandescent bulb
| | 00:21 | and see natural whites and then
walk outside and look into sunlight,
| | 00:26 | which is a completely different color
temperature to an incandescent light,
| | 00:29 | and still see things as a natural white,
cameras have to use sophisticated technology to
| | 00:35 | guess what the appropriate white is.
Even for professional cameras,
| | 00:39 | they sometimes guess wrong.
| | 00:41 | Let's take a look here at this image
of Michaela dealing with an inflatable kangaroo.
| | 00:45 | We'll enter Full Screen Mode,
and we'll open to the Adjust palette.
| | 00:49 | You will see that this image has a
yellow cast to it. Now the first method for
| | 00:53 | adjusting color cast for the image is
to use the Eyedropper. I simply select
| | 00:58 | the Eyedropper from the Temperature
section, and now I click on what I believe
| | 01:02 | to be a genuine white in the scene,
in this case the ear of the kangaroo.
| | 01:05 | You will see instantly that the color cast of
the image begins to look much more natural.
| | 01:11 | Now you need to be careful. Sometimes
you'll select a white that's actually an
| | 01:15 | off-white. For example, someone may
have a yellow tinted wall that looks white
| | 01:20 | in a photograph but when you select it,
actually it's adjusts everything else away
| | 01:24 | from white. Let's take a look at what
would happen if I select this off-white wall.
| | 01:29 | You'll see now we have more of a
greenish tinge to the image. I'll go and
| | 01:34 | select the ear again.
| | 01:35 | Also be careful to avoid the
sections of white that have been tinted by
| | 01:40 | reflective light coming from other
parts of the scene. When you are done
| | 01:43 | selecting a white, click the
Eyedropper again to deactivate it.
| | 01:48 | Now you do not have to settle for
these automatic values set by iPhoto's
| | 01:52 | Eyedropper. You will see I can drag
the Temperature slider to manually adjust the look.
| | 01:57 | Sometimes it's actually beneficial
to create a warmer look than the one
| | 02:02 | that iPhoto identified as true white.
| | 02:05 | As I drag the Temperature slider to
the right, I'll move into warmer oranger colors;
| | 02:09 | as I drag to the left, I get
into cooler blues. Then the Tint slider
| | 02:15 | compensates for shifts in the magenta and
green of the image. So now I can adjust
| | 02:20 | the Tint to create a more natural
overall look after I have adjusted the
| | 02:24 | Temperature setting.
| | 02:27 | Remember at the end of the day what
matters is how pleasing the images is to
| | 02:31 | your eyes. So feel free to creatively
adjust the Temperature and Tint.
| | 02:35 | Don't just feel like you have to make
things clinically pure, uncast white.
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| Copying and pasting adjustments| 00:00 | In the last lessons we looked at how
to make adjustments to the white point of an
| | 00:05 | image to remove an unnatural color cast,
but very often you would shot several
| | 00:10 | photos in the same conditions. It will
get quite tedious to have to make same
| | 00:14 | adjustment to every single
image that you shot at that time.
| | 00:18 | The good news is you don't have to.
You can use the copy and paste feature to
| | 00:23 | apply the adjustments to every single
image. I simply click Copy, select a new
| | 00:29 | image, and then click the Paste button.
All of the adjustments for the previous
| | 00:34 | image are automatically
applied to the new image.
| | 00:38 | Just keep in mind that this is
applying all of the adjustment settings
| | 00:41 | including the Exposure, Contrast, Saturation,
Shadows, Highlights, Sharpness and De-noise.
| | 00:47 | So if you made specific adjustments to
one image you may want to remove them
| | 00:51 | before using the copy and
paste on multiple other shots.
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9. Sharing PhotosCreating a MobileMe gallery| 00:00 | A MobileMe Gallery is an online gallery
of your photos that anyone can view.
| | 00:05 | To create a MobileMe Gallery, you have
to have a MobileMe account. Creating a
| | 00:09 | MobileMe Gallery is very similar to
creating a regular album. Select an event
| | 00:14 | or a group of photos, choose the
Add button and then select MobileMe.
| | 00:19 | If you do not currently have a
MobileMe account, click Open MobileMe
| | 00:23 | Preferences and select Learn More
to create a trial account. Or if you
| | 00:28 | currently have a MobileMe account,
but aren't logged into the computer,
| | 00:32 | go ahead and enter your
Name and Password to login.
| | 00:37 | Once you are logged in, close the
System Preferences and again choose Add,
| | 00:42 | MobileMe. You can use the default
name, or give it your own name and then
| | 00:47 | select some options. The first option
is to determine who can see the album.
| | 00:51 | You can make the album viewable by
everyone, only your account, or you can
| | 00:56 | create specific names and passwords for
people whom you want to have access to the gallery.
| | 01:01 | Click Edit Names and Passwords then
click the Add button, type in a Name and
| | 01:09 | a Password then click OK. Now you set
permissions. If you want people to be able
| | 01:17 | to download the photos so they
can print them out themselves,
| | 01:20 | select Downloading
of photos or entire album.
| | 01:22 | If you want to give people the ability
to upload photos via the web browser,
| | 01:27 | select Uploading. If you want the
ability to add photos via email, select that
| | 01:32 | option. You can also choose whether to
show photo titles or not. Now this may
| | 01:36 | only be useful, if you have manually
given your photos names. Otherwise they
| | 01:40 | will have the generic names that came of
the camera. Such as TR0058.jpeg etcetera.
| | 01:46 | So depending on your preferences you
may want to leave that deselected.
| | 01:49 | You'll see you can also show Advanced Options.
This amounts to the option to hide the
| | 01:54 | album on your gallery page. That
means if someone goes directly to your
| | 01:58 | MobileMe website, they won't be able to see the
gallery unless you'll give the direct address.
| | 02:03 | When you are happy, go ahead and click
Publish. A MobileMe Gallery appears in
| | 02:09 | your source list. And a progress
indicator at the top right shows you that the
| | 02:13 | images are uploading. When the upload
is complete a broadcast icon appears just
| | 02:18 | to the right of the MobileMe Gallery
and at the very top of the MobileMe
| | 02:21 | Gallery viewer a URL indicates where
people can go to access the photos.
| | 02:27 | To automatically open Safari to that
URL click the arrow to the right.
| | 02:33 | Because we have password protected this gallery,
we'll need to enter our password here.
| | 02:41 | In the next lesson we'll look at the
specific features of this online gallery.
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| Editing a MobileMe gallery| 00:00 | In this lesson we'll look at how to
modify a MobileMe Gallery, once you have
| | 00:04 | created one, and then we'll take a
look at the online gallery functionality
| | 00:08 | itself. First if you wanted remove
photos from your gallery, simply select them
| | 00:13 | and press Delete. Just like an album
the photos are automatically removed from
| | 00:18 | the gallery, but not
removed from your iPhoto library.
| | 00:21 | To add additional photos, simply
locate the photos and drag them into the gallery.
| | 00:30 | The photos will automatically
be added to the gallery and
| | 00:32 | automatically uploaded the next time
iPhoto synchronizes the MobileMe Gallery.
| | 00:37 | So you can change the photos in the
gallery and even their order, but you can
| | 00:41 | also change the gallery settings by
clicking the Settings button in the lower
| | 00:44 | right corner. Here I'll change the
permission to allow Everyone to view the album,
| | 00:50 | and then I'll also allow Downloading
of photos, Uploading of photos, and
| | 00:54 | Adding of photos via email. I'll
show the photo titles and show the email
| | 00:59 | address for uploading photos. This is
actually a great feature. If people use
| | 01:03 | this email address, any images
included in the email will automatically be
| | 01:07 | added to the gallery.
| | 01:08 | You will see now that I have chosen to
allow downloading of the photos I can
| | 01:11 | also choose a download quality, either
Optimized or Actual Size. If the viewers
| | 01:17 | of your gallery have a high speed Internet
connection and plan to print the photos,
| | 01:21 | it's better to choose Actual Size.
Otherwise just leave it at Optimized.
| | 01:25 | Go ahead and click Publish,
and that completes the update of the settings.
| | 01:30 | Now let's take a look of the
gallery itself. I'll click the arrow to
| | 01:34 | automatically open Safari to the gallery page.
| | 01:39 | You'll see we have several options
along the top along with a button to hide them,
| | 01:43 | if we want extra screen real estate.
To see a high resolution version of
| | 01:47 | any of the thumbnails simply click one. Click
again to return to the standard thumbnail view.
| | 01:52 | To download one of the photos select
it and press the Download button.
| | 01:59 | The photo will automatically open in
Preview. Along with this standard Grid View
| | 02:05 | there are also three other viewing methods.
These are accessible at the lower left.
| | 02:10 | The next one is Mosaic, which creates
a grid of the photos to the right, but
| | 02:14 | one higher resolution version to the
left. The next is Carousel, which creates
| | 02:20 | a coverflow-like view. Drag the
thumb slider to shuffle through all the
| | 02:25 | images. Next is the Slideshow view,
which creates a full screen slideshow of
| | 02:30 | all of your images. You can step
through the images with the on screen
| | 02:35 | controls, download the current image
or exit the Full Screen view by clicking
| | 02:42 | the button to the right. Of course
click the button in the far left to return
| | 02:46 | to Grid view. To the right you can
choose the background color, currently black,
| | 02:50 | but you can move out to a gray
or a white. And you can vary the size of
| | 02:54 | the thumbnails with the thumbnails
slider. Bear in mind that this is the same
| | 02:59 | interactive experience that everyone will have
in their computer whether it's a Mac or a PC.
| | 03:04 | Finally let's look at the additional
options at the top. A viewer can upload
| | 03:08 | photos by clicking the Upload button.
Click the Send to Album button and this
| | 03:13 | brings up a link to the email
address you can use to send photos to this
| | 03:17 | gallery from any device that's email
capable including mobile phone devices.
| | 03:22 | This is a great way to upload
photos when you don't have easy access to
| | 03:26 | standard web browser. Click Tell a
Friend to send an email automatically to
| | 03:32 | someone else giving them a link to the gallery.
| | 03:36 | Finally you have Subscribe options. This
allows you to subscribe to this gallery
| | 03:41 | as an RSS feed, or in the case of other
iPhoto users, they can select in iPhoto
| | 03:46 | to create a unique album that
automatically updates as you update the gallery
| | 03:50 | on your computer. This is a great feature for
other friends and family who also own a Mac.
| | 03:55 | As you add photos to a gallery those
photo automatically update to their copy
| | 03:59 | of the gallery in iPhoto. When
someone chooses this option, iPhoto opens and
| | 04:07 | they are asked to Subscribe. Of course
we are subscribing on the same computer
| | 04:10 | that created gallery, but the process would
be the same on someone else's copy of iPhoto.
| | 04:15 | You will see the gallery appears as a
separate item under Subscriptions. So now
| | 04:22 | when I update my MobileMe Gallery,
all of my friends and family who are
| | 04:26 | subscribed to the gallery will automatically
see the updates under their Subscriptions.
| | 04:31 | So if you have been a little hesitant
about signing up for MobileMe account
| | 04:35 | you may decide now that MobileMe galleries
are reason enough to sign up.
| | 04:40 | One last thing. You can quickly convert any
Smart Album or regular album into a MobileMe
| | 04:45 | Gallery simply by selecting it
and choosing Share > MobileMe Gallery.
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| Sharing on Flickr| 00:00 | Let's take a look now at uploading
photos to Flickr, a popular photo sharing
| | 00:04 | site on the web. I'll select an event or
a group of photos, click Share > Flickr.
| | 00:10 | Now the first time you do this,
Flickr needs to know you are giving
| | 00:13 | permission to iPhoto to publish
photos to your Flickr account. Click Setup,
| | 00:18 | sign in and then click OK I'll Allow It
to give iPhoto permission to upload.
| | 00:27 | I'll then Command+Tab back to iPhoto,
select my options, and click Publish.
| | 00:36 | You will see a progress bar in the top
right corner indicating the state of the upload.
| | 00:43 | When the upload is complete,
the URL or the Flickr gallery is listed
| | 00:47 | at the top of the viewer. Click the
arrow to the right to automatically load
| | 00:50 | Safari to that URL.
| | 00:53 | Your photos are now available to be
viewed just like any other Flickr photos.
| | 00:57 | And just like MobileMe galleries,
changes to the Flickr album in iPhoto will be
| | 01:02 | automatically updated on the Flickr Website.
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| Sharing on Facebook| 00:00 | Uploading photos to Facebook is just
as easy as adding them to a Flickr album
| | 00:04 | or creating a MobileMe Gallery. Here,
I'll upload some pictures of Michaela to
| | 00:08 | her Facebook profile.
| | 00:10 | In Faces, I'll Michaela. Now of
course I could be selecting an event or
| | 00:14 | individual photos and
I'll choose Share > Facebook.
| | 00:18 | First, it's necessary to set up
permissions so that Facebook gives iPhoto
| | 00:22 | access to publish. I'll click Setup,
type in my login details and I'll select
| | 00:31 | Keep me logged in to iPhoto Uploader to
make sure that iPhoto always has access
| | 00:36 | to continually update my photos. Now
I'll click Login. I need to click Allow to
| | 00:43 | allow iPhoto to upload and that's it.
I click Close, decide who has access to
| | 00:48 | my photos and click Publish.
| | 00:52 | Now, notice the limitation of
60 photos per published album,
| | 00:56 | so only the first 60 photos will be published.
The rest will be ignored. I'll have to create
| | 01:00 | another album if I want to publish
the additional photos. I'll click OK and
| | 01:04 | wait for iPhoto to finish the upload.
| | 01:08 | When complete iPhoto shows the link
to the Facebook album at the top of the viewer.
| | 01:12 | I can click the arrow to the
right to go there directly. I'll login to
| | 01:16 | the account, select Remember Me to avoid
logging-in in future and click Login.
| | 01:23 | Thanks to Faces, iPhoto
automatically uploads the names of people and the
| | 01:28 | photos as well. You will see as I
position my mouse over Michaela's face,
| | 01:32 | it identifies Michaela as being in that photo.
| | 01:35 | Again just like MobileMe and Flickr
accounts, I can update the photos in my
| | 01:39 | iPhoto library and they
will be updated in Facebook.
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| Working with other iLife apps| 00:00 | One of the most convenient sharing
features in iPhoto '09 doesn't even
| | 00:04 | require a trip to the sharing menu.
It's the iLife media browser and it's
| | 00:08 | available from within the
other iLife applications.
| | 00:11 | As an example, let's Command+Tab over
to iWeb. Here, I have a basic album page
| | 00:16 | and to the right, you'll see the media
browser. If I select Photos, you will
| | 00:20 | see I have complete access to my iPhoto
library. I even have access to events.
| | 00:25 | If I select Events, I can scrub
through an event just like I'm used to doing
| | 00:29 | inside of iPhoto, double-click and I
can access the individual photos.
| | 00:34 | In addition, albums that I have
created are also listed here.
| | 00:37 | You now drag one of the albums into
iWeb. In doing so, I have automatically
| | 00:42 | created a gallery. Your iPhoto
library is also accessible inside of iDVD,
| | 00:46 | GarageBand and iMovie, in the iWork
applications and even in some pro-apps like Motion.
| | 00:52 | So without so much as performing a
single export operation, your entire iPhoto
| | 00:57 | library is easy to access
from other Apple applications.
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| Updating online photos| 00:00 | Let's quickly have a look now at two
tasks related to online galleries.
| | 00:04 | The first is updating. Now iPhoto will
automatically update your galleries from
| | 00:08 | time to time, but you can also choose
to do it manually. Here, I'll choose to
| | 00:12 | give this Facebook gallery a more
inspiring name and then I'll double-click the
| | 00:18 | Broadcast icon to the right to initiate an
update. The name of the gallery is now updated.
| | 00:24 | Now at other times, you may want to
remove a gallery from the web that's a
| | 00:27 | simple process too. With the gallery
selected in the source list, just simply
| | 00:31 | choose Share > Unpublish.
| | 00:34 | When you click Stop Publishing, iPhoto
will remove that gallery from the web.
| | 00:39 | This same process works with
Flickr Albums and MobileMe Galleries.
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| Creating a slideshow| 00:00 | Now while slideshows may have once
been considered something that can be
| | 00:03 | torture for friends and relatives,
iPhoto actually makes them genuinely fun.
| | 00:08 | You can create a slideshow from one
event, several events, or even a selection
| | 00:13 | of photos. In a moment, we'll also look
at how you can use Places or Faces for
| | 00:17 | slideshows. Simply select some Events,
then click the Slideshow button.
| | 00:20 | You will see this brings up a
selection for Themes, Music and Settings.
| | 00:27 | Now while I'm showing you this here,
we'll actually look at creating a
| | 00:29 | slideshow from a face which is often
much more interesting. I'll deselect
| | 00:34 | these, click over to the Faces section
of the source list and choose one of the
| | 00:39 | faces, in this case Makenzie. This is
great for birthdays and other events when
| | 00:44 | you want to show a selection
of photos from someone's life.
| | 00:47 | This time when I click the Slideshow
button, the slideshow will automatically
| | 00:50 | begin to play. That's okay. I'll
just click the Pause to customize.
| | 00:56 | First, I select the Slides icon to show
the Theme browser. As I mouse over the
| | 01:03 | different themes, I can actually see
a preview of how they look. Here I'll
| | 01:07 | choose my favorite, the Scrapbook.
I'll then go ahead and choose Music.
| | 01:11 | iTunes includes some great licensed music
like You've Got A Friend In Me. And you can
| | 01:16 | preview these by clicking the Play
button. Click again to stop the preview.
| | 01:23 | Of course, you are not limited just to
these six songs. Click the Source menu,
| | 01:28 | you can choose songs from iTunes
library, iTunes Playlists or even songs you
| | 01:33 | have composed yourself using GarageBand.
Here I'll select a song from the iTunes library.
| | 01:38 | Now in addition to using the playlists
that are inside of iTunes, you can also
| | 01:42 | create a custom playlist from any of
the song sources. Select Custom Playlist
| | 01:47 | for Slideshow and then just drag songs
into the playlist. Again, this can be
| | 01:52 | from any of the sources, so it actually
combines something from iTunes with one
| | 01:57 | of the licensed music tracks. I'll add
another and you will see I can drag them
| | 02:03 | up or down on the list to rearrange the order.
| | 02:05 | Next, move to the Settings tab. Here
you can choose how long you want each
| | 02:09 | slide to play for. The default is 6.5
seconds. You can also choose to fit this
| | 02:14 | slideshow to the music. So if you have
lot of music and only a few slides, this
| | 02:18 | will obviously make the slides last
longer. If you have a lot of slides and a
| | 02:22 | short amount of music, the slides
might go too fast. So it's usually better
| | 02:26 | just to set each slide for a minimum.
You can choose whether or not to show the
| | 02:30 | title slide and we'll look at that
more in a moment, shuffle the slide order
| | 02:34 | and repeat the slideshow
when it reaches the end.
| | 02:36 | Finally at the bottom, you can choose
whether or not to use these settings as a
| | 02:40 | default every time you create a
slideshow. When you are happy with your
| | 02:43 | settings, click Play.
| | 02:45 | Now you have options during playback.
If you are getting a little bored, you
| | 03:01 | can actually use the arrows to move
forwards or backwards quickly in the
| | 03:05 | slideshow, pause the slideshow, resume
playback or by moving the mouse to the
| | 03:11 | bottom of the screen, you can actually
select from the list of slides. Clicking
| | 03:16 | anywhere will jump to that portion of
the slideshow. When we are done, just
| | 03:40 | click the X to close up the
slideshow or press the Esc key.
| | 03:43 | Now in this lesson, we have only
created a temporary slideshow, one that works
| | 03:48 | just for the time you click that
Slideshow button. In the next lesson, we'll
| | 03:51 | look at how to create a permanent
slideshow project that offers a much greater
| | 03:56 | ability for customization.
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| Working with a slideshow project| 00:00 | Creating a slideshow project is just
like creating a regular slideshow but in
| | 00:05 | this case this slideshow stays in your
library ready to be watched whenever you
| | 00:09 | want. You can also customize the
slideshow more and you can export it to other
| | 00:14 | devices like an iPod or an iPhone.
| | 00:16 | Just like the regular slideshow begin
by selecting an event, a group of events,
| | 00:20 | the group of photos, a place or a face
and this time click the Add button at
| | 00:25 | the base of the screen. Choose
Slideshow and stick with the default name or
| | 00:29 | change as desired. Click Create and a
new slideshow is added to your source
| | 00:34 | list. You can then go ahead and
customize the slideshow. Be sure to watch the
| | 00:38 | previous video on creating a slideshow
for more information on this customization.
| | 00:42 | I will just go ahead and select a
different Theme. I'll stick with the default
| | 00:49 | Music, You've Got A Friend In Me. But
now let's look at the Settings tab, there
| | 00:54 | is one significant change. I have two
sub-tabs here, All Slides and This Slide.
| | 01:01 | When set to All Slide, I can customize
the timing of every single slide in the
| | 01:06 | project. So in this case each slide
will play for 6.5 seconds. But if I wanted
| | 01:11 | different setting just for one of the
slides, I can select that slide, go to
| | 01:16 | This Slide and select Play slide for,
make a change in the time and then that
| | 01:22 | slide will have a unique duration compared
with the rest of the slides in the slideshow.
| | 01:25 | Notice I can also set an effect such as
Sepia or Antique. I can also customize
| | 01:35 | the order of the slides and delete any
slides that I don't want to play. Simply
| | 01:39 | drag the photos left or right to
change their order. I can scroll through and
| | 01:46 | look for photos that aren't quite
working. Here for example, I have a photo
| | 01:51 | that's too dark. I'll simply select
it and press Delete. Click the Preview
| | 01:56 | button to see how your slideshow looks.
I'll click Play to watch it from start.
| | 02:07 | Hit the Esc key to exit.
| | 02:24 | Let's take a quick look at some of the
other settings. Now these settings will
| | 02:30 | vary depending on the Theme you have
chosen but you will see, you have the
| | 02:33 | option to Show the title slide or not.
If you deselect this, when you play the
| | 02:38 | slideshow it won't show the slide
with the title of the slideshow.
| | 02:51 | One other important one is the Aspect
Ratio, currently its set to This Screen
| | 02:56 | (16:10), the typical Aspect Ratio for
Macintosh screen. But if you plan to
| | 03:01 | export this to play in a DVD or in
an iPhone or iPod, you can select a
| | 03:06 | different Aspect Ratio. For example,
if I plan to export to iPhone, I can
| | 03:10 | select iPhone (3:2).
| | 03:14 | Let's take a look now at exporting. If
I'm happy with the slideshow and want to
| | 03:18 | export it to my iPod or iPhone, I'll
click Export. And now I can choose a range
| | 03:23 | of Sizes, Mobile is the native
iPhone size. So I'll select that and click
| | 03:28 | Export. I'll then choose a
location and click OK to save.
| | 03:35 | Notice if I change my Settings from
iPhone to HDTV, when I now click the Export
| | 03:43 | button, the pixel resolutions to the
right are in 16:9 Aspect Ratio, 640:360,
| | 03:48 | 960:540, etcetera. So if I have an
Apple TV, and I want to playback on the
| | 03:54 | Apple TV on a big screen, I can choose
Large and Export. So although Slideshow
| | 04:00 | button is great for watching a
slideshow when you just are exploring your
| | 04:03 | library, the slideshow project is
perfect for furnishing something to play to
| | 04:08 | friends and family.
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| Attaching photos to email| 00:00 | Let's round out this chapter by
looking at various other ways to share your
| | 00:03 | photos. The first one is via e-mail.
You can select an event or select a group
| | 00:09 | of photos and then choose Share >
Email. Then choose the Size option.
| | 00:16 | Most commonly you want to choose the Medium
option but you need keep an eye on the
| | 00:19 | Estimated size. Many e-mail clients
won't accept attachments greater than 2
| | 00:24 | megabytes. So always make sure
you are well under this number.
| | 00:26 | If the person receiving the e-mail is
planning to printout the photos, you want
| | 00:31 | to choose Large or Actual Size. Bear
in mind of course if you choose Actual
| | 00:35 | Size, the megabyte count will be
much higher. In this case, its nearly 20
| | 00:40 | megabytes for these five images.
| | 00:42 | Now if you know someone's email client
can handle that, go ahead. Otherwise you
| | 00:47 | may need to copy them to an iDisk for
access. Here I'll just choose Medium.
| | 00:52 | I'll tell it to include Titles and
Descriptions and Location information and
| | 00:56 | then click Compose Message. Apple
Mail opens up, the Subject is already
| | 01:01 | included and my photos are
attached ready for sending.
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| Setting a photo as the desktop image| 00:00 | The Set Desktop option in the Share
menu is a great way to quickly change the
| | 00:04 | background image for your Desktop.
Select an image, choose Share > Set Desktop.
| | 00:10 | If I now use Expose to reveal my
Desktop, you can see that the image has been
| | 00:14 | correctly set. You can also use a
collection of images as a slideshow. Here
| | 00:19 | I'll select the entire event, then
choose Share > Set Desktop once again. This
| | 00:24 | time the Desktop & Screen Saver section
of the System Preferences opens, and I
| | 00:28 | see all of my selection listed to the right.
| | 00:31 | I can change the picture every 30
minutes, which is the default, or even once a
| | 00:35 | day, or as close as every 5 seconds.
Notice also that in addition to using the
| | 00:41 | selection that I just made, I can also
choose to create a slideshow from any of
| | 00:45 | the events in my iPhoto library.
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| Sharing files with iWeb or iDVD| 00:00 | Rounding off the Share menu are the
options to Send to iWeb either as a gallery
| | 00:05 | of photos or as a blog entry, Send to
iDVD as a fully populated iDVD slideshow,
| | 00:11 | or Burn to a CD or a DVD for backup.
| | 00:14 | It's a good idea to regularly backup
your photos just in case something happens
| | 00:18 | to your main computer. Another great
option is to backup your Mac with Time
| | 00:22 | Machine. Time Machine will backup your
iPhoto Library along with everything else.
| | 00:26 | Finally, one really nice feature is
Send to iDVD, combined with a slideshow.
| | 00:32 | If I select a Slideshow and then
choose Share > Send to iDVD, I can send the
| | 00:38 | entire slideshow to iDVD as an animated movie.
| | 00:42 | And that rounds off this section on
Sharing. You have seen just how easy it is
| | 00:46 | to get your photos out where other
people can see them. Next, be sure to check
| | 00:50 | out the videos on how to make hard
copies of your photos, and create keepsakes
| | 00:53 | like books, cards, and calendars.
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10. Printing PhotosPrinting photos| 00:00 | The seemingly simple process of
printing out your photos can be one of the most
| | 00:04 | frustrating experiences for newcomers
to digital photography. People frequently
| | 00:08 | claim of having thousands of photos in
their computer but none in their hands
| | 00:12 | to give out to friends and relatives.
| | 00:14 | The good news is that Apple has made it
as painless as possible by creating two
| | 00:18 | simple methods for getting your photos
on the paper. The first is printing them
| | 00:22 | to your home printer, and the second one is
ordering them online for delivery by the mail.
| | 00:27 | In this lesson, we'll look at
printing with your home printer, and in the
| | 00:30 | following lesson, we'll look at the
simplicity of the ordering process. Before
| | 00:33 | we get started, I just want to show you a tip
for getting your photos assembled for print.
| | 00:38 | Now you can create an album and put all
the photos you want to print in there,
| | 00:41 | or even create Smart Albums to collect
photos that you have applied a specific
| | 00:45 | special keyword to. But there is
actually a simple process if you are only
| | 00:49 | planning to do a one-off print, and
don't want to print those exact same photos
| | 00:53 | again in the later time. In other
words, there is no point in creating a
| | 00:56 | permanent album.
| | 00:57 | The method is simply to use the flag
system. Select the photo and click the
| | 01:01 | Flag button or press Command+Period.
Every photo you select and press
| | 01:06 | Command+Period to flag will appear in
that Flagged section of your Source List.
| | 01:11 | Once you have assembled the photos you
want to print, simply select them, and
| | 01:15 | choose File > Print. Now you have
several different options for printing.
| | 01:20 | You can print a Standard Image, a Contact
Sheet with thumbnails of all the selected
| | 01:25 | photos, a Simple Border around
the print, a Mat, or a Double Mat.
| | 01:31 | Let's start by looking at the Standard
print. Now you will notice that this has
| | 01:34 | a border around the edge, that's common
to printers that are unable to print to
| | 01:38 | the very edge of the paper. Here, if
I choose my Brother 8840, you will see
| | 01:43 | that I would actually need a border
since that printer is unable to print to
| | 01:47 | the very edge of the page.
| | 01:49 | However, with the EPSON PictureMate
attached to my machine, I only need to
| | 01:54 | choose Borderless. So I got a Paper
Size and in the Paper Size options, I
| | 01:58 | choose 4x6 inch (Borderless). It's a
very important step if you don't want
| | 02:03 | white edging around your image.
| | 02:05 | So again, if your printer supports edge-
to-edge printing, make sure you select
| | 02:09 | Borderless in Paper Size. You will
see arrows at the base of the Viewer
| | 02:13 | allowing you to see how all of the
other images will print. Now currently we
| | 02:15 | are just creating standard individual
prints, but let's take a look at some of
| | 02:20 | the other printing options.
| | 02:21 | If I choose Double Mat, I can then
customize the look of the mat. I'll click
| | 02:26 | the Customize button and that returns
me to the Standard Viewer, but you will
| | 02:29 | see I have Printing Options at the
base of the screen. I can return to the
| | 02:33 | Print Settings by clicking
the Print Settings button.
| | 02:37 | I can change themes with the Theme
menu, and then I can customize the
| | 02:40 | Background color of the theme. Now
the border appears, and even more
| | 02:48 | impressively, I can change the
Layout to include more than one photo.
| | 02:53 | Let's try a Three-photo Layout.
Obviously, you would want to print to something
| | 02:57 | larger than a 4x6 for this to make
sense but this is a nice easy way of
| | 03:02 | creating a mat that you can automatically frame.
| | 03:04 | Some of the Layout Options include
titles. Simply click on the title text, and
| | 03:11 | then enter your own. Press Return when
you are done. Now you will notice that
| | 03:18 | some of the prints have been cropped
to fit into the aspect ratio of the
| | 03:21 | frames. You can fix this by
clicking on one of the prints.
| | 03:25 | You can then click the Hand icon to
drag and pan the image around or zoom in
| | 03:31 | with the Zoom slider and then
reposition. To prevent the accidental panning
| | 03:36 | click the Pan icon again. You can
frame all your photos in the same method.
| | 03:44 | Click away from the photos to deselect.
Now when iPhoto lays out the images, it
| | 03:48 | doesn't really discriminate against
what photos are portrait and what are
| | 03:52 | landscape, so you can rearrange them to
suit. Simply drag a photo from one box
| | 03:57 | to another and the photos are switched.
| | 03:59 | Or select the Individual Photos button
from the Photo Selector at the top, and
| | 04:03 | drag in a different image. Now there
are just two other buttons to look at in
| | 04:06 | this interface. If I select a photo, you
will see I have access to the Adjust palette.
| | 04:12 | I also have options for Settings,
which allows me to choose the font used for
| | 04:16 | titling, along with adding crop marks
and using the Autoflow feature enabled by
| | 04:20 | default. When you are all
happy, simply click Print.
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| Ordering prints| 00:00 | Now, there are two ways to get you
photos printed by a professional printing
| | 00:03 | service. The first is to take them
somewhere yourself and to do that, simply
| | 00:08 | select the photos you want to print,
choose Share > Burn. Instead of CD or DVD
| | 00:14 | depending on how many photos you have,
click OK and the CD or DVD will be
| | 00:18 | burned ready for you to
take to your local photo store.
| | 00:21 | But there is also a truly painless way
of getting your photos printed. Once you
| | 00:27 | have selected them choose File > Order
Prints. This connects you to iPhoto's
| | 00:33 | built-in Photo Print Service. For each
print you can then select quantities for
| | 00:38 | the various sizes. Now, bear in mind,
you need to have a one-click Apple
| | 00:42 | account setup on your computer.
| | 00:43 | You can use this Set Up Account button
at the bottom of the screen to take care
| | 00:47 | of this. Once you have placed your
order, your photos are uploaded to Kodak's
| | 00:51 | printing service and sent to you in the mail.
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| Creating a photo book| 00:00 | iPhoto books really are an amazing way
to show your photos. Not only do they
| | 00:04 | replace the tedium of sticking
individual prints inside of photo album, but
| | 00:08 | they create a professional look that's
simply not achievable using regular home crafts.
| | 00:13 | To begin, select an event, a group of
photos, a face or a place. In this case,
| | 00:18 | I'll create a travel book and so I'll
select a place. In my Library Source
| | 00:22 | List, I'll click Places and then
identify Bhutan, I'll click the Arrow button
| | 00:26 | to select the photos, Command+A to
select all and now, I'll simply click Book
| | 00:31 | at the bottom of the viewer.
First, I need to choose a book type,
| | 00:35 | Large-Hardcover, one of the Softcover
options or a Wire-bound Softcover. These
| | 00:40 | are various prices and you can see the
prices by clicking Options+Prices at the
| | 00:45 | bottom, which will open
Safari to the current price page.
| | 00:50 | Then choose a theme for your book,
you will see there's a list of different
| | 00:54 | layout's based on what kind of book
you are creating. Obviously Travel makes
| | 00:58 | the most sense for these photos. So,
I'll click Travel and then select Choose.
| | 01:02 | I'll just dismiss the simple
instruction on how to add photos and first off,
| | 01:09 | I'll go into the source
list and rename the book.
| | 01:14 | At the top of the Viewer, you will see
a photo role of all the photos that have
| | 01:19 | included in a book. You can change
this photo role to actually view the page
| | 01:23 | layout. This shows me a page layout
for all other pages currently included in
| | 01:28 | the book, as you will see in a moment,
we can customize and change these. But
| | 01:32 | this is what iPhoto has
initially given me to work with.
| | 01:35 | I will return to the Standard Photo
View and start dragging images on to the
| | 01:39 | pages of the book. The first page is
the cover page. Now, one nice feature that
| | 01:46 | has been added to iPhoto is the
ability to adjust individual photos without
| | 01:50 | changing their original master prints.
Say for example, we may want to lighten
| | 01:54 | up, this image here but not change
it wherever else it appears in iPhoto.
| | 01:58 | I will select the photo and click
Adjust and Adjust palette appears. Notice
| | 02:04 | it's a little different than the
standard Adjust palette; we don't have the
| | 02:07 | histogram. Then I'll go ahead and make
changes to the Exposure, Saturation and
| | 02:15 | even a touch to the shadows. Notice I
can also select an Antique look, a Sepia
| | 02:21 | look or a Black and white look. Click
again to turn off these looks. Next, I'll
| | 02:28 | replace the type on a page. Just
select the text and type to replace it.
| | 02:34 | Now, I have entered the main trip title,
but there is also an option to include
| | 02:37 | a date or subtitle. I can either select
this and press Delete or I can actually
| | 02:42 | enter a Date. Now, a nice quick
solution if you have forgotten a date is to
| | 02:46 | select an image and click the Info button. You
can in view the date and add it appropriately.
| | 02:51 | When you are done with the title page,
click the arrow on the lower right to
| | 02:58 | move to the next. Here I can write a
description on the inside sleeve and
| | 03:02 | include an additional photo, I'll click
the arrow to move to the next age. Now,
| | 03:09 | the next page gives you another title
and a lengthy text description of the
| | 03:13 | trip. Now, that's great if you plan on
being that formal, but if you want to
| | 03:16 | move on straight to photos you can
actually change the layout at anytime.
| | 03:20 | Click the Layout button and choose a
different option. Decide how many photos
| | 03:25 | you want on the page, whether it's one,
two, three or four and then select an
| | 03:30 | appropriate layout. The existing page
is replaced by your new chosen layout.
| | 03:35 | Now, I can continue to drag further
from the viewer at the top into each of
| | 03:39 | placeholders on the page. But there is
an easier way to get things going and
| | 03:43 | that's to use the Autoflow option.
Click the Autoflow button at the base of the
| | 03:46 | Viewer and iPhoto automatically
populates all of the pages of your book with
| | 03:51 | photos from the viewer. You will see
now as I click through with the arrow,
| | 03:55 | that all of the pages in
the book have populated.
| | 04:01 | Now, some of the photos may need to be
adjusted and other photos you want to
| | 04:05 | strategically replace with other images,
but on the whole this is a great way
| | 04:10 | to quickly populate your book. Be sure
to watch the video on customizing photo
| | 04:13 | layouts to see how to change out and
modify the images. In the next video,
| | 04:18 | we'll take a look at customizing the Photo Book.
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| Creating a custom book| 00:00 | This is a follow-on lesson from the
previous one on creating a Photo Book and
| | 00:04 | here we'll look at ways to customize
your Photo Book once you have started to
| | 00:07 | place your images. Let's take a look at
the buttons at the base of the Viewer.
| | 00:11 | The first one is the View. Currently,
we are seeing a full spread that's two
| | 00:15 | pages, the left page and the right page,
but we can also use the screen real
| | 00:19 | estate better by choosing a single page.
You can switch between these at anytime.
| | 00:24 | Next, at anytime you can change the
theme of the book. Bear in mind that this
| | 00:28 | will potentially cause you to loose any
text you have entered. So, if you have
| | 00:31 | spent a lot of time financing this
book and adding text, you might want to
| | 00:35 | think twice before casually changing themes.
| | 00:38 | Next, change the background, with the
page selected and currently, I'm looking
| | 00:43 | at page eight, you can change the
background styling. Now, when you are working
| | 00:47 | with a two-page spread like this, the
way you know which of the two pages is
| | 00:51 | selected is by the blue
highlight in the viewer at the top.
| | 00:55 | Now, I'm working with Page 9. You can
also click on an element on a page to
| | 01:02 | automatically select the page. Here
I'll change the layout. Currently it's a
| | 01:06 | single image. Well, let's go ahead and
change it to a layout with three images.
| | 01:11 | I can now switch to the
Image Viewer and add new photos.
| | 01:18 | Now, in the Page View, if you find
that you don't have enough pages when you
| | 01:21 | reach the end of your book. You can
always add a page. Select the page prior to
| | 01:26 | the location you want to add and then
choose Add Pages. A new spread of two
| | 01:32 | pages is automatically added.
I'll just press Command+Z to undo.
| | 01:37 | Finally, click the Settings button to
adjust the Font, Style and Font Size of
| | 01:43 | the text throughout the book. You can
also decide whether you want to include
| | 01:46 | the Apple logo at the back of the book.
Automatically enter photo information
| | 01:50 | into text areas and show page numbers.
Before completion be sure to step
| | 01:56 | through the pages of the book and make
sure that you are happy with the photo
| | 01:59 | placement and that all your text
information is being filled out. You may even
| | 02:03 | want to run a spell check on a book,
using the Spelling Option in the Edit menu.
| | 02:09 | When you are happy, click the Buy Book
button. iPhoto includes a handy warning
| | 02:13 | if you haven't filled out all of the
text in your book. Be sure to click Cancel
| | 02:17 | and go back and locate the text before
continuing. Once you have satisfactorily
| | 02:22 | entered all of the text click OK. To
purchase the book, you will need a 1-click
| | 02:28 | Apple account. Click the Set Up Account
button to create one, once you have one
| | 02:32 | you can set a quantity for the
number of books you want and Order.
| | 02:36 | One last tip about printing Keepsakes.
If you want to print these at home and
| | 02:40 | not have them printed using Apple's
print service, there is way to do it. Just
| | 02:44 | select the book, choose File > Print.
You can either select your printer or
| | 02:50 | save as a PDF. When you click Save,
iPhoto will begin to process the pages
| | 03:04 | converting them into a PDF. Now, bear
in mind that you will need a printer that
| | 03:08 | supports full bleed, if you want to
take advantage of these keepsakes.
| | 03:12 | However, saving as a PDF is a nice way
to create a backup of your Keepsake and
| | 03:16 | also a way to get it to other
people in electronic form. Once the PDF
| | 03:21 | conversion is complete, you will
find the PDF right where you saved it.
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| Creating a travel map| 00:00 | A very cool feature of photo books in
iPhoto '09 is Travel Maps. Travel Maps
| | 00:05 | utilizes thePlaces technology in
iPhoto '09 to map out the location of all the
| | 00:10 | photos appearing in your book. Now in
this case all of the photos in my book
| | 00:15 | were shot Bhutan, so that's the only
item appearing on the map. By the way
| | 00:20 | if you choose the travel theme for your
book one map is automatically placed in
| | 00:24 | the collection of pages. However, you
can also add maps by choosing Layout >
| | 00:28 | Map and then selecting one of
the map types from the list.
| | 00:32 | Now if I were to introduce other photos
into this book from other locations, either
| | 00:37 | ones that had locations assigned to
them by GPS in the camera or ones that
| | 00:41 | locations manually assigned using Places,
those additional locations would show
| | 00:46 | up on this map. But even if you don't,
you can add places to the map very easily.
| | 00:50 | Let's take a look. I'll click to select
the map and you will see a list of the
| | 00:54 | places on the map, currently just
Bhutan. I'll go ahead and click the Add button.
| | 00:59 | And I want to show the route
from Los Angeles to Bhutan. So I'll start
| | 01:03 | typing Los Angeles and then select it
from the menu. I can now drag on the map
| | 01:10 | to reposition between Bhutan and Los Angeles.
| | 01:12 | Now, let's say on the way to Bhutan
I stopped in Cape Town, South Africa.
| | 01:17 | I'll go ahead and add that as well.
I now have the three locations on the map.
| | 01:24 | And again, I'll drag to reposition the map
appropriately. Now I can show my travel route.
| | 01:29 | I do that by selecting Show
lines at the bottom of the window.
| | 01:33 | The travel route appears in the order of
the places listed. Seeing as I want to go
| | 01:38 | from Los Angeles to Capetown to Bhutan,
I'll simply drag Bhutan to the bottom of the list.
| | 01:44 | Now the arrows correctly identify the
direction of travel. I can also zoom in
| | 01:48 | or zoom out. You also have the
ability to doing a title for the map.
| | 01:57 | But in this case we also have text on the
page to the left. So I'll delete that and
| | 02:02 | enter it here.
| | 02:11 | And that's pretty much all
it takes to create a Travel Map in
| | 02:14 | the photo book in iPhoto '09.
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| Building a calendar| 00:00 | Calendars in iPhoto '09 are the perfect
Christmas present. They are a great way
| | 00:05 | to share photos with friends and family
and still provide a genuinely useful gift.
| | 00:10 | Let's take a look at how to create one.
First, we need to select the photos we
| | 00:13 | want to use in the calendar. In this
case, I'm making a family calendar, so if
| | 00:18 | you are look in Faces you will see
that I have correctly named my immediate
| | 00:21 | family with the surname Allen. So now I
can create a Smart Album to collect all
| | 00:26 | those photos together.
| | 00:27 | I will choose File > New Smart Album.
I'll set the condition that the Name must
| | 00:33 | contain Allen. I'll add the additional
condition that the Date must be in the
| | 00:43 | last 12 months. That ensures that my
photos are going to be nice and recent.
| | 00:51 | And I'll call the Smart Album, Allen
Calendar 2009. And I want to make sure
| | 00:58 | that Match is set to all of the
following conditions, which ensures that both
| | 01:02 | Allen and the 12-month limitation must be
met for photos to appear in this Smart Album.
| | 01:07 | You will see I now have my Smart
Album created and indeed the photos are
| | 01:13 | current. Next, with the album selected
I simply click Calendar. Now, of course,
| | 01:19 | I'm doing this with the Smart Album
but I could do this with any selection of
| | 01:22 | photos, an event, a place, or a face
simply by clicking the Calendar button.
| | 01:27 | Now I choose the Calendar theme, in
this case, I'm happy with the default,
| | 01:30 | Picture Calendar. And I can always
click the Option + Prices button to review
| | 01:35 | the current publishing
prices on Apple's website.
| | 01:37 | I will go ahead and click Choose. And
now I get to set additional options.
| | 01:41 | First off, you can choose when the
calendar should start. If you are giving
| | 01:44 | someone a calendar mid-year, it might
make sense to choose something other than
| | 01:48 | January as the start day. You can also
add additional months all the way to 24.
| | 01:55 | A very nice feature is the national
holidays pop up. One of the frustrating
| | 02:00 | experiences about receiving a calendar
from a friend in another country in that
| | 02:04 | the national holidays don't match up
with your own. In iPhoto if you are giving
| | 02:08 | a calendar to someone overseas, you
can select their nationality from the pop
| | 02:12 | up list. Here I'll choose Australia
because we are going to send it to the
| | 02:16 | Australian grandmother.
| | 02:18 | That means all the Australian national
holidays will appear in the calendar.
| | 02:22 | You can also choose to import
details from iCal calendars and have then
| | 02:26 | included on the dates of the calendar.
Now you want to make sure there is no
| | 02:29 | personal or proprietary business
information on this calendar before you use
| | 02:33 | them. But the option is certainly there.
And you can also select Show birthdays
| | 02:37 | from Address Book if you want birthdays
on your address book automatically copy
| | 02:41 | it in to the calendar. When you
have made your settings, click OK.
| | 02:47 | The calendar is created and appears
in the Keepsakes section of the source
| | 02:51 | list. We'll dismiss the information on
how to drag photos and begin populating
| | 02:56 | our calendar. I'll go ahead and choose
an image for the title page. You will
| | 03:01 | see that the calendar is already taken
the name of the Smart Album from which
| | 03:04 | it was created. Now in this case that's
created a redundancy, here we have two Calendars.
| | 03:09 | So I'll go ahead Select and Delete the
second Calendar. We also have the option
| | 03:16 | to insert a sub-title or author name.
I'll just select that and press the
| | 03:20 | Delete key to remove that text. Now I
click the arrow on the right to move to
| | 03:25 | the next page, January. I can search
through the list to find an appropriate
| | 03:30 | photo. Just as with the title page,
drag the photo into the placeholder. Be
| | 03:35 | sure to watch the video on customizing
photo layouts more information on how to
| | 03:39 | perfectly align the photos and adjust them.
| | 03:42 | Next, we get to add personal date
information to the calendar. In this case its
| | 03:46 | actually Michaela's birthday on New
Years day, January 1st. So I select January
| | 03:51 | 1st and along with New Year I'll type
in Michaela's Birthday. Now I can close
| | 04:00 | the entry and that information is
included in the calendar. You can proceed to
| | 04:03 | do this for all of the
important dates in the recipient's life.
| | 04:07 | Now another nice feature is the ability
to add photos right into the calendar.
| | 04:12 | Let's take a look. Seeing as its
Michaela's birthday, we'll select another
| | 04:16 | image of Michaela. Simply drag it into
the specific day on which you want the
| | 04:20 | photo placed. When you release the
mouse, the photo is positioned there.
| | 04:26 | I'll go ahead and double click the date
and now make adjustments to the photo so
| | 04:31 | that Michaela's face is clearly visible.
Now you will notice the option to set
| | 04:36 | a Caption. I'll go ahead and select
that and I'll enter Michaela's Birthday.
| | 04:44 | Now if you will look carefully at the
calendar, the caption appears just below
| | 04:48 | the image. Now the problem with this is
that it actually looks like Michaela's
| | 04:53 | birthday is on the 8th January. So
instead I'll choose to position the Caption
| | 04:57 | to the left of the image. This appears
in a great out space Wednesday 31st. And
| | 05:02 | the arrow is much more
visible pointing towards the right.
| | 05:05 | Now I personally find this a little
confusing so I actually avoid using photos
| | 05:10 | inside the calendar date section itself.
I would rather limit myself to text
| | 05:14 | and have that text appear on the
appropriate day rather than use these photos
| | 05:18 | in line. So to remove the photo I'll
simply drag it off the page. You will see
| | 05:25 | I still have Michaela's Birthday
written in the text of the date.
| | 05:29 | You can then move to the next month.
And in this case the image section
| | 05:33 | actually has two horizontal images.
Now its unusual to find images that will
| | 05:37 | fit in that kind of aspect ratio. So
let's go ahead and change the Layout.
| | 05:41 | I'll select Layout, Two images and in this
case I'll switch it to vertical images,
| | 05:48 | much more appropriate to portrait.
| | 05:54 | Now I can continue to add photos in
this fashion or I can use Autoflow to have
| | 05:59 | iPhoto automatically place images for
the rest of the calendar. If you see a
| | 06:03 | yellow alert triangle on one of the
images, that's telling you that the image
| | 06:07 | placed there isn't of high enough
resolution and it may start to look blocky
| | 06:12 | when printed out. The best idea is to
replace it with a more appropriate photo
| | 06:16 | and obviously in this case the
Autoflow has chosen an unfortunate picture for
| | 06:20 | that particular space.
| | 06:22 | Because you are usually dealing with
very few images in the calendar, you will
| | 06:25 | probably want to avoid using Autoflow
and just manually place all the images
| | 06:29 | yourself. As with books, you can
change themes at any time but again you may
| | 06:34 | lose all the text information you have
entered when you change themes. I'll go
| | 06:38 | ahead and switch back from Page
Layout to Photo View and select a more
| | 06:42 | appropriate photo.
| | 06:51 | When you are done, go ahead and review
all of the months to make sure you are
| | 06:54 | happy with the placement of the images
and the text you provided. It's also a
| | 06:58 | really good idea to check everyone's
birthdays to make sure you got them right.
| | 07:02 | Then go ahead and click Buy Calendar.
If you receive the warning that your
| | 07:07 | calendar appears to have default text,
it means there are certain areas of text
| | 07:11 | entry in your calendar that you
haven't customized. Be sure to recheck your
| | 07:15 | calendar to make sure you have
deleted any default text before continuing.
| | 07:21 | You may also receive a warning if any
of the images that have been placed at
| | 07:25 | too low a quality to print at the
size you have currently chosen. If you
| | 07:29 | receive this, you may want to go back and
substitute those images for higher quality.
| | 07:36 | Finally, make sure you have a 1-Click
ordering account with Apple so that you
| | 07:41 | can actually purchase the calendar. If
you don't, go ahead and click the Set Up
| | 07:45 | Account button at the bottom of the
screen. Once your account is established,
| | 07:49 | set the Quantity and you are ready to order.
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| Building a card| 00:00 | Creating a greeting card in iPhoto
'09 couldn't be much simpler. Here, I'll
| | 00:04 | select some photos from an event and
click the Card button. Next, I choose
| | 00:10 | whether I want a Greeting Card or a
Postcard. Since I'm making a Christmas card
| | 00:14 | here, I'll choose Greeting Card. Notice
how all of the previews are in portrait
| | 00:18 | orientation. That's because the sample
photo that's being used is a portrait
| | 00:23 | photo. Don't worry, we can go ahead and
change to landscape later on if we choose.
| | 00:27 | Next we choose an Occasion. In this
case it's a Christmas card, so I'll choose
| | 00:32 | Holiday/Events and then select my
preferred design. Here I'll stick with
| | 00:37 | Christmas Stitching. I can click the
Options+Prices button to review the
| | 00:41 | options and prices on Apple's website.
But I'll go ahead right now and just
| | 00:44 | click Choose. This automatically
creates my card and in the Keepsakes section,
| | 00:50 | I'll rename it appropriately.
| | 00:51 | You will see that iPhoto has taken
all the photos I have selected and
| | 00:57 | automatically placed them in my card.
Now, it's not quite the order I planned,
| | 01:01 | so I'll just go ahead and rearrange.
First off, I want to choose a landscape
| | 01:05 | orientation for my card. So, at
the bottom of the screen, I'll choose
| | 01:09 | Horizontal Orientation. Now, I'll
just drag to rearrange the photos.
| | 01:16 | Finally, I'll enter my text. Not the
most original text, but I'll add an
| | 01:23 | exclamation point just for
individuality. Now, in the text below, I can enter
| | 01:27 | my lengthy letter of everything
that's gone on in the past year. There is a
| | 01:34 | good chance you want to do a little bit
more than that, but for the purposes of
| | 01:37 | this exercise, that will do me.
| | 01:39 | As with books and calendars, you can
change the theme at any time, you can also
| | 01:44 | change out the background. Currently,
I'm looking at a design with four images,
| | 01:49 | but I can change the design to one with
three, two or one. I'll stick with what
| | 01:55 | we have. Finally, if I visit Settings,
you will see I can make adjustments to
| | 01:59 | the Font, Font Styling and Font Size.
| | 02:03 | When you are happy, click Buy Card, and
with an Apple 1-click account, you can
| | 02:08 | automatically choose your quantity, order
the cards, and they will arrive in the mail.
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| Customizing a project| 00:00 | In this lesson we'll look at
customizing photo layouts. Now, I'm working with a
| | 00:05 | Photo Book here, but the process is
identical for calendars and cards. To
| | 00:09 | adjust the framing of a photo,
select it and then use the Zoom and Pan
| | 00:14 | controls. Drag the Zoom slider to the
right to increase the zoom level. Once
| | 00:18 | you have zoomed in, you can pan the
image by dragging inside the image. To exit
| | 00:23 | Pan mode, click the Pan icon.
| | 00:26 | Once you have populated a page with
photos, you can easily rearrange the
| | 00:30 | photos. Just drag one photo into
another's placeholder and the two photos will
| | 00:35 | switch. You can also substitute new
photos. You will see that the browser at
| | 00:41 | the top of the page is currently is set
to the Page Layout view. But if I click
| | 00:44 | the Individual Photo View, I'm seeing
all of the photos I have available to add
| | 00:49 | to my book, calendar or card.
| | 00:50 | Then I simply locate the photo I want
to substitute and drag it over one of the
| | 00:54 | existing placeholders. The check mark
at the base of the photo in the browser
| | 00:58 | indicates that photo is now being used
in the book. Now, that doesn't mean you
| | 01:02 | can only use the photo once; it simply
means that it is used at least once in
| | 01:07 | the book. This helps you to see which
photos are currently not included in your
| | 01:11 | book, calendar or card.
| | 01:12 | It is an option that's specific to
photo books, you can rearrange the order of
| | 01:16 | the pages simply be dragging a set of
pages left or right in the Page Layout
| | 01:21 | Viewer. You can also select and
delete a page or edit pair of pages by
| | 01:26 | selecting the page to the left of the
one you want to introduce and clicking
| | 01:30 | the Add Pages button.
| | 01:32 | One last thing before we wrap. If you
want to add additional photos to your
| | 01:36 | book, calendar or card after you have
created the Keepsake, simply select the
| | 01:41 | photos you want to add and drag them to
your Keepsake. When you next visit the
| | 01:50 | Keepsake, they will now appear in the list.
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11. Additional TipsReviewing preferences in detail| 00:00 | In this lesson, we are going to take
a look at a handful of preferences we
| | 00:03 | haven't covered elsewhere in the
training. Go to iPhoto > Preferences and
| | 00:07 | make sure you are looking at the General tab.
| | 00:09 | First off, we have Sources. The first
selection box is Show last 12 months albums.
| | 00:15 | If you look in the recent section
of the Source List, we have an album
| | 00:18 | called Last 12 Months. This shows all
the photos you have taken within the last
| | 00:22 | 12 months. However, if you are a
prolific photographer, it may be more useful
| | 00:26 | just to show, say, the last three
months since that has more than enough
| | 00:30 | relevant photos for you. We'll go
ahead and just use the Down arrow here to
| | 00:34 | change this to 3 months. If you look
in the Source list now, it's actually
| | 00:39 | called Last 3 Months.
| | 00:41 | The next option is to Show item counts,
so you can see how many individual
| | 00:45 | photos there are in each section.
The next option is Double-click Photo behavior.
| | 00:51 | By default it magnifies a photo,
but you can also have it go to straight
| | 00:55 | editing the photo. Let's close the
Preferences and take a quick look.
| | 00:58 | We will go to a photo and double-click.
It magnifies the image. Click again and
| | 01:05 | it closes the image back to the
standard view. However, in Preferences if we
| | 01:10 | change this to Edits Photo, now when
we double-click it moves straight to the
| | 01:16 | Edit mode. You will see the Edit tools
at the base of the viewer. I personally
| | 01:20 | find this a much more useful mode.
Double-click again to return to the standard view.
| | 01:25 | Let's continue.
| | 01:28 | Next, you can determine whether you
want to edit the photo in the main window
| | 01:32 | using the Full Screen mode,
another useful option, or in an alternate
| | 01:36 | application. For example, if you wanted
to take advantage of Photoshop to edit
| | 01:41 | your photos, you can do that by
choosing it here. Unless you have very
| | 01:46 | specific needs, chances are the editing
tools within iPhoto will be more than enough.
| | 01:51 | Next, decide what email client you want
to use. The default is Apple Mail, but
| | 01:56 | if you do all your emailing in
Microsoft Entourage, for example, or Eudora,
| | 02:00 | you can select it from the list.
| | 02:02 | The last option here is what happens
when you connect the camera to your Mac.
| | 02:06 | By default iPhoto will open to
import the images, but you can also choose
| | 02:10 | another application like Image
Capture or Aperture, if you are working with
| | 02:14 | Aperture on your computer.
| | 02:15 | Now, we have already covered Appearance
and Events in their relative sections,
| | 02:20 | so let's jump to Sharing. Sharing
allows you to see other people's photos on
| | 02:25 | your network and it also allows you to
share photos with other people on your
| | 02:28 | network. By default Look For Shared
Photos is selected and so iPhoto will
| | 02:33 | display other people's albums. If you
want to share your photos with other
| | 02:37 | people on your network, select Share My
Photos and then decide whether you want
| | 02:41 | to share the entire
library or just selected albums.
| | 02:45 | Choose the name for the library and
determine whether you want a required
| | 02:49 | password for people to access your
content. Next we have Web options.
| | 02:55 | The top one is the decision whether you
want location information included for
| | 02:59 | published photos. Now, that might
seem like a good idea, but there are
| | 03:03 | significant privacy concerns.
| | 03:05 | For example, if you are shooting
inside your house with a GPS enabled camera
| | 03:09 | and that includes a 3G iPhone,
people will actually able to pinpoint the
| | 03:13 | location of your house using the GPS
data attached to the photo. So, just be
| | 03:18 | sure you know what you are doing before
you select Include Location Information.
| | 03:22 | Next determine whether you want
iPhoto to automatically look for published
| | 03:25 | photos for Every Hour, Every Day,
Every Week or just make it Manually.
| | 03:30 | This applies to albums that you have
subscribed to from other people's galleries.
| | 03:35 | Just below this you have a handy usage meter to
show you how much space is left on your iDisc.
| | 03:41 | Finally, the Advanced tab. The first
selection is whether you want items
| | 03:45 | imported copied to your iPhoto
library. There may be cases where you have
| | 03:50 | photos already on your hard drive and
you want them to stay there and just be
| | 03:53 | referenced by iPhoto. In that case
you want to deselect this option.
| | 03:57 | For most users, though, leave it checked and
iPhoto will automatically keep and organize
| | 04:02 | your photos for you.
| | 04:03 | You also want to leave the Embed
Color-Sync Profile options selected.
| | 04:06 | Unless you are intimately familiar with
Color-Sync profiles it's a good idea to let iPhoto
| | 04:11 | manage them for you. Then we have RAW
Photo options. If you select Use RAW when
| | 04:15 | using an external editor, iPhoto will
allow the RAW photos to be sent to an
| | 04:19 | editor like Photoshop. If you select
Save edits as 16-bit TIFF files,
| | 04:24 | the raw photos will be exported as TIFFs
instead of JPEGs and because they are 16-bits,
| | 04:28 | they have a much higher range of data in them.
| | 04:32 | So, you can get much more
precise edits inside of Photoshop or
| | 04:35 | the editing application of your choice.
Finally, determine whether you want to look
| | 04:39 | up places automatically or never.
Again unless you have specific security
| | 04:44 | concerns, you want to leave this set
to Automatically. So, that sums up the
| | 04:48 | additional preferences. You may want to
use some, others you may never touch in
| | 04:52 | your life, but at least you know they are
in there and know how to work with them.
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ConclusionGoodbye| 00:00 | Well, I hope you have enjoyed the
training and now have a good grasp of
| | 00:03 | importing, sorting and tricking out
your photos. Just remember, focus on the
| | 00:08 | level of organization you think you
can keep up. If you are confident in your
| | 00:12 | ability to add keywords to
every photo you import, go for it.
| | 00:16 | If you are not just disciplined, then
at least use Faces and Places. It really
| | 00:20 | adds an amazing level of searchability
to your photos. If your iPhoto Library
| | 00:24 | is already huge, then just set aside
that spare Saturday afternoon to tag the
| | 00:28 | places of your events and the faces of
your favorite people. I guarantee
| | 00:33 | you won't regret it when it comes
time to find your favorite photos.
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